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Upper Extremity and Hand Therapy Outcomes: Client and Healthcare Factors

A quantitative study was conducted with clients who received hand therapy treatment in an orthopedic outpatient clinic. During an 18-month period, data was collected from a convenience sample of 200+ participants with upper extremity...

Exploring Social Capital Among First Generation College Students

Social capital is a measure of the relational networks that support individual growth and well-being. It has been examined in relation to business and community organizations, but little is known about social capital regarding higher...

Occupational Safety Internship Study: Initial Findings

This poster presents initial data (n=18) gathered from EKU students who have undertaken occupational safety internships. Internships, also referred to as co-ops, are considered an element of experiential education and have been reported to...

Exploring Current Music Practices of K-5 Elementary Teachers During Instruction: A Pilot Study

The integration of music in the K-5 classroom provides valuable and age-appropriate resources for enhancing instruction, serves as an incentive for positive behavior, and nurtures creativity in the elementary classroom. Music is a natural...

TILT: Clear Assignment Lead to Clear Improvements

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Flipping Your Classroom: Lessons for Success

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How Librarians Can Help You and Your Students on Blackboard

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TILT Critical Reading with a Grade Contract

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Focus on the Figures: Facilitating Critical Reading of Data Visualizations

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OER, Open Educational Resources: Ready for Primetime in Your Classroom

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The Jigsaw Classroom: Engaging Students with Cooperative Learning

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In Their Shoes: Real Life Barriers Student Parents Face and Strategies Needed to Break Through

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Using Video and Audio Feedback to Foster a Community of Learning

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Assessing Faculty Leadership Skills

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Living a Full Life After Breast Cancer and its Treatment Through Virtual Education and Support

Over 3.5 million breast cancer survivors (BCS) live in the United States (ACS, 2002) and 3,800 Kentucky women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020 (Siegel, Miller, & Jemal, 2020). As BCS are living longer, the need for additional...

Vision Quest: The Search for Meaning and the Risks We Take

•Gain a greater understanding of the role hallucinogenics (psychotropic substances) have played in culture. •Gain a greater understanding of some “natural” psychoactive substances (entheogens) that have been/are being used for religious...

Airborne Exposure to Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Associated with Livestock Animals

Background: Our research examines occupational exposures to antimicrobial resistant bacteria found in airborne agricultural particulate matter in central Kentucky. Currently there is a lack of existing studies examining our topic in...

Change Blindness in a Virtual Arcade

Change blindness (CB) occurs when observers fail to notice changes that occur from one view to the next. It can occur with many different stimulus types (shapes, pictures, movies, real objects) in a many different contexts (from laboratory...

Individual Threat and Hazard Preparedness: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis

The United States routinely experiences incidents and disasters that test the preparedness of public governments and individual citizens. Utilizing the Theory of Planned Behavior, the present study presents a confirmatory factor analysis...

Understanding Ambulatory Care Physician OT Referral Patterns To Integrate OT Within Primary Care

Purpose Occupational therapy (OT) has described its role within primary care and challenges to integrating OT into primary care practices. One barrier is the ambulatory care physician’s (ACP) understanding of what diagnoses may be...

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Designing Augmented Reality (AR) to Convey Effective User Information to Diabetes Patients with Embedded Control Systems for an Artificial Pancreas.

This paper explores the emerging field of human-embedded medical technology and its accompanying need for innovative User Interface (UI) design. Specifically, the paper argues that, in the medium term, augmented reality (AR) will convey...

A Mixed-Methods Study of the Content, Providers, and Delivery Methods of Preoperative Education for Persons Undergoing Total Knee Replacement

Most patients have positive results following total knee replacement (TKR) surgery, however others experience negative outcomes such as falls, reduced function, and hospital readmission. Readiness for discharge after TKR begins with...

Floquet topological phases in PT-symmetric lattices

We calculate the Floquet quasienergy spectra of several parity-time (PT) symmetric one-dimensional lattices with non-Hermitian, time-dependent Hamiltonians. The PT symmetry of these systems guarantees that their quasienergy spectra will be...

Utilization of Infographics in the EKU Classroom

An infographic is a means of data visualization. Specifically they are meant to present data in a visual way to tell a story or support a position. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss utilization of infographics in the classroom...

Lyapunov-Type Inequalities for Fractional Differential Equations

We obtain Lyapunov-type inequalities for higher order fractional differential equations subject to a fractional boundary condition. In the process, we obtain properties of the Green's function that are applied to show the existence of...

Professional literacy: Using metacognitive strategies to promote evidence-based practitioners

Professional literacy takes effort in teaching and learning. OT educators use metacognitive & authentic assessment procedures to prepare students as critical thinkers. Through the use of effortful learning and focused feedback students...

Standing on Shaky Ground and Living in the Now: How Resource Stability Influences Time Perspectives

Time perspective predicts multiple health, antisocial, and prosocial outcomes, but the factors that explain it are rarely examined. We suggest that the availability of resources (financial, social, and personal) may be one of the key...

Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection - 2nd Edition

The poster will focus on the new 2nd edition of "Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection" by Drs. Ryan Baggett and Brian Simpkins. The textbook will be released in July 2018 by Praeger Security International and is...

Perceived Stress has a Negative Effect on Self-Reported Upper Extremity Function among Women Treated for Breast Cancer

Research Objectives Women treated for breast cancer report ongoing disability in their involved upper extremity, however, often objective measures do not appear to explain the level of perceived dysfunction. The purpose of this study was...

No AWAY- Designing for Good: An Awareness Campaign about Plastic Consumption

Graphic Design should not just be food packaging, logos and layouts but can have a true impact in a community. Design can be a powerhouse of persuasion, so why not use this influence for good? This phase of No AWAY looked to understand its...

Using citizen science to test the abundant center distribution hypothesis in North American amphibian populations

The abundant center distribution hypothesis predicts that population density decreases as the geographic range edge is approached, a pattern that forms the basis for inferences regarding spatial variation in species’ ecology, evolution...

Pesticide Contamination of Urban Hives

Humans have used honey as a food source and in numerous ancient cultures as a remedy for many illnesses for more than 8,000 years. In today’s markets, local and specialty honeys are trending as an immensely popular natural nutritional...

Accelerating Student Success with a Co-requisite Literacy Model

This study examined student success in an accelerated, integrated literacy course piloted in 2013 in response to national trends and state mandates. Since 2013, 74% of students enrolled (n = 437) in the co-requisite first-year reading and...

High-Powered Professional Learning Communities: Research-Based Strategies that Improve Teaching and Learning

The Professional Learning Communities Model of professional growth and development is an increasingly popular method of teacher training. Commonly abbreviated and referred to as PLCs, this style of professional learning is characterized by...

FULL STEAM AHEAD: Igniting Passions in Gifted Learners

This research project addressed EPSB recommendations based on the completers’ survey results. Recommendations indicated a need for additional content and training addressing the gifted population. The most essential content and training...

The Development of Erotic Desires

Diverse theorists have postulated that people become sexually excited by the sort of people who were relatively exotic and unfamiliar to them during their development up to and just after puberty (the so-called "exotic becomes erotic" or...

Student Veterans’ Assimilation in Higher Education: The Role of Identity Complexity

Although large numbers of military veterans are currently entering institutions of higher education, veterans often feel out of place in college and identify more strongly with their military role than that of learner. Drawing from the...

The Effects of Long-term Adapted Aquatics on Swimming with Autism

Introduction: Purpose was to determine the effects of four years of adapted aquatics on swimming levels in children with disabilities. Participants: The participants included fifteen children, aged 4-15 years. Eleven children with autism...

Outplacement Counseling for Veterans and Business Mid-Level Managers

It is every employee’s worst nightmare to be summoned into the supervisor’s/ commanders office or the human resources office and hearing a story about how slow the economy is, how income streams are down, and how the senior management is...

The experience of breast cancer survivors' participation in important activities during and after treatments

Introduction: This study describes breast cancer survivors’ experiences participating in their important activities during and after breast cancer treatment. Method: Ten survivors between the ages of 45 and 64 with Stage I, II, or III...

40 years of vegetation changes in an old-growth forest inform predictions of current bird and amphibian populations

We used a 40 year longitudinal data set from Lilley Cornett Woods, an old-growth forest in Letcher County, KY, to describe changes to forest structure and composition, and to predict changes in bird and amphibian communities. Forest plots...

The application of molecular beacons in forensic science

The demand for DNA testing to solve crimes and assist in the identification of victims from mass disasters and terror attacks continues to grow. As a result, there is significant pressure on the forensic community and law enforcement...

A Collaborative, Trilateral Approach to Bridging the Information Literacy Gap in Student Writing

As localized assessments confirm national findings that undergraduates struggle to integrate resources into research-based compositions effectively, data from one comprehensive public university indicate library sessions improve students’...

From Hereditary Authority to Representative Government: Leadership and the Politics of Inclusion in Colonial Mbano

By integrating the voices of all through representation of all villages in council deliberations, the Mbano precolonial political system represents “an exercise in direct democracy.” Between 1907 and 1960, Mbano people in eastern Nigeria...

Duration judgments can shift even when the subjective rate of time does not

These experiments tested whether human duration judgments can be influenced even when the subjective rate of time is not. In the experiments, human observers made several hundred duration judgments, judging on each trial whether the...

Authentic assessment: Use of video feedback to promote critical thinking and performance

Occupational Therapy educators strive to promote learner-centered opportunities reinforcing content identified in the ACOTE Standards. Through the use of video feedback, structured by the Critical Thinking Standards and Elements of Paul ...

Tomoka Archaeology Project Stage IIa: Distribution and Description of Anthropogenic Sediments

The goal of Stage IIa of the Tomoka Archaeology Project (TAP) is to characterize archaeological sediments across the site and determine their horizontal and vertical extent. Data from this work provides a means for distinguishing between...

Transitions: Connecting Millennials in Student-Centered Discussion

By acquiring rhetorical tools such as discourse markers, commonly called transitions, students improve their listening skills. Without instruction on metadiscourse, discussion is predominantly monologic. With even minimal instruction...

Documentation and visualization of an urban tunnel as-built condition using remote sensing technology

A new way to document and visualize the as-built condition of an urban tunnel project with high accuracy is described in this paper, based on recent developments of laser scanning technology. In traditional surveying, the components of a...

Assessing and managing the transport of nutrients from Meadowbrook Farm into the Muddy Creek watershed (Madison County, Kentucky)

Non-point sources from human activities such as farming have replaced industrial point sources as contributors of many contaminants in surface and subsurface waters of the United States. Agricultural activities on EKU’s Meadowbrook Farm...

Perched-Groundwater Wetland Systems in the Daniel Boone National Forest

Ephemeral wetlands on Appalachian ridge tops in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky are hydrologically connected to shallow perched groundwater. Although these perched groundwater-wetland systems have been shown to support native...

Reciprocal Benefits: A Proposed Model of Collaboration for Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Programs

As education programs around the country are faced with the challenge of meeting accreditation standards, the ability to ensure candidate competency has become a crucial task for all teacher preparation programs. Considering the variety of...

CollectionsEducation.org: Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections

College-level plant diversity courses often involve a collection project, which is designed to help students learn to correctly identify, document, and preserve specimens for scientific study. While these projects are invaluable teaching...

Human Pointing during Dog-Human Play: Canid Acquiescence and Resistance

Although much research focuses on human index finger pointing to hidden items for dogs in experimental settings, there is little research about human pointing in naturalistic interactions. We examined human pointing to dogs during 62...

Using NetworkTheory to Inform Ecological Restoration in the Tropics

Empirical studies of plant-animal interaction networks repeatedly find that a small number of plant species capture a disproportionately large number of the interactions. These species are known as hubs and connectors. Species traits...

Male-Female Pairing In Green Salamanders, Aneides aeneus

In green salamanders, Aneides aeneus, formation of male-female pairs may occur during spring and fall. Pairs form in specific rock crevices for 1-4 weeks during which bonding occurs. By returning to these rock crevices, males and females...

Economic Diversification and Economic Development in Appalachia

Economic development has been a concern for the Appalachian region since the decline of coal, timber, and agriculture. Recent efforts to diversify the Appalachian economy away from natural resource extraction by all levels of government...

Role of Glutathione in Yeast Growth and Fermentation for Beer and Wine Production

Over the last 5-10 years a number of groups interested in decreasing free radicals during the fermentation and bottling processes of beers and wines, have examined mechanisms to increase GSH content and excretion by yeast during the...

Using a neuro-imaging technique to improve shoulder function

A 46 year-old male patient presented with severe scapular pain and inability to use his right arm in forward flexion or during overhead activities. An evaluation by an orthopedic surgeon who specialized in scapular conditions determined he...

Relational Mechanisms for Goal Pursuit

To demonstrate the influence of close relationships in the goal pursuit process, four studies tested a Relational Mechanism Model for Goal Pursuit, which proposed three mechanisms that yield relational motives for a goal. These motives in...

A Comparative Analysis: Utilization of an E-textbook in a Developmental Reading Course

This research employs a quantitative approach; utilizing a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test design. An ENR 095 course was provided a traditional textbook while another ENR 095 course was provided tablets and downloaded e-textbook...

Technology-enhanced Instruction: Students’ Perceptions of Learning and Motivation

A developmental reading course (ENR 090) incorporated technology-enhanced instruction (MyReadingLab). Survey data examine students’ perceptions of learning and motivation. Additionally, student achievement was compared to previous courses...

Effects of Supplementation of a Preworkout on Power Maintenance in Lower Body and Upper Body Tasks

The current research shows how the use of a pre-workout, performance-enhancing supplement may improve peak power production acutely, but little for prolonged effects. Purpose: to investigate the effects of supplementation on power...

Examination of Relationships Among Body Composition and In-Season Offensive Performance in Collegiate Softball Players

In sports performance assessments, body composition can often be over emphasized by coaches and peers. Currently, there are limited data examining the relationship among measures of body composition and performance in collegiate softball...

Perceptions, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding a Syringe Exchange Program in a Rural Kentucky County

A syringe exchange program (SEP) offers free sterile syringes for injection-drug users (IDUs) and collects used syringes to reduce the transmission of blood-borne pathogens, particularly HIV and Hepatitis B/C (CDC, 2010). In addition to...

Social Opportunities and Pattern Art in a Group for Adolescents and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This research assessed and explored a pattern art group for adolescents and young adults with ASD. Pattern art was chosen in hopes of capitalizing on strengths and interests in visual spatial apperception and patterning as well as...

Do Friends Help or Hinder? Examining Kindergarteners’ Co-Regulating Behaviors During a Paired Problem-Solving Task

Research has implicated the development as self-regulation skills as one of the most important factors in predicting school adjustment in young children (Rimm-Kaufmann et al., 2009). However, recent studies on the concept of co-regulation...

Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts: Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906

In Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts, John S. Lowry demonstrates that anti-imperialist resistance movements overseas significantly shaped the course of Wilhelmine domestic politics between 1897 and 1906. In 1898 and 1900, for example...

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