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Long-Term Effects On Nursing Alumni: Assessing A Course In Public And Global Health, Sheri P. Palmer, Karen Lundberg, Karen De La Cruz, Cheryl A. Corbett, Sondra Heatson, Shelly Reed, Mary Williams

Faculty Publications

The impact of a cultural awareness course among nursing students may affect the particular person for years to come. Cultural awareness can be taught via many methods, often requiring study abroad and/or extreme investment of time, money and effort. There is little research on sustained effects on nursing alumni from such a course. The purpose of this descriptive survey study was to determine the long term outcomes of a cultural awareness course and 2) compare the long term effects between alumni who went abroad and those who chose to complete the course locally. One hundred and twenty-one nursing alumni completed …

Thai Engineer Asean Readiness: A Structural Equation Model Analysis, Duangporn Kraisuth, Vinai Panjakajornsak

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

At the start of 2016, the 10-member nation of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) entered a new era. With it, came the decade old start of the implementation of the 2005 mutual recognition arrangement (MRA) on engineering services and the free flow of skilled labor (FFSL). Although noble intentions, actual specifications and qualifications for this movement heavily restrict its actual implementation. This study therefore conducted both a quantitative and qualitative analyse of 412 engineers selected from a population of 1,211 Thai Federation of Industries companies to investigate how need, gap, and competency affect readiness. The structural equation model …

Pengaruh Penerapan Model Pembelajaran Problem Based Learning Dipadu Numbered Heads Together Terhadap Keterampilan Metakognitif Dan Kemampuan Berpikir Kritis Geografi Siswa Sma, Nila Puspita Sari, Budijanto Budijanto, Ach. Amiruddin

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of learning model Problem Based Learning (PBL) combined Numbered Heads Together (NHT) against metacognitive skills and critical thinking abilities geography high school students. This study is a quasi-experimental research with a quantitative approach. Subjects numbered 56 students consisting of two classes of class XI IPS 2 as an experimental class and class XI IPS 1 as the control class. The research instrument is an essay test amounted to 8 essay test questions for metacognitive and critical thinking which consists of 4 questions about the pretest and 4 questions posttest. The …

The Third Coast, Catherine Jane Davis

Theses and Dissertations

The Third Coast is a photographic exploration of the vernacular landscape of the US Gulf Coast. Stretching some 1,600 miles from the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas to the Florida Everglades, America's southernmost shore is vast and complex. The region is a patchwork of both the natural and built environments, a tangled combination of history and geography, culture and ecology that reflects an intimate and ever-evolving relationship between man, land and sea. The Gulf Coast resists tidy hierarchies or easy classification. Rather, the rhythms of the region comprise its own syntax, a way in which seemingly dissimilar locations …

Weekly News Digest 03/29/2017, Jenna Ray

Weekly Bulletin Archive

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Data Loggers In Artificial Eggs Reveal That Egg-Turning Behavior Varies On Multiple Ecological Scales In Seabirds, Corey Clatterbuck, Lindsay Young, Eric Vanderwerf, Alexander Naiman, Geoff Bower, Scott A. Shaffer

Faculty Publications, Biological Sciences

In most avian species, egg-turning behavior during incubation is vital for proper embryonic development and hatching success. However, changes in turning behaviors are rarely studied across different temporal scales (e.g., day–night or across incubation phases), though the timing of incubation behaviors affects reproductive success. We used data loggers encapsulated in artificial eggs to measure turning rates and angle changes of eggs in Western Gull Larus occidentalis and Laysan Albatross Phoebastria immutabilis nests. We examined diurnal and daily cycles in egg-turning behaviors across early, middle, and late incubation phases. Our results indicate that (1) egg-turning behaviors remain similar throughout incubation, resulting …

Daily Eastern News: March 29, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

March

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Chancellor's Comments 2017-03-29, Richard Caulfield

Chancellor's Comments

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Volume 54, Number 33: March 29, 2017, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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On Morals, Markets, And Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis’ Challenge, Jonas J. Monast, Brian C. Murray, Jonathan B. Wiener

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Are Our Policy Makers On Board? What Policy Makers Think Of The Social Determinants, Health Disparities, And Health In All Policies, M. Lelinneth B. Novilla, Michael C. Goates, Spencer Calder, Tabetha Ellis, Kraymer Eppich, Laura A. Galvao, Noyra Melissa Quintana, David Mateos

Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: We impact our health by “how we manage our affairs in society.”¹ The unequal distribution of power, money, and resources creates a collective social milieu with disparities in health between and within countries. Tackling health inequities require addressing the health implications of the “toxic combination of poor social policies and bad politics.”¹ But how do U.S. policy makers view the social determinants of health?

OBJECTIVE: Determine U.S. policy makers’ awareness for the social determinants of health, health inequities, and health in all policies; identify the social determinants of health perceived as legislative priorities; list factors identified/perceived …

Making The Case For Exploratory World Language Instruction In Catholic Elementary Schools Through University Partnerships, Brigid M. Burke, Eric D. Howard

Journal of Catholic Education

As a result of a university partnership, elementary students at two midwest Catholic elementary schools have been provided with exploratory world language instruction (FLEX) from pre-service teachers. To investigate students’ attitudes and learning of Spanish, researchers interviewed second and fourth graders. The students’ parents and pre-service teachers answered open-ended questionnaires. The research questions for this qualitative study were: 1) How does exploratory world language instruction (FLEX) affect children’s attitudes about learning world languages and cultures? 2) How does exploratory world language instruction (FLEX) affect children’s learning of a world language? The results showed that students possessed positive attitudes about world …

Influence Of Internal Variability On Population Exposure To Hydroclimatic Changes, Justin S. Mankin, Daniel Viviroli, Mesfin Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Radley M. Horton, Jason E. Smerdon, Noah S. Diffenbaugh

Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: Faculty Publications

Future freshwater supply, human water demand, and people’s exposure to water stress are subject to multiple sources of uncertainty, including unknown future pathways of fossil fuel and water consumption, and ‘irreducible’ uncertainty arising from internal climate system variability. Such internal variability can conceal forced hydroclimatic changes on multi-decadal timescales and near-continental spatial-scales. Using three projections of population growth, a large ensemble from a single Earth system model, and assuming stationary per capita water consumption, we quantify the likelihoods of future population exposure to increased hydroclimatic deficits, which we define as the average duration and magnitude by which evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation …

1750 C. - Mapa Y Tabla Geografica De Leguas Comunes Que Hay De Unos Á Otros Lugares Y Ciudades Principales De La America

Pre-1824 Maps

Dedicated to the Honorable D. Agustín de Ahumada y Villalón, Marquis de las Amarillas, governor viceroy and Captain general of New Spain (1755-58), this presentation piece consists of a map of New Spain and North America, a distance chart between principal cities of New Spain, and an idealized view of the area between Mexico City and Veracruz with the historical symbol of Mexico (eagle and serpent in a cactus) firmly centered in its midst. Main purpose of this piece was to acquaint the new Viceroy with the extent of his empire and its relationship with the rest of North America. …

Full Disclosure: Examining The Experience Of Male Faculty Of Color At A Predominately White Institution, Thomas A. Cruz-Soto Jr

Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the lived experiences of male faculty of color (African American and Latino American) at Upstate University, a predominately White, private, liberal arts institution (PWI). To gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of male faculty of color, a group that has traditionally been underrepresented and marginalized in academia, the conceptual framework for this study will be guided by Gloria Ladson-Billings' (1995) Critical Race Theory (CRT). Specifically, the component of counter-storytelling was incorporated into the study. A qualitative phenomenological study was designed to dig deep into the research while constantly bracketing to capture the reality or true …

Joining By Number: Military Intervention In Civil Wars, Zachary C. Shirkey

Publications and Research

Understanding why and when states militarily intervene in civil wars is crucial. Intervention can increase civil wars’ severity and the strategies employed in civil wars are shaped by the possibility of military intervention. This article argues that potential military interveners react to information revealed about warring parties’ intentions and relative power. Without revealed information, potential military interveners are unlikely to reconsider their initial decision to remain out of the war. Revealed information causes non-belligerent states to update their expectations about the trajectory of the civil war causing them, at times, to change their calculus about the benefits of belligerency and …

Ucc Minutes, March 28, 2017, University Curriculum Council

UCC Agendas/Minutes

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Ucc Minutes March 23, 2017, Kutztown University Curriculum Committee

UCC Minutes

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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 041, Number 26, March 27, 2017, Grand Valley State University

2016-2017, Volume 41

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lanthorn, Vol. 51, No. 52, March 27, 2017, Grand Valley State University

Volume 51, July 11, 2016 - June 5, 2017

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Minutes, Graduate Council Meeting, March 27, 2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Graduate Council

USF St. Petersburg Graduate Council Meetings

Minutes of the March 27, 2017, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Graduate Council.

What Does It Mean To Be A Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography, Kristy Causey Verdi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This personal narrative autoethnography of my lived experiences as a middle-school service-learning course teacher has helped me solve a personal mystery and present an important perspective for the K-12 service-learning field. With an eye on revealing a unique service-learning classroom concept to educational leaders, enhancing middle level teacher education, and hopes of providing greater opportunities for advancing research on service learning in K-12 education, this study has also aided me in understanding my professional self and my subjective educational theory through a personal interpretive framework (Kelchtermans, 1993, 1999, 2009). Using autoethnography (Ellis, 2004; Ellis & Bochner, 2006) as a method …

Molecular And Optical Properties Of Tree-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter In Throughfall And Stemflow From Live Oaks And Eastern Red Cedar, Aron Stubbins, Leticia M. Silva, Thorsten Dittmar, John T. Van Stan

Earth, Environment & Sustainability: Faculty Publications

Studies of dissolved organic matter (DOM) transport through terrestrial aquatic systems usually start at the stream. However, the interception of rainwater by vegetation marks the beginning of the terrestrial hydrological cycle making trees the headwaters of aquatic carbon cycling. Rainwater interacts with trees picking up tree-DOM, which is then exported from the tree in stemflow and throughfall. Stemflow denotes water flowing down the tree trunk, while throughfall is the water that drips through the leaves of the canopy. We report the concentrations, optical properties (light absorbance) and molecular signatures (ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry) of tree-DOM in throughfall and stemflow from …

Bfs News Online, Georgia Southern University

Art: News & Publications (2008-2023)

• Student artists storymap Statesboro in ‘Gown to Town’ multimedia exhibit

The Medicare Home Health Benefit's Need For Reform In Accordance To The Affordable Care Act, Michelle Bedoya

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

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Seeking The Invisible, Alexis Bragg

Theses and Dissertations

Seeking The Invisible is a photography portrait series which explores the internal context of those suffering from invisible illness. This body of work examines the interior worlds of those often stigmatized as “outsiders,” and those who seek to be acknowledged beyond their illness. When one is told of another’s physical malady with no visible indicators of a problem, skepticism or outright disbelief is an unfortunately likely response. By asking my subjects “What would a portrait of your life look like?” I sought to observe the interior world of this subset and empower my subjects as something more than their illness.

Professional Sporting Events And Traffic: Evidence From Us Cities, Brad R. Humphreys, Hyunwoong Pyun

Economics Faculty Working Papers Series

Sporting events concentrate people at specific locations on game day. No empirical evidence currently exists linking sporting events to local traffic conditions. We analyze urban mobility data from 25 US metropolitan areas with MLB teams over the period 1990 to 2014 to assess the relationship between local traffic and Major League Baseball (MLB) games. Instrumental variable regression results indicate MLB attendance causes increases in local vehicle-miles traveled. At the sample average attendance of 2.8 million, average daily vehicle-miles traveled increases by about 6.9% in cities with MLB teams. Traffic congestion increases by 2%, suggesting that MLB games generate congestion externalities.

The Scarlet - Volume Xcvi, No. 15 (March 24, 2017), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The March 24, 2017 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Using Remote Sensing To Evaluate Wetland Recovery In The Northern Tampa Bay Area Following Reduction In Groundwater Withdrawals, Amor Elder

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the past, the Northern Tampa Bay Area (NTBA) wetlands saw severe declines in hydrologic conditions due to excessive groundwater withdrawal rates. Eventually these rates were reduced to allow the wetlands to recover. To monitor this recovery, the Southwest Florida Water Management district (SWFWMD) set up a fieldwork based scoring methodology, called the Wetlands Assessment Procedure (WAP). WAP has been used in many studies of the area since groundwater withdrawal reductions; with many of those studies finding the recovery to be mixed at best. However, these studies were very limited in the number of wetlands they could assess due to …

Abundance And Habitat Preferences Of Introduced Muscovy Ducks (Cairina Moschata), Jacqueline Marie Perry Cahanin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Muscovy ducks are native only to Central and South America, Mexico, and parts of southern Texas and are considered invasive in some areas outside of their native range. Although they have been introduced worldwide, they remain largely unstudied. The primary focus of this study was to relate Muscovy duck abundance to habitat characteristics of wetlands in Tampa, Florida. Muscovy abundance was measured using point count methods at 21 wetland sites that occur within an eight km radius of the University of South Florida’s main campus. Habitat features at these sites were assessed using field methods and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) …