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Item A Unique Way of Delivering Aerosolized medications to Adults: A Translational Research with High Flow Nasal Cannula(2019-02) Ari, Arzu; Alcoforado, Luciana; Dornelas, ArmeleHigh flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has been developed to promote oxygenation and positive airway pressure in critically ill patients with respiratory failure. Although HFNC was not designed for aerosol drug delivery, we developed a unique way of delivering aerosolized medications to adults using a mesh nebulizer with HFNC.Item Assessing the Texas Data Repository: Determining What to Measure and How(2019-05-22) Chan-Park, Christina; Lindsey, Nerissa; Waugh, Laura; McElfresh, Laura KaneThe Texas Data Repository (TDR) is guided by a Steering committee of liaisons from 11 universities in Texas. From 2017 – 2019, The TDR Assessment Working Group (AWG) evaluated reporting metrics including a survey of TDR Steering Committee Members, comparison with an institutional repository reporting metric (Texas ScholarWorks), and two emerging standards of best practice for research data reporting: COUNTER Code of Practice and Google Analytics. This poster presents the findings of this AWG study, a comparison of potential reporting metrics for research data, and the recommendations for the TDR Steering Committee reporting moving forward.Item Assessing the Texas Data Repository: Determining What to Measure and How(2018-12-05) Chan-Park, Christina; Dabrowski, Anna J.; Lindsey, Nerissa; Waugh, Laura; McElfresh, Laura KaneBackground: The Texas Data Repository (TDR) was launched in Spring 2017. The TDR is built on the Dataverse software platform and hosted by the Texas Digital Library (TDL)—a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas. Currently, 11 institutions participate in the TDR, and liaisons from these institutions serve on a TDR Steering Committee to provide feedback and guide the direction of the repository service. The Assessment Working Group (AWG) is a sub-group of the Steering Committee and is tasked with evaluating progress of the TDR. Purpose: In Fall 2017, the AWG began an assessment to identify the needs for reporting on the TDR by addressing the following research questions: 1. Which usage and descriptive information about the TDR will be most valuable? 2. What process for gathering and distributing these metrics/information will be most useful? Approach: The first step in determining the most valuable usage metrics was distributing a survey to all TDR institutional liaisons. The survey was vital in identifying the widely varying resources and needs of the participating institutions as well as the information the liaisons were interested in seeing both institutionally and consortially.Item Comparison of Ankle Strategies for Balance in Persons After Mild Head Injury(1/2/2010) Gobert, Denise V.; Liao, Ursula; Grattan, Shannon; Marie, Martha N.Objective: The purpose of this project was to characterize and compare balance in persons after MHI using an assessment of ankle strategies. Design: This project used an observational cohort study design. Methodology: Thirty male and female participants aged 18 - 40 years of age provided written consent according to university guidelines and were grouped as being with or without a history of MHI over the past 12 months. Computerized protocols of the NeuroCom EquiTest® system included assessments of static and dynamic standing balance during six sensory conditions in the Sensory Organization Test (SOT) and during translational perturbations of the Motor Control Test (MCT). In addition to standard balance scores, a new method proposed by Zhiming et al. (2004) called the “Postural Stability Index” (PSI) was used to process platform data to document ankle stiffness. Data Analysis: Data analysis included standardized Student T-Test statistics (SPSS v.16) at an alpha level of 0.05. Also, a Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient was calculated to identify significant relationships within the data pool. Preliminary Results: Preliminary findings indicate no significant differences according to standard SOT or MCT scores. Results indicate significant differences in ankle stiffness or PSI scores which have been shown to be highly correlated to decreased balance skills in other patient populations. Clinical Relevance: Preliminary results indicate that assessment of ankle strategies used during challenged balance may be a more sensitive indicator of balance skills in patients after MHI. Final results will be presented along with a discussion of possible clinical use in rehabilitation programs.Item Developing a Successful GIS Services Program(2016-10) Elliott, RoryThis poster presents the Alkek Library's successful implementation of GIS Services, including marketing strategies, recommended hardware and software, graphs of consultations, and a guide containing government sources for geospatial data.Item Digital Preservation Steps with Archivematica: A Cross-Departmental Approach(2021-05) Goodley, Lauren; Critchley, Nicole; Kennedy, Laura; Long, Jason; Mazzei, Erin; Peters, Todd C.; Price, Amanda N.; Waugh, LauraArchivematica is a strong tool that requires a strong team and team members. Follow along as we tell our tale: from deciding on Archivematica as a tool for creating AIPs through installation and implementation. Hear from a digitization specialist on workflows that work for everyone, and from archivists and librarians from several departments on their successes and learning moments. IT specialists share communication strategies and technical expectations of Archivematica. Our goal is to provide our experiences to further develop the preservation community, and offer ideas, solutions, and points of conversation to our colleagues.Item Executive Function and Motor Competence in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder(2019-02-27) Liu, Ting; Tongish, MorganSignificance: Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) of all ages have been shown to display considerable motor deficits in both fine and gross motor competence (Liu, 2013; Liu & Breslin, 2013; Provost, Heimeri, & Lopez, 2007; Schurink et al., 2012; Whyatt & Craig, 2012). Researchers also suggest that children with ASD's motor skill deficits may impact their cognitive and executive function skills such as planning ability and problem solving (Schurink et al., 2012). Poor motor function can potentially result in children with ASD spending school learning time focusing on small tasks such as holding a pencil versus listening to the teacher and in turn, affecting their executive and cognitive skills. Understanding the relationship between motor competence and executive function in children with ASD is important in order to find effective ways to improve their skills and school performance. Research Goals: Investigate the relationship between executive function and motor competence of children with ASD to design interventions to help improve executive function would in turn have positive effects on socialization and physical activity.Item From VHS to MP4: Improving Access to 40 Years of Literary Recordings(2018-10-04) King, Liz; Towery, Stephanie; Waugh, LauraThis poster presentation outlines the collaboration between the academic community involved in this collaborative project, including representatives from a student-run, free, online literary journal as well as university librarians. A main focus is the potential impact on the research community - both scholarly and public - who will benefit from accessing the previously unpublished audiovisual materials. Details include how to ensure this remain a fully-open and accessible resource for anyone interested in digital humanities research. Considerations include budget and costs, digitization of outdated media, long-term preservation and storage, copyright, metadata, and creating a user-friendly, searchable website using open source tools.Item ¡Haz Espacio Para Papi!: Development of a Father-Focused, Family-Centered Program to Prevent Obesity and Strengthen Families(2018-07-24) Sharkey, Joseph R.; Umstattd Meyer, M. Renee; Johnson, Cassandra M.; Gomez, Luis; Martinez, Luz; Beltran, Elva; Garza, MariaIt is widely recognized that behavior change in children occurs within a family system. Our formative work during the program development phase utilized a mixed-methods approach to examine perspectives of children, mothers, and fathers on dietary and activity behaviors and intra-family communication and active engagement. Fig. 1 shows the sequence of activities that described the importance of engaging fathers in programs to improve family health. We describe the development and planned deployment of Familias Saludables, a skill-based curriculum that is a culturally and contextually appropriate, father-focused and family-centered. This multiple-component intervention engages Mexican-heritage fathers, mothers, and children (age 9-11 years) in an experiential, Spanish-language curriculum to enhance father-child relationships and co-parenting strategies; increase knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, and preferences regarding nutrition and physical activity; and delivers this intervention in a group setting. ¡Haz espacio para papi! [Make room for daddy!] is a game changer by engaging Mexican-heritage fathers, co-parenting couples, and children in a family-centered intervention.Item Integration of Off-Site Repository Software with the Library Catalog and Interlibrary Loan(2018-05-16) Peters, Todd C.; Rentz, Paivi; Long, JasonIn September 2017, Texas State University opened the Archives and Research Center (ARC). It is a 14,000 square-foot, off-site, state-of-the-art facility that will preserve decades of university treasures and library resources, collections, and research materials. The University Libraries selected Caiasoft from CAIA Software & Solutions as the repository management software for the facility. University Libraries staff constructed scripts to integrate Caiasoft with our Integrated Library System, Sierra, and our Inter-Library Loan system, ILLiad. This allows patrons to request materials from the ARC through the catalog, and allows document delivery and inter-library loan article requests to be fulfilled electronically from the facility using Odyssey. This poster explains how the integration was set up and diagrams the workflows involved.Item Low Serum Carotenoids Are Associated with Inflammatory Markers and Subjective Cognitive Impairments in Breast Cancer Survivors(2018-02-23) Zuniga, Krystle E.; Moran, Nancy E.Cancer related cognitive impairment (CRCI) can have significant and persistent impacts on quality of life in cancer survivors. Recent evidence has reported cognitive impairments are associated with inflammation due to cancer and its treatment Modifiable factors, such as diet, may reduce the risk or severity of CRCI. Carotenoids, primarily found in fruits and vegetables (F&Vs), have shown promise in reducing the risk of age-related cognitive decline, potentially via anti-inflammatory activities. In this cross-sectional study, sixty-seven women (29 BCS; 38 controls) were recruited from the Central Texas area. BCS had to have been diagnosed with breast cancer and completed primary treatment (either chemotherapy, radiotherapy or both) within the past 5 years, and healthy controls must have had no previous cancer diagnosis. Dietary intake was assessed with a food frequency questionnaire. Cognitive function was assessed with the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function Questionnaire assessed perceived cognitive impairment. Serum levels of carotenoids were measured by HPLC-PDA, and serum soluble TNF receptor type II (sTNF-RII), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and interleukin-1 receptor agonist (IL-1ra) were measured by immunoassay. BCS were split into two groups: (1) BCS with serum carotenoid levels lower than, and including, the median; and (2) BCS with serum carotenoid levels above the median. A median split analysis was also conducted for the non-cancer controls. Univariate ANCOVA, including age as a covariate, was conducted to compare different between BCS and controls. Reported F&V intake was positively correlated with serum carotenoid levels (r=.407, p=0.001). BCS performed similarly to controls on objective cognitive measures. Both high and low carotenoid BCS had significantly more cognitive complaints than high and low carotenoid controls (p<0.05); however, high carotenoid BCS had significantly fewer cognitive complaints than low carotenoid BCS (p=0.036). Partial correlations, controlling for age and BMI, demonstrated that higher serum carotenoid levels were associated with lower sTNF-RII and IL-6 levels (p=0.002), but not IL-1ra. Higher serum carotenoid levels may have cognitive and anti-inflammatory benefits in BCS. Future research should continue to identify dietary patterns that can reduce memory complaints and support cognitive health in cancer survivors.Item Machine Learning Approaches for Identification of Alzheimer's Disease using Social Determinants and Imagery(2018-02) Fulton, Lawrence V.Purpose: The purpose of this study is to predict the presence of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) using socio-demographic, clinical, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 4D data. Significance: Early detection of AD enables family planning and may reduce costs by delaying long-term care (Alzheimer's Association, 2018). Accurate, non-imagery methods also reduce patient costs. Methods: Extreme Gradient Boosted random forests (XGBoost) predict Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) presence and severity as a function of gender, age, education, socioeconomic status (SES), and Mini-Mental Status Exam (MMSE). Convulutional Neural Networks (CNN) predict CDR from MRI's transformed to Eigenbrain imagery. XGBoost also predicts CDR with additional clinical variables. Results: XGBoost provides 93% prediction accuracy for CDR using socio-demographic and clinical non-imagery variables-92% accuracy when clinical measures are excluded. CNN using the transformed Eigenbrain imagery results in 93% prediction accuracy. Conclusion: ML methods predict AD with high accuracy. Non-imagery analysis may be nearly as efficacious as imagery prediction at a fraction of the cost.Item Open Journal Systems: A Look at Impact and Increased Visibility(2023-05-16) Park, Kristi; Van Diest, Kristin; Elkins, Susan; Hoover, SusanOpen Journal Systems (OJS) is an open-source publishing software for the management of open access peer-reviewed academic journals, created and developed by the Public Knowledge Project. There are over 34,000 journals hosted in OJS around the world, including 75 journals hosted through the Texas Digital Library (TDL) OJS hosting service at member institutions. This poster presents data collected to show the prevelance of use of persistent identifiers, such as DOIs, ISSNs, and ORCID in TDL hosted journals. As well as where the journals are indexed, whether or not they use keywords and if so, how many, and the number of article downloads and abstract views. Recommendations are then made to increase journal visibility and use.Item Re-conceptualizing Food Insecurity with a New, Multi-dimensional Scale(2016-06) Johnson, Cassandra M.; Ammerman, Alice S.; Adair, Linda S.; Aiello, Allison E.; Flax, Valerie L.; Elliott, Sinikka; Bowen, Sarah K.Background: USDA's Food Security Survey Module - measure of food insecurity; Used for national monitoring and surveillance in Canada and US; FSSM has important limitations. Objective: To develop and evaluate a new, multi-dimensional measure of food insecurity for use in programs and research. Methods: Cross-sectional data (2014-2015) from prospective project; Voices Into Action: The Families, Food, and Health Project; Diverse sample of mothers from North Carolina (n=109); Qualitative and quantitative data; In-depth interviews; Surveys; Four-Dimensional Food Insecurity Scale (4D-FIS) reflects four dimensions of food insecurity: Quantitative; Qualitative; Psychological; Social. Categorization of severity: Food secure; Mildly food insecure; Severely food insecure. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine the hypothesized, four-factor structure of 4D-FIS. Concordance analysis to compare categorization between the two food insecurity scales: 1) 4D-FIS and 2) USDA FSSM adult scale (2). Results: Data supported the four-factor model; 4D-FIS categorized more participants as food insecure vs. USDA scale; Fair to moderate agreement in categorization between scales. Conclusions: Promising alternative measure; Implications for programs, interventions, and research applications.Item Riddle Me This: Gamifying Student Worker Training at an Academic Library(2018-04-03) Ballengee, MeganAlkek Library at Texas State University has a strong foundation for providing excellent customer service to the campus community by ensuring the student workers in Research and Learning Services (RLS) are knowledgeable about library services, resources, spaces, and staff members. In the past year, RLS has transformed its lecture based training to create innovative, gamified training sessions for student workers in public service settings throughout the library. Based on the film "Batman Forever," students worked together to solve puzzles left by "The Riddler" in a 45-minute library scavenger hunt and a 45-minute escape room session. The learning outcomes of the training are: building confidence to continuously learn about the library, foster team building, and create an enjoyable gaming experience that is interactive and cooperative. Included will be tips for participants to create their own gamified training that can be used for employees, volunteers, and patrons.Item Social Media Behaviors and Psychosocial Predictors of Social Media Addiction(2018-02-23) Howard, Krista; Roming, Sinjin M.P.; Ceballos, Natalie A.; Dailey, Stephanie; Grimes, TomSocial media addiction is an ongoing problem. Maladaptive social and personal factors associated with addiction can include: • Preoccupation with social media; • Withdrawal symptoms; • Replacing important activities (sleep, eating) with social media use; • Escape from problems (poor coping); • Loss of relationships. Prior research has identified several independent factors related to social media addiction: • Desire for belongingness; • Lack of conscientiousness; • High levels of extroversion; • Low self-esteem; • Anxiety; • Depression; • Stress. This study aims to simultaneously evaluate both the social media behaviors and psychosocial factors related to high levels of social media addiction.Item Tattoo You! An Academic Library Tattoo Design Contest(2019-06-23) Ballengee, Megan; Segoria, Emily; Sisemore, LizA subgroup of the Texas State University Libraries Promotions team, the Tattoo Design Contest Team created a contest allowing students to enter original tattoo designs inspired by Alkek Library. The purpose of the contest was to increase student engagement, reduce student library anxiety, and market the library. The team promoted the contest through social media and their results garnered multiple submissions. The contest submission terms created a copyright question that the team resolved through consultation with the copyright librarian. At the conclusion of the contest, the team printed stickers of the winning tattoo design as promotional giveaway. Months later one student turned the winning submission into an actual tattoo. The team posted a story about the contest winner and tattoo recipient to the library webpage and on social media. The poster includes outreach strategies including flyer designs, social media polls, and interaction statistics, images of the winning tattoo design, photos of the winner used for promotion, details about the student who actually has the winning design tattooed on their arm, and information about the academic article that members of the team have written.Item Texas Data Repository Usage up to April 2019(2019-05-22) Chan-Park, Christina; Waugh, LauraThe Texas Data Repository (TDR) was launched in Spring 2017. The TDR is built on the Dataverse software platform and hosted by the Texas Digital Library (TDL)—a consortium of higher education institutions in Texas. Currently, 11 institutions participate in the TDR, and liaisons from these institutions serve on a TDR Steering Committee to provide feedback and guide the direction of the repository service. This poster will track the use of the TDR from June 2017 through April 2019. We present data for both individual institutions and in aggregate over time. Metrics cover users, collections, datasets, and downloads. These data will form the baseline for tracking usage of TDR going forward.Item The ARC: Building, Moving and Relocating Special Collections to Offsite Storage(2018-06) Sigler, Karen B.This poster presentation illustrates how an academic library reached the decision to build our own offsite archive and research center, and the inherent issues associated with meeting archival standards. While the site was being planned, the library team addressed archival concerns, including a quarantine area and storage for framed art and artifacts. One of the key components was software for use at the site that was compatible with the library's online catalog. Once preliminary issues were addressed, my cataloging unit was tasked with re-cataloging more than 33,000 special collection records, along with rehousing, preservation and removal to the offsite storage site.Item The Board of Regents Reports and Minutes: A Digitization Case Study(2017-05) Moore, Jeremy D.; North, Megan; Peters, Todd C.; Mazzei, ErinAlkek Library's Digital & Web Services Department at Texas State University is digitizing the University Archives' Board of Regents Reports and Minutes collection. The collection is comprised of an estimated 45,000 pages including bound books, most of which can be unbound for rapid sheet-feed scanning, and loose-leaf onion skin pages. This presentation will describe the project lifecycle starting with why it was prioritized for digitization, the development, testing, and validation of scanning workflows using FADGI standards, and the creation of custom software to automate processes. We will also explain why our student technicians were more than happy to rescan over 700 images and why it was the best decision to make for consistency, speed, and quality.