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Using The Comprehensive Assessment Of Team Member Effectiveness (Catme) To Evaluate Interprofessional Student Teamwork In A Longitudinal Interprofessional Learning Experience, Gail Castenada, Doctoral Candidate, Felix Lorenzo, Phd, Manal Alabduljabbar, Doctoral Candidate, Nichole Stetten, Mph, Cph, Doctoral Candidate, Erik Black, Phd, Amy Blue, Phd

JCIPE Conference

Purpose:

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) teamwork evaluation application and its utility for peer assessment of teamwork behaviors among first year health science students participating in a longitudinal interprofessional service learning experience.

Background:

Putting Families First (PFF) is a interprofessional service learning experience required for first year health science students at the University of Florida. During PFF interprofessional teams of students complete multiple home visits to local volunteer families throughout the year in addition to completing several small group facilitated sessions. During the home visits, students work with …

October 29, 2016 (Pages 6805-6956), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 46 (2016)

No abstract provided.

The Murray Ledger And Times, October 29-30, 2016, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Arbor, Kelly, Alanna Larrivee, Emma Wynn Hill

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Kelly Arbor, who identifies as genderqueer, was born in Rumford, Maine in 1977. Arbor is an artist, educator, and proud activist. They have been involved with activism throughout their life including in college at the University of Vermont. In this interview, Arbor talks about overcoming challenges growing up trans in a rural community, and discusses such issues as poverty, classism, LGBTQ representation, sex education in schools, incest, consent, AIDS, and substance abuse. Kelly Arbor also describes being involved in the Maine-based group MESH – Maine Educationalists on Sexual Harmony – a group working to create a dialogue surrounding sex positivity …

Agritourism Potential As A Perspective In Kosovo, Ruzhdi Matoshi

UBT International Conference

Tourism development is a broadly diversified activity from the rest of economic sectors. While in the economy a competition between the sectors is a key to better selection and specialization, tourism in general has some exceptions arising from the state support due to the importance this sector has in promoting the country abroad, through promotion, subsidies and programs, including intrastate programs and from the European Union. The main reason behind such a support lies on the needs of people for holidays, relax, health and food. The Republic of Kosovo has an area of 10.887 km2 and a population of 1.8 …

The Neutralization Of Water Polution, Afrim Osmani

UBT International Conference

One of the biggest sources of pollution land and water are industrial waste waters. At section of zinc industry in complex Trepca during the process of zink production acquire(are gained or obtained) wastewater where their negative impact is wider extent of contamination of land with which it comes in contact and in this case comes to the accumulation ions of heavy metals, surface water and then mixing with groundwater and pollution. Directly with vulnerable is Sitnica river, in which contaminated water flows from the industrial unit for the production of Zn, which flows into the Ibar river, which still flows …

Physical-Chemical Characteristics Of The Substances Before And After The Discharge Of Factories Of The Detergents That Can Cause Increase Of The Degree Of The Eutrophication Of Surface Waters In The City Of Prizren, Sami Gashi, Ymerr Bajmaku, Petrit Drini

UBT International Conference

Industrial discharge waters, especially those of producers of detergents are one of the main polluters of surface waters in Prizren. The greatest polluters are: vehicle laundry and laundry of mega clothes, as well as factories producing liquid detergents, as well as powder ones. Concentration of active substances and perborate polyphosphate detergents also increase the wastewater from households. Therefore, we can say that the washing detergents, cleaning, are not safe for the environment, all of those are in varying degrees dangerous pollutants. Their presence represents the most acute problem of water supply in the city of Prizren. In this paper are …

An Overview For Chaos Fractals And Applications, Adem Meta

UBT International Conference

The goal of this paper is to present, a summary of concepts from the Chaos and Fractals theory and some basic theory to understand how the Chaos and Fractal theory fundamentals work, for more to explain how is related the chaos theory with mathematics application. This paper will provide examples of how this new approach could be applied and how is chaos related to the Statistics. In this paper, I am going to introduce the concept of “fractal” dimension and some examples to calculate the dimensions. At the center of fractals is Mandelbrot set, otherwise is called the hard of …

Development Of Airships Stratospheric Platform Systems (Sps), Dimov Stojce Ilcev

UBT International Conference

In this paper are introduced airships as part of new Stratospheric Platform System (SPS) in function of space communications. Airships are the latest space techniques with advanced technology for fixed and all mobile applications, including military and rural solutions. This SPS employ unmanned or manned, solar or fuel energy airships or aircraft carrying payloads with transponders and antennas. The airship SPS can be considered as a novel solution for providing communication and navigation services. The research and development of airships for putting the system in to practical use is ongoing in some countries. The remote controlled-solar powered airships or aircraft …

Exploring The Presence Of Microplastics In Salt Creek, Troy J. Janesheski, Tiffany M. Tyler

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Rising concerns of microplastics, defined as synthetic polymeric materials less than 5 mm in diameter, have emerged over the past several years, due to the many potential and known negative implications on the ecosystem. While a great deal of research has taken place in marine ecosystems, very little work has been done in watersheds. Therefore, studies were carried out in the Salt Creek (IN), Lake Michigan watershed in effort to determine the type and extent of synthetic polymers present. Sediment and water samples have been collected, screened, and processed mostly by wet peroxide oxidation (WPO) to isolate microplastics from natural …

Fungal Bioremediation Of Human Solid Waste, Michael K. Watters, Alex Mehreteab, Victor Manzanilla, John Stewart, Mark Johnson

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

The accumulation of solid human waste is a major problem for long-term space expeditions. Fungal bioremediation of human waste is a powerful solution to this problem. We report here the comparison of a variety of wild-type filamentous fungi for their ability to rapidly degrade solid waste. Certain strains of wild-type filamentous fungi, such a Neurospora crassa and Gelanispora cerealis, yielded waste to fungal-mass conversion rates of over 60 percent in seven days. Several strains, including Neurospora crassa, are edible and average about 50 percent amino acid content by mass, potentially providing a high-protein food generated in-flight to explorers of the …

Nors-Duc Research Presented At 2016 Mt. Tam Science Summit, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Research by scientists at the National Ornamentals Research Site at Dominican University of California (NORS-DUC) was presented October 28 & 29 at the 2016 Mt. Tam Science Summit. NORS-DUC is a federally funded research facility founded in 2009 to examine ways to control the spread of invasive plant pathogens.

Decomposition Of Antibiotics In Water Systems And The Impact On Microbial Communities, Abby Beavan, Ashita Bhatnagar

Fall Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Penicillin is one of the most prescribed antibiotics for humans and animals. As a result, unmetabolized penicillin is discharged into water systems, and bacteria in those water systems can become resistant. To better understand the lifetime of penicillin in water systems, the decomposition of Penicillin G (Pen G) in water solutions was studied. Simultaneously, the behavior of Staphylococcus aureus in these same solutions was analyzed. Four different aqueous solutions of 50 uM Pen G were studied: 1) water, 2)10 ppm Dissolved Organic Material (DOM), 3) 5mM NaHCO3, and 4) both DOM and NaHCO3. These solutions were analyzed weekly for 13 …

Review: Interspecies Ethics By Cynthia Willett, Thomas E. Randall

Between the Species

This paper provides a review of Cynthia Willett's book Interspecies Ethics. Willett aims to outline the beginnings of biosocial eros ethics – an ethical outline that sketches the potentiality of a cross-species cosmopolitan ideal of compassion (agape), derived through acknowledging and emphasizing the existence of spontaneous, playful interaction between social animals. Though this book is recommended for offering an innovative framework from which to explore the possibility of non-anthropocentric cross-species ethic, readers should be wary of expecting to find a fully-fledged moral program detailing how this would work.

Opening Up Open Access: Exceeding Users' Needs, Marsha Miles, Ben Richards

Michael Schwartz Library Publications

In an effort to reduce costs for students, many universities are engaged in initiatives to promote the adoption and creation of Open Access (OA) resources, primarily textbooks. Faculty need assistance with selecting, funding, and creating OA textbooks and resources. Building upon existing services, libraries can educate faculty on key issues in the OA movement and offer guidance regarding content use and creation. This presentation will discuss how one library is providing innovative resources and services to exceed faculty OA creation and implementation needs and how this benefits students in more ways than expected. Attendees will learn what worked well and …

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly About Quick And Dirty Assessment Efforts, Colleen T. Boff, Amy Fry, Katie Mihaly, Linda Rich

University Libraries Faculty Publications

Presented at the 2016 ALAO Annual Conference: User Experience-Exceeding Expectations by Design (Wilmington, OH).

The Bison, October 28, 2016

The Bison Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Scholarly Publishing: Instruction For Undergraduate Students, Michelle Price

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Undergraduate biology students at St. John Fisher College have several opportunities to engage with the concept of Scholarly Publishing and consequently three different frames from the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education; Information Creation as a Process, Information Has Value, and Scholarship as Conversation. This is accomplished at three different points in the biology undergraduate curriculum. First, all students enrolled in general biology complete an exercise on open access, article processing charges, submission styles and other author instructions for several different publications. Then, there are two separate opportunities for upper level students; advanced anatomy and the Summer Science Fellows …

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, Oh), 2016-10-28, Wooster Voice Editors

The Voice: 2012-Present

The Story of the Week "Student petition calls for more Wellness counselors," talks about two students creating a petition to get more counselors at the Longbrake Student Wellness Center. In "Board of Trustees creates fund following student protest," the Regie Williams and Dale Perry Fund was created after a student led-protest to promote the hiring of more racially and ethnically diverse faculty on campus. In "Theatre & dance dept. brings modern twist to the traditions of The Crucible," the campus puts on the timely play The Crucible.

Hearsay And The Confrontation Clause, Lynn Mclain

All Faculty Scholarship

This speech was delivered to the Wicomico Co. Bar Association on October 28th, 2016. It is an updated version of the 2012 speech, available at http://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/all_fac/924/ .

Overview: Only an out-of-court statement ("OCS") offered for the truth of the matter that was being asserted by the out-of-court declarant ("declarant") at the time when s/he made the OCS ("TOMA") = hearsay ("HS"). If evidence is not HS, the HS rule cannot exclude it. The Confrontation Clause also applies only to HS, but even then, only to its subcategory comprising "testimonial hearsay." Cross-references to "MD-EV" are to section numbers of L. MCLAIN, …

Naïve Beliefs About The Natural World In A Case Of Childhood Onset Amnesia, William Winter

Publications and Research

The individual profiled here (M.S.) suffered an episode of severe oxygen deprivation (anoxia) at the age of eight, damaging memory relevant structures in the mid-temporal lobes, including the hippocampus bilaterally. The resulting anterograde amnesia was characterized by profound deficits in autobiographical memory, but also a compromised ability to acquire new facts and information (semantic memory), resulting in the formation of idiosyncratic and naïve beliefs about the natural world that have persisted into his adult years. This article presents an interview with M.S. in which many of these idiosyncratic beliefs are detailed, and argues that they can be broadly viewed as …

Design And Optimization Of Solid Fermentation Of Porcine Blood Powder Medium For Clostridium Butyricum, Qin Dongfang, Liu Aimin, Li Hao

Food and Machinery

For the purpose of joint production of hydrolysis of porcine blood and microbial ecology preparation of Clostridium butyricum, it was studied that the solid medium formulation suitable for the growth and reproduction of C. butyricum was made of porcine blood powder, and the fermentation products would be used in feed. The formulation of the solid medium formulation was designed and optimized by the mean of mixture design. Moreover, the mathematical regression model of three components of solid medium was established, and the various components and the interaction between them were also discussed. Furthermore, the results showed that the optimum formula …

Study On Titration Acidity Of Different Buffalo Raw Milk, Li Qing, Zhang Ruiyun, Li Wen, Mao Huaming, Zhang Anfu, Yin Yichang

Food and Machinery

Titration acidity of different buffalo raw milk samples were investigated in both in the same and different season according to GB 4789.18—2010 of “milk and dairy products inspection”. Among the samples, 228 of them were from major buffalo farming community in Yunnan Province, and 655 were from 26 farmers. The alcohol and alkali-doped were test, and the composition of the diet, feeding patterns and parity and lactation days of buffalo were also surveyed. The results showed that the titratable acidity of milk buffers with milk titers ranging from 10 to 13 °T was accounted for 85.7%, and 10.6% of the …

Effects Of Electron Beam Irradiation On The Degradation Of Aflatoxins And The Physicochemical Properties Of Corn, Luo Xiaohu, Qi Lijun, Fang Wenmiao, Pan Lihong, Wang Ren, Wang Li, Yu Xiaobin, Chen Zhengxing

Food and Machinery

To study the detoxification effect of electron beam irradiation on AFB₁ in corn, the effect of electron beam irradiation on the AFB₁-contaminated corn based on the doses of 0~50 kGy was studied. Physicochemical properties including fatty acid, color and viscosity of AFB₁-contaminted corn at different irradiated doses were also investigated. Results indicated that AFB₁ in corn significantly decreased with the irradiation dose (P<0.05). Moreover, physicochemical properties changed significantly when the irradiation dose was over 15 kGy, including the significant increase of fatty acid value (P<0.05) and the decrease of the viscosities (P<0.05). It was found that the whiteness didn’t change significantly (P>0.05), while the significantly decreased redness and yellowness (P<0.05) were observed.

Optimization Of Polysaccharide Extraction From Taro And Its Binding Capacities Of Lipid And Bile Salts In Vitro, Liu Ping, Qi Xingpu, Liu Jing, Yao Fang, Li Zhifang

Food and Machinery

The extraction technology of water–soluble polysaccharides in fresh taro was investigated in this paper. Using simulated conditions of human digestion in vitro, its fat-binding, cholesterol-binding and bile salts-binding capacities were studied in order to evaluate its potential hypocholesterolemic activity in vitro. The results showed that the highest extraction efficiency of taro polysaccharide could be obtain under the conditon of using solid-liquid ratio at 1∶6, reacting at 80 ℃ for 6 h with 85% ethanol, and the extraction ratio reaches (4.92±0.18)%. Taro water–soluble polysaccharides exhibited much higher binding capacities of both fat and bile acid, while much lower one of cholesterol, …

Gwu Biology Students Educate Children At Annual “Enchanted Forest” Event, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

A program held each year at the Broad River Greenway that helps educate children about nocturnal animals that live in North Carolina continues next month. “The Enchanted Forest,” a Gardner-Webb community service project that is designed to entertain and educate kids from ages 2-12, will be held Nov. 4-5 at the Greenway. A focus of the program is to teach children the importance of sustaining the woodland environment of a variety of animals.

I Want To Do A Systematic Review, Christine Fournier, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

This year Cornell University Library on Ithaca's campus launched a systematic review service in response to demand from non-medicine disciplines on campus. We have worked with various disciplines, including nutrition and the natural sciences, and soon realized that the definition of what is a "systematic review" is not universal. I will speak about the experience of setting up the systematic review service, challenges in communicating what a systematic review is, and what we have learned.

Volume Cxxxiv, Number 7, October 28, 2016, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Supporting Sensemaking Of Complex Objects With Visualizations: Visibility And Complementarity Of Interactions, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, Hai-Ning Liang, Jim Morey

Computer Graphics Technology Faculty Publications

Making sense of complex objects is difficult, and typically requires the use of external representations to support cognitive demands while reasoning about the objects. Visualizations are one type of external representation that can be used to support sensemaking activities. In this paper, we investigate the role of two design strategies in making the interactive features of visualizations more supportive of users’ exploratory needs when trying to make sense of complex objects. These two strategies are visibility and complementarityof interactions. We employ a theoretical framework concerned with human–information interaction and complex cognitive activities to inform, contextualize, and interpret the effects …

Supporting Sensemaking Of Complex Objects With Visualizations: Visibility And Complementarity Of Interactions, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, Hai-Ning Liang, Jim Morey

Computer Graphics Technology Faculty Publications

Making sense of complex objects is difficult, and typically requires the use of external representations to support cognitive demands while reasoning about the objects. Visualizations are one type of external representation that can be used to support sensemaking activities. In this paper, we investigate the role of two design strategies in making the interactive features of visualizations more supportive of users’ exploratory needs when trying to make sense of complex objects. These two strategies are visibility and complementarityof interactions. We employ a theoretical framework concerned with human–information interaction and complex cognitive activities to inform, contextualize, and interpret the effects …