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"It's More How Other People Perceive You": Social Identity Formation through Study Abroad
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
This research investigated how study abroad affected students’ sense of identity and how interactions between study abroad students and other people shaped their understanding of their identity. While abroad, students ...
Integration of African Refugee Women into the Fargo-Moorhead Community
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
African refugee women (ARW) flee from their home countries due to civil unrest, war, fear of being persecuted, nationality, and membership of a particular social group or political opinion. They migrate to Western countries ...
Agency and Empowerment in the Childbirth Process: The Effect of Medicalization on Women's Decision Making
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Over the past decade, rates of caesarean section births and other interventions in
childbirth have increased substantially. With increased medicalization of childbirth, it is often
viewed as an illness requiring treatment ...
A Comparison of False Discovery Rate Method and Dunnett's Test for a Large Number of Treatments
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
It has become quite common nowadays to perform multiple tests simultaneously in order to detect differences of a certain trait among groups. This often leads to an inflated probability of at least one Type I Error, a ...
Addressing Cervical Cancer Disparities Among American Indian Women: Implementing an Educational Module for Healthcare Providers
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Many minority populations throughout the United States experience significant cancer-related disparities affecting their quality of life. American Indians represent one group of individuals who experience significant ...
Nursing Student Stress
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Nursing students experience multiple stressors as they are expected to apply theoretical learning and develop critical thinking skills while in the professional environment. Perceived overwhelming negative stressors can ...
Two Data Mining Applications for Predicting Pre-Diabetes
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
In this study, the performance of Logistic Regression and Decision Tree modeling is compared by using SAS Enterprise Miner for predicting pre-diabetes in US population by using several of the common factors from the type ...
Midwest Medical Center Employee Perceptions of Workplace Breastfeeding Experiences
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
The privilege of motherhood establishes additional temporary occupational needs for women who choose to breastfeed an infant and continue full time employment. The purpose of the study was to assess the holistic needs of ...
Teamwork During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitations at a Rural Minnesota Hospital
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Cardiac arrest is a major public health problem affecting thousands of individuals each
year in both out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings (Sutton, Nadkarni, & Abella, 2012). In 2012
nearly 383,000 out-of-hospital ...
Standardized Postpartum Depression Screening and Treatment
(North Dakota State University, 2015)
Postpartum depression affects 7 to 20% of women in the first year after giving birth. Unfortunately, over 50% of women experiencing postpartum depression go untreated due to lack of detection, placing the woman and child ...