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Title: Personalized Interaction-Focused Interventions For Mitigating Misinformation
Author: Siddiqui, Safat
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Design, Computer science
Description: This dissertation addresses a novel approach to assessing users' interaction tendencies on social media as a basis for personalized interventions that can make the truth louder and mitigate the spread of misinformation. This research leverages use...

Title: Assessment of Burnout With Implementation of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention in Palliative Care Clinicians
Author: Snyder, Rachel
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Background: While work in palliative and hospice care can be a rewarding experience in helping those suffering with complicated and terminal illnesses, it can also expose those involved to significant work stress, potentially leading to burnout. P...

Title: Effects of a focused plyometric intervention on biomechanics after ACL reconstruction
Author: Pfeiffer, Steven
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Biomechanics, Kinesiology
Description: PURPOSE: After an ACL reconstruction, patients demonstrate aberrant biomechanics when they return to sport. These aberrant biomechanics lead to joint degeneration, secondary injuries to the involved or uninvolved limb, and knee osteoarthritis. The...

Title: An evaluation of an intervention for HPV risk reduction among college-aged women
Author: Sweeney, Jocelyn
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Health education
Description: The goal of the study was to examine the effectiveness of a group intervention in reducing risk in relation to human papillomavirus (HPV) among sexually active, college-aged women. Using a randomized design, the current study examined the effectiv...

Title: The effect of multiple interventions on freshman college student engagement and retention
Author: Lehmuller, Peter
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: College student retention has been widely studied in the past twenty five years, and institutions have developed numerous interventions aimed at improving student retention and persistence-to-degree. A number of theories have been promulgated to e...

Title: The Effects of Coaching on Teachers' Use of Function-Based Interventions for Students with Severe Disabilities
Author: Bethune, Keri
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Special education
Description: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of coaching on special education teachers' implementation of function-based interventions with students with severe disabilities through the use of a delayed multiple baseline across participan...

Title: Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Biopsychosocial Intervention
Author: Ray, Jenna
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Medical sciences, Psychobiology
Description: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has made a striking impact on western health systems (Andrews et al., 2005). It is a costly illness psychologically, socially, physiologically, and economically. A common complementary treatment for IBS is the practi...

Title: Spatiotemporal Modeling of Disease Spread Through Micromobility Systems
Author: nikparvar, behnam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geographic information systems, Geodesy, Geography, Epidemiology
Description: New modes of public transportation such as micromobility are rapidly growing in urban areas. Bike sharing and e-scooter sharing, for example, have been advanced to solve the first/last mile problem, providing quick access to bus stops and train st...