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Development Of A Clinical Teaching Evaluation And Feedback Tool For Faculty, Erin Dehon, Ellen Robertson, Marie Barnard, Jonah Gunalda, Michael A. Puskarich

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.

A Multi-Dimensional Framework For The Development Of Authentic Consumer Products, Per Kristav, Izabelle Bäckström, Axel Nordin, Anders Warell, Olaf Diegel

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

A common assumption in product value literature is that authenticity is what contemporary consumers value the most. However, as this paper illustrates, the meaning of authenticity is unclear and the term appears foreign to product development practitioners. The purpose of this paper is to explore in what ways product development professionals talk about product value in general and how this relates to authenticity. The analysis of the interviews reveals that product developers must embrace authenticity as a holistic framework if the phenomenon is to be constructive for companies within the product development industry. In line with the concept of authenticity …

The Power Of The Letter With The Movement - Correction As A Model - A Morphological And Phonetic Study, Shukran Hamad Shalaka Al-Maliki

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This research deals with reading in the grammatical texts to define the term strength of the character in motion and to try to reveal in these texts the meaning of the strength of the character which necessitated the correction, such as zooming and moving in the singular, which necessitated correction in the plural and moving the eye and before the fracture. Is this confined to the letters of vow, And what is its relation to the vocal and banking procedure, and whether the corrected character of the site in which it came, and other issues dealt with in detail.

Understory Community Assembly Following Wildfire In Boreal Forests: Shift From Stochasticity To Competitive Exclusion And Environmental Filtering, Bo Liu, Han Y. H. Chen, Jian Yang

Forestry and Natural Resources Faculty Publications

Understory vegetation accounts for the majority of plant species diversity and serves as a driver of overstory succession and nutrient cycling in boreal forest ecosystems. However, investigations of the underlying assembly processes of understory vegetation associated with stand development following a wildfire disturbance are rare, particularly in Eurasian boreal forests. In this study, we measured the phylogenetic and functional diversity and trait dispersions of understory communities and tested how these patterns changed with stand age in the Great Xing'an Mountains of Northeastern China. Contrary to our expectation, we found that understory functional traits were phylogenetically convergent. We found that random …

Metabolic Dependencies In Pancreatic Cancer., Ali Vaziri-Gohar, Mahsa Zarei, Jonathan R. Brody, Jordan M. Winter

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a highly lethal cancer with a long-term survival rate under 10%. Available cytotoxic chemotherapies have significant side effects, and only marginal therapeutic efficacy. FDA approved drugs currently used against PDA target DNA metabolism and DNA integrity. However, alternative metabolic targets beyond DNA may prove to be much more effective. PDA cells are forced to live within a particularly severe microenvironment characterized by relative hypovascularity, hypoxia, and nutrient deprivation. Thus, PDA cells must possess biochemical flexibility in order to adapt to austere conditions. A better understanding of the metabolic dependencies required by PDA to survive and …

State V. Thomas Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 45318

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Resident And Facility Factors Associated With Rehospitalization From Skilled Nursing Facilities, Angelina M. Flores-Montoya, Mark B. Parshall, Marie L. Lobo, Stephen H.A. Hernandez, Christine A. Mueller

Nursing ETDs

ABSTRACT

Older adults often require short-term nursing home care after an acute hospital stay to receive skilled nursing or rehabilitation services. Rehospitalization after a skilled nursing facility (SNF) admission is a potential indicator of poor nursing home quality that is associated with substantial risks of complications and increased costs of care. This study examined resident and facility factors associated with 30-day rehospitalizations during a one-year study period from SNFs in New Mexico. The Minimum Data Set 3.0 was used to explore resident factors and Nursing Home Compare data was used for facility factors. Among residents admitted to the SNF from …

Financial Analysis And Valuation Of Nuvera Communications, Inc., Tina Scheidecker

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

The Financial Analysis and Valuation of Nuvera Communications, Inc. uses the discounted free cash flow at the weighted average cost of capital model to forecast the intrinsic value for Nuvera Communications. Nuvera Communications competes in a highly competitive, innovative, and volatile industry which may explain why earnings and price per share may fluctuate from year to year for some companies. In the PDF provided, the model found the intrinsic value per share of Nuvera was below that of the current market price per share, suggesting a current over valuation of Nuvera's stock. This conclusion was supported by using the Relative …

Biogeographic Patterns Among Seed-Bearing And Spore-Bearing Plants Across The California Channel Islands, Benjamin E. Carter, C. Matt Guilliams

Western North American Naturalist

Spore-bearing and seed-bearing plants differ in their ability to colonize islands from mainland sources. To assess the importance of these differences, we investigated patterns of species richness and species composition for the native bryophyte, fern, and seed plant floras of the California Channel Islands. Native richness was regressed against island area, maximum elevation, distance to mainland, distance to nearest propagule source along prevailing wind trajectories, and latitude for the 3 plant groups. Ordinations, Mantel tests, randomization tests, and an analysis partitioning beta diversity into turnover and nestedness components were used to identify similarities and differences in species composition across the …

Fire, Grazing And Climate Shape Plant–Grasshopper Interactions In A Tallgrass Prairie, Ellen A.R. Welti, Fan Qiu, Hannah M. Tetreault, Mark Ungerer, Anthony Joern

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

1. Species interactions are integral to ecological community function, and the structure of species interactions has repercussions for the consequences of species extinctions. Few studies have examined the role of environmental factors in controlling species interaction networks across time.

2. We examined variation in plant–grasshopper network structural properties in response to three major grassland drivers: periodic fire, ungulate grazing and climate.

3. We sequenced a plant barcoding gene from extracted grasshopper gut contents to characterize diets of 26 grasshopper species. Resulting grasshopper species’ diets were combined with long‐term plant and grasshopper surveys to assemble plant–grasshopper networks across 13–19 years for …

State V. Dempsey Appellant's Brief Dckt. 46277

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

State V. Moore Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45556

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Search For Leptoquarks Coupled To Third-Generation Quarks In Proton-Proton Collisions At S=13 Tev, Cms Collaboration, J. G. Acosta, S. Oliveros

Faculty and Student Publications (Open Access)

No abstract provided.

Lower Limb Joint Angle Variability And Dimensionality Are Different In Stairmill Climbing And Treadmill Walking, Peter C. Raffalt, Srikant Vallabhajosula, Jessica Renz, Mukul Mukherjee, Nicholas Stergiou

Journal Articles

The present study tested if the quadratic relationship which exists between stepping frequency and gait dynamics in walking can be generalized to stairmill climbing. To accomplish this, we investigated the joint angle dynamics and variability during continuous stairmill climbing at stepping frequencies both above and below the preferred stepping frequency (PSF). Nine subjects performed stairmill climbing at 80, 90, 100, 110 and 120% PSF and treadmill walking at preferred walking speed during which sagittal hip, knee and ankle angles were extracted. Joint angle dynamics were quantified by the largest Lyapunov exponent (LyE) and correlation dimension (CoD). Joint angle variability was …

The Development Of Self-Efficacy To Work With Suicidal Clients, Gregory M. Elliott, Richard W. Audsley, Lisa Runck, Ashley A. Pechek, Adriana De Raet, Angelica Valdez, Brandon J. Wilde

The Qualitative Report

Suicide is a public health crisis which counselors must be prepared to address. In this grounded theory study, the researchers advance a model to show how counselors develop self-efficacy to work with suicidal clients. Counselor educators may use this model to improve programmatic training and supervision of students.

Gender As A Factor In The Physician And Patient Interaction: From The Service Quality Perspective, Versavel Tecleab Haile

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets

Research has not yet adequately explored the potential interplay between the physician’s gender and the patient’s perception of the service quality. Although various studies have covered the measurement of service quality in the hospital industry, the gender perspective has not been touched on significantly. This study is a review article that aims to explore how gender matters to the physician-patient interaction in the service setting. It discusses the patient’s responses to physicians of different genders and the behavior of physicians of different genders. Consequently, it was found that gender is one of the factors that influence the physician-patient interaction and …

Documents From The December 12th, 2018 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Staff Senate, University Of Montana--Missoula. Staff Senate

University of Montana Staff Senate Meeting Minutes

Draft minutes from the December 12, 2018 meeting of the University of Montana Staff Senate.

Agenda is missing. Draft minutes only document found from this meeting when searching in January 2025.

Snap-Jaw Morphology Is Specialized For High-Speed Power Amplification In The Dracula Ant, Mystrium Camillae, Fredrick J. Larabee, Adrian A. Smith, Andrew V. Suarez

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

What is the limit of animal speed and what mechanisms produce the fastest movements? More than natural history trivia, the answer provides key insight into the form-function relationship of musculoskeletal movement and can determine the outcome of predator-prey interactions. The fastest known animal movements belong to arthropods, including trap-jaw ants, mantis shrimp and froghoppers, that have incorporated latches and springs into their appendage systems to overcome the limits of muscle power. In contrast to these examples of power amplification, where separate structures act as latch and spring to accelerate an appendage, some animals use a 'snap-jaw' mechanism that incorporates the …

Subject Level Clustering Using A Negative Binomial Model For Small Transcriptomic Studies., Qian Li, Janelle R. Noel-Macdonnell, Devin C. Koestler, Ellen L. Goode, Brooke L. Fridley

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

BACKGROUND: Unsupervised clustering represents one of the most widely applied methods in analysis of high-throughput 'omics data. A variety of unsupervised model-based or parametric clustering methods and non-parametric clustering methods have been proposed for RNA-seq count data, most of which perform well for large samples, e.g. N ≥ 500. A common issue when analyzing limited samples of RNA-seq count data is that the data follows an over-dispersed distribution, and thus a Negative Binomial likelihood model is often used. Thus, we have developed a Negative Binomial model-based (NBMB) clustering approach for application to RNA-seq studies.

RESULTS: We have developed a Negative …

Incarcerated Parenting: How Family Relationships Can Be Beneficial, Bailey Porter

Liberal Arts Capstones

The United States maintains one of the highest incarceration rates in the entire world. The disturbing reality of these mass incarcerations is that they do not exclusively impact the offender, but the friends, family, and most importantly, the children of these incarcerated individuals. A startling number of children in the United States are separated from their biological parents through incarcerations. The effects of separation are rarely considered in legislation.

In the past few years, there has been a rise in programs designed to help maintain relationships between families and incarcerated individuals. One of the goals of these family programs is …

Using A Robot Peer To Encourage The Production Of Spatial Concepts In A Second Language, Cd Wallbridge, Den Berghe R Van, Hernandez D Garcia, J Kanero, S Lemaignan, C Edmunds, T Belpaeme

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

We conducted a study with 25 children to investigate the efectiveness of a robot measuring and encouraging production of spatial concepts in a second language compared to a human experimenter. Productive vocabulary is often not measured in second language learning, due to the diiculty of both learning and assessing productive learning gains. We hypothesized that a robot peer may help assessing productive vocabulary. Previous studies on foreign language learning have found that robots can help to reduce language anxiety, leading to improved results. In our study we found that a robot is able to reach a similar performance to the …

Visibility Of Iranian Lis Departments In Researchgate: An Altmetric Study, Rahim Alijani, Seyedeh Fahimeh Mortazavipour Mrs., Ali Akbar Khasseh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Using an altmetric study, this paper tries to investigate the visibility and activities of Iranian Library and Information Science (LIS) departments in ResearchGate. The research community of this study consisted of faculty members of LIS departments in Iran. Research data were analyzed by Altmetrics indicators from ResearchGate and then it is analyzed by SPSS software. Findings revealed that “University of Isfahan” with the mean score of 14.11 and standard deviation of 6.72 is ranked first and “Islamic Azad University of Hamedan” and “Tabriz University of Medical Sciences” ranked second and third, respectively. Also, the “University of Isfahan” ranked first in …

Assessment Of Information Literacy Skills Among Students Of Alagappa University, India, Alagu . A, Thanuskodi S

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assessed and the use of information skills among the students of Alagappa University Central library users. Simple random sampling technique is used in the study. The scope of the study covered various aspects like awareness in library sources and services, both printed document and electronic documents.; Knowledge about the item usually covered in the catalogue and including Internet; familiarity use ICT and Online Database; Information literacy a determining factor in the development of the information society. The study shows that the majority of the students accessing internet in university central library and the maximum number of students are …

Book Review- Is The American Century Over?, Monir Hossain Moni

The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development

Review of:

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Is the American Century Over? (Global Futures Series), Cambridge and Massachusetts: Polity Press, 2015, 146 pp. + vii

The Politics Of Non-Refoulement And The Syrian Refugee Crisis, Akinrinde O. Olufemi

The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development

The rise of refugee problems across the globe especially the Syrian refugee crisis underlines inherently the definitional and operational deficiencies of the 1951 Geneva Refugee Convention that was designed to facilitate the protection of the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers to safety and express access to neighboring states during emergencies, wars, man-made and natural disasters. Despite the establishment of the Geneva Refugee Convention of 1951 and other International regimes, the rising numbers associated with refugees in Syria and the rest of the world are disturbing. With over five million persons internally displaced and more than two million people seeking refuge …

Migration And Gender For Iranian Lgbt, Kameel Ahmady

The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development

This article specifically addresses the country of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the very important issues pertaining to LGB individuals in Iran and their migration process. LGB individuals suffer from human rights violations and are denied the basic freedom of being who they are due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. Faced with official intransigence many LGB are compelled to escape persecution in their countries of origin and seek refuge in countries that provide them greater protection. Their sexual orientation becomes an issue when seeking asylum. This article explores the relationship between gender and the migration process. The …

Typewritten Manuscript, "Three Years In A Negro School In Mississippi", Ruth W. Brown Archive

Ruth W. Brown Documents

Typewritten document, "Three Years in a Negro School in Mississippi." Testimony given by Miss Ruth Brown on what she did after the suspension and how people treated her at the school in Mississippi. Manuscript corrections.

A Gap In Causation? Punishing Polluters For Contributing To Climate Change & Increasing Violent Crime, Nicolette Pellegrino

Pace Environmental Law Review

Climate change will lead to an increase in violent crime. More rapes and violent felonies occur during the warm summer months than in cooler temperatures. As climate change progresses, there will be longer summers, higher temperatures, and thus, more violent crime. This Note examines whether American sanctions of environmental crimes that contribute to climate change should become more stringent given what we now know about the violent consequences of climate change. Part II of this Note describes the history and scientific evidence which proves that rising temperatures increase the rate of violent crimes. Part III reviews current regulations that deal …

Planning For Excellence: Insights From An International Review Of Regulators’ Strategic Plans, Adam M. Finkel, Daniel E. Walters, Angus Corbett

Pace Environmental Law Review

What constitutes regulatory excellence? Answering this question is an indispensable first step for any public regulatory agency that is measuring, striving towards, and, ultimately, achieving excellence. One useful way to answer this question would be to draw on the broader literature on regulatory design, enforcement, and management. But, perhaps a more authentic way would be to look at how regulators themselves define excellence. However, we actually know remarkably little about how the regulatory officials who are immersed in the task of regulation conceive of their own success.

In this Article, we investigate regulators’ definitions of regulatory excellence by drawing on …

Understanding How Transformational Servant Leadership Affects Student Leadership Development In A Higher Education Program In China, Marie Shaw, Steve Firestone, Kathleen Patterson, Bruce E. Winston

Servant Leadership: Theory & Practice

No abstract provided.