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Low Birth Weight: Case Definition & Guidelines For Data Collection, Analysis, And Presentation Of Maternal Immunization Safety Data, Clare L. Cutland, Eve M. Lackritz, Tamala Mallett-Moore, Azucena Bardají, Ravichandran Chandrasekaran, Chandrakant Lahariya, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Milagritos D. Tapia, Jayani Pathirana, Sonali Kochhar

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

No abstract provided.

A Case Study Of Two Taiwanese Students With Hearing Loss Navigating The English As A Foreign Language Requirement At Their University, Yu Chen

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Many institutions of higher education (IHE) students in Taiwan now need to meet the English proficiency requirement to earn their higher education degrees. In this case study, I intended to a) provide the opportunity for IHE students with hearing loss in Taiwan to share their opinions, thoughts, and experiences of learning English as a foreign language in higher education institutes; and b) understand how English as a foreign language policies and educational practices contribute to create opportunities and barriers for IHE students with hearing loss. The research question I intended to examine was “what are the perceptions of the lived …

Experiments In Sound And Music Quantum Computing, A Kirke, Er Miranda

School of Art, Design and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Stacey And The Pilgrim, Ian Keith

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Madonna, Anthony Otten

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Where You See Yourself, Catherine Uroff

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Special Issue Introduction: We Can Do More: Challenges And Opportunities For Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Susan R. Tortolero, Kimberly Johnson-Baker

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Guest editors Susan Tortolero Emery and Kimberly Johnson Baker introduce Volume 8, Issue 1 of the Journal of Applied Research on Children.

Thematic Analysis Of Mainstream Rap Music - Considerations For Culturally Responsive Sexual Consent Education In High School, Kimberly Johnson, Christine Markham, Susan R. Tortolero

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Background: Much of the research literature on sexual consent and sexual consent education has been focused on college students, providing a significant gap in our understanding of high school students, especially ethnic minority youth, who are at greatest risk for unwanted sexual contact and sexual activity. Furthermore, recent research suggests that music with sexually suggestive and misogynistic themes influence sexual communication and consenting behaviors. An analysis of rap music produced after the year 2000 is necessary to identify themes that may influence sexual communication among youth. Methods: A thematic analysis was conducted to examine the lyrics of mainstream rap music …

Community Mobilization: A Community-Wide Approach To Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health, Sam E. Greenberg, Laura Davis, Cheryl Tutt Msw, Tonya Katcher Md, Mph

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Community mobilization is a strategy that organizes a community across sectors for long-term change, and is one way for communities to provide supports for young people to make healthy sexual choices. In the context of teen pregnancy, community mobilization can address the interconnected web of factors that influence teen sexual attitudes by bringing together parents, educators, health care practitioners, young people, and other key community stakeholders to address the issue jointly. From 2014 to 2016, Advocates for Youth, through a cooperative agreement with the US Office of Adolescent Health, provided financial support and capacity-building assistance to three communities to address …

Working With Faith-Based Communities To Develop An Education Tool Kit On Relationships, Sexuality, And Contraception, Jennifer Torres, Kimberly Johnson-Baker, Sheryl B. Bell, Jamie Freeny, Sharon Edwards, Susan R. Tortolero, Honora I. Swain-Ogbonna

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Communities disproportionately affected from higher rates of unplanned teen births are in need of sustainable approaches to prevention strategies. One approach is to build the capacity of faith-based communities (FBCs) to address the sexual health needs of the surrounding community. However there is a need for comprehensive, user-friendly resources designed for FBCs that provide critical decision-making information related to pregnancy prevention inclusive of contraception. Using community-based, theoretical and practice-informed strategies, we developed a user-friendly sexuality education tool kit in five phases: (1) building relationships with faith leaders; (2) piloting educational sessions within churches; (3) gaining insight from participating faith leaders; …

Sexual Health Education For Behavior Change: How Much Is Enough?, Ross Shegog, Elizabeth Baumler, Robert C. Addy, Melissa Peskin, Melanie Ann Thiel, Susan R. Tortolero, Christine Markham

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Purpose: Successful implementation of sexual health curricula in school settings is often compromised by competing academic priorities. This study explores the association between exposure to sexual health lessons (time-on-task in hours and lesson content topics) and delayed sexual initiation of middle school students at long term follow-up.

Methods: Post hoc data analysis was conducted from a RCT (n=15 middle schools) in the south-central U.S. in which grade 7 students demonstrated delayed sexual initiation (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 1.54, 95% CI: 1.20 to 1.99) by grade 9 follow-up after using It’s Your Game (IYG), a 24 lesson sexual health curriculum. Logistic …

Be Legendary – Using Intervention Mapping And Participatory Strategies To Develop A Multi-Component Teen Pregnancy Prevention Intervention For Older Teen Males Of Color, Kimberly Johnson, Christine Markham, Rianne Smith, Susan R. Tortolero

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Background- Due to the lack of interventions on sexual and reproductive health for older teen males of color engagement with the target population is critical for intervention development. Be Legendary (BL) was developed using intervention mapping, design thinking strategies and participatory methods alongside African-American male high school students. BL is a culturally responsive, school-based teen pregnancy prevention intervention for older teen males that combines sex education with youth development to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes and build socio-emotional and leadership skills areas. Methods -To develop BL, we engaged 13 male high school students ages 16-19 in weekly workshop …

Native Iyg: Improving Psychosocial Protective Factors For Hiv/Sti And Teen Pregnancy Prevention Among Youth In American Indian/Alaska Native Communities, Ross Shegog Phd., Stephanie Craig Rushing Phd, Mph, Cornelia Jessen Ma, Travis L. Lane Ba, Gwenda Gorman Bs, Amanda Gaston Mat, Taija Koogei Revels Bs, Jennifer Torres Mph, Jennifer Williamson, Elizabeth Baumler Phd., Robert C. Addy Phd., Melissa F. Peskin Phd., Susan R. Tortolero, Christine M. Markham Phd.

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Background: Few HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention programs for youth in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have been rigorously evaluated despite sexual health disparities in this population. This study reports the evaluation of a culturally adapted Internet-based HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention program for AI/AN youth, Native It’s Your Game (Native IYG).

Methods: A randomized study was conducted with 523 youth (12 to 14 years old), recruited from 25 tribal sites in Alaska, Arizona, and the Pacific Northwest. Participants were surveyed at baseline and upon completion of treatment or comparison interventions. Multivariable linear regression models were used to assess impact …

Reducing Sexual Risk Among Racial/Ethnic-Minority Ninth Grade Students: Using Intervention Mapping To Modify An Evidenced-Based Curriculum, Christine M. Markham, Melissa Peskin, Ross Shegog, Paula Cuccaro, Efrat K. Gabay, Kimberly Johnson-Baker, Honora I. Swain-Ogbonna, Sharon Edwards, Susan R. Tortolero

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Background: Racial/ethnic-minority 9^th graders are at increased risk for teen pregnancy, HIV, and STIs compared to their White peers. Yet, few effective sexual health education programs exist for this population. Purpose: To apply IM Adapt—a systematic theory- and evidence-based approach to program adaptation—to modify an effective middle school sexual health education curriculum, It’s Your Game…Keep It Real! (IYG), for racial/ethnic-minority 9^th graders. Methods: Following the six steps of IM Adapt, we conducted a needs assessment to describe the health problems and risk behaviors of the new population; reviewed existing evidence-based programs; assessed the fit of …

Assessing The Need And Receptivity For An Integrated Healthy Sexual And Dating Relationships Intervention For Community College Students, Christine M. Markham, Melissa Peskin, Robert C. Addy, J. Michael Wilkerson, Kimberly Johnson Baker, Diane M. Santa Maria, Belinda Hernandez, Vanessa Schick, Ross Shegog, Susan R. Tortolero, Yok-Fong Paat, Jeff R. Temple

Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk

Background: In emerging adulthood, youth often become involved in more serious romantic relationships. However, many lack the skills to avoid an unplanned pregnancy or sexually transmitted infection (STI), and to ensure a healthy dating relationship. Community college students serve nearly half of all undergraduate students in the United States; yet, community colleges typically lack resources for sexual health promotion. Purpose: To assess the need and receptivity for a web-based integrated healthy sexual and dating relationships intervention among community college students. Methods: In summer 2016, we partnered with three community colleges in South Central Texas to conduct an online survey of …

Structural Change: The Case Of China, Yiran Tan

Open Access Dissertations

This paper studies a case of China in the perspective of structural change and industrial revolution. According to industrial revolution theory of Wen (2015), China is at the completion stage of its second industrial revolution and needs to finish agricultural mechanization. Comparing China’s economic structure and agricultural productivity to those of Japan and South Korea, this paper confirms that China has been through the first and second industrial revolution and is on the point of starting the mechanization of its agriculture. The main findings include (1) there exists a similar pattern of economic development in China, South Korea, and Japan. …

Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble Featuring Visual And Performing Arts Academy At Salem High School, Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble, Dennis J. Zeisler (Director), Yvonne Daye (Graduate Conductor), Cathy Francis (Graduate Conductor), Jamie Payne (Graduate Conductor), Visual And Performing Arts Academy At Salem High School, Frank C. Garcia (Director)

Ensemble Performances

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If They Tell Their Stories And No One Hears Them, Does It Challenge The Status Quo?: The Role Of Audience, Listening And Dialogue In Storytelling, Jennifer Lucko

Education | Faculty Conference Presentations

Storytelling is cultural practice long used by African Americans, Latinxs and Native Americans to understand and resist American structures of inequity and oppression. In this paper, I explore the relationship between the social context of storytelling and the construction of Latinx student identities using ethnographic data gathered during 8 months of fieldwork with nine middle school students from Spanish speaking immigrant families in Northern California. This group of students was invited to join an after-school program together with eight students from a private Jewish day school located across the street. Although one aim of the program was to facilitate intercultural …

Alec The Strongman, Kjeisten Secretan

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So his name is Alexander Christofferson, he went by Alec, he was the first Lehi city Marshall the police chief, he came to Lehi when he was 12 years old. He was the first city marshal to have automobile, first to use fingerprints. He worked at Geneva steel and was known as the strongman. He operated a threshing machine for 20 years and one time the little bridge over the ditch broke, and he like I don’t exactly how he did it, if he was on his hands and knees or if he was on his back and had his …

How To Gain Idaho Citizenship, Cy Robinson

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

The conversation arose early morning as all my morning coworkers were strolling in to start their day and a coworker who I though was too young to drive told me that she had in fact drove herself to work. I asked her how old you have to be to drive In Utah and she said 16 and I said, I’d been driving for a year and a half at that point in Idaho. They all gave a sigh of humor and then asked if you really have to be 14.5 years old to start driving. I said yeah, and if …

Description Of Number, Person And Tense Features In The Verbal Morphologies Of Jibbāli And Lari, Khalsa Al Aghbari, Me. Muhammad Ourang

Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

The study describes a few linguistic features in the verbal morphologies of two understudied languages: Jibbāli and Lari. Jibbāli, a Modern South Arabian language spoken in the southern part of the Sultanate of Oman and Lari, an Indo-Iranian language spoken in Iran, are at risk of being endangered due to the facts that (1) they lack a writing system, (2) they are not taught at schools, (3) they are not the official languages in Oman and Iran and, most importantly, (4) there is no effort recorded to preserve these languages. Therefore, the study aims at exposing the linguistic richness of …

Christmas Pickle, Kjeisten Secretan

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

So, my mom’s older sister Gloria. I think she gave my mom this pickle, but it’s not a real pickle for you Christmas tree, it’s a German tradition I think. The thing is you hide it in the Christmas tree and the person who finds it gets a present or like a prize. But my mom would always hide it or my dad would hide it the night before and it’s the first thing we would do on Christmas morning is we would have a competition to see who would find the pickle and then yeah…but then it got a …

Magical Wheat, Kjeisten Secretan

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

In a cave up American Fork canyon, my neighbor found some vases full of wheat which had been there for a long time and they sent them to General Mills and they said it can fight diseases naturally, this wheat, and they asked if they could do some more tests on it and stuff, he told them they could, but he grew some every year and his friend grew some every year so they would have some. They would give them out to the scout kids when they would tell this story. They told us to chew it up.

Scary Northern Lights, Kjeisten Secretan

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

I lived on a reservation in Saskatchewan, right? They would tell us at night when the northern lights are out, that you couldn’t whistle, cuz if you whistled they would just come down and get you and carry you off. So I never whistled and I was scared of death of them. I whistled once, then I ran all the way home.

Tickling Toes, Alyssa Burdett

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

I just read an interesting entry that he [her dad] wrote:

Beth [her dad’s wife] I think of you every day, but some days pretty much all day. I pray that you are happy and busy. I hope that you remember me and are looking forward to our being reunited to be together forever, for always for all eternity. Experience let me know you are watching over me. One night someone was tickling my feet. I raised just as you vanished. Another I was dreaming you came leaned over and gave me a kiss. Once again as I awakened you …

End Of The Rainbow, Mayah Reaveley

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Me: Tell me your joke.

Ashton: What comes at the end of a rainbow?

Me: What?

Ashton: The letter “W”.

What's On The Stick?, Mayah Reaveley

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Me: How do you play “what’s on the stick?”

Ashton: Well there’s a person with a stick, and they say two things that you can be (collectors note: I remember the other players asking the person with the stick “what’s on the stick” at this point, which is where the name of the game comes from), and, two people go on the tramp and they decide which one they’re going to be, and then, when they’re ready, the person with the stick... [running to put his mug under where the coffee is coming out of the machine while talking]

Both: …

Icue Spotlight: Nov. 27-Dec. 3, 2017 (December 3, 2017), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

No abstract provided.

The Family History Of Austin B. Stapleton, Austin Stapleton

Your Family in History: HIST 550/700

This document is associated with genealogical findings and research conducted by Austin B. Stapleton, in order to complete requirements for Your Family in History 550 at Pittsburg State University. This research includes information compiled over the fall semester of 2017 and is a cumulative product of a social family history for Austin's ancestors in and around the Joplin, Missouri, area and beyond.

Comparison Among Populations Of Mosquitoes Culex Quinquefasciatus Say By Using Geometric Morphometric Technique From Different Regions Of Iraq, Sahar Abd, Emad Ahmed

Baghdad Science Journal

The geometric morphometric technique was used to study the variables in the shape and size wings of different populations of mosquitoes Culex quinquefasciatus from different Iraqi provinces Babylon, Baghdad and Wasit. The results showed that the average of centroid size were 366, 387.5 and 407.4 Micron in Babylon, Baghdad and Kut, respectively. The statistical analysis showed that there were no significant differences in the average of centroid size of all specimens and they belong to the same species.