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“An Interesting Time In My Childhood”: Thinking About Storied Experience To Understand Complexities Of Curriculum Making And Diversity, Elaine Chan Jan 2015

“An Interesting Time In My Childhood”: Thinking About Storied Experience To Understand Complexities Of Curriculum Making And Diversity, Elaine Chan

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This paper highlights ways in which examining the storied experience of students may enhance our understanding of the complexities of curriculum making and diversity. Teachers, administrators, and other members of a diverse urban school implemented curriculum, practices, and policies that suggested a commitment to acknowledging the home cultures, languages, and religions that students brought to school. Examination of one Chinese student’s “stories of experience” (Connelly & Clandinin, 1990), however, revealed nuances and unexpected complexities of balancing integration into mainstream peer groups in school while growing up in an immigrant home. The nuances highlight ways in which schooling may contribute to …

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Bo43-6-Web.Pdf, Bird Observer Jan 2015

Bo43-6-Web.Pdf, Bird Observer

Bird Observer

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Developing Culturally Sensitive Education An Hmong Americans With Diabetes, Fay Marcia Mitchell-Brown Jan 2015

Developing Culturally Sensitive Education An Hmong Americans With Diabetes, Fay Marcia Mitchell-Brown

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Despite advances in medical care for diabetes, a diabetes health disparity exists among ethnic minorities. Diabetes is a new concept for Hmong Americans. Research has highlighted the high risk that Hmong Americans face of having this chronic disease. This dissertation is a compendium of three manuscripts related to diabetes care in the Hmong population. The first manuscript is a scoping review of the prevalence of diabetes and factors affecting diabetes care in the Hmong American population. Sustaining self-management is often difficult for people with diabetes. The second manuscript focuses on sustaining self-management behaviors using a theoretical model that describes strategies …

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The Male Army Nurse Corps Officer Experience In The Vietnam Conflict, John P. Pelletier Jan 2015

The Male Army Nurse Corps Officer Experience In The Vietnam Conflict, John P. Pelletier

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Background: A considerable amount of research has been conducted on the wartime experiences of female nurses who served in the Vietnam conflict and as a result, much is known about their experiences and the impact that their service had on their personal and professional lives. The same, however, is not true for male nurses. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the experiences of male Army Nurse Corps (ANC) Officers may have been substantially different from that of their female colleagues, thus making the impact of the experience on them potentially different. Overall Objective: This study explores and interprets the lived experiences of …

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Clinical Utility Of Pharmacogenomic Testing To Support Prescriptive Decision Making Among Anesthesia Providers: A Mixed-Method Study, Jonathan Dru Riddle Jan 2015

Clinical Utility Of Pharmacogenomic Testing To Support Prescriptive Decision Making Among Anesthesia Providers: A Mixed-Method Study, Jonathan Dru Riddle

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Anesthesia care is delivered world wide on a daily basis. Provision of anesthesia cares for surgical, obstetrical, or pain management procedures mandate a thorough understanding of physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacology. Nearly 4 million anesthetics are delivered in the United States each year and the impact of genetics on anesthesia care is becoming greater. Anesthesia providers make prescriptive decisions based on an individual patient's disease processes, proposed surgical or therapeutic procedure, and a thorough clinical history. The age of personalized medicine is upon us and the ability to use genetic testing to help predict how a patient will respond to various …

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Interaction And Cognitive Engagement In Online Discussions In Professional Development Leadership And Management Course At A Private Nursing Institution, Nimira Asif, Samina Vertejee, Sharifa Bashir Lalani Jan 2015

Interaction And Cognitive Engagement In Online Discussions In Professional Development Leadership And Management Course At A Private Nursing Institution, Nimira Asif, Samina Vertejee, Sharifa Bashir Lalani

School of Nursing & Midwifery

In the Post RN BScN curriculum, one of the courses “Professional Development and Leadership (PDLM)” was offered as blended mode for the first time. In order to explore the students’ interactions and Cognitive Engagement (CE) in Online Discussion Forums (ODFs), the research team conducted a retrospective study for the first time at a private nursing institution of Karachi-Pakistan. The study was conducted by utilizing the retrospective qualitative paradigm of discourse analysis to understand student’s CE in ODFs. The study has addressed the following one main and three subsidiary research questions: How do threaded discussions (in the part of online forums) …

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Rule, Pattern, And Meaning In The Second-Language Teaching Of Grammar, Joseph C. M. Davis Jan 2015

Rule, Pattern, And Meaning In The Second-Language Teaching Of Grammar, Joseph C. M. Davis

Publications and Research

This is a position paper aimed at the interface between meaning-oriented linguistics generally and instructed language-learning. The alliance between usage-based linguistics and form-focused instruction in language teaching stands to benefit from advances on both sides: a recognition by theoretical linguists that systematic meanings of grammatical forms are responsible for observed, emerging patterns of usage; and a greater willingness on the part of advocates of the teaching of grammar to engage in focusing upon individual, meaningful grammatical forms, as distinct from unanalyzed, holistic form. Explicit knowledge of forms and their meanings can usefully guide the practice of teachers and, …

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A “Glowing Marble”: “Brushed With Clouds” Or “Parched, Scorched, And Washed Away”? Barack Obama’S Use Of Contrasting Metaphors And Stories In Framing Climate Change., L. David Ritchie, Mariko Thomas Jan 2015

A “Glowing Marble”: “Brushed With Clouds” Or “Parched, Scorched, And Washed Away”? Barack Obama’S Use Of Contrasting Metaphors And Stories In Framing Climate Change., L. David Ritchie, Mariko Thomas

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper examines President Barack Obama’s use of contrasting metaphors and metaphorical stories to frame the issue of climate change and the associated political controversies in a major policy speech at Georgetown University in 2013. One major theme in the speech contrasted a series of metaphors based on violence and destruction with a series of metaphors based on peace, tranquility, and health, all within an overall framing story about the Apollo 8 astronauts and the picture they took of the Earth from lunar orbit. Another major theme is the contrast between metaphors of passivity or obstruction and metaphors of movement …

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España Ante El Mundo: Spain's Colonial Language Policies In North Africa, Lotfi Sayahi Jan 2015

España Ante El Mundo: Spain's Colonial Language Policies In North Africa, Lotfi Sayahi

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

During its presence in Northern Morocco and the Western Sahara, Spain lauded its colonial policies, and relations with the native populations in general, as being more successful than those of the other colonial power present in the region, France. While it is true that France’s educational policies were narrowly aimed at forming acquiescent elites of the Maghrebi societies, Spain’s policies in turn were severely conditioned by a hyper-awareness of existing ethno-religious divisions, a product of the prominence of religion in the historical relations between Iberia and the Maghreb. In this essay, I discuss the differences in Spain’s educational policies between …

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An Exception To The Rule? Lone French Nouns In Tunisian Arabic, Shana Poplack, Lotfi Sayahi, Nahed Mourad, Nathalie Dion Jan 2015

An Exception To The Rule? Lone French Nouns In Tunisian Arabic, Shana Poplack, Lotfi Sayahi, Nahed Mourad, Nathalie Dion

Languages, Literatures and Cultures Faculty Scholarship

Reports on language mixing involving Arabic often qualify that language as resistant to constraints operating on other language pairs. But many fail to situate the purported violations with respect to recipient and donor languages, making it impossible to ascertain whether these are exceptional code-switches or (nonce) borrowings; isolated cases or robust patterns. We address these issues through variationist analysis of Tunisian Arabic/French bilingual discourse. Focusing on conflict sites that reveal which grammar is operative when the other language is accessed, we compare quantitatively the behavior of lone French-origin nouns in Arabic with their counterparts in both donor and recipient languages. …

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An Evaluation Of Wayne State University's Educational Evaluation And Research Program, Willie L. White Ii Jan 2015

An Evaluation Of Wayne State University's Educational Evaluation And Research Program, Willie L. White Ii

Wayne State University Dissertations

This is a mixed-methods evaluation of the Educational Evaluation and Research program at Wayne State University. The process of evaluation involved determining the efficacy of triangulating qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation in order to access the EER program's goal acquisition. The process of evaluation commenced with a qualitative method of interviewing faculty members and was triangulated quantitatively with a likert scale survey that was modified from Wayne State University's Student Evaluation of Teaching Survey (SETS). The Student Evaluation of the Educational Evaluation and Research Program (SEEERP) was designed to measure graduate students' perspectives of EER goals and objectives acquisition. …

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About The Authors Jan 2015

About The Authors

National Collegiate Honors Council Monographs: Chapters

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Use Of A Novel Assay To Measure Pre- To Posttraining Palpatory Skills Of First-Year Osteopathic Medical Students, Meredith S. Loh, Norman Gevitz, Wolfgang G. Gilliar, Lauren M. Iacono, Min Kyung Jung, Bhuma Krishnamachari, Kurt Amsler Jan 2015

Use Of A Novel Assay To Measure Pre- To Posttraining Palpatory Skills Of First-Year Osteopathic Medical Students, Meredith S. Loh, Norman Gevitz, Wolfgang G. Gilliar, Lauren M. Iacono, Min Kyung Jung, Bhuma Krishnamachari, Kurt Amsler

All KCOM Faculty Publications

Context: Although palpation is a central skill in the practice of osteopathic medicine, few data are available on factors affecting the development of palpatory skills. Objective: To use a novel palpatory skills assay to assess the role of training and practice in the development of palpatory skills in an osteopathic medical student population. Methods: The palpatory skills of first-year osteopathic medical students were assessed using a simple, objective palpation assay that consisted of locating a dime placed under sheets of copy paper at depths of 50, 100, 150, 200, 300, and 400 sheets. Two trials were performed at each depth. …

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Counseling Multiple-Heritage Couples, Ashley J. Blount, Mark E. Young Jan 2015

Counseling Multiple-Heritage Couples, Ashley J. Blount, Mark E. Young

Faculty Bibliography 2010s

Multiple-heritage couples are one of the fastest growing client populations in the United States. These partnerships are defined by intersecting ethnic, racial, linguistic, and religious differences. They are challenged by societal perceptions, stereotypes, and other pressures associated with being in a multiple-heritage pairing. This article discusses strengths in the multiple-heritage union brought about by the understanding of diverse viewpoints. Finally, the article identifies specific strategies, such as couples relationship education, to resolve and confront inherent differences. Las parejas multiculturales son uno de los grupos demograficos de clientes de mayor crecimiento en los Estados Unidos. Este tipo de parejas se define …

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Reform In 1215: Magna Carta And The Fourth Lateran Council, Kenneth Pennington Jan 2015

Reform In 1215: Magna Carta And The Fourth Lateran Council, Kenneth Pennington

Scholarly Articles

By 1215 King John had lost almost all of his northern continental possessions. The core of the Angevin empire, Normandy, was lost. Anglo-French barons who still held lands in Normandy owed their primary allegiance to King Phillip Augustus, not to King John. The barons and churchmen who remained under his sovereignty chaffed under his rule. It is clear from the document that the barons forced John to sign when they met with John on Runnymede in 15 July 2015, they intended to impose reform on the king. We might sum up their objectives as being the administration of justice and …

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Saps And Digital Games: Improving Mathematics Transfer And Attitudes In Schools, Richard Van Eck Jan 2015

Saps And Digital Games: Improving Mathematics Transfer And Attitudes In Schools, Richard Van Eck

Teaching, Leadership & Professional Practice Faculty Publications

Many suggest that digital games are a way to address problems with schools, yet research on their ability to promote problem solving, critical thinking, and twenty-first century skill sets appears to be mixed. In this chapter, I suggest that the problem lies not with digital games, but with our conceptualization of what it means to promote problem solving and critical thinking, and how transfer of such skills works in general and, specifically, with games. The power of digital games lies not in some magical power of the medium, but from embedded theories (e.g., situated learning and problem-centered instruction) and from …

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The Impact Of Jury Instruction Formatting And Insanity Defense Consistency On Juror Knowledge And Decision-Making, Elaine Tsao Jan 2015

The Impact Of Jury Instruction Formatting And Insanity Defense Consistency On Juror Knowledge And Decision-Making, Elaine Tsao

Scripps Senior Theses

Past literature has indicated that jury instructions are not written in ways that result in optimal juror comprehension, and can be improved through various ways of simplification. Prototypes of the insanity defense have also been found to influence juror decision-making. Additionally, individual factors such as attitudes toward and myth endorsement of the insanity defense can influence verdict. The following study explored these effects of jury instruction format, insanity defense consistency, and participant factors on jury understanding and decision-making. Three hundred and eighty jury eligible community members were recruited online for this study. Participants were first asked questions pertaining to attitudes …

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Childhood Maltreatment And Its Impact On Executive Skills Within An Inpatient Setting, Jennifer Ann Dupont Frechette Jan 2015

Childhood Maltreatment And Its Impact On Executive Skills Within An Inpatient Setting, Jennifer Ann Dupont Frechette

Open Access Dissertations

Previous research has shown that child maltreatment can negatively impact brain development and neurocognitive systems for children, adolescents, and adults. However there are no published studies that have sought to understand the role of child maltreatment with psychiatrically hospitalized children. Psychiatrically hospitalized children are considered a high-risk population due to increased suicidality, internalizing disorders, and lower cognitive functioning. The current study examined a hierarchical and cumulative model of maltreatment with inpatient children (ages 6-14 years old) who had been maltreated (n=111) to understand its impact on executive functioning skills, compared with a psychiatric outpatient sample (n=166). …

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Self-Determination Theory And Wellness Tourism: How Do Wellness Facilities Contribute To Wellbeing?, Karen I. Thal Jan 2015

Self-Determination Theory And Wellness Tourism: How Do Wellness Facilities Contribute To Wellbeing?, Karen I. Thal

Theses and Dissertations

Wellness tourism as a subsector is differentiated in terms of the pursuit and enhancement of wellbeing. Wellness itself is defined as holistic wellbeing and optimal psychological states. Enhanced wellbeing is cited as the motivation and outcome of travel and in terms of dedicated infrastructure, services, and amenities at destinations. Yet enhanced wellbeing following a wellness vacation is typically assumed rather than assessed. While tourism studies have focused on wellbeing as the outcome of leisure travel, a theoretical framework that might be adapted to assess wellbeing following a stay at a wellness facility was not apparent. The majority of tourism studies …

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The Practice And Benefit Of Applying Digital Markup In Preserving Texts And Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis Of A Blank-Verse Translation Of Virgil's Aeneid, William Dorner Jan 2015

The Practice And Benefit Of Applying Digital Markup In Preserving Texts And Creating Digital Editions: A Poetical Analysis Of A Blank-Verse Translation Of Virgil's Aeneid, William Dorner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Numerous examples of the "digital scholarly edition" exist online, and the genre is thriving in terms of interdisciplinary interest as well as support granted by funding agencies. Some editions are dedicated to the collection and representation of the life's work of a single author, others to mass digitization and preservation of centuries' worth of texts. Very few of these examples, however, approach the task of in-text interpretation through visualization. This project describes an approach to digital representation and investigates its potential benefit to scholars of various disciplines. It presents both a digital edition as well as a framework of justification …

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Familiarity Differentially Affects Right Hemisphere Contributions To Processing Metaphors And Literals, V. T. Lai, Wessel Van Dam, L. L. Conant, J. R. Binder, Rutvik Desai Jan 2015

Familiarity Differentially Affects Right Hemisphere Contributions To Processing Metaphors And Literals, V. T. Lai, Wessel Van Dam, L. L. Conant, J. R. Binder, Rutvik Desai

Faculty Publications

The role of the two hemispheres in processing metaphoric language is controversial. While some studies have reported a special role of the right hemisphere (RH) in processing metaphors, others indicate no difference in laterality relative to literal language. Some studies have found a role of the RH for novel/unfamiliar metaphors, but not conventional/familiar metaphors. It is not clear, however, whether the role of the RH is specific to metaphor novelty, or whether it reflects processing, reinterpretation or reanalysis of novel/unfamiliar language in general. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the effects of familiarity in both metaphoric …

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Fraud And Defalcation By A Fiduciary: The Amorphous Exception To Bankruptcy Discharge, H.C. Jones Iii Jan 2015

Fraud And Defalcation By A Fiduciary: The Amorphous Exception To Bankruptcy Discharge, H.C. Jones Iii

University of Baltimore Law Review

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Finding Unfound_Graphic Hybridity, Yaeyoung Park Jan 2015

Finding Unfound_Graphic Hybridity, Yaeyoung Park

Theses and Dissertations

Hybridity is the result when visual form, color or tools interact. While not every combination of multiple elements result in success, I believe creativity, intuition and serendipity determines the successful hybridity. This is the documentation of my journey to develop a personal definition of successful hybridity in graphic design.

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Marriage Equality Comes To Virginia, Carl W. Tobias Jan 2015

Marriage Equality Comes To Virginia, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this article chronicles marriage equality's rise and development nationally. It ascertains that challenges, which fos- tered the invalidation of marriage prohibitions that essentially govern nearly all jurisdictions, including Virginia, have triggered some controversy. Part II scrutinizes Judge Wright Allen's resolu- tion of the Virginia litigation and the United States Court of Ap- peals for the Fourth Circuit determination, which affirmed her ruling. This portion finds that the district jurist comprehensively assessed the relevant legal and factual issues when striking down the proscription while the Fourth Circuit appropriately upheld her opinion. Part III then derives lessons from the …

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Silas Marner: George Eliot's Most Coleridgean Work?, Jen Davis Jan 2015

Silas Marner: George Eliot's Most Coleridgean Work?, Jen Davis

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In 1861 Henry Crabb Robinson compared George Eliot's Silas Mamer with Coleridge's 'The Ancient Mariner'. He noted the novel's 'great affinity' with the poem: 'A little child, its mother having frozen to death at his solitary hovel, is taken in by Silas [ ...]. It is to him what the blessing of the animals is to the Ancient Mariner.' 1 In 1977, U. C. Knoepflmacher argued that: '[b]oth The Mill on the Floss and Silas Mamer hark back to those poems of severance, loss, and expiation that had haunted the imaginations of Coleridge and Wordsworth at the turn of the …

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Cultivating Awareness In Honors: First-Person Noting And Contemplative Practices, Kathy J. Cooke Jan 2015

Cultivating Awareness In Honors: First-Person Noting And Contemplative Practices, Kathy J. Cooke

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In her compelling case for liberal education, Martha Nussbaum emphasizes the nuances of the examined life and in particular how essential the narrative imagination is to “cultivating humanity” (9–11). While Nussbaum is advocating for liberal education in general terms, her call is particularly suited to the mission of honors education and its mandate for “broader, deeper, and more complex” learning experiences (NCHC Board of Directors). Nussbaum’s conceptual scheme encourages education in support of openness, intensity, and breadth, in particular urging approaches that require an ability to acknowledge and reconsider one’s own culture, traditions, and ways of thinking. At times, this …

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Homo Sapiens, All Too Homo Sapiens: Wise Man, All Too Human, Amaris Ketcham Jan 2015

Homo Sapiens, All Too Homo Sapiens: Wise Man, All Too Human, Amaris Ketcham

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Outside of Carlsbad, New Mexico, a mere three hundred miles from the University of New Mexico where I teach, is the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). This deep, geologic storehouse will entomb nuclear weapons waste for the next 10,000 years. The transuranic elements—elements with an atomic number of 92, uranium, or higher—are unstable and radioactive, and they decay at a half-life rate that makes them dangerous environmental contaminants. During the planning phase of the WIPP’s construction, the Department of Energy hired archaeologists, historians, linguists, materials scientists, and science fiction writers to address questions such as the one paraphrased here: How …

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16.2 Contributors Jan 2015

16.2 Contributors

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

No abstract provided.

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Educational Language Planning And Policy In Nebraska: An Historical Overview, Kristine M. Sudbeck Jan 2015

Educational Language Planning And Policy In Nebraska: An Historical Overview, Kristine M. Sudbeck

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

Historically, educational language policies have been utilized in order to eradicate, subjugate, and marginalize certain language varieties. Therefore, they have become "instruments of power that influence access to educational and economic resources" (Johnson, 2013, p. 54). More recently, educational language policies have also been used to "develop, maintain, and promote" minoritized languages (p. 54). The role of language policy and planning with educational settings, therefore, should be crtiically examined. This manuscript features two key components. First, the term language planning and policy will be (re) conceptualized as both a field of inquiry and a social practice involving three core activities …

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Volume 2 Of The Nebraska Educator: Full Issue, Kristine Sudbeck Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Beavers, Abraham Flanigan, Sarah Mcbrien, Jessica Sierk Jan 2015

Volume 2 Of The Nebraska Educator: Full Issue, Kristine Sudbeck Editor-In-Chief, Jeff Beavers, Abraham Flanigan, Sarah Mcbrien, Jessica Sierk

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

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