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A Case Study Of Collaboration Between General Education Teachers And Special Education Teachers In A Southern Rural High School, Oassie Jean Daniels

Theses and Dissertations

This applied dissertation was framed around issues associated with the inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education classroom as these issues related to teacher collaboration. Specifically, the problem on which this study focused was that according to the principal at the research site, the general education teachers and special education teacher needed to collaborate more successfully in order to be more helpful to the students. The purpose of this case study was twofold. First, the researcher wished to determine how and to what extent collaboration practices occurred between general education teachers and special education teachers in a southern …

Self-Confidence In Moroccan Women: Understanding And Implications, Bethan Owen

Student Research – Stevenson Center

This research seeks to explore the theory outlined in the article “Supplemental material for age and gender differences in self-esteem—A cross-cultural window,” which states that women in developing countries are more likely than women in developed countries to have high levels of self-confidence. An observational study was conducted by the author on 30 women in the town of Imouzzer Kandar, Morocco. Based on this very limited sample size, results suggest that these women do, generally, have high rates of self-confidence. Morocco-specific cultural influences are examined, as well as results found in other studies and the author’s personal experiences in the …

Wglt Annual Report, 2017, Wglt, Illinois State University

WGLT Annual Reports

Annual report for WGLT, an NPR Network radio station licensed to and operating from Illinois State University.

How To Read Thomas Piketty's Capital, Gordon Lloyd

School of Public Policy Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Racial Assumptions Color The Mental Representation Of Social Class, Ryan F. Lei, Galen V. Bodenhausen

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Debate Over Environmental Rights And State Constitutional Convention, Michael B. Gerrard, Edward Mctiernan

Faculty Scholarship

During the election on November 7, the voters in New York state will be presented with the allot question (as they are every 20 years), “Shall there be a convention to revise the constitutionand amend the same?” If the referendum passes, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention will be elected in November 2018, and the Convention’s proposed changes will appear on the ballot, most likely in November 2019.

Many issues are under debate: ethics reform, reorganizing the judiciary, voting rights, and several more. This column focuses on environmental rights.

Market Power And Inequality: The Antitrust Counterrevolution And Its Discontents, Lina M. Khan, Sandeep Vaheesan

Faculty Scholarship

In recent years, economic inequality has become a central topic of public debate in the United States and much of the developed world. The popularity of Thomas Piketty’s nearly 700-page tome, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is a testament to this newfound focus on economic disparity. As top intellectuals, politicians, and public figures have come to recognize inequality as a major problem that must be addressed, they have offered a range of potential solutions. Frequently mentioned proposals include reforming the tax system, strengthening organized labor, revising international trade and investment agreements, and reducing the size of the financial sector.

One …

Amazon's Antitrust Paradox, Lina M. Khan

Faculty Scholarship

Amazon is the titan of twenty-first century commerce. In addition to being a retailer, it is now a marketing platform, a delivery and logistics network, a payment service, a credit lender, an auction house, a major book publisher, a producer of television and films, a fashion designer, a hardware manufacturer, and a leading host of cloud server space. Although Amazon has clocked staggering growth, it generates meager profits, choosing to price below-cost and expand widely instead. Through this strategy, the company has positioned itself at the center of e-commerce and now serves as essential infrastructure for a host of other …

Social Bargaining In States And Cities: Toward A More Egalitarian And Democratic Workplace Law, Kate Andrias

Faculty Scholarship

A well-documented problem motivates this symposium: The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does not effectively protect workers’ rights to organize, bargain, and strike. Though unions once represented a third of American workers, today the vast majority of workers are non-union and employed “at will.” The decline of organization among workers is a key factor contributing to the rise of economic and political inequality in American society. Yet reforming labor law at the federal level – at least in a progressive direction – is currently impossible. Meanwhile, broad preemption doctrine means that states and localities are significantly limited in their ability …

The View From My Window: The Roberts Court's First Amendment Symposium, Gregory P. Magarian

Scholarship@WashULaw

The experience of writing a book and then reading what some very smart and knowledgeable people have to say about the subject matter is humbling and a little dizzying. In Managed Speech: The Roberts Court's First Amendment, I try to make some sense of the present Supreme Court's decisions over the past decade about the First Amendment's protections for free expression.' The book argues that those decisions, taken as a whole, excessively constrain free speech within a particular managerial framework. Rather than helping speech to flourish in all its noisy, messy glory, the Roberts Court favors First Amendment claims from …

Faculty Publications 2016, Lsu Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Historical Faculty Publications

This Faculty bibliography contains 791 publications.

Evaluating The Attitudes Of Preservice Teachers Toward Multicultural Competence, Angela D. Marshall

Theses and Dissertations

Changes in the ethnicity of the student population across the nation necessitated a change in teacher education curricula. This explanatory, sequential, mixed-method study examined how a group of preservice teachers viewed the importance of multicultural competence before and after student teaching. Specifically, an evaluation of preservice teachers’ attitudes about their own multicultural preparedness was made prior to and after being given full responsibility for an ethnically diverse classroom.

The study employed quantitative and qualitative measures to assess preservice teachers’ levels of multicultural competence as well as their awareness of self-perceptions of multicultural competence that contribute to attitudes toward teaching an …

The Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Matrix Mobile App: A Pilot Randomized Trial On Health Behaviors, Michael E. Levin, Benjamin G. Pierce, Benjamin Schoendorff

Psychology Faculty Publications

Mobile apps provide a promising format for delivering acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to improve diet/exercise. This pilot trial evaluated a novel ACT-based app for health behaviors based on the matrix approach. A sample of 23 community adults were randomly assigned to use the app for two weeks or to a waitlist condition. Findings indicated a high degree of satisfaction with the app and acceptable adherence. Although the intent-to-treat sample indicated few intervention effects, when focusing on program engagers only, health behaviors significantly improved in the app condition relative to waitlist. There were no differences between conditions on valued action …

Prediction Of Adverse Outcomes After Rt-Pa Treatment In Ischemic Stroke Patients, David Asuzu

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

IV thrombolysis (rt-PA) for ischemic stroke treatment carries a substantial risk for symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) and adverse outcome. Our purpose was to develop a computationally simple and accurate clinical predictor of adverse outcome after rt-PA therapy.

Our derivation dataset consisted of 210 ischemic stroke patients receiving IV rt-PA from January 2009 until July 2013 at Yale New Haven Hospital. Our validation dataset included 303 patients who received IV rt-PA during the NINDS rt-PA trial. Predictive ability and goodness of fit were quantified by odds ratios (OR) and areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). Patient outcomes included sICH, …

Racial Disparities In Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Single Payer Healthcare Experience, Abiodun Mafolasire

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Introduction: Significant racial disparities in survival for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) exist between whites and blacks. Differences in access to care and comorbidities are possible contributors. To investigate if racial disparities persist when controlling for access to care, we analyzed data from a single payer healthcare system.

Methods: As part of a case-control study within the Kaiser Permanente Northern California system, pathologic and clinical records were obtained for RCC cases (2,152 white, 293 black) diagnosed from 1998 to 2008. Patient demographics, comorbidities, tumor characteristics, and treatment status were compared between whites and blacks. Overall survival and disease specific survival (DSS) …

The Application Of Small Molecule Inhibitors Of Ngr1 And Lpa1 Towards The Goal Of Neuroregeneration In The Central Nervous System, Hiam Naiditch

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Disorders affecting the CNS are significantly disabling and often carry a poor prognosis of functional recovery. Pharmacotherapies that promote functional improvement via neuroregeneration have proven to be an elusive goal. Factors intrinsic to the neuronal microenvironment, particularly myelin-associated proteins such as Nogo-A, MAG, and OMgp, have been shown to be important in inhibiting such regeneration through neuronal NgR1. Additionally, LPA signaling through LPA1 has also shown to be important in inhibiting neuroregeneration through mechanisms that are currently being researched.

It has been previously shown that application of a NgR1 decoy receptor (AA-NgR(310)ecto-Fc) increases sprouting below the site of the lesion …

Longitudinal Assessment Of Blood Brain Barrier Disruption In Primary Hiv Infection And Effect Of Cart Therapy, Elham Rahimy

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Abnormal blood brain barrier (BBB) permeability has been implicated in the neuropathogenesis of chronic HIV infection. As neurocognitive impairment can persist despite effective combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), it is possible that irreversible central nervous system (CNS) processes are initiated in early infection, before cART is typically initiated. We analyzed the natural history of BBB permeability in primary HIV infection (PHI), and the effects of cART initiated during this period. CSF:Serum albumin quotient (QAlb), a marker of BBB permeability, was measured in longitudinal observational studies of PHI. We analyzed trajectories of QAlb pre- and post-cART using mixed-effects models, and associations between …

Prioritizing Primary Prevention Strategies For Cardiovascular Disease At The Clinic Population Level, Giulio Cesare Rottaro Castejon

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Cardiovascular Disease remains the number one cause of mortality in the United States with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) being a major component. Lifestyle interventions remain the first line treatment for the prevention of ASCVD, and clinic- based interventions effectively improve rates of healthy lifestyle choices. However, these programs require additional resources and there is currently no guidance for clinic directors to understand what lifestyle intervention(s) have the highest value for their unique population. We propose a novel application of the 10-year ASCVD risk calculator to a clinic patient cohort, thereby acting as a tool for providers and administrators to develop …

A Synoptic Review Of The Eocene (Ypresian) Cartilaginous Fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) Of The Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte, Italy, Giuseppe Marramà, Giorgio Carnevale, Andrea Engelbrecht, Kerin M. Claeson, Roberto Zorzin, Mariagabriella Fornasiero, Jürgen Kriwet

PCOM Scholarly Works

Here, we review and discuss the records and taxonomy of the Ypresian (Eocene) chondrichthyans from the famous Bolca Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Italy. Despite the outstanding diversity and the numerous studies focusing on the actinopterygian faunas from Pesciara and Monte Postale, the current knowledge about the systematics, taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the cartilaginous fishes from these Eocene sites remains elusive and largely inadequate. The celebrated Eocene Bolca Lagerstätte has yielded several exquisitely preserved articulated remains of chondrichthyan fishes in which delicate structures and soft tissues are preserved, as well as isolated teeth. The cartilaginous fish assemblage of Bolca comprises at …

A New Species Of The Neopterygian Fish Enchodus From The Duwi Formation, Campanian, Late Cretaceous, Western Desert, Central Egypt, W L. Holloway, Kerin M. Claeson, H M. Sallam, S El-Sayed, M Kora, J Jw Sertich, P M. O'Connor

PCOM Scholarly Works

The neopterygian fish Enchodus was a widespread, speciose genus consisting of approximately 30 recognized species that were temporally distributed from the late Early Cretaceous through the Paleocene. Many Enchodus specimens are fragmentary cranial remains or isolated dental elements, as is the case for previously reported occurrences in Egypt. Here, we present the most complete specimen of Enchodus recovered from the Late Cretaceous of northeast Africa. The specimen was collected from the upper Campanian Duwi Formation, near the village of Tineida (Dakhla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt). The new species, Enchodus tineidae sp. nov., consists of right and left dentaries, a partial …

Perceptions Of The Strong Survivors Staff Members And Their Experience In The Program, Marie Bongiorno

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Student-Athletes' Perceptions Of Athletic Trainers, Richard W. Brainerd Iii

Research Papers

The purpose of this study is to look at the perceptions student-athletes at Southern Illinois University have about their athletic trainers. Data was collected from 86 student-athletes at a NCAA Division I, mid-major university. The participants were administered an 11-question perception questionnaire. The perceptions scores of student-athletes with a full-time athletic trainer were compared to student-athletes with a graduate assistant athletic trainer. The results showed that both groups had a high mean perception score with no significant difference. The mean perception score for all 86 student-athletes was 28.14 (SD = 2.49) out of a total score of 33. Student-athletes …

The College County: Analyzing Economic Development, Jacob Rr Williams

Research Papers

No abstract provided.

Critical Communication Pedagogy And Its Relationship To Time, Labor, And Capitalism, Yvet Youssef

Research Papers

As a GTA working in a critically oriented Communication Studies department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, I am encouraged to be(come) an instructor whose teaching methods are steeped in the principles of critical pedagogy. One of the most inhibiting things I have come across as I have made attempts to uphold such principles of critical pedagogy is the issue of time.

This research report is about the problematic tension of trying to uphold a critical pedagogy in a system – a capitalist system – in which time is hard to come by. How can we perform an ethic of …

The Anticancer Effects Of The Different Analogs Of Cysteine Deleted Tachyplesin On A549 Lung Cancer Cells, Nathan Riley Hendrickson

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

It has been previously shown that cysteine-deleted tachyplesin (CDT) and its many analogs display antibacterial effects. However, little has been said about its possible anticancer effects and which analogs serve as the best inhibitors of the growing cancer cells. This research focused on CDT and four of its analogs: All D-CDT, Reverse DCDT, Reverse CDT, and Serine-Control CDT. MTT assays against the A549 adenocarcinoma lung cancer cell line showed All D-CDT to be the most effective analog in preventing cancer cell growth. Hyaluronidase and apoptosis assays were performed to better understand the mechanism by which the All D-CDT is preventing …

Contributors To Processing Speed Deficit In Old Age: A Focus On History Of Obesity And Medical Conditions, Melissa E. Pulcini

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Obesity has been associated with impairment in most cognitive domains, but the nature of this relationship is unclear. Most studies have examined the relationship between cognitive impairment and current obesity and/or history of obesity-related medical conditions. However, a number of “lower-level” obesity factors (e.g., increased adipokines, low grade inflammation, chronic mild hypoventilation) are present even among the otherwise healthy obese population, and it is possible that many of these factors have differential impact on cognition according to magnitude and duration of exposure. Knowledge of a person’s weight history, which may serve as a proxy for a number of lower-level obesity …

Searching The Scriptures: Andrews University Seminary Emerging Scholars Pay Tribute To Their Professors, Slavisa Milodar Jankovic

All Books

The purpose of this project is simple. In writing these essays each author wishes to offer a tangible expression of appreciation and gratitude to those professors who have invested their time in teaching them the value of studying Scripture. Each one of the professors represented has greatly influenced the authors’ understanding of the Biblical text, and for this they are forever indebted to them. This festschrift recognizes the scholarship of the following professors: Drs. Richard M. Davidson, Jiří Moskala, Roy Gane, Ranko Stefanović, Paul Gregor, and Thomas Shepherd.

The Long Journey Of Joshua Louis Hicks: A Voice From The Texas Working Class, Kyle Wilkison

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Ethj Vol-55 No-2

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

How The Supreme Court Derailed Formal Rulemaking, Kent H. Barnett

Scholarly Works

Based on archival research, this Essay explores the untold story of how the Supreme Court in the 1970s largely ended “formal” trial-like rulemaking by federal agencies in two railway cases. In the first, nearly forgotten decision, United States v. Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp., the Court held sua sponte that an agency was not required to use formal rulemaking, despite its significant historical provenance. That unpersuasive decision all but decided the second, better-known decision, United States v. Florida East Coast Railway, the following term. In response to both decisions, agencies abandoned formal rulemaking—one of only four broad categories of agency action—and policymakers …