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Interviewing Older People; Relationships In Qualitative Research, Linda Robertson, Beatrica Hale

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Health practitioners who have already undertaken a considerable amount of interviewing would consider themselves as experienced interviewers, but there are questions and issues arising from research interviews which are different from assessment and interventionist interviews. The purpose of this study was to explore the role of the health professional researcher in qualitative research with older people and to make recommendations for preparatory interviewing in methodology courses. Method: A descriptive approach was used and semi-structured interviews with a sample size of eleven New Zealand health professionals/researchers. Results: A significant theme emerging was relationships. This was further divided into three categories: establishing …

Nmp4/Ciz Suppresses The Response Of Bone To Anabolic Parathyroid Hormone By Regulating Both Osteoblasts And Osteoclasts, Paul Childress, Binu K. Philip, Alexander G. Robling, Angela Bruzzaniti, Melissa A. Kacena, Nicoletta Bivi, Lilian I. Plotkin, Aaron Heller, Joseph P. Bidwell

Student Publications

How parathyroid hormone (PTH) increases bone mass is unclear, but understanding this phenomenon is significant to the improvement of osteoporosis therapy. Nmp4/CIZ is a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling transcriptional repressor that suppresses PTH-induced osteoblast gene expression and hormone-stimulated gains in murine femoral trabecular bone. To further characterize Nmp4/CIZ suppression of hormone-mediated bone growth, we treated 10-week-old Nmp4-knockout (KO) and wild-type (WT) mice with intermittent human PTH(1-34) at 30 μg/kg daily or vehicle, 7 days/week, for 2, 3, or 7 weeks. Null mice treated with hormone (7 weeks) gained more vertebral and tibial cancellous bone than WT animals, paralleling the exaggerated response in …

New Books Announcement

First Opinions, Second Reactions

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Annual Report Of The University, 2010-2011, Volumes 1-5, University Of New Mexico

UNM Annual Reports

DEPARTMENTAL MISSION • To recruit, evaluate, and admit qualified students to UNM, including beginning freshman, transfer, returning, non-degree, international, and graduate applicants; • To provide information about UNM admission requirements, policies, and academic preparation to our internal and external constituents; • To provide guidance for academic success and, as necessary, advise students about appropriate alternative options to help them meet their academic goals. We do this through teamwork by providing individualized quality service to our constituents. We are committed to creativity and flexibility in working in an ever-changing environment. We strive to provide service in a way that exceeds our …

The Cord (June 29, 2011)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

The Bg News June 29, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. June 29, 2011. Volume 101-Issue 157.

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes 2011-06-24, Bowling Green State University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

The official meeting minutes of Bowling Green State University's Board of Trustees.

Doing And Talking: Articulating Craft, Paul Harper

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This paper is based on PhD research, which identifies a problem with researching and theorizing craft, and explores a method, which draws on ethnographic video oral history approaches for gathering data relating to practice. The purpose of the method is to advance understanding of practice and to develop theory that is grounded in the experience of practice. The method involves filming craftspeople working, then interviewing them whilst they watch the film of themselves. The paper outlines the critical context for the research, drawing on the model of Becker’s Art Worlds to assert that a legitimizing infrastructure has evolved to support …

A Case Study: Articulating Embodied Practice With Poise, Todd Robinson

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

In this paper I will examine the role artefacts play in the context of a practice-based research project. Alone artefacts would not constitute research but I will present a Case Study examining how a self-produced single artefact, named PULLEY SAC became a compelling artefact within my design practice. The study revolves around a first person account of the context in which the PULLEY SAC emerged within practice. I pay particular attention to the phenomena of noticing, whereby particular aspects of a current activity show up as significant against a background of ongoing creative practice and articulation, which draws out through …

Recoding Abandoned Products: Student Visual Designers Experiment To Sustain Product Lives And Values, Alison Gill, Abby Mellick Lopes

Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series

This conference paper outlines the development, delivery and evaluation of a student project for visual communicators in a second year teaching unit where students are investigating the communication contexts of contemporary consumer values and the material and symbolic waste to which design contributes. The student exercise is part of a pedagogical strategy to seed education about sustainable design practices and is in response to an ongoing research project investigating the role of visual communications design in supporting more enduring relationships with existing products and the value-creating practices of users. The authors’ research draws in part on the sustainable design theory …

Rethinking The Nature Of The Firm: The Corporation As A Governance Object, Peer Zumbansen

Seattle University Law Review

This Article attempts to bridge two discourses—corporate governance and contract governance. Regarding the latter, a group of scholars has recently set out to develop a more comprehensive research agenda to explore the governance dimensions of contractual relations, highlighting the potential of contract theory to develop a more encompassing theory of social and economic transactions. While a renewed interest in the contribution of economic theory for a concept of contract governance drives one dimension of this research, another part of this undertaking has been to move contract theory closer to theories of social organization. Here, these scholars emphasize the “social” or …

Eng 5061-031: Topics In Literature And Literary Theory: Historicism, Randy Beebe

Summer 2011

No abstract provided.

Division Of Labor And Marital Quality In Russia, Carol Synae Kim

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined whether investigation of the linkages between division of labor and marital quality would produce the same results in Russia that have been found in the U.S. Russian couples (n = 172) participated in the study by answering three packets of questionnaires. The Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale was used to measure each partner's rating of their levels of satisfaction with their marital relationship and their spouse. The results from the structural equation models indicated that the more the wives perceived themselves doing more and expressed dissatisfaction of their spouse's contribution to child care tasks and apartment maintenance, the …

Framing Health Care Across The Pond: A Comparative Content Analysis Of Elite Newspapers In The Us And Uk During The 2009 American Health Policy Debate, Jackson Bales Foote

Theses

This study analyzes content from eight leading newspapers in the United States and United Kingdom during ten months of the 2009 American health care policy debate, identifying emergent issue-specific health care frames that manifest themselves in key framing devices, like metaphors, exemplars, catchphrases, and depictions. This exploratory, quantitive frame analysis is conducted in a cross-cultural context to facilitate generalizable comparisons about how the news media in different countries frame social welfare policy through symbolic and rhetorical elements. A principal component analysis is used to reduce the health care-specific variables into four frames: access, choice, rising costs, and market competition. The …

Cry The Beloved Media: New Media And Student Perceptions In A World Literature Classroom, Timbre Janiece Newby Greenwood

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative action research project addressed the infusion of media literacy and new media into a standard secondary English language arts curriculum. In examining students' perceptions of South Africa as they interacted with new media texts in conjunction with the traditional literary text Cry, the Beloved Country, this study also explored the manner in which students' media interactions informed their reading of the novel. As a result of the research data, the author asserts that media literacy education can, in fact, play an effective role in teaching literature within the world literature classroom.

A Country Of Immigration? Situating German Multiculturalism In The New Europe, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation addresses a complex cultural and social phenomenon: German multiculturalism in the framework of the European Union in the century of globalization and global migration. I use selected cinematographic works by Fatih Akin, currently the most celebrated German and European filmmaker, as cultural texts. This project illuminates cultural controversies, political complexities, and the discriminatory nature of German multiculturalism. Specifically, I show how and why the German society eagerly accepts and successfully integrates Italian immigrants, yet, culturally marginalizes and socially excludes the Turks. My work illuminates how complex historical and political processes of the past, guided by the principle of …

Is It Hot(Ter) Out There Or Is It Just (The) Me(Dia)? A Comparative Framing Analysis Of Climate Change In The New York Times And The Guardian, Kylah Jae Hedding

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a framing analysis that compares the coverage of climate change in the New York Times and the Guardian from January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009. This research supports the theory that the coverage in media outlets is affected by the media systems in which they exists, with both similarities and differences in the coverage of the two media outlets. It also supports the argument that climate change coverage in the United States is cyclical and event-driven, while the British media reflects both the cyclical, event-driven liberal media model and the more issues-focused European model. This thesis departs …

Issues And Techniques In Translating Scientific Terms From English To Khmer For A University-Level Text In Cambodia, Cassie F. Quigley, Alandeom W. Oliviera, Alistair Curry, Gayle Buck

Publications

Teachers and students spend much time interacting with written resources such as textbooks, tests, or worksheets during classroom instruction. What if no text is available, however, in the language of the learners? This case study describes the processes and techniques adopted by two university lecturers in Cambodia, as they translated an L1 (first language) science text into Khmer in a manner that tried to take full account of the cultural, linguistic, and social dimensions of language. Using a variety of translation techniques, they aimed to produce a Khmer text which would be most effective in promoting the learning of the …

From Where I Am Standing: Indigenous Narrative And Photo Documentary, Nestor R. Veloz Passalacqua

Ethnic Studies

Latin American Indigenous Peoples (LAIP) are a marginalized segment in Latin America. They inhabit a sub-America and are forced to migrate due to socio-political struggle and cultural coercion. LAIP experience a transnational and transborder migration that reflects the quality of cultural hybridity and of regional, ethnic, and cultural crossings. The purpose of this study is to research LAIP ways of reclaiming and reproducing cultural practices that elicit Indigenous awareness, knowledge, and ethnic identification in a transnational setting. The study examines through interviews and photographs transborder experiences and the lives of the participants. As a result, the project reveals that LAIP …

Pace 9/11 Oral History Project, Maria T. Iacullo-Bird (Principal Investigator), Ellen Sowchek (Co-Principal Investigator), Jennifer Thomas (Co-Principal Investigator)

Cornerstone 2 Reports : Community Outreach and Empowerment Through Service Learning and Volunteerism

No abstract provided.

2010-2011 Best Practice Sampler: The Theory And Practice Of Teaching At Philadelphia University, Jane Antheil, Marion Roydhouse

Annual Reports & Administrative Documents

Preface

Every faculty member at one time or another has known the sinking sensation that he or she is just not reaching students. Since we entered the profession because we love learning and love to facilitate learning, blank stares and dull eyes lead not only to frustration, but also to disappointment. Paraphrasing Lee Shulman, past President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a leader in professional education, it is one thing to be competent in subject knowledge and another thing to be competent in subject knowledge pedagogy.

The examples and ideas expressed in these pages come …

Developing & Improving Communicationstudies.Info, Chase Fleming

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Norcal Vs. Socal: Culture As Communication, Jillian J. Smith

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Popular Culture And The Feminist Ideal: A Feminist Critique Of Home Box Office's "Sex And The City", Koryna Zendejas

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Task Force On The Status Of Women At Suny Potsdam: A Perspective On A Decade Of Feminist Practices, Liliana Trevizan

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper argues that the Task Force on the Status of Women at SUNY Potsdam stands as a model of best practices for institutions of Higher Education that want to improve campus climate, and respond appropriately to demographic. The results of the work female faculty have done there are noteworthy, and a decade later its effects continue to bring positive rewards to faculty, students, and the institution as a whole.

Bibliography Of Scholarship On Indigenous Literatures And Cultures, Angeline O'Neill, Albert Braz

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Park Visitor Behavior At Los Osos Skate Park, Kristen Mcclay

Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration

Skateboarding began in California over 50 years ago and has grown internationally.  The purpose of this study was to assess the behavior of park visitors at Los Osos Skate Park.  This park was fully supervised and this study can serve as a tool for park management.  The researcher observed the skate park during operating hours throughout April 2011.  The subjects of this study were park visitors actively skateboarding, or passively watching.  The dominant demographic for skateboarders were adolescent males.  This study found peak times were weekdays afterschool, adult park visitors display the most positive behavior, and middle school park visitors …

Giving My Heart A Voice: Reflection On Self And Others Through The Looking Glass Of Pedagogy: An Autoetnography, Vera L. Neyman

Dissertations

To improve students academic outcomes this auto-ethnographic dissertation examines my teaching practice in the Ukraine and in the United States, and the similarities and differences between the two educational systems. This study, designed in the form of auto-ethnographic vignettes, explores the effect of my personal and professional metamorphosis on the academic advancement of my students, and investigates the conditions that molded me into a teacher I am today. Through the reflections on the process of self-development as an individual and a teacher, I discovered that building the relationship of trust between school and family is an underlying condition for improving …

Student Lunch Nutrition, Kathryn Leigh Scholte

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Stories And Cultural Humility: Exploring Power And Privilege Through Physical Therapists' Life Stories, Marjorie Hilliard

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore how life experiences, set within their social, cultural, and historical contexts, shape the development of cultural humility in physical therapists (PTs). Cultural humility involves health professionals being actively engaged in an ongoing process with patients, colleagues, communities, and themselves to make sense of the complexities of social and culture differences within relationships in practice. Given demographic trends and health care disparities, it has become critically important to better understand the dynamics of developing trusting relationships to provide quality care. This study was influenced by relationship-centered care, sociocultural, and insurgent multiculturalism theories. A …