65-year-old male patient with left sided headache and orbital pain of 2-3 months duration

Despite advancement of neurotechnology and neuroimaging, detailed history and examination remain the most important tools for diagnosis of unilateral headache and orbital pain. Headache is a common symptom among all age groups with a considerable array of differential diagnoses. Tolosa Hunt syndrome is a rare cause of unilateral headache and orbital pain. High clinical suspicion basedon clinical presentation, thorough history and physical examination is crucial for diagnosis

The Impact of the Student Support Services Program on the Retention of Students at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College

A variety of programs exist that provide assistance to underprepared and at-risk students at 2-year and 4-year institutions of higher education. One of these programs is Student Support Services (SSS), a federal program funded by the U. S. Department of Education. The SSS program provides opportunities for academic development, assists students with basic college requirements, and serves to motivate students toward the successful completion of their postsecondary education. The goal of SSS is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of its participants and help students make the transition from one level of higher education to the next. SSS may also provide assistance to students receiving Federal Pell Grants (84.063). Those eligible to participate in SSS programs include students from low-income families, those who are first-generation college enrollees and students with disabilities evidencing academic need. The program includes tutoring; academic counseling, personal counseling, career advising; study skills enhancement and personal development workshops. Assistance is also given to students to apply for various forms of financial aid, including state and federal grant programs and local scholarships. Most programs also provide cultural enrichment activities. This study investigates the impact of the SSS program on the retention of students at SKCTC. Participants in this study were 125 students in the SSS program and 125 non-SSS students who entered SKCTC in the fall of 2003 and ended in 2007. The study compares the demographic profile of these groups

Doctor of Philosophy

dissertationThis dissertation draws on theories of survivance and rhetorical sovereignty to document and interrogate interactional tensions in rhetorics of presence and performance occurring between selected American Indian students and non-Native faculty, staff, and graduate research assistants within a research-extensive university context. Tensions arise, I argue, because participants hold discrepant beliefs concerning the goal and function of education and the role sovereignty plays in achieving that goal. Discrepancies affect the way participants enact, receive, describe, and interpret presence and performance and determine how effectively Indigenous epistemologies are incorporated within the university. Utilizing tenets of Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies, the study rejects deficit views while remaining cognizant of colonized histories. It gives voice to Indigenous knowledges in practical and applicable ways as it accounts for contemporary educational realities, and it reconceptualizes research and educational praxis from an intercultural perspective. The study finds several factors crucial to supporting American Indian students: an understanding of sovereignty and trust obligations; Native faculty and personnel who are culturally invested, academically skilled, and able to effectively implement culturally responsive curricula; strength-based support; and, administrators and teachers whose praxis addresses Native-identified need and honors Indigenous difference. If university systems are to live up to their rhetoric of support for American Indian educational success, they must address interactional tensions and negotiate to more overtly indigenize the academy. They must suit canon, curriculum, and pedagogy to Native students' separate and specific needs as members of sovereign nations

MedZou full scale EMR adoption and implementation project : interdisciplinary fund grant application

Project Leaders: Matt Alexander, 3rd Year Medical Student, School of Medicine, Meryl Sundy, 3rd Year Medical StudentFinal report for the 2011/2012 IIF project, "MedZou Full Scale EMR Adoption and Implementation." From the original description: "MedZou is a student run, free health clinic that provides health care for uninsured residents of Columbia, MO and surrounding areas. It provides an exceptional hands-on patient-care learning opportunity to health care students from various programs within the university system. In order to keep pace with national standards of health care practice, MedZou is engaging in a shift from paper records to full implementation of an electronic medical record system. This system allows for improved simulation of professional practice for the benefit of student learners as well as more accurate, complete and accessible records for quality patient care."MU Interdisciplinary Innovations Fun

First field observation of a Thalassodendron ciliatum bed on the Nazareth Bank, Mascarene Plateau

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The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Public School Counselors and their Delivery of Responsive Services

The intent of this qualitative research study was to explore, from the perspective of public school counselors, what impacted their delivery of personal counseling services (responsive services) to students returning to schools in New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Eight professional school counselors participated in the study. The primary research question was: How did Hurricane Katrina impact public school counselors in their delivery of personal counseling services (responsive services) to returning students post-Katrina? To assist in answering this major research question, 10 questions were asked which focused on the participants\u27 relationships with the event and the environment. Taped interviews were transcribed, read, and analyzed via a process of within-case analysis and cross-case analysis (Miles & Huberman ,1994). Five themes emerged: (1) personal counseling focus versus an academic focus, (2) empathy, and how it was expressed by the participants, (3) work responsibilities pre and post Katrina, (4) the affective or emotional reactions of the participants concerning responsibilities post Katrina, and (5) the attention participants gave to self care in the aftermath of the hurricane. An examination of the relationships among the themes revealed the overarching theme of parallel process. Participants who attended to positive self care post-Katrina were better able to provide personal counseling services (responsive services) to returning students. In addition, the amount and quality of the personal counseling services provided by the participants to students post-Katrina were impacted to a great extent by the duties assigned by their school principals. Implications for counselors, counselor educators, school administrators, and school district were presented along with recommendations for further research

Sightings of sea stars (Echinodermata, Asteroidea) and a first record of crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster at Saya de Malha Bank, Mascarene Plateau

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First in-situ observation of the endemic giant clam Tridacna rosewateri from the Nazareth Bank, Mascarene Plateau

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Marine mollusc (Mollusca: Gastropoda and Bivalvia) diversity of the Saya de Malha and Nazareth Banks, Mascarene Plateau

Marine molluscs are among the largest assemblages of the animal kingdom and inhabit the marine environment from the intertidal zone to the deep sea. This study reports the diversity of marine molluscs (Gastropoda and Bivalvia) collected from sediments at 19 stations (SS) at the Saya de Malha and Nazareth Banks during the EAFNansen expedition in May 2018. Sampling was carried out using the five hydraulic Van Veen grabs mounted on a Video-Assisted Multi-Sampler (VAMS). The mollusc shells were morphologically identified using established procedures and published guides. Shannon-Wiener diversity (H’) and Pielou’s evenness (J) indices were used to assess the diversity of the molluscs at each station. A total of 56 genera of marine gastropods belonging to 34 families, and 40 genera of bivalves from 16 families were recorded. The SS8 station at the Saya de Malha Bank had the highest diversity at a depth of 79 m for Gastropoda and Bivalvia, while SS1 harbored the highest overall molluscan diversity. At the Nazareth Bank, highest gastropod diversity was recorded at SS44, while SS43 had the highest bivalve and overall molluscan diversity. This study provides new information on the molluscan diversity at the Saya de Malha and Nazareth Banks