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Increasing LARC Utilization through Standardized Contraception Education
(North Dakota State University, 2016)
Reducing unintended pregnancy is an important goal for any woman of childbearing age and optimizing contraceptive effectiveness should be a priority for healthcare providers serving this population. One subset of this ...
In Touch with Prairie Living, October 2023
(North Dakota State University, 2023-10-01)
October 2023 column for North Dakota and South Dakota newspapers.
A Practice Improvement Project Incorporating Tobacco Cessation Education Into a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program
(North Dakota State University, 2022)
Tobacco use is a global epidemic and is one of the largest public health threats the world
has faced killing over eight million people annually. Smoking-related illnesses cost the United
States $300 billion annually. ...
A Reader Response Approach to Storytelling and Tabletop Games: The Player's Experience of Dungeons and Dragons and Its Pedagogical Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) is a role-playing game (RPG) that has exploded in popularity since its conception in the 1970s. This paper aims to examine how D&D, and other RPGs like it, can be utilized within an academic ...
Taking Persephone: The Rhetoric of Consent in Rachel Smythe's Webtoon Lore Olympus (2018)
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
Lore Olympus is a webtoon that reimagines the taking of Persephone in an animated, comic style. In this paper, I discuss the rhetoric of consent through a visual analysis using the intersecting fields of classical reception, ...
The Monster-as-Slayer in Blade (1998): Blade and Posthuman Identity
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
Blade (1998) features an African American half-vampire whose goals seem contradictory: save the humans that would fear and hate him. A new character trope, the monster-as-slayer, is introduced in the movie’s eponymous hero, ...
Novel Techniques Using Graph Neural Networks (GNNS) for Anomaly Detection
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
This paper explores 2 new mechanisms that leverage graphs for anomaly detection. The novelty in approach one is to leverage the global attention capability of transformer architecture using a Graph Attention Network (GAT) ...
A Mobile Game for Learning Cyber-Attacks and Their Prevention
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
This paper's primary goal is to use Bloom's Revised Taxonomy educational objectives in creating Cyber Air-Attack. It's a game that teaches fundamental concepts about cybersecurity. Because it simplifies and makes learning ...
Chatting with Confidence: A Review on the Impact of User Interface, Trust, and User Experience in Chatbots, and a Proposal of a Redesigned Prototype
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in our daily lives, trust has become a critical issue in ensuring that AI systems are reliable, ethical, and beneficial to society. This paper explores the role of ...
Aortic Stenosis and the Path to Polymer Valves
(North Dakota State University, 2023)
All available heart valve medical devices on the market are made from biological tissues.
The major drawback of using biological tissue is that it is prone to calcification, which is generally why the intervention was ...