This research will look at the way colleges and universities use public podcasts to engage with the public. The podcasts in review are specifically ones that are produced by a central communications or marketing office. The research will help inform general standards for college- and university-produced podcasts, to better understand their purpose and success on the school's larger communications strategies.

We will be conducting qualitative interviews with dental providers employing animal-assisted therapy to learn about current practices and recommendations for animal-assisted therapy use in dental clinics.

Throughout Latin America, public security is an increasingly important issue due to growing concerns regarding drug trafficking, organized crime, homicides, and violence. While much of the research on the topic focuses on citizens' support for hard-on-crime policing and politicians' subsequent enactment of such policies, scholars have not studied the responses of the innocent people who become unintended victims of these policies through government-sponsored violence. How do these people seek to hold the state accountable for the negative consequences of hard-on-crime policies? Which policies do they seek to advance? With which other civil society actors and policymakers do they ally and why? Most importantly, when are they successful in shaping public security policy? In this research project, I focus on the organized resistance against police brutality in Brazil's urban areas, especially in the poorer regions known as favelas.

Patients unable to participate in decision-making about their care deserve a surrogate decision-maker to act on their behalf. In this study we will examine typical patterns employed by trainees to identify surrogates and communicate basic understanding of the surrogate role.

We want to see how using special computer tools called generative AI can help teach nursing students better. We are studying if training teachers to use these tools helps them and their students learn more about AI. This study will also help us find out if these tools help us with teaching and learning about nursing.

We are doing a study to learn about the beliefs current and former little cigar and cigarillo users have about smoking and quitting little cigars and cigarillos.

The purpose of the study is to capture the time course of patient-reported improvement with VDZ or UST from baseline to Week 52 (end of study).

Specific Aim 1: Identify standardized and validated quality of life values among patients undergoing surgical management of BPH Specific Aim 2: Identify the prevalence and severity of financial toxicity among patients undergoing surgical management of BPH Specific Aim 3: Characterize subjective patient priorities regarding procedure characteristics and the impact of these on patient clinical decision making.

This study will examine how effective the use of a simulated model to teach ultrasound guided needle procedures for diagnosis and treatment in obstetrics, such as amniocentesis and fetal shunt placement.

The Currituck Sound is a unique coastal system of numerous habitats and relatively low salinity levels which allow for it to support diverse wildlife recreational opportunities, and other important ecosystem services. However, due to various anthropogenic factors, the sound is facing multiple threats such as sea level rise, erosion, and nutrient loading. In order to protect the sound, the Currituck Sound Coalition was formed and it now works to restore the sound. This research project will look at Currituck Sound Coalition members' perceptions of the Sound, its components, processes, and how they interact. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted to create members' mental models of the Sound. Models will be analyzed for differences and similarities.