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Professional development for online faculty: supporting conceptual change through conceptual conflict activities
(2019-09-06)Despite the increasing demand for online courses, skepticism by faculty and administration regarding the legitimacy of online education continues to exist. To address this skepticism, institutions have turned to professional ... -
A usability study of a data-driven health information portal: the extensibility of DHIS2
(2019-07-30)Although technology in healthcare has increased greatly over the past decade, the user experience of the combined available resources unquestionably can be improved especially when using large datasets such as District ... -
Technology-based interventions for anxiety disorders in youth: a meta-analysis
(2019-06-17)Anxiety disorders are one of the most common disorders among children and adolescents (Beesdo, Knappe, & Pine, 2009), but often go untreated due to barriers such as time and cost (Salloum, Johnco, Lewin, McBride, & Storch ... -
Analyzing the urban heat island effect in the city of Westminster, Maryland, with attention to mitigative and adaptive measures
(2019-06-19)Urban Heat Islands (UHI) have many negative health effects on vulnerable populations in urban areas. This research investigates the UHI hazard in the City of Westminster, Maryland by documenting the UHI effect and social ... -
Evaluating the effects of dereverberation techniques on speech understanding in different reverberant environments
(2019-04-15)Reverberation and background noise is present in almost all everyday listening situations. Reverberation times in real rooms vary widely from nearly several milliseconds up to several seconds based on the absorptive ... -
How popular culture can help bridge the achievement gap
(2019-03-19)[From Chapter 1] The American education system has innumerable problems: safety, standards, class size, infrastructure, teacher retention, and student retention are just a few. Floating betwixt and between these problems ... -
Reflection of the face
(2019-03-19)[From Introduction] The portrait is one of the oldest genres in history. It is the “form” of a person, and an expression of their inner spirituality. It was developed by artists under the influence of the social environment, ... -
Utilization of a clinical testing battery to help identify suspected hidden hearing loss (HHL) in humans
(2019-03-19)Objective: The goal of the current study was to investigate the potential presence of hidden hearing loss (HHL) in adult participants with and without a reported history of noise exposure. Methods: Six normal hearing ... -
Contrast avoidance model: relationship to intolerance of uncertainty and fear of change
(2019-03-18)The current study aimed to examine the relationship between, Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) model (Dugas, Gagnon, Ladouceur, & Freeston, 1998b) and the Contrast Avoidance model (CAM) (Newman & Llera, 2011), two theories ... -
Dissociative disorder treatment in practice: an exploration of community clinicians’ adherence to expert recommended frequency of interventions
(2019-03-15)Few clinicians have been trained to treat patients with dissociative disorders (DD), despite their prevalence. An online educational program for DD patients and their clinicians was developed to make training for DD treatment ... -
Versus
(2019-03-15)Mario C. Sam's thesis, Versus, explores the compositions created by events, experiences, and emotions in our internal and external worlds. We begin as a unique combination of physical elements. Atop this come ephemeral ... -
Wrath of the narcissists: vulnerable narcissism predicts greater spiteful punishment of a third-party transgressor
(2019-03-15)Self-enhancement motivations underlie a bevy of behaviors with the purpose of achieving and maintaining high, healthy self esteem. However, in individuals with especially favorable self-views (i.e., narcissists), ... -
Coping styles and protective factors as moderators of adjustment after trauma exposure
(2019-03-14)Over 50% of individuals experience at least one traumatic event in their lifetime which can range widely from a car accident to torture. These experiences are extremely aversive and result in negative life outcomes including ... -
A tutorial on the practice and implementation of teleaudiology for audiologists and hearing healthcare professionals
(2019-03-13)Telehealth is a mode of healthcare delivery that has been developed as a result of recent advancements in technology. It has been used to bridge the geographical distance between patients and healthcare providers, as well ... -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his Violin sonata in D minor: a lost romantic
(2019-03-13)[From Introduction] There are few composers of African descent in the history of western classical music who have achieved memorable and long lasting success. The few names that are often recognized are French composer ... -
Vestibular dysfunction and brain fog
(2019-03-12)Some patients with vestibular loss report experiencing a phenomenon called brain fog. While used relatively common, the exact meaning of the term is still unclear. In this study we attempted to understand the essence of ... -
An analysis of the influence of preceding precipitation on the signature of Baltimore’s surface urban heat island
(2019-03-12)Surface Urban Heat Islands (SUHI) are urban areas where temperatures exceed that of their rural counterparts. SUHIs are caused by alterations of the land surface by humans, generally from natural vegetated surfaces to urban ... -
Perceptions of harm mediate multiple emotional responses and moral judgment
(2019-03-11)The role of emotion in moral judgment has received increased attention in the literature as contemporary moral psychology has suggested that moral judgment is largely understood as an intuitive process. Specifically, strong ... -
A phenomenological defense of sexual pharmakotherapy
(2019-03-11)In August 2015, the Food and Drug Administration approved flibanserin, a serotonin modulator, to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder. Then, in November 2016, they approved prasterone, an intravaginal dehydroepiandrosterone ... -
Ethics in fake news: combatting the illusory truth effect with corrections
(2019-02-27)The illusory truth effect is the finding that when information is read multiple times, it appears as more truthful. The purpose of this study was to see if modifying the number of corrections issued to false news headlines ...
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