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The Effect Of Education On Compassion Fatigue As Experienced By Staff Nurses, Katie Zehr

Graduate Academic Symposium

Historically, nursing has been perceived as a highly rewarding profession. Yet, due to the increasing complexity of today’s healthcare, nurses are faced with greater challenges in their work environments. Additionally, registered nurses who work in tertiary care settings are exposed to disturbing patient situations that can be taxing on psychological health. Some examples include trauma, death, abuse, or chronic disease. Joinson (1992) described this experience as compassion fatigue (CF) and explains that those who experience CF may have symptoms such as headaches, short attention span, or fatigue. The purpose of this EBP project was to increase awareness about CF risks, …

What Are They Learning? Assessing Theatre/Dance Performance Experiences, Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Meg Schriffen

College of Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Publications

The model of assessment will demonstrate how to align the assessment of production activity with learning goals set by accrediting bodies, the institution, the department, and the specific program. This alignment insures that measurement of student learning is standardized across the students’ entire experience in the program (courses, performances, rehearsals, technical preparations, etc.) Examples of indirect and direct measurement instruments will be presented.

Florida-Friendly Butterfly Gardening, John J. Pipoly Iii

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

No abstract provided.

Fl-Friendly Container Gardening, John J. Pipoly Iii

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

No abstract provided.

Florida-Friendly Butterfly Gardening, John J. Pipoly Iii

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

No abstract provided.

Using Scholarworks To Capture Forest Entomology And Forestry History, Dillon Wackerman

Librarian and Staff Presentations

The Center for Digital Scholarship at Stephen F. Austin State University has worked with the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, and in particular professor David Kulhavy, to digitize and publish online in SFA ScholarWorks the college's scholarly work and history. The latest development from this relationship can be seen in the creation of the East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar event page in SFA ScholarWorks, which documents the seminar's proceedings and history.

Coping With Traumatic Events In The Emergency Department, Amy L. Quinn, Tricia Davis

Graduate Research Projects

No abstract provided.

Tree Inventory Analysis: A Comparison Of Park Species Richness To The Surrounding Neighborhoods In Rock Island, Illinois, Kevin Root

Urban Forest Project

Urban forests (parks, right-of-way trees, yards, and remnant woodlots and semi-natural areas) are critical sources such diversity in urban areas. Diversity of urban forest is often related to the socioeconomic status, housing age, and elevation of the neighborhood. With the invasion of the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) in the last decade, conserving and enhancing the diversity of urban forests has become an important tool in increasing the resilience of such ecosystems to such devastating invasion. We assessed the diversity and composition of the forests of 17 parks in Rock Island, Illinois and examined the relationship between such diversity and the …

Enhanced Presentation Of Tomographic Data, Carmen Watts Clayton, Bernice E. Mills, George Buffleben, Thien Vu-Nguyen

STAR Program Research Presentations

Solid materials can now be viewed non-destructively with x-rays by tomography; a technique for taking many 2D images of an object at many angles and reconstructing the images into a 3D data cube. The data is next rendered into 2D or 3D still images or movies. By nature, x-ray tomography yields a very large amount of data in three dimensions. Effectively displaying this data to an audience is a challenge.

In this work techniques are explored to improve the presentation methods of movies of both 2D and 3D tomographic data for visual appeal and correct perspective. Finding the optimal ways …

Sharing Insight And Experience From An Alma Implementation, Mike Rogers

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Keynote presentation given by Mike Rogers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville at eBUG 2015

Weeding In The 21st Century, Peter Tagtmeyer

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Downsizing a branch library’s floor space by a third necessitates extensive materials de-acquisitioning to the tune of thousands of volumes. This presentation describes the context of downsizing, and the policies and procedures used to determine which materials were recently withdrawn from Colgate University’s Cooley Science Library collections.

Organizing Chemical Information To Support Lab Safety, Leah Mcewen

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

The Internet provides ready access to a wide variety of information sources relevant to answering chemical safety questions in the laboratory. However, this information is found in a wide variety of formats with varying audiences and intents. The quality of the information is difficult to evaluate, organize, and use to support risk assessment of laboratory work with hazardous chemicals. Professionals in health and safety, chemistry librarianship and informatics are partnering to address these challenges particularly in the academic research and teaching context. Goals are to streamline access to relevant data from authoritative sources, organize and classify chemical safety information to …

Designer Genes, Designer Drugs And Resources Designing “The New Biology”: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Fred Stoss

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

A seven-foot 1950s-style model of DNA hangs in my office, as a reminder of what we then knew about “The Molecule of Life.” We today marvel at how far we have come in our understanding of that molecule, its impact on the study of biology, and the new discoveries in “The New Biology” of the Post-Genomic Era. What resources, services, publications and training is required of science librarians to assist students, faculties, and staff. What are today’s driving forces directing “The Newest Biology?”

Collaborating To Improve Biological Sciences Students’ Writing And Research Skills, Tina Chan

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Learn how the SUNY Oswego biological sciences librarian, biological sciences faculty member, and biological sciences academic advisement coordinator have collaborated to improve biological sciences students’ writing and research skills by offering a writing workshop and writing labs. The writing workshop teaches how to write lab reports, evaluating and citing sources, and plagiarism. The writing labs allow students to learn research skills and to gain feedback on their lab report draft.

A Practical Comparison Of Scopus And Web Of Science, A. Ben Wagner

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Few organizations can afford both Web of Science and Scopus, making it difficult for librarians to make in-depth comparisons to support acquisition decisions. The new SUNY-wide Elsevier Big Deal included access to Scopus making it possible for our unversity to perform a review based on the current and much improved interfaces of both databases. Search, display, & analysis features will be compared with a special emphasis on author/institution disambiguation via clustering and citation metrics.

Where Knowledge Meets Experience: Emphasizing The Library's Role In An Experiemental Learning Iniative., Elizabeth Price

Selected Works

No abstract provided.

Open Access And Closed Minds? Collaborating Across Campus To Educate Faculty About Changing Scholarly Communications Models, Elizabeth Price

Selected Works

The presenters have encountered barriers—some expected, some not—as we have mounted a strategic campaign to educate faculty about how the open access movement affects them and how our institution needs to respond to this changing landscape.

Living In Freedom Together (Lift), Marianne Sarkis, Cora Torton, Isabel Szatkowski, Nicole Bell, Rebecca Wallace, Macy Golman

Local Knowledge: Worcester Area Community-Based Research

A poster created for a proposed housing plan through Living in Freedom Together (LIFT). The house would serve as a safe space for women seeking to get out of prostitution through social services and mentorship.

Open Educational Resources Presentation For Librarians With Notes, Tucker T. Taylor, Amie Freeman

A repository of copyright educational resources for higher education

This presentation is created for faculty. students or librarians. It contains an overview of Open Educational Resources and Open Textbooks, and also describes several projects including MERLOT and Openstax. Descriptive notes are included in the slides to assist future presenters.

Library Funding Of Open Access Publication Fees: Effects On Faculty Behavior And Attitude, Andrea Imre, Jonathan Nabe

Conference Papers and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Common Cause: Using Assessment To Advocate For Technical Services (Presentation), Rebecca L. Mugridge

University Libraries Faculty Scholarship

This presentation demonstrates how assessment activities and results can serve as an advocacy tool for technical services divisions of libraries.

Services To Library Users With Disabilities: Slide Presentation For Benyalai Library, Thailand, H. Mohd Faizal, M.K. Siti Juryiah

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Special Disable Users (SDU) is one of the category of users that uses the library at the University of Malaya Library (UML). According to Act 658, people with disabilities shall have the right to the access to information, communication and technology on equal basis with people without disabilities (Persons with Disabilities Act 2008, Act 685).The purpose of this article is to highlight all the initiatives led by the University of Malaya Library (UML) to improve the library services for the visually impaired and physically handicapped students and staffs registered as library members. This initiative was taken to support the mission …

Fl-Friendly Container Gardening, John J. Pipoly Iii

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

No abstract provided.

Performance Based Funding, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg., Han Reichgelt

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Competency Iii - Models Of Addiction, Uaa Center For Behavioral Health Research & Servcies

The Arctic FASD Regional Training Center

This PowerPoint was created by the University of Alaska Anchorage Center for Behavioral Health Research & Services’ CDC-funded Arctic FASD Regional Training Center in 2010 and revised in 2013. The content is based primarily on materials and resources available in CDC’s Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Competency-Based Curriculum Development Guide for Medical and Allied Health Education and Practice (2009). This guide was revised in 2015 and is available from www.frfasd.org/Comp_Guide.html. If you are using elements of this PowerPoint in another presentation, please credit the Arctic FASD Regional Training Center and the 2009 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Competency-Based Curriculum Development Guide for …

Nanoscale Technology In The Environment: A Double-Edged Sword And Its Position Under The International Environmental Law, M.E. Karim

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

No abstract provided.

Delineation Of Heavy Metal Zone In Aquifer System Using Geoelectrical Resistivity And Hydrogeochemical Methods, N.I. Rahman, S. Taib, I. Yusoff

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

No abstract provided.

Library Video Collaborations, Jill Powell, Jeremy Cusker, Sean Taylor

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Library videos are common on YouTube, but finding the time and resources to produce them is a challenge. A collaboration among the engineering librarians, the College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Institute, Library IT, and the Research and Assessment Unit at Cornell identified resources and resulted in the production of 8 videos for specific classes in materials science and biomedical engineering. Jill and Jeremy will discuss the details of the collaboration; Sean the software and hardware used.

Purposeful Gaming: Crowdsourcing The Correction Of Ocred Text In Biodiversity Heritage, Marty Schlabach

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of scanned text enables full-text searching. Unfortunately, OCR software does not produce 100% accurate representation of the text, especially with older works having varying fonts, odd layouts and ink bleed-through. Led by Missouri Botanical Garden, and partnering with New York Botanical Garden, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and Cornell, an IMLS-funded project has developed 2 games to engage the public in correcting inaccurately OCRed text in BHL.

Function Based Interventions, Pbis, And North Metro Gnets Student Successes, Cassandra A. Holifield Dr, Kimberly Thorpe, Jessica Schuster

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Functional Behavioral Assessments are generally considered to be a problem-solving process for addressing student problem behavior. FBAs rely on a variety of techniques and strategies to identify the purposes of specific behavior that help IEP teams select interventions that directly address the problem behavior. A functional behavioral assessment looks beyond student behavior itself. The focus when conducting a functional behavioral assessment is to identify significant, pupil-specific social/emotional, affective, cognitive, and/or environmental factors associated with the occurrence (and non-occurrence) of specific behaviors. The broader perspective of an FBA offers a better understanding of the function or purpose behind student behavior. Behavior …