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Baby Talk Academy Final Report, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Family Study Center., James P. Mchale

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Speech Perception In Bilingual Speakers: Ten Years Of Research, Alejandro E. Brice

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Five studies over the course of 10 years in bilingual speech perception (covering 4 publications) is presented by the author and investigator.

Teaching Data Use And School Leadership, Charles Vanover, Olivia Hodges

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

This case study uses evidence collected for accreditation and programme improvement at a small university Master's and certification programme in Educational Leadership Development to describe efforts to help leadership candidates use data during the programme's final internship experience. Programme features supporting the growth of candidates' instructional leadership skills are discussed as are the challenges faculty encountered supporting leadership candidates' efforts to use data to lead change projects. Suggestions for evaluating programmes' ability to teach evidence-based leadership practice are offered at the paper's conclusion.

Support For Scholarly Research In Florida Academic Libraries., Tina M. Neville, Deborah Boran Henry

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Survival Analysis For White Non-Hispanic Female Breast Cancer Patients, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan, Anshul Saxena, Kemesha Gabbidon, Tiffanie Shauna-Jeanne Stewart, Chintan Bhatt

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Background: Race and ethnicity are significant factors in predicting survival time of breast cancer patients. In this study, we applied advanced statistical methods to predict the survival of White non-Hispanic female breast cancer patients, who were diagnosed between the years 1973 and 2009 in the United States (U.S.). Materials and Methods: Demographic data from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database were used for the purpose of this study. Nine states were randomly selected from 12 U.S. cancer registries. A stratified random sampling method was used to select 2,000 female breast cancer patients from these nine states. We compared …

Tina Neville : Subject Expertise And Contact Information, Tina M. Neville

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Tina Neville is the Head of Library Research & Instruction at the Poynter Library. She has attended specialized short courses on digital preservation management and library instruction. She has co-authored several articles for the Journal of Academic Librarianship and RUSQ on support for promotion and tenure in academic libraries, library reference question classification, and evaluating book publishers. In addition, she has co-authored a book on library research skills for undergraduate science students.

Coding For Ethnodramas, Oral Histories, And Other Performances:Find What Matters And Cut The Rest, Charles Vanover

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Powerpoint and pictures from the presentation "Coding for oral history portraits, ethnodramas, and other performances." Presented at as part of the symposium “Coding for Interpretation and Performance.” Mihas, P., Saldaña, J., S., Keene, E., & Vanover, C. Presented the 10th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Champaign-Urbana, IL. 4/2014

Amazing Grace : Reflections On The John Allen Legacy, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

This article appeared in the issue of USF Magazine that celebrated the fortieth anniversary of USF's founding. The article offered a brief history of USF, based upon the author's interview of Grace Allen, the wife of founding USF President John S. Allen.

Asymmetric Investor Sentiment And Broker Sentiment Contagionin The U.S. Equity Market., Huijian Dong

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Goodbye To All That! : Community Performance For The 2014 Conference Of The American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, Pa, Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Photos, poster, program, and press release from the performance of Charles Vanover and Andrew Babson's ethnodrama "Goodbye to All That! A Teacher's Last Year in the Classroom" at the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia on April 5, 2014.

Performance by Alexandra Miletta, Brandi Slider Weekley, Vasey Coman. Response by K. Nicola Williams and Sarah Hobson. Score and musical performance by Andrew Babson. Written and Directed by Charles Vanover

Organizing The Peacock Parade : Faculty Buy-In For The Institutional Repository And Open Access Publishing, Carol G. Hixson, Deborah Boran Henry, Tina M. Neville

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

This session will demonstrate how even a small institution with limited staffing and resources can achieve more than 30 percent buy-in of their faculty to the institutional repository (IR) and increase awareness of and support for open access publishing on their campus.

Ethnodrama As Collective Inquiry: A Presentation By Dr. Charles Vanover Followed By A Play, Charles Vanover

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Photos, program, and poster from the talk, "Ethnodrama as Collective Inquiry" hosted by the Higher Education and Student Affairs Program of The Ohio State University on October 29th, 2014. This short talk was followed by a performance of Charles Vanover's ethnodrama "What does it mean to work in a system that fails you and your kids?" Jennifer Jean Smith performed the part of Halsted Hoyne, Taylor Sutton performed the part of the Interviewer, and Dr. Tatiana Suspitsyna acted as facilitator. The program includes a brief bibliography.

The Expertise In Urban Teaching Project: Interview Instruments, Pilot Study, And Other Materials, Charles Vanover

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Materials from Charles Vanover's dissertation, The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project. The major download file includes the original interview instruments for The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project's four interview guides along with the study's recruitment letters. Data generated from these interviews were used for Inquiry Theatre productions such as "System Failure," "They Will Only Steal Your Cars," "Goodbye to All That!" and "Listening to the Silences". The record contains two additional files: The Expertise in Urban Teaching Project's IRB forms and the oral history interview instrument Charles Vanover used to pilot the larger study. These pilot …

An Annotated Bibliography To Assist The Researcher Writing A Biography On The Political Career Of Leroy Collins, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

A guide to sources about (Thomas) LeRoy Collins, the thirty-third governor of Florida. Born in 1909, Collins served as a state legislator in both the House of Representatives and Senate. Following the untimely death of Governor Dan McCarty in 1953, Collins decided to run against Acting Governor (and Senate President) Charley E. Johns in a 1954 election to complete the second half of McCarty's term. Collins won the election. He became the first and only governor to run for a second consecutive term under the 1885 Florida constitution after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that he could run for reelection …

Preserving The Oral History Of Modern America : A Collection Development Initiative At The University Of South Florida, St. Petersburg, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Promoting Faculty Scholarship Through The Usfsp Digital Archive., Deborah Boran Henry, Tina M. Neville, Carol G. Hixson

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

The USFSP Digital Collections Team at Poynter Library created and manages an institutional repository which provides faculty with a new and professionally beneficial service. These digital portfolios showcase and promote their body of scholarship, on a stable platform and with a permanent URL. The USFSP Digital Archive offers 24/7 open access to the “Faculty Works” collections, provides full-text indexing that is harvested regularly by Google, Google Scholar, and other indexers, and tracks usage to demonstrate the increasing visibility of faculty work to researchers outside of the home institution. From the faculty member’s vita, the Faculty Archive Team researches and prepares …

Florida, By Word Of Mouth, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

A panel delivered in Session 3: "Missiles, Megabytes, and Memorex : Technology and the Presentation of Florida History" at the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, 29 May 1988, in Tampa. At the time of the presentation, the author served as Assistant Library Director of the Tarpon Springs Public Library.

Health Disparities Between Black Hispanic And Black Non-Hispanic Cervical Cancer Cases In The Usa, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan, Kemesha Gabbidon, Faheema Abdool-Ghany, Anshul Saxena, Esneider Gomez, Ts Stewart

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Background: Globally, cervical cancer is a major public health concern. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women, resulting in approximately 500,000 cases per year. The purpose of this study is to compare disease characteristics between Black Hispanic (BH) and Black non-Hispanic (BNH) women in the US. Materials and Methods: We used stratified random sampling to select cervical cancer patient records from the SEER database (1973-2009). We used Chi-square and independent samples t-test to examine differences in proportions and means. Results: The sample included 2,000 cervical cancer cases of Black non-Hispanic and 91 Black Hispanic women. There were …

Statistical Applications For The Prediction Of White Hispanic Breast Cancer Survival, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan, Anshul Saxena, Kemesha Gabbidon, Elizabeth Ross, Alice Shrestha

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Background: The ability to predict the survival time of breast cancer patients is important because of the potential high morbidity and mortality associated with the disease. To develop a predictive inference for determining the survival of breast cancer patients, we applied a novel Bayesian method. In this paper, we propose the development of a databased statistical probability model and application of the Bayesian method to predict future survival times for White Hispanic female breast cancer patients, diagnosed in the US during 1973-2009. Materials and Methods: A stratified random sample of White Hispanic female patient survival data was selected from the …

Locating Early America., Thomas Hallock

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Scholarly Book Publishers—A Case Study In The Field Of Journalism., Tina M. Neville, Deborah Boran Henry

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

By adapting multiple metrics used for journal article evaluation and replicating recent publisher metrics, the authors tested methods for evaluating scholarly book publishers. Using monographs published in journalism between 2007 and 2011 as a test case, results indicate these methods may be useful to other scholarly disciplines.

Global And Regional Impacts Of Hono On The Chemical Composition Of Clouds And Aerosols, Yasin F. Elshorbany, P. J. Crutzen, B. Steil, A. Pozzer, H. Tost, J. Lelieveld

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Recently, realistic simulation of nitrous acid (HONO) based on the HONO / NOx ratio of 0.02 was found to have a significant impact on the global budgets of HOx (OH + HO2) and gas phase oxidation products in polluted regions, especially in winter when other photolytic sources are of minor importance. It has been reported that chemistry-transport models underestimate sulphate concentrations, mostly during winter. Here we show that simulating realistic HONO levels can significantly enhance aerosol sulphate (S(VI)) due to the increased formation of H2SO4. Even though in-cloud aqueous phase oxidation of dissolved SO2 (S(IV)) is the main source of …

Model-Based Survival Estimates Of Female Breast Cancer Data, Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan, Anshul Saxena, Kemesha Gabbidon, Sagar Rana, Nasar Uddin Ahmed

USF St. Petersburg campus Faculty Publications

Background: Statistical methods are very important to precisely measure breast cancer patient survival times for healthcare management. Previous studies considered basic statistics to measure survival times without incorporating statistical modeling strategies. The objective of this study was to develop a data-based statistical probability model from the female breast cancer patients’ survival times by using the Bayesian approach to predict future inferences of survival times. Materials and Methods: A random sample of 500 female patients was selected from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results cancer registry database. For goodness of fit, the standard model building criteria were used. The Bayesian approach …