LAIR: Lenoir-Rhyne Academic Institutional Repository

The Lenoir-Rhyne Academic Institutional Repository (LAIR) is managed by the University Libraries and has been established to preserve and make broadly available the scholarly works of the LR community. LAIR is appropriate for article pre-prints and manuscripts, conference papers, instructional material, as well as student projects, theses, and dissertations. The repository also provides a digital home for the university’s historical and cultural collections.

The repository is currently accepting submissions by faculty, staff, and students who want to share their work with a worldwide audience. Go to LAIR LibGuide for information on how to deposit materials to the repository. Use this form to start the submission process (you must first be logged into the LRU portal to access the form).

Please contact us at refdesk@lr.edu with any questions about LAIR or about submitting your work.

Recent Submissions

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    This e-learning tool makes finance simple-maybe too simple.
    (2025-02-05) Berhend, Dawn
    FinancialFit provides robust, vetted content in an interface that is engaging and easy to navigate. But its focus on topics relevant to early to middle adulthood narrows its audience.
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    ProQuest One Psychology
    (2023-11-15) Behrend, Dawn
    ProQuest One Psychology is an extensive aggregate of multiformat resources in psychology and counseling. The product brings together a wide range of content, source, and material types culled from multiple ProQuest platforms to offer the convenience of a single point of access for research in the discipline from the undergraduate to graduate levels. A hallmark feature of the ProQuest One Psychology is its ability to integrate with APA products, such as APA PsycInfo and APA PsycBooks, to which users have a subscription from ProQuest. Additional features that differentiate the product are the availability of Topic Pages and specialized search filters designed to enhance exploration and discovery of resources. Users will appreciate the intuitive ProQuest platform, along with the company’s proprietary eBook reader and video playback functionality. Institutions will benefit from customized pricing to allow for existing, overlapping ProQuest content in their collection. Limitations in currency of eBook holdings, minimal content in tests and measures, and the requirement to switch to APA products via the ProQuest platform for those with subscriptions on other platforms may detract from the product’s appeal. Those who prefer the APA platform and/or do not require resources outside of APA products may consider PsycNet as an alternative. EBSCO’s Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection may be of consideration for those primarily seeking a full-text journal database, although ProQuest Psychology One offers significantly more holdings of such journals in comparison. While there is much to recommend this product with its truly immense collection of resources, subscribers to ProQuest One Psychology will likely continue to require subscriptions to databases beyond those offered by ProQuest to provide their users with the most comprehensive resources possible.
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    Telemedicine and COVID-19 An Investigation of the Perceived Impact on Medical Professionals in Rural and Urban Areas
    (2021-05-10) Royster, Drew
    Telemedicine use has increased substantially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though it has been widely implemented, its accessibility has been a barrier in rural healthcare communities in comparison to urban healthcare. Telemedicine can be defined as the electronic exchange of medical information through a variety of digital mediums. The sudden spike in telemedicine usage in the past year has clearly exposed the weaknesses of this mode of medicine in both rural and urban areas. The main focus of this study is to assess the attitudes and perspective of medical professionals in rural and urban communities as it relates to telemedicine and the COVID-19 pandemic. This will be done through a survey sent out to a variety of medical professionals in a quantitative format. From this study, it was found that the COVID-19 had a major impact on the use of telemedicine in the surveyed communities. Even more so, the majority of participants had a positive attitude toward telemedicine, after experiencing it throughout the pandemic.
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    The Impact of Self-myofascial Trigger Point Release on Fatigue Management and Performance in Female College Basketball Players
    (2022-05) McClung, Hanna
    Basketball represents a sport that often causes substantial musculoskeletal injury. Female basketball players report delayed muscle activation, interfering with their ability to land properly. Fatigue also coincides with delayed neuromuscular activation. Both men and women reported decreased hamstring, quadricep, and gastrocnemius activation when fatigue was present (Gehring, Melnyk, & Gollhofer, 2009). Muscular trauma presents itself as myofascial pain, signaling improper muscle function. Travell and Simons (1999) define a trigger point as an irritated band of skeletal muscle that is painful once compressed, stretched, or contracted. Trigger points have been reported to cause increased muscle fatigability and altered muscular activation patterns (Gerwin, 1999). By implementing trigger point release therapy, the taut muscle band can return to normal length and functionality, reducing the risk of fatigue-related performance hindrances. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of a once-weekly self-myofascial trigger point therapy on the vertical jump performance of female basketball players during regular season. The intervention group participated in trigger point therapy by utilizing a lacrosse ball to release trigger points in major muscle groups. Both control and intervention groups performed vertical jump testing weekly to measure power output and how fatigue over the competitive season effected the jump heights. The longitudinal study concluded no statistical significance between the control and intervention group vertical jump trends over the year; however, practical significance existed. The control group experienced a gradual decline in jump performance, whereas the intervention group maintained jump height over the course of the season. This research focused on the prevalence of fatigue on athletic performance and introduced a potential method to eliminating decreases in performance over a long competitive season.
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    Intervention Strategies Aimed at Mealtime Difficulties for Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
    (2021-05-04) Page, Reagan
    Children diagnosed with ASD oftentimes struggle with sensory overloads, leading to difficulties with mealtime behaviors. These difficult mealtime behaviors come in many form and have varying impacts on parents and how to address management of mealtime difficulties. By utilizing a survey design, data was collected through social media and analyzed for both quantitative and qualitative results about a child's eating preferences. Through the data collected in the survey, it was shown that children with ASD had picky food preferences and often exhibited unwanted behavior during mealtimes. The finding of this study revealed some similarities and differences between previously published research.

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