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Chronic Illness And Disasters: Development Of A Theoretical Framework, Jacqueline K. Owens, Donna S. Martsolf

The Qualitative Report

In a disaster, individuals with chronic illnesses risk poor outcomes. This grounded theory study sought to develop a framework that describes how these individuals manage health-related challenges during disasters. The five phases of disaster response (non-disaster, pre-disaster, impact, emergency, reconstruction) and the individual, local, state, and federal level model served as conceptual frameworks. Using purposive sampling, 30 individuals with chronic illnesses and 10 lay caregivers were recruited from Florida and New Orleans. Data sources included interviews and media data. Constant comparative analysis techniques were used to build the theoretical framework. Transcript analysis suggested that participants used four unique ways to …

Economic Development Strategic Plan For The City Of Waco, Texas, George A. Erickcek, Don Edgerly, Brian Pittelko, Claudette Robey, Bridget Timmeney, Dennis Burnside, Claudette Robey

Reports

No abstract provided.

How A Computer-Assisted Instructional Program Affects The Reading Fluency Of A Selected Group Of 2nd Grade Students, Sharlese Louise James

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study examined the effectiveness of Headsprout Early Reading to augment fluency abilities for second grade students in an urban public school system. Headsprout, a Computer-Assisted Instruction program (CAI), provided internet-based reading instruction based on the National Reading Panel's recommendations. All second grade students were assessed to determine who would use the program. Second grade students who participated in Headsprout sessions were compared with second grade students who did not use Headsprout. All participants were assessed again at the end of the study.Analysis of the students' gains was conducted using a Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (R-ANOVA). It revealed that …

Practicing “Enlightened Capitalism”: “Fil–Am” Heroes, Ngo Activism, And The Reconstitution Of Class Difference In The Philippines, Faith R. Kares

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Drawing on original ethnographic research, thisarticle focuses on the ways in which the Philippines-based nongovernmental organization (NGO) Gawad Kalinga (GK) encourages diasporic Filipino volunteerism by reworking the nationalist discourse of heroism and deploying idioms of love and care. It examines volunteer receptions to GK’s development approach and recruitment strategies. In so doing, thisarticle analyzes not only the diaspora’s role in GK’s housing construction efforts and poverty alleviation projects, but also interrogates the implications of the underclass ideology buttressing and the neoliberal logic framing the organization’s work with the poor.KEYWORDS: Filipino diaspora • development • nongovernmental organizations • nationalism • poverty

Typhoon Ondoy And The Translation Of Disaster Expertise In Barangay Banaba, Marikina Valley, Loh Kah Seng

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

Thisarticle investigates community-based disaster responses among informal settlers in a barangay located just outside Metro Manila in the aftermath of Typhoon Ondoy (international code name Ketsana) in 2009. People have embraced some technical measures, such as forcible evacuation, but others have continued customary practices, such as seeking refuge on rooftops where they could get trapped during floods. An important factor in this process has been the credible work of a local people’s organization, which has mediated technical expertise from outside the community. Adaptation of disaster expertise is an ongoing and unpredictable process, shaped by people’s lived experiences and the wider …

The Effects Of Organizational Justice And Exercise On The Relationship Between Job Stressors And Employee Health, Ana Cristina B. Costa

Dissertations and Theses

Recent decades have seen an explosion of research centered on understanding the influential impact that job stressors have on employees' subjective well-being, and now more recently, on objective assessments of physical health. Utilizing baseline data from a larger study funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), I conducted a field study on blue-collar employees from two organizations in the construction industry, with the goal of exploring the impact of job stressors on job satisfaction (subjective well-being) and body mass index (objective health), as well as the influence of organizational justice as a moderator and exercise as …

International Women's Air & Space Museum Summer Reading Program!, Cris C. Takacs Ms

Octavofest

While your kids are off from school have them read 10 of the 20 books from the list below and write a paragraph summary for each one read. Then submit their paper to IWASM by Aug. 31, 2014 for a prize! Some are available at our gift shop or you can stop by the library! (These books were chosen with the Ohio 3rd Grade Guarantee program in mind.) In October we will host an exhibit case of the books read as well as the student summaries. This will go along with the exciting events of Octavofest.

A Network Stability Monitoring Mechanism Of Cluster-Oriented Wireless Sensor Network , Kuo-Qin Yan, Shu-Ching Wang, Yu-Ping Tung

Communications of the IIMA

In wireless sensor network (WSN), every sensor node could active dynamically. Therefore, those sensor nodes will affect the stability of network topology because of clustering and de-clustering, and continuously make reconfiguration for the clusters of wireless sensor network, all that will influence the overall function of network. It is an important issue that how to elect a cluster manager (CM) to keep the stability of network topology. In addition, large amount of events maybe flood suddenly in a local area. Such the case might raise the overload of CM, even lead CM to fail or crash and the WSN topology …

Teacher Training In The Use Of A Three-Dimensional Immersive Virtual World: Building Understanding Through First-Hand Experiences, Kevin Oh, Natalie Nussli

School of Education Faculty Research

This study offers recommendations and a model for other teacher educators who are interested in training teachers in the use of three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual worlds (IVWs) for their own teaching. Twelve special education teachers collaboratively explored the usability of Second Life (SL) for special education by completing a full inquiry cycle to develop the ability to make informed decisions about the affordances and challenges of virtual world teaching and to help identify effective components for virtual worlds teacher training. Ten educational SL islands were explored critically. Mixed-methods data analysis and triangulation were based on the analysis and synthesis of …

Biodiversity: A Guide To Agricultural Wildlife, Rebecca Ozeran, Elaina Cromer

Animal Science

We have compiled a list of the birds and mammals that we documented at selected locations on campus. Through this document we aim to offer an easily accessible resource that students, faculty, and visitors can utilize to not just satisfy their curiosity but also spark further contemplation. For each species and for each location, we have also summarized the possible implications of our observations from a holistic perspective. The purpose of this is to get people to think about the way land is managed and what may indicate that it is being mismanaged or that the certain aspects of current …

Incorporation Of Equine Assisted Therapy In University Curriculum, Shelby Y. Sabati

Animal Science

Equine-assisted activity and therapy incorporates physical, mental and language treatments through equine movement to remediate medical conditions or impairments in clients. For all the opportunities that equine-assisted therapy provides there is little education on the practice. The focus of this project is to present the process, benefits and limitations of adopting an equine-assisted therapy course at California Polytechnic State University so it may be used as a reference for future course proposal.

Objective: The aim of this proposal is to offer insight into Equine-assisted therapy, understanding how to integrate the Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International curriculum into the …

Community Leader, Vol. 12, No. 03, University Of Dayton. Fitz Center For Leadership In Community

Newsletter: Community Leader

News and notes from the University of Dayton Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

“You Are Turning Into A Hive Mind”: Storytelling, Ecological Thought, And The Problem Of Form In Generation A, Jenny Kerber

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

This article discusses the relationship between literary form and contemporary ecological anxiety in Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation A. Coupland’s speculative fiction envisions a possible future in the wake of Colony Collapse Disorder, but the more generalized eco-anxiety the novel explores is applicable to a number of contemporary environmental issues ranging from climate change to ocean acidification. I argue that Coupland’s novel invites readers to consider the problem of representing ecological problems characterized by global scale, temporal uncertainty, and multiple origins. I then explore how Coupland responds to these challenges by stretching form in two directions. First, he juxtaposes and …

Video And Podcasting Tools For Blended, Flipped, And Fully-Online Music Theory Courses, Gregory R. Mccandless, Anna Stephan-Robinson

Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy E-Journal 2013-2017

No abstract provided.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: June 2014, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - June 2014

Trabuco Trailblazers Constitution, Bylaws, And New Member Manual, Michael A. Zappulla Jr.

Agricultural Education and Communication

This document was created to be used by the Trabuco Trailblazers 4-H club in order to more successfully establish opportunities for and expectations of its members. This document includes a Constitution, Bylaws, and a New Member Manual to be given to all new members the day of registration.

Experiences Of Hispanic Students Enrolled In Secondary Agricultural Education Programs, Karina Salomon, José Vargas

Agricultural Education and Communication

Nearly 52% of the 72,445 [state] students enrolled in agricultural education are Hispanic. However, when many of these programs participate in leadership development activities beyond the local level, the diversity of their participants fails to mirror that of their enrollment. Many teachers are at a loss as to what they can do to cultivate the talent of these students.

In this phenomenological study, a focus group interview was conducted at a [state] high school agriculture program with the reputation for strong Hispanic student engagement. Nine Hispanic agriculture students were invited to participate. The purpose of the study was to interpret …

Food Labeling Litigation: Exposing Gaps In The Fda's Resources And Regulatory Authority, Nicole Negowetti

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvii, No. 6, Trinity), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Primetimes Newsletter, Summer 2014, Office Of Lifespan Studies

PrimeTimes Newsletter

PrimeTimes is the newsletter of the Office of Lifespan Studies in the College of Science at Coastal Carolina University.

The View From Lu Cooperative Extension, June 2014, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension

The View from LU Cooperative Extension

Volume 1, Issue 4

Life Of Erik Janssonists In Dalarna, Linjo Jonas Jonsson, Lars-Åke Wångstedt, John E. Norton

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.

A History Of The College Of Business Administration Of The University Of Rhode Island, 1923-2012, Richard Vangermeersch, Brian Stack

A History of the College of Business Administration

This book by Professor Emeritus Richard Vangermeersch chronicles the history of the University of Rhode Island's College of Business Administration. It includes written accounts of alumni interviews, as well as images and excerpts from archival sources. The years from 1992-2012 were compiled by Brian Stack, a URI graduate. In 2014, the University Libraries digitized the book, and enhanced it with high-quality digitized photos from the original yearbooks and other sources. It is published here on the occasion of the College's centennial.

The University Of Nebraska State Museum, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.

Robert F. Diffendal, Jr., Publications

I first walked through the doors of Morrill Hall on the main or City Campus of the University of Nebraska on a day late in August of 1962 and thought that I had entered paleontology heaven. Morrill Hall then housed the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM). most of the Geology Department, and some other parts of university units. I was a new graduate student hoping to pursue research in invertebrate paleontology in the Department of Geology and was on my way to see the department chairman for the first time. When I entered the building I walked through a …

Bdla, Dipa And Induced Dispersion Contribute To Acute Virulence And Chronic Persistence Of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Yi Li, Olga E. Petrova, Shengchang Su, Gee Lau, Warunya Panmanee, Renuka Na, Daniel J. Hassett, David G. Davies, Karin Sauer

Biological Sciences Faculty Scholarship

The human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa is capable of causing both acute and chronic infections. Differences in virulence are attributable to the mode of growth: bacteria growing planktonically cause acute infections, while bacteria growing in matrix-enclosed aggregates known as biofilms are associated with chronic, persistent infections. While the contribution of the planktonic and biofilm modes of growth to virulence is now widely accepted, little is known about the role of dispersion in virulence, the active process by which biofilm bacteria switch back to the planktonic mode of growth. Here, we demonstrate that P. aeruginosa dispersed cells display a virulence phenotype distinct …

General Catalog 2014-2015 (Summer, Fall 2014), Utah State University

University Catalogs

This catalog contains information on the Academic Departments and Programs as well as Course Descriptions for the above school year at Utah State University. To avoid large file downloads, the Academic Departments and Programs information is located in this file. The Course Description information is located in the secondary file.

Patch-Burn Grazing Effects On Cattle Performance: Research Conducted In A Working Landscape, Stephen L. Winter, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Mark Goes

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

• Patch-burn grazing is a range management strategy that might be able to simultaneously optimize livestock production objectives and wildlife habitat objectives.

• We compared patch-burn grazing to a traditional range management strategy in multiple pastures, representing a variety of land ownership and management histories, dispersed across a relatively large geographic area. Our results likely represent what land managers could expect if they adopted patch-burn grazing in similar situations.

• We found that cattle performance in pastures managed with patch-burn grazing did not differ from that found in pastures managed with a traditional range management strategy. This suggests that land …

Rookie Season: Build To Achieve, Christopher Aker

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

An independent study project submitted to Richard Miles for the MUSW 676 004 Music course by Christopher Aker in June of 2014.

Communal Nesting In The Cuban Twig Anole (Anolis Angusticeps) From South Bimini, Bahamas, Christopher D. Robinson, Bonnie K. Kircher, Michele A. Johnson

Biology Faculty Research

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Internet Gis On Access To Water Quality Information, Joseph H. Hoover

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Empowering citizens to comprehend complex environmental issues affecting their daily lives is essential to sustaining a healthy and informed public. The work of many environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) and institutions of higher education (IHEs) center around helping their stakeholders become informed of, and in turn, better understand complex environmental problems. However, providing individual stakeholders with knowledge about environmental issues that is easily accessible and understandable represents a recurring challenge in today's society. As a result, a gap continues to exist between that which is known about environmental problems and the public's awareness and understanding of those issues. Arsenic contamination of …