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College Voice Vol. 42 No. 6 [December 11, 2018], Connecticut College

2018-2019

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Strategic Jubilee Et Al., Order On Pending Motions, Elizabeth E. Long

Superior Court of Fulton County: Metro Atlanta Business Case Division Opinions

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Standardized Outcome Measures For Pregnancy And Childbirth, An Ichom Proposal., Malini Anand Nijagal, Stephanie Wissig, Caleb Stowell, Elizabeth Olson, Isis Amer-Wahlin, Gouke Bonsel, Allyson Brooks, Matthew Coleman, Shamala Devi Karalasingam, James M N Duffy, Tracy Flanagan, Stefan Gebhardt, Meridith E Greene, Floris Groenendaal, J Ravichandran R Jeganathan, Tessa Kowaliw, Marije Lamain-De-Ruiter, Elliott Main, Michelle Owens, Rod Petersen, Irwin Reiss, Carol Sakala, Anna Maria Speciale, Rachel Thompson, Oluwakemi Okunade, Arie Franx

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

BACKGROUND: Value-based health care aims to optimize the balance of patient outcomes and health care costs. To improve value in perinatal care using this strategy, standard outcomes must first be defined. The objective of this work was to define a minimum, internationally appropriate set of outcome measures for evaluating and improving perinatal care with a focus on outcomes that matter to women and their families.

METHODS: An interdisciplinary and international Working Group was assembled. Existing literature and current measurement initiatives were reviewed. Serial guided discussions and validation surveys provided consumer input. A series of nine teleconferences, incorporating a modified Delphi …

2018 December 11 - Computation And Research In Data Science (Cards) Minutes, Computation And Research In Data Science, East Tennessee State University

Computation and Research in Data Science (CaRDS) Board Meeting Minutes

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Synchronous Online Tutoring For Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Students: An Analysis Of Observed Functions, Lisa B. Elliot, Rebecca Carpenter

Presentations and other scholarship

Literature on online learning suggests that many faculty members are reluctant to participate in online learning activities. Concerns raised include faculty concerns that the experiences may be impersonal and that technology will stand in the way of the learning experience. Despite this resistance, students are more likely to endorse online learning strategies, especially because they provide more flexibility in managing complex schedules. Previous research from the Deaf STEM Community Alliance project found that students were positive about their experiences—the opportunity to communicate online enabled students to seek out tutoring that they would not have been able to get otherwise due …

Lived Experience Of Newly Appointed Assistant Principals Who Receive Executive Leadership Coaching, Scott Townsend

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenographic study was to understand how leadership coaching supported personal growth for new assistant principals. Newly appointed assistant principals from a suburban school district outside metro Atlanta, Georgia were interviewed as part of a professional development model which incorporated leadership coaching into the support mechanisms for new administrators. The professional development model, known as a leadership academy, was instituted by the school district and comprised of multiple learning opportunities of which leadership coaching was one component. This study gathered perceptions of newly appointed assistant principals regarding their perceptions of the effectiveness of leadership coaching and …

2018-2019 Ppc Recital - Mario Rivieccio (Trombone), Mario Rivieccio, Sheng Yuan Kuan

PPC/PSDP Recitals

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Opportunistic Seaweeds Replace Cystoseira Forests On An Industrialised Coast In Cyprus, Demetris Kletou, Ioannis Savva, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Jason M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Digital Media Usage During The 2018 Midterm Elections Among Illinois State Senate Elections, Christine Wang

Honors Capstones

The objective of this research is to examine the role that digital media usage plays in elections, specifically the Illinois State Senate Elections during the 2018 midterms. This research argues that the use of multiple digital mediums can affect election percentages at the end of the campaign. Taking into account the fact that the target base of each campaign varies across Illinois, the greater usage of multiple digital mediums to reach voters will correlate with a positive rise in election percentage regardless of target base. This study examines the possibility that if the communication remains consistent in both messaging and …

The Distances To Novae As Seen By Gaia, Bradley E. Schaefer

Faculty Publications

The Gaia spacecraft has just released a large set of parallaxes, including 41 novae for which the fractional error is < 30 per cent. I have used these to evaluate the accuracy and bias of the many priormethods for getting nova distances. The best of the priormethods is the geometrical parallaxes from Hubble Space Telescope for just four novae, although the real error bars are 3× larger than stated. The canonical method for prior nova distances has been the expansion parallaxes from the nova shells, but this method is found to have real 1σ uncertainty of 0.95 mag in the distance modulus, and the prior quoted error bars are on average 3.6× worse than advertised. The many variations on the 'maximum-magnitude-rate-of-decline' (MMRD) relation are all found to be poor, too poor to be useable, and even to be non-applicable for five out of seven samples of nova, so the MMRD should no longer be used. The prior method of using various measures of the extinction from the interstellar medium have been notoriously bad, but now a new version by Özdönmez and coworkers has improved this to an unbiased method with 1σ uncertainty of 1.14 mag in the distance modulus. For the future, I recommend in order (1) using the Gaia parallax, (2) using the catalogue of Özdönmez, (3) using Mmax = -7.0 ± 1.4 mag as an empirical method of poor accuracy, and (4) if none of these methods is available, then to not use the nova for purposes where a distance is needed.

Phylogeographic Analyses Of A Widely Distributed Populus Davidiana: Further Evidence For The Existence Of Glacial Refugia Of Cool‐Temperate Deciduous Trees In Northern East Asia, Zhe Hou, Zhaoshan Wang, Zhanyang Ye, Shuhui Du, Shuya Liu, Jianguo Zhang

Aspen Bibliography

Despite several phylogeographic studies had provided evidence to support the existence of glacial refugia of cool‐temperate deciduous trees in northeast China, the species used in these studies were limited by the species ranges, which could not exclude the possibility that northern populations were the colonists from southern refugial populations during the last glacial maximum (LGM). Here, we estimated the nucleotide variation in Populus davidiana, a widespread species distributed in Eurasia. Three groups in northeast, central, and southwest China were constructed according to the simulation results from SAMOVA, composition of chloroplast haplotypes and structure results. We revealed that the northeast …

Assistant Principals And The Phenomenon Of Leadership Coaching, Thomas Flugum

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

This study sought to define and explore executive leadership coaching as a form of professional learning for educational leaders. This was a qualitative phenomenological inquiry into the ways, if any, that leadership coaching impacts the skills and abilities of first-year assistant principals. Research was conducted with a cohort of newly appointed assistant principals from a suburban school district outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Participants were part of a district leadership academy which provided professional learning and support for new administrators. The participants received leadership coaching from coaches endorsed by the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (PSC) as one form of professional learning.

An Explorational Study Of Educational Leaders' Attitudes, Opinions, Understanding, And Application Of Student Growth Percentile (Sgp) Data, J Lyn Turnell

Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Dissertations

Student Growth Percentiles have recently become popular as a way to report student progress over time. Because of the perception that they are relatively simple to understand, they have also become a popular tool to use when evaluating teachers and school-based administrators, even though this is not the purpose of their design. Previous studies have examined the impact of student growth measures on teachers who are evaluated annually with a tool that includes a component of student growth. This study builds on the previous work of Clauser, Keller, and McDermott (2016) and Collins (2014). It examines the actions and opinions …

Climatic Niche Of The Saker Falcon Falco Cherrug: Predicted New Areas To Direct Population Surveys In Central Asia, Luke J. Sutton, Robert Puschendorf

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Potentially Modifiable Determinants Of Malnutrition In Older Adults: A Systematic Review., M. O'Keeffe, M. Kelly, E. O'Herlihy, P. W. O'Toole, P. M. Kearney, S. Timmons, E. O'Shea, C. Stanton, M. Hickson, Y. Rolland, Rossé C Sulmont, S. Issanchou, I. Maitre, M. Stelmach-Mardas, G. Nagel, M. Flechtner-Mors, M. Wolters, A. Hebestreit, Groot Lcpgm De, De Rest O Van, R. Teh, M. A. Peyron, D. Dardevet, I. Papet, K. Schindler, M. Streicher, G. Torbahn, E. Kiesswetter, M. Visser, M. Visser, E. M. O'Connor, Manuel Consortium

School of Health Professions

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Malnutrition in older adults results in significant personal, social, and economic burden. To combat this complex, multifactorial issue, evidence-based knowledge is needed on the modifiable determinants of malnutrition. Systematic reviews of prospective studies are lacking in this area; therefore, the aim of this systematic review was to investigate the modifiable determinants of malnutrition in older adults. METHODS: A systematic approach was taken to conduct this review. Eight databases were searched. Prospective cohort studies with participants of a mean age of 65 years or over were included. Studies were required to measure at least one determinant at baseline …

Code Of Regulations Of The University Of Dayton, Effective 2018-12-11, University Of Dayton

University Governing Documents

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Basic Governing Documents, Effective 2018-12-11, University Of Dayton

University Governing Documents

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Unh Research Finds Development Most Likely To Occur Where Green Space Limited, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Scholastic Minutes 12/11/2018, Scholastic Committee

Scholastic Committee

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Impact Of Individual Traits, Saturated Fat, And Protein Source On The Gut Microbiome., Jennifer M Lang, Calvin Pan, Rita M Cantor, W H Wilson Tang, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, Ira Kurtz, Stanley L Hazen, Nathalie Bergeron, Ronald M Krauss, Aldons J Lusis

Faculty Publications & Research of the TUC College of Pharmacy

Interindividual variation in the composition of the human gut microbiome was examined in relation to demographic and anthropometric traits, and to changes in dietary saturated fat intake and protein source. One hundred nine healthy men and women aged 21 to 65, with BMIs of 18 to 36, were randomized, after a two-week baseline diet, to high (15% total energy [E])- or low (7%E)-saturated-fat groups and randomly received three diets (four weeks each) in which the protein source (25%E) was mainly red meat (beef, pork) (12%E), white meat (chicken, turkey) (12%E), and nonmeat sources (nuts, beans, soy) (16%E). Taxonomic characterization using …

Prevention And Treatment Of Brain Diseases And Disorders Related To Abnormal Protein Aggregation Through Electromagnetic Field Treatment, Gary W. Arendash, Chuanhai Cao, Jun Tan

USF Patents

A method of treating and preventing a neurological disorder, such as Alzheimer's disease, in a subject in need thereof by positioning an electromagnetic field emitting source proximal to the subject and exposing the subject to an electromagnetic field having a predetermined frequency (preferably ≈300-3,000 MHz) for a predetermined absorption period (preferably greater than ≈3 days). Each individual treatment (comprising exposure to the predetermined frequency for the predetermined absorption period) is continued at a predetermined schedule for a predetermined treatment period. The EMF can have a specific absorption rate up to about 8 W/kg. The methodology enhances cognition in the subject …

Method Of Manufacturing A Synthetic Skin And Tissue Model, Stuart Richard Hart, Mario Alves Simoes

USF Patents

A method of manufacturing a synthetic tissue model using one or more semi-flexible polymers or resin with at least one embedded mesh material is provided herein. The model provides suitable simulation of animal tissue designed to mimic tissue stiffness through varying the polymerization to simulate tissue stiffness level. Multiple polymers or multiple layers of polymer possessing different polymerization levels can be used to simulate tissues with different layers, such as skin. A mesh incorporated in the model provides durability, and can simulate layers of tissue through selection of the mesh material. A skin model using silicone-like material with a nylon …

Reminder: Ohio Facilities Conference Call Is Dec. 13 (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Meet November 2018 Classified Employee Of The Month Michelle Ruble (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Inaugural Langston Hughes Lecture Features Henry Box Brown Story (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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‘Profiles In Faculty Achievement’ Video Spotlights Ohio’S Jodie Foster (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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University To Celebrate Ellis Hall With Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony On Jan. 18 (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Ohio To Expand Its Support Of Veterans Via Yellow Ribbon Scholarship Program (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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International Education Week Gala Recognizes Global Engagement (December 11, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Female Secondary School Stipend Programs In Bangladesh And Pakistan: What Can We Learn From South Asia’S Ccts?, Julia Gibbons

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

While many developing countries have reported gender gaps in education, Bangladesh has made remarkable progress and terminated the gender gap in secondary school enrollment through its national Female Stipend Program (FSP) in the 1990s. Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) like the FSP have become a popular development policy prescription, but the literature on CCTs in South Asia is surprisingly limited. A similar program to the FSP, the Female Secondary School Stipend, was implemented in the Punjab province of Pakistan in 2004 and had modest success, increasing secondary school enrollment for girls by 10%. This paper compares and contrasts the two …