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The Impact Of Parenting Education And Resources On The Development Of The Fathering Role, Bruce S. Sheppard

Doctor of Education (EdD)

This qualitative study is an inquiry into how men perceive their roles as fathers, how they developed those roles, and the influence those roles have on the success of their children. Interviews were conducted by the author with fourteen men who had previously participated in a prenatal class for new, first-time fathers. The transcribed data from these interviews were triangulated with interview notes, case notes, and a study journal. The data were also reviewed for accuracy through post-transcription telephone interviews with three of the interviewees. Five important themes emerged through analysis of the interview data: a) the men saw themselves …

Garbage On The Green Report 2014 Summary Report, James Taylor, Caitlin Kengle

Garbage on the Green Reports

Garbage on the Green is a waste auditing program developed by the UNF Environmental Center in 2007, with support from Physical Facilities. The audit was designed to gain a better understanding of UNF’s solid waste stream and to improve the overall diversion rate. The program corresponds with UNF’s plan to reduce its overall environmental footprint.

Nebline, November/December 2014

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: Tiny Tastes Can Total BIG CALORIES Over the Holiday Season

Food & Health

Family Living

Farm & Acreage

Home & Family Living

Horticulture

Pests & Wildlife

4-H & Youth

Extension Calendar

and other extension news and events

Timber Talk, Vol. 52, No. 4, November 1, 2014

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

In This Issue

Lumber Market News ...........................1

Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Green..................................2

Hardwood Lumber Price Trends—Kiln Dried...........................2

Wood is Good........................................3

Simple Steps for Double Your Firewood Profits................................4

Homemade Log Forwarder...................5

Nebraska Forest Industry Spotlight......6

The Trading Post....................................8

Timber Sales...........................................8

Depicting The Tree Of Life In Museums: Guiding Principles From Psychological Research, Laura R. Novick, Jane Pickering, Teresa Macdonald, Judy Diamond, Shaaron Ainsworth, Adriana E. Aquino, Kefyn M. Catley, Jeff Dodick, Evelyn Margaret Evans, Camillia Matuk, Janis Sacco, Monique Scott

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

The Tree of Life is revolutionizing our understanding of life on Earth, and, accordingly, evolutionary trees are increasingly important parts of exhibits on biodiversity and evolution. The authors argue that in using these trees to effectively communicate evolutionary principles, museums need to take into account research results from cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology while maintaining a focus on visitor engagement and enjoyment. Six guiding principles for depicting evolutionary trees in museum exhibits distilled from this research literature were used to evaluate five current or recent museum trees. One of the trees was then redesigned in light of the research while …

Five Year Strategic Plan For Economic Development: Prepared For The Town Of Winthrop, Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center For Public Management, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Edward J. Collins Center for Public Management Publications

In the spring of 2014, the Town of Winthrop hired the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston to help develop a Strategic Plan for Economic Development. The Center’s project team began its work by carefully analyzing data in order to understand Winthrop’s current business environment, and to learn how it has changed over time. Multiple sources of information were used, including the Census Bureau’s Decennial Census, American Community Survey, and County Business Patterns, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Claritas retail leakage data. In addition, the project team distributed and …

Climate Champion: Christiana Figueres (Vol. 1. Issue 2), Global Leadership Dialogues

Center for Governance and Sustainability Publications

Christiana Figueres is the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. She founded the non-profit Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas, and directed it for eight years (1995 – 2003). She also designed and helped to establish national climate change programs in eight Latin American countries, thereby promoting strong participation of the countries in that region in the Climate Change Convention.

Environmentalist Extraordinaire: James Gustave (Gus) Speth (Vol 1. Issue 1), Global Leadership Dialogues

Center for Governance and Sustainability Publications

Gus Speth served as the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (1993 – 1999) and as the Dean of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (1999 – 2009). He founded the Natural Resources Defense Council and the World Resources Institute.

Teamwork: Crucible For Learning About Collaborative Leadership, Lisa Deangelis, Sherry H. Penney, Maureen A. Scully

Center for Collaborative Leadership Publications

In teaching leadership development we have developed and revised a model of teamwork and collaboration, which has yielded innovative and positive results. Our study draws on insights from more than 90 project teams, gathered over twelve years of a mid-career executive education program designed specifically to teach collaborative leadership. The teams work on a strategic dilemma with a business association or community organization, highlighting the civic engagement aspect of collaborative leadership. Teams devise their own operating procedures, refine (not simply manage) the project, create working relationships with multiple stakeholders, and present a deliverable within the nine-month span of the program. …

"Thank God It (Never Should Have) Happened": Testing Yoder's Historiography, Andy Black

Journal of Scriptural Reasoning

No abstract provided.

Well-Being And Public Policy, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan Masur

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Governments rely on certain basic economic metrics and tools to analyze prospective laws and policies and to monitor how well their countries are doing. For decades, critics of such economic measures have argued that they ignore important aspects of value

Well-Being And Public Policy, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan Masur

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Governments rely on certain basic economic metrics and tools to analyze prospective laws and policies and to monitor how well their countries are doing. For decades, critics of such economic measures have argued that they ignore important aspects of value

Sharing The Necessary And Proper Clause, William Baude

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Few constitutional clauses have been the focus of so many hopes and fears as the Necessary and Proper Clause. In his Foreword, Professor John Manning puts forward a powerful vision of the clause, challenging the current approach of the Supreme Court. F

The Paradoxes Of Public Philosophy, Brian Leiter

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Hypoxic Stress Induces, But Cannot Sustain Trophoblast Stem Cell Differentiation To Labyrinthine Placenta Due To Mitochondrial Insufficiency, Yufen Xie, Sichang Zhou, Zhongliang Jiang, Jing Dai, Elizabeth E. Puscheck, Icksoo Lee, Graham Parker, Maik Hüttemann, Daniel A. Rappolee

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research Publications

Dysfunctional stem cell differentiation into placental lineages is associated with gestational diseases. Of the differentiated lineages available to trophoblast stem cells (TSC), elevated O2 and mitochondrial function are necessary to placental lineages at the maternal–placental surface and important in the etiology of preeclampsia. TSC lineage imbalance leads to embryonic failure during uterine implantation. Stress at implantation exacerbates stem cell depletion by decreasing proliferation and increasing differentiation. In an implantation site O2 is normally ~ 2%. In culture, exposure to 2% O2 and fibroblast growth factor 4 (FGF4) enabled the highest mouse TSC multipotency and proliferation. In contrast, hypoxic stress (0.5% …

Can Protected Bike Lanes Help Close The Gender Gap In Cycling? Lessons From Five Cities, Jennifer Dill, Tara Goddard, Christopher Monsere, Nathan Mcneil

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Even in areas with increased levels of bicycling, there remains a significant “gender gap” in bicycling in the United States, in contrast to many other countries with high rates of bicycling. The primary objective of this paper was to explore whether protected bike lanes could help reduce the gender gap. To do so, the authors used survey data from a comprehensive evaluation of protected bike lanes in five large U.S. cities (Austin, TX, Chicago, IL, Portland, OR, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC) that included survey responses of 1,111 intercepted bicyclists and 2,283 residents. Both men and women overwhelmingly felt …

Post-Hurricane Fuel Dynamics And Forest Regeneration Of Coastal Pine Stands In Southeast United States, Shanyue Guan

All Theses

Hurricanes have long been powerful and recurring disturbances in many coastal forest ecosystems. Intense hurricanes often produce a large amount of dead fuels within their affected forests, but how post-hurricane fuel complex changes with time, due to decomposition and management such as salvage, and the fire behavior affected by the changed fuel load remains largely unknown. To better understand the fuel and regeneration dynamics, field measurement and modeling were conducted within undamaged stands and hurricane damaged stands, including salvaged and unsalvaged stands in southern pine forests impacted by hurricane Hugo (1989), Opal (1995), Katrina (2005), and Ike (2008). We found …

Educational Guide: Refugee Children's Storytelling Across Curriculum, Laurie Dishman

Theses and Dissertations

The United States is facing a continuous increase in the amount of refugees seeking refuge in the States. This continuous increase places a strain on the current education system that is underequipped to handle an influx of students with very special and unique needs. This thesis discusses these needs and one method of addressing these needs in a way beneficial to refugee students. The method involves traditional storytelling in refugee family's homes being used in the classroom. This method was put into practice into a classroom without any refugee students and is also discussed in this thesis.

Remarks On Characterizations Of Malinowska And Szynal, Gholamhossein Hamedani, Z. Javanshiri, Mehdi Maadooliat, A. Yazdani

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

The problem of characterizing a distribution is an important problem which has recently attracted the attention of many researchers. Thus, various characterizations have been established in many different directions. An investigator will be vitally interested to know if their model fits the requirements of a particular distribution. To this end, one will depend on the characterizations of this distribution which provide conditions under which the underlying distribution is indeed that particular distribution. In this work, several characterizations of Malinowska and Szynal (2008) for certain general classes of distributions are revisited and simpler proofs of them are presented. These characterizations are …

Interventions Combining Motivational Interviewing And Cognitive Behavior To Promote Medication Adherence: A Literature Review, Sandra L. Spoelstra, Monica Schueller, Melissa Hilton, Kimberly Ridenour

Peer Reviewed Articles

Aims and objectives: The World Health Organization has indicated medication adherence is a global problem. Both motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) interventions alone have been found to be effective at improving medication adherence. This article summarizes research that has combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy to improve medication adherence.

Background: Projections indicate that by 2015, 33% of cancer treatment will be in pill form, shifting responsibility for managing medication adherence to patients. These regimens are often complex, with multiple doses, drugs, or cycling, and patients often experience side effects from symptoms, making adherence difficult. Patients taking …

Chinese Law Reform: Its Recent Past And Uncertain Future, Stanley B. Lubman

Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies

Just as economic reforms were beginning in 19789-1979 and China’s leaders announced that China was going to create a “socialist market economy,” a prominent Chjinese economist said.

“Market economy” should be “a bird in the cage” of the socialist economy.

Today, Chinese law reform reflects a mixed picture: The cage has grown since the onset of reform, but the law is still a bird inside of it.

Toward Win-Win Sustainable Development, Linda Moon

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment Staff Publications

An interview with Lisa Sachs, Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment.

Department Of Surgery Update, November/December 2014, Wright State University Department Of Surgery

Department of Surgery Updates

A four page newsletter created by the Department of Surgery documenting changes to the department. This issue for November and December of 2014 contains a message from the chair, pictures from the ACS Alumni Reception, a list of important dates, committee meetings, a list of presentations and more.

Rnase L Interacts With Filamin A To Regulate Actin Dynamics And Barrier Function For Viral Entry, Krishnamurthy Malathi, Mohammad Adnan Siddiqui, Shubham Dayal, Merna Naji, Heather J, Ezelle, Chun Zeng, Aimin Zhou, Bret A. Hassel

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The actin cytoskeleton and its network of associated proteins constitute a physical barrier that viruses must circumvent to gain entry into cells for productive infection. The mechanisms by which the physical signals of infection are sensed by the host to activate an innate immune response are not well understood. The antiviral endoribonuclease RNase L is ubiquitously expressed in a latent form and activated upon binding 2-5A, a unique oligoadenylate produced during viral infections. We provide evidence that RNase L in its inactive form interacts with the actin-binding protein Filamin A to modulate the actin cytoskeleton and inhibit virus entry. Cells …

Pharmacokinetic And Pharmacodynamic Interactions Between Antiepileptics And Antidepressants, Domenico Italiano, Edoardo Spina, Jose De Leon

Psychiatry Faculty Publications

INTRODUCTION: Antiepileptic-antidepressant combinations are frequently used by clinicians; their pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) drug interactions (DIs) have not been well studied but are frequently likely to be clinically relevant.

AREAS COVERED: This article provides a comprehensive review of PK DIs between antiepileptics and antidepressants. In the absence of PD DI studies, PD information on pharmacological mechanisms and studies on efficacy and safety of individual drugs are reviewed.

EXPERT OPINION: The clinical relevance of the inductive properties of carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbital and primidone and the inhibitory properties of valproic acid and some antidepressants are well understood; correction factors are provided …

Pharmacy Law Brief: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Joseph L. Fink Iii

Pharmacy Practice and Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Uwezo: Monitoring Children’S Competencies In East Africa, Acer

Assessment GEMS

Uwezo, meaning ‘capability’ in Kiswahili, is an initiative in which the competencies of schoolaged children in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are measured to obtain information that encourages changes in educational policy and practice. Uwezo began as a four-year initiative (2009–2013) and it is envisaged that it will run for at least another five-year period (Uwezo, 2011). Uwezo’s goal is to contribute to the improvement of the quality of education. Annual household surveys are implemented to assess the basic literacy and numeracy competencies of school age children across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Uwezo believes that this information will raise public awareness …

Social Media And Young Adult's Well-Being, Clayton Howard

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Social media has become an integral part of young adult’s lives today. It has moved well beyond simple entertainment, and now can have a profound effect on many areas of functioning. The current study examines various aspects of well-being to see if there is a connection between social media use and global well-being. The participants for this study were 217 undergraduate students from Fort Hays State University. Participants completed a survey designed to measure overall well-being and broad aspects of overall well-being that included the Public Health Surveillance Well-Being Scale (PHS-WB), the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), the Relationship Assessment Scale …

Cooperative Movement Impacts On Poverty Eradication In Indonesia: 2007-2011 Archival Research, Horohito Norhatan

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Global leaders and institutions expend considerable time, effort, and resources to eradicate poverty in the world. In spite of these efforts, poverty persists worldwide as a trap into which millions of people continue to fall. The cooperative contribution towards poverty eradication has advanced in recent years. Cooperatives can potentially increase the economic well-being, fostering sustainable economic development at the community level (Yusuf & Ijaiya, 2009). The present study is based on a quantitative archival data analysis of cooperatives’ movement progress and poverty eradication efforts in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to analyze the relationship between the Indonesian cooperative …

Age, Growth, And Simulation Modeling To Characterize Fish Populations At Two Reservoirs In South-Central Kansas, Brian Serpan

Master's Theses or Doctor of Nursing Practice

Several fish populations in Kansas are heavily exploited. To obtain insight into the response of fish populations to management actions, fisheries biologists must obtain as much information as possible with limited resources. To address these challenges, biologists often use age and growth information to understand the age structure of the populations, estimate recruitment and mortality, and gain insight into environmental and genetic factors influencing growth. In addition, age and growth data are used to generate yield-per-recruit models, which allow biologists to extrapolate population trends and make broad predictions about population responses to different management actions. Cheney and El Dorado reservoirs …