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Unexpected Cause Of Conjunctival Injection, Mehmet T. Koylu, Gokcen Gokce, Yusuf Uysal, Engin Araz, Omer Orkun, Ayse Cakmak, Serpil Nalbantoglu Jan 2015

Unexpected Cause Of Conjunctival Injection, Mehmet T. Koylu, Gokcen Gokce, Yusuf Uysal, Engin Araz, Omer Orkun, Ayse Cakmak, Serpil Nalbantoglu

Saudi Medical Journal

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Curcumin: A Folklore Remedy From Kitchen On The Way To Clinic As Cancer Drug, Debasish Bandyopadhyay Jan 2015

Curcumin: A Folklore Remedy From Kitchen On The Way To Clinic As Cancer Drug, Debasish Bandyopadhyay

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

Numerous compounds are widely distributed in nature and many of these possess medicinal/biological/pharmacological activity. Curcumin, a polyphenol derived from the rhizomes (underground stems) of Curcuma longa Linn (a member of the ginger family, commonly known as turmeric) is a culinary spice and therapeutic used in India for thousands of years to induce color and flavor in food as well as to treat a wide array of diseases. The origin of turmeric as spice and folklore medicine is so old that it is lost in legend. Curcumin has many beneficial pharmacological effects which includes, but are not limited with, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, …

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Term Extraction And Disambiguation For Semantic Knowledge Enrichment: A Case Study On Initial Public Offering (Ipo), Jie Tao, Omar F. El-Gayar, Amit Deokar, Yen-Ling Chang Jan 2015

Term Extraction And Disambiguation For Semantic Knowledge Enrichment: A Case Study On Initial Public Offering (Ipo), Jie Tao, Omar F. El-Gayar, Amit Deokar, Yen-Ling Chang

Research & Publications

Domain knowledge bases are a basis for advanced knowledge-based systems, manually creating a formal knowledge base for a certain domain is both resource consuming and non-trivial. In this paper, we propose an approach that provides support to extract, select, and disambiguate terms embedded in domain specific documents. The extracted terms are later used to enrich existing ontologies/taxonomies, as well as to bridge domain specific knowledge base with a generic knowledge base such as WordNet. The proposed approach addresses two major issues in the term extraction domain, namely quality and efficiency. Also, the proposed approach adopts a feature-based method that assists …

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Predicting Big Movers Based On Online Stock Forum Sentiment Analysis, Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Yen-Ling Chang, Omar F. El-Gayar, Jun Liu Jan 2015

Predicting Big Movers Based On Online Stock Forum Sentiment Analysis, Mohammad Al-Ramahi, Yen-Ling Chang, Omar F. El-Gayar, Jun Liu

Research & Publications

While social media sentiment has been proved to have predictive value for stock indices, it is intriguing to investigate if it is useful for predicting price changes for individual stocks. We focus on a special kind of stocks, big movers, i.e., stocks that undergo a drastic one-day price change, and a special kind of social media, online stock discussion forums. Based on an empirical study, our research shows that discussions during the days lead up to the big one-day price change do contain sentiments that can be used to predict big movers. The findings of our research have theoretical implications …

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Antimicrobial Resistance: Insights From The Declaration Of World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance, Mushira A. Enani Jan 2015

Antimicrobial Resistance: Insights From The Declaration Of World Alliance Against Antibiotic Resistance, Mushira A. Enani

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Effect Of The Malaysian Food Guideline Guidance On A Group Of Overweight And Obese Women During Ramadan, Ismail Suriani, Khadijah Shamsuddin, Khalib Abdul Latif, Hazizi A. Saad Jan 2015

The Effect Of The Malaysian Food Guideline Guidance On A Group Of Overweight And Obese Women During Ramadan, Ismail Suriani, Khadijah Shamsuddin, Khalib Abdul Latif, Hazizi A. Saad

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To determine the effect of imparting knowledge of the Malaysian Food Guideline (MFG) on a group of overweight and obese women during Ramadan. Methods: This intervention study was conducted during the months of Ramadan 2011. A group of 84 Malay Muslim women with a body mass index (BMI) ≥25 kg/m 2 were recruited. Prior to Ramadan, the respondents were educated regarding MFG, and how to monitor and record their daily food intake in a food diary. Their quantity of food intake, BMI, blood pressure (BP), blood lipid profile, and fasting blood sugar (FBS) were measured before Ramadan as a …

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The Prevalence Of Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection Among Saudi Women Attending The Infertility Clinic In Central Saudi Arabia, Dunia A. Alfarraj, Ali M. Somily, Rasheed M. Alssum, Zeinab M. Abotalib, Amal A. El-Sayed, Hazim H. Al-Mandeel Jan 2015

The Prevalence Of Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection Among Saudi Women Attending The Infertility Clinic In Central Saudi Arabia, Dunia A. Alfarraj, Ali M. Somily, Rasheed M. Alssum, Zeinab M. Abotalib, Amal A. El-Sayed, Hazim H. Al-Mandeel

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis ( C. trachomatis ) infection among Saudi women, its clinical presentation, and its association to infertility. Methods: This study was conducted between October 2012 and July 2013 at King Khalid University Hospital and King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Female patients aged between 19 and 46 years old with infertility problems seen at both hospitals were recruited to join the study. A separate group of female patients without infertility problems was also recruited from both hospitals to serve as controls for the study. Endocervical swabs were collected from both …

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The Association Of Exposure To The 2009 South War With The Physical, Psychological, And Family Well-Being Of Saudi Children, Ahmed El Hamidi, Fawziyah A. Alturkait Jan 2015

The Association Of Exposure To The 2009 South War With The Physical, Psychological, And Family Well-Being Of Saudi Children, Ahmed El Hamidi, Fawziyah A. Alturkait

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To evaluate the nutritional, psychological, behavioral, family adjustment, and psychiatric assessment of Saudi children exposed to the 2009-2010 Jazan war. Methods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted in Saudi Arabia in July 2010. One hundred and eighty-six children exposed to the South war in Jazan, and 157 unexposed children in King Khaled Military City, Hafr Al Batin were studied for evidence of malnutrition using physical measures, evaluating psychological problems using the Child Behavior Inventory, behavioral problems using the Rutter Scale A2, family adjustment using the McMaster Family adjustment device, and for psychiatric disorders. The association of different socioeconomic variables …

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Influence Of Bimaxillary Protrusion On The Perception Of Smile Esthetics, Terki K. Almutairi, Sahar F. Albarakati, Abdullah M. Aldrees Jan 2015

Influence Of Bimaxillary Protrusion On The Perception Of Smile Esthetics, Terki K. Almutairi, Sahar F. Albarakati, Abdullah M. Aldrees

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of bimaxillary protrusion on smile esthetics as perceived by dental professionals and laypersons. Methods: One hundred and fifty evaluators, equally distributed into their respective panels (orthodontists, general dentists, and laypersons), participated in this cross-sectional study conducted in April to December 2012 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The patient sample consisted of 14 female patients divided equally into 2 groups: bimaxillary protrusion patients, and patients who have had 4-premolar extraction treatment. Two standardized photographs (frontal and three-quarter close-up smile views), and a lateral cephalogram were taken for each patient. The evaluators were asked to rate the attractiveness …

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Prevalence Of Ocular Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome And Associated Complications In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman A. Al-Saleh, Najwa M. Al-Dabbagh, Saad M. Al-Shamrani, Nusrat M. Khan, Misbahul Arfin, Mohammad Tariq, Hafez M. Al-Faleh Jan 2015

Prevalence Of Ocular Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome And Associated Complications In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman A. Al-Saleh, Najwa M. Al-Dabbagh, Saad M. Al-Shamrani, Nusrat M. Khan, Misbahul Arfin, Mohammad Tariq, Hafez M. Al-Faleh

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX), and associated ophthalmic complications among Saudi patients. Methods: The prevalence of PEX and associated ocular co-morbidities were determined among the Saudi patients visiting the Primary Care Clinic of Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, between January 2009 and January 2010. A total of 1967 patients were examined biomicoscopically by ophthalmologists to determine the presence of PEX and associated ocular complications. Results: Sixty-nine of the 1967 examined patients (3.5%) showed the presence of PEX with no significant gender difference. There was an age dependent increase in the prevalence …

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Prevalence And Characteristics Of Abnormal Papanicolaou Smear In Central Saudi Arabia, Hanan M. Al-Kadri, Mehak Kamal, Samira S. Bamuhair, Aamir A. Omair, Hana S. Bamefleh Jan 2015

Prevalence And Characteristics Of Abnormal Papanicolaou Smear In Central Saudi Arabia, Hanan M. Al-Kadri, Mehak Kamal, Samira S. Bamuhair, Aamir A. Omair, Hana S. Bamefleh

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To assess the prevalence and characteristics of abnormal pap smear in the central region of Saudi Arabia. Methods: In this retrospective case control study conducted in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Histopathology at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, all pap smears screened for Saudi women between 2008 and 2011 were reviewed. Approximately 5000 pap smears are screened annually at King Abdulaziz Medical City utilizing the Bethesda III System (2001). All abnormal smears patients’ data were collected and compared to the data of randomly selected 200 normal smears’ patients. Results: Abnormal pap smear prevalence …

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Pathological Fracture, Fahdah Alokaily Jan 2015

Pathological Fracture, Fahdah Alokaily

Saudi Medical Journal

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Prevalence Of Helicobacter Pylori And Parasites In Symptomatic Children Examined For Helicobacter Pylori Antibodies, Antigens, And Parasites In Yemen, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi Jan 2015

Prevalence Of Helicobacter Pylori And Parasites In Symptomatic Children Examined For Helicobacter Pylori Antibodies, Antigens, And Parasites In Yemen, Mahmood D. Al-Mendalawi

Saudi Medical Journal

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World Birth Defects Day: Towards A National Registry For Birth Defects In Saudi Arabia, Ahmed M. Kurdi, Muhammad A. Majeed-Saidan Jan 2015

World Birth Defects Day: Towards A National Registry For Birth Defects In Saudi Arabia, Ahmed M. Kurdi, Muhammad A. Majeed-Saidan

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Impact Of Maternal Iron Deficiency And Iron Deficiency Anemia On Child’S Health, Noran M. Abu-Ouf, Mohammed M. Jan Jan 2015

The Impact Of Maternal Iron Deficiency And Iron Deficiency Anemia On Child’S Health, Noran M. Abu-Ouf, Mohammed M. Jan

Saudi Medical Journal

Iron deficiency anemia is extremely common, particularly in the developing world, reaching a state of global epidemic. Iron deficiency during pregnancy is one of the leading causes of anemia in infants and young children. Many women go through the entire pregnancy without attaining the minimum required intake of iron. This review aims to determine the impact of maternal iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia on infants and young children. Extensive literature review revealed that iron deficiency is a global nutritional problem affecting up to 52% of pregnant women. Many of these women are symptomatic. Lack of proper weight gain during …

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Laparoscopic Permanent Sigmoid Stoma Creation Through The Extraperitoneal Route Versus Transperitoneal Route: A Meta-Analysis Of Stoma-Related Complications, Feng-Bing Wang, Yu-Wei Pu, Feng-Yun Zhong, Xiao-Dong Lv, Zhi-Xue Yang, Chun-Gen Xing Jan 2015

Laparoscopic Permanent Sigmoid Stoma Creation Through The Extraperitoneal Route Versus Transperitoneal Route: A Meta-Analysis Of Stoma-Related Complications, Feng-Bing Wang, Yu-Wei Pu, Feng-Yun Zhong, Xiao-Dong Lv, Zhi-Xue Yang, Chun-Gen Xing

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To compare laparoscopic extraperitoneal colostomy with transperitoneal colostomy for construction of a permanent stoma by measuring the incidence of parastomal hernia, and other postoperative complications related to colostomy. Methods: The meta-analysis was carried out in the General Surgery Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China in 2014. A literature search of Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane database, and the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) from the years 1990 to 2014 was performed. The literature searches were carried out using medical subject headings and free-text words: extraperitoneal colostomy, transperitoneal colostomy, laparoscopic extraperitoneal colostomy, rectal cancer, laparoscopic …

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Prognostic Significance And Clinicopathological Features Of Hypoxic Inducible Factor-2alpha Expression In Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Qiyang Yao, Yang Lv, Tingting Pan, Yongju Liu, Jie Ma, Geliang Xu Jan 2015

Prognostic Significance And Clinicopathological Features Of Hypoxic Inducible Factor-2alpha Expression In Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Qiyang Yao, Yang Lv, Tingting Pan, Yongju Liu, Jie Ma, Geliang Xu

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To assess the association between hypoxic inducible factor-2alpha (HIF-2α) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) by meta-analysis. Methods: This study was carried out at Anhui Province Hospital, Hefei, Anhui, China in February 2014. We searched various databases for studies published in English or Chinese up to February 28, 2014. The hazard ratio for overall survival and analyzed odds ratio were combined to evaluate the clinicopathological features of HIF-2α expression in HCC. Results: A total of 7 eligible studies comprising 1066 patients with HCC were identified after our full assessment according to inclusion criteria. All of the patients came from China. The …

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Health Partners Unite To Build Stronger Systems For Health In Ebola-Affected Countries Jan 2015

Health Partners Unite To Build Stronger Systems For Health In Ebola-Affected Countries

Saudi Medical Journal

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Palladium-Catalyzed C8-Selective C-H Arylation Of Quinoline N-Oxides: Insights Into The Electronic, Steric And Solvation Effects On The Site-Selectivity By Mechanistic And Dft Computational Studies, David E. Stephens, Johant Lakey-Beitia, Abdurrahman Atesin, Tülay A. Ateşin, Gabriel Chavez, Hadi D. Arman, Oleg V. Larionov Jan 2015

Palladium-Catalyzed C8-Selective C-H Arylation Of Quinoline N-Oxides: Insights Into The Electronic, Steric And Solvation Effects On The Site-Selectivity By Mechanistic And Dft Computational Studies, David E. Stephens, Johant Lakey-Beitia, Abdurrahman Atesin, Tülay A. Ateşin, Gabriel Chavez, Hadi D. Arman, Oleg V. Larionov

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Chemistry)

We report herein a palladium-catalyzed C-H arylation of quinoline N-oxides that proceeds with high selectivity in favor of the C8-isomer. This site-selectivity is unusual for palladium, since all of the hitherto described methods of palladium-catalyzed C-H functionalization of quinoline N-oxides are highly C2-selective. The reaction exhibits a broad synthetic scope with respect to quinoline N-oxides and iodoarenes and can be significantly accelerated to sub-hour reaction times under microwave irradiation. The C8-arylation method can be carried out on gram scale and has excellent functional group tolerance. Mechanistic and Density Functional Theory (DFT) computational studies provide evidence for the …

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A Profession Without Limits: The Changing Role Of Reference Librarians, Elaine Sullo, Laura E. Abate, Thomas Harrod, Gisela Butera, Alexandra Gomes, Paul Levett Jan 2015

A Profession Without Limits: The Changing Role Of Reference Librarians, Elaine Sullo, Laura E. Abate, Thomas Harrod, Gisela Butera, Alexandra Gomes, Paul Levett

Himmelfarb Library Faculty Posters and Presentations

Librarians have taken on new and evolving roles, many of which have come about based on a need that can be uniquely satisfied with a librarian's background and expertise. Some roles have simply been filled due to a librarian's availability and willingness to volunteer for something new. In considering how these roles will continue to evolve and affect our daily work, we've identified and categorized the changing roles and responsibilities of Himmelfarb health science librarians.

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A Novel In Situ Microscope For Studying Benthic Organisms, Andrew Mullen Jan 2015

A Novel In Situ Microscope For Studying Benthic Organisms, Andrew Mullen

Link Foundation Ocean Engineering and Instrumentation Fellowship Reports

Coastal marine ecosystems such as coral reefs, kelp forests, sea grass beds and mangroves have significant societal value. As economic resources they support tourism, fisheries and storm protection while ecologically they host high biological diversity and productivity. Many basic biological, chemical, and physical processes taking place in these marine ecosystems occur at ‘micro-­‐scales’ less than a millimeter in size. Examples of significant micro-­‐scale activities include: coral bleaching of their single-­‐ celled symbiotic algae, larval settlement and attachment, competition between sessile organisms along thin interfaces, and fluxes of particles to and from the seafloor. It is also important to consider that …

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Legal Pluralism And Empires 1500-1850 (Book Review), Kunal Parker Jan 2015

Legal Pluralism And Empires 1500-1850 (Book Review), Kunal Parker

Articles

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Mindful Ethics And The Cultivation Of Concentration, Scott L. Rogers, Jan L. Jacobowitz Jan 2015

Mindful Ethics And The Cultivation Of Concentration, Scott L. Rogers, Jan L. Jacobowitz

Articles

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Thinking About Ebola, David Brett-Major Jan 2015

Thinking About Ebola, David Brett-Major

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

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Correcting Corporate Benefit: How To Fix Shareholder Litigation By Shifting The Doctrine On Fees, Sean J. Griffith Jan 2015

Correcting Corporate Benefit: How To Fix Shareholder Litigation By Shifting The Doctrine On Fees, Sean J. Griffith

Faculty Scholarship

The current controversy in corporate law concerns whether firms can discourage litigation by shifting its cost to shareholders. But corporate law courts have long engaged in fee-shifting—from shareholder plaintiffs to the corporation—under the “corporate benefit” doctrine. This Article examines fee-shifting in share-holder litigation, arguing that current practices are unsound from the perspective of both doctrine and public policy. Unfortunately, the fee-shifting bylaws recently enacted in response to the problem of excessive shareholder litigation fare no better. The Article therefore offers a different approach to fee-shifting, articulating three specific reforms of the corporate benefit doctrine to quell the current crisis in …

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Legitimacy And Expertise In Global Internet Governance, Olivier Sylvain Jan 2015

Legitimacy And Expertise In Global Internet Governance, Olivier Sylvain

Faculty Scholarship

Over the course of the past decade or so, attention among Internet policymakers and scholars has shifted gradually from substantive design principles to the structure of Internet governance. The Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers in particular now faces a new skepticism about its legitimacy to administer the essential Internet Assigned Numbers Authority function. ICANN has responded to these doubts by proposing a series of major governance reforms that would bring nation-states more into the organization's decisionmaking. After all, transnational governance institutions in other substantive areas privilege nation-states as a matter of course. This Symposium Essay shows that these …

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Educators' Perspectives On Secondary Education Alternative Placement, Student Recidivism, And Treatment Models, John Anthony Anzalone Jan 2015

Educators' Perspectives On Secondary Education Alternative Placement, Student Recidivism, And Treatment Models, John Anthony Anzalone

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The recidivism rate for disciplinary offenses has increased during the last 8 years in the secondary student population of a sizeable, urban school district in the southwest United States. Recidivism for this district is the act of committing a second disciplinary offense during a single calendar year following completion of a behavior program. Guided by Erikson's theory of social development, this case study was designed to collect a purposeful sample of 21 educators' perceptions of the impact of recidivism on students' education and the effectiveness of treatment models to reduce recidivism. Data were collected from qualitative semi-structured interviews and field …

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Social Intelligence Of Undergraduates Enrolled In Traditional Vs. Distance Higher Education Learning Programs, Bo Scott Bennett Jan 2015

Social Intelligence Of Undergraduates Enrolled In Traditional Vs. Distance Higher Education Learning Programs, Bo Scott Bennett

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Participation in, and acceptance of, distance education has reached an all-time high. Yet many academics, policy makers, and laypeople remain concerned that distance education can adversely affect one's social development. The purpose of this quantitative study was to test that concern by comparing the social intelligence of distance undergraduates with the social intelligence of traditional undergraduates at different class ranks (i.e., freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) while limiting the ages of the participants (n = 190) to 18-24. Social intelligence, an operationally defined measure of the construct often referred to as social development has been a popular focus of research in …

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The Creation Of A Pacemaker Clinic At A Federally-Funded Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Quality Improvement Project, Tony Anno Jan 2015

The Creation Of A Pacemaker Clinic At A Federally-Funded Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Quality Improvement Project, Tony Anno

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

It is common for clinicians to implant medical devices, such as permanent pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, for cardiac diseases. These medical devices require follow-up care at regular intervals to ensure proper device function and optimal outcomes. Currently, many individuals without insurance or financial resources lack access to recommended follow-up care after implantation of a cardiac device. The purpose of this project was to determine the number of individuals who have had a medical device implanted without insurance coverage over a 3-year period, and then to establish a clinic that provides this service. The standard of care and operating procedure for …

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Teachers' Experiences With Professional Development For The Application Of The Common Core State Standards, Maxine Tracey Ann Amritt Jan 2015

Teachers' Experiences With Professional Development For The Application Of The Common Core State Standards, Maxine Tracey Ann Amritt

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

At one local school site in Georgia, a subgroup of students did not achieve a score of at least 800 on the state's Criterion Referenced Competency Test in math. To improve student success, the local site implemented professional development (PD) for teachers. Successful PD has been shown to promote effective teaching practices, which in turn, have resulted in improved student learning. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore 5th grade teachers' lived experiences of PD and its influence on their application of the Common Core state standards. Bandura's social cognitive theory of self-efficacy guided the study. In-depth interview …

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