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Personal Universes: A Solution To The Multi-Agent Value Alignment Problem, Roman V. Yampolskiy

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

AI Safety researchers attempting to align values of highly capable intelligent systems with those of humanity face a number of challenges including personal value extraction, multi-agent value merger and finally in-silico encoding. State-of-the-art research in value alignment shows difficulties in every stage in this process, but merger of incompatible preferences is a particularly difficult challenge to overcome. In this paper we assume that the value extraction problem will be solved and propose a possible way to implement an AI solution which optimally aligns with individual preferences of each user. We conclude by analyzing benefits and limitations of the proposed approach.

Development And Implementation Of An Lgbt Initiative At A Health Sciences Library: The First Eighteen Months, Jessica Petrey

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Background: The University of Louisville School of Medicine is the pilot site for the eQuality project, an initiative to integrate training for providing care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients into the standard medical school curriculum. Inspired by and in support of this School of Medicine initiative, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library staff have developing our own initiative. Because of past and current lack of competent provider training and the resulting need for patients to be knowledgeable self-advocates, however, our initiative was broadened to include the goal of providing LGBT individuals in our communities—both on campus and in the …

Black Hawk In Translation: Indigenous Critique And Liberal Guilt In The 1847 Dutch Edition Of Life Of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, Frank Kelderman

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Seat At The Table: Information Literacy Assessment And Professional Legitimacy, Amber Willenborg, Robert Detmering, Samantha Mcclellan

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This qualitative study explores academic librarians’ perceptions of and experiences with information literacy assessment, focusing primarily on issues of professional identity, agency, and power. Findings from in-depth interviews reveal that instruction librarians view teaching as integral to their professional identity and use assessment to legitimize that identity, both personally and at the institutional level. While this suggests that assessment has the potential to elevate the status of librarians on campus, the interviews also highlight ongoing professional and organizational tensions that hinder assessment efforts and inhibit librarian agency. The authors recommend more transparent communication, among other strategies, to address these challenges.

Emergence Of Addictive Behaviors In Reinforcement Learning Agents, Vahid Behzadan, Roman Yampolskiy, Arslan Munir

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This paper presents a novel approach to the technical analysis of wireheading in intelligent agents. Inspired by the natural analogues of wireheading and their prevalent manifestations, we propose the modeling of such phenomenon in Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents as psychological disorders. In a preliminary step towards evaluating this proposal, we study the feasibility and dynamics of emergent addictive policies in Q-learning agents in the tractable environment of the game of Snake. We consider a slightly modified version of this game, in which the environment provides a “drug” seed alongside the original “healthy” seed for the consumption of the snake. We …

Worldview Conflict In Daily Life, Mark J. Brandt, Jarret T. Crawford, Daryl R. Vantongeren

Faculty Publications

Building on laboratory- and survey-based research probing the psychology of ideology and the experience of worldview conflict, we examined the association between worldview conflict and emotional reactions, psychological well-being, humanity esteem, and political ideology in everyday life using experience sampling. In three combined samples (total N = 328), experiencing disagreement compared to agreement was associated with experiencing more other-condemning emotions, less well-being, and less humanity esteem. There were no clear associations between experiencing disagreement and experiencing self-conscious emotions, positive emotions, and mental stress. None of the relationships were moderated by political ideology. These results both replicate and challenge findings from …

Maintaining Lumbar Spine Stability: A Study Of The Specific And Combined Effects Of Abdominal Activation And Lumbosacral Orthosis On Lumbar Intrinsic Stiffness, Christian Larivière, Jean-Alexandre Boucher, Hakim Mecheri, Daniel Ludvig

Études primaires

Abstract

Background:

Two potential interventions for enhancing lumbar stability are to actively increase abdominal muscle activity, either through the abdominal drawing-in maneuver (ADIM) or bracing, and passively increase lumbar stiffness using a lumbosacral orthosis (LSO).

Objective:

To compare the increase in lumbar stiffness after 2 active interventions (ADIM versus bracing) and 1 passive intervention (LSO), and to evaluate the combined effect of active (abdominal bracing) and passive interventions.

Methods:

In this experimental and comparative study, lumbar stiffness, a surrogate measure of lumbar stability, was estimated in 25 healthy individuals during 7 trunk perturbation conditions: (1) control, (2) ADIM, (3) bracing …

The Immediacy Of Genome Editing And Mitochondrial Replacement, Raymond C. O'Brien

Scholarly Articles

After human DNA was first defined in 1953, the parallel science of assisted reproductive technology achieved a successful human birth through in vitro fertilization in 1978. Science then went on to facilitate gestational surrogacy, banking human reproductive materials, such as embryos, and greater opportunities for couples and individuals to become parents. Fertility clinics were established throughout the world to help persons and couples achieve parenthood, contributing to a steady increase in babies born through assisted reproductive means. Gradually, both federal and state laws in the United States were enacted to collect data from the fertility clinics, mandate insurance coverage of …

Exploring The Role Of Emotions In Clinical Legal Education: Inquiry And Results From An International Workshop For Legal Educators, Catherine F. Klein, Kate Seear, Lisa Bliss, Paul Galowitz

Scholarly Articles

Clinical legal education provides a unique opportunity to engage with emotions. This article describes and reflects on an interactive workshop that examined the nature, meaning and significance of emotions in clinical legal education. Through a variety of incorporated staged activities, employing the teaching methods of scaffolding as well as backward design, participants explored aspects of the emotional dimensions of the relationships between clinical teachers/supervisors and their students, along with the relationship between students and their clients. Participants extracted ideas for how educators should approach emotions when they surface in legal clinics. This article provides a detailed overview regarding the rationale …

A Qualitative Study Of Doctoral Students Who Are Mothers In Counselor Education: The Impact Of Mentoring, Wellness, And Self-Efficacy On Persistence And Retention, Angela C. Spiers, Charles E. Myers, Michelle Mitcham

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

This research set out to review the perceptions of a small sample of doctoral students (n = 6) who are mothers in a blended for profit university. Researcher used qualitative interviewing with a phenomenological approach to explore the effect of wellness, self-efficacy, and persistence on retention and attrition of students. Themes emerged on specific issues that were germane to doctoral students who are mothers. Respondents provided qualitative data suggestions and personal experience of being a mother in a counseling doctoral program. Findings included an understanding of the different types of mentoring, identification of stressors experienced by students, and suggestions on …

Student Perceptions Of Ipad Efficacy For Collaborative Learning In Biology, Nirupama Narayanan

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

This pedagogical research study was done to evaluate effectiveness of iPads as a collaborative tool for classroom teaching with an overall goal of improving quality of communal learning. Technology usage in classroom teaching has recently escalated with the advent of several mobile devices such as smart phones, iPads, tablets, clickers, Chromebooks etc. Statistical analysis of student feedback on effectiveness of iPads in promoting classroom collaboration in Biology has not been investigated so far. Usage of one iPad per student group motivated interaction, brainstorming, and communal learning within the group. Baiboard and crossword puzzles were employed to promote collaboration in real …

Creative Lesson Planning With College And Career Readiness Standards: Thoughts From The Curriculum Library, Margaret Robillard

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Preservice teachers carefully craft lesson plans to meet the academic needs of elementary through high school students in their fieldwork. They rely in part on finding high quality texts and trade books that relate to College and Career Readiness Standards (CCR). While college curriculum libraries are excellent sources for materials, their organization often is not aligned with national curriculum academic standards. Preservice teachers therefore sometimes struggle to find appropriate analog resources to create lesson plans that integrate disciplinary literacy. This research utilizes CCR standards, survey data from stakeholders, and library organizational research literature to create a categorization system based on …

Reflections On Changing Pedagogy Of Augmentative And Alternative Communication, Kelly Kleinhans, Lauren E. Bland, Richard Dressler

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Augmentative and alternate communication (AAC) is a service delivery area in the field of speech-language pathology. Individuals with significant and complex communication impairments benefit when a speech-language pathologist develops a communication system that either replaces or augments traditional speech. AAC includes the use of assistive technology designed to represent language and produce voice output. The profession's credentialing body, the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, requires university training programs to document student's knowledge and skills in AAC for working with clients across the lifespan. The authors reflect on how pedagogy associated with AAC has been transformed over time by external influences like …

Unity As The Primary Principle In A New Approach To Professional Development: Aligning Programming Through Milestone Events To Create Faculty Learning, Russell Carpenter, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe, Carolyn Grace

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Authors offer a model for unifying professional development of faculty through aligning programming based on core-learning threads. This approach allows participants to embed new knowledge into a “larger context,” which Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel (2014) argued “helps learning” (p. 6). Our Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) unifies all events—Teaching & Learning Innovation (TLI) series sessions, Professional Learning Communities (PLCs), and faculty institutes—around these core-learning threads. This unified programming is supported by online experiences offered within the Developing Excellence in Eastern’s Professors (DEEP) system (Carpenter, 2017). Through this approach, authors use milestone events as opportunities to reinforce core-learning threads and …

Use Of Magnetic Resonance Image Registration To Estimate Displacement In The Human Earcanal Due To The Insertion Of In-Ear Devices, Simon Benacchio, Olivier Doutres, Arthur Varoquaux, Éric Wagnac, Arnaud Le Troter, Virginie Callot, Franck Sgard

Études primaires

In-ear devices are used in a wide range of applications for which the device's usability and/or efficiency is strongly related to comfort aspects that are influenced by the mechanical interaction between the device and the walls of the earcanal. Although the displacement of the earcanal walls due to the insertion of the device is an important characteristic of this interaction, existing studies on this subject are very limited. This paper proposes a method to estimate this displacement in vivo using a registration technique on magnetic resonance images. The amplitude, the location and the direction of the earcanal wall displacement are …

Rethinking Information Literacy Assessment: Relevance, Reliability, And Validity Of Constructs And Measures, Melissa Clark

Librarian and Staff Publications

Information literacy assessment has traditionally approached student learning as the acquisition of declarative knowledge, which can be measured with easily-graded true/false and multiple-choice questions. Although such measures may prove highly reliable in test-retest situations, they are not valid measures of knowledge or learning, because they fail to test procedural and conditional knowledge, both of which are essential for students to reach the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy. This omission can partially explain the disconnect between scores on tests of information literacy and students’ continued poor performance on research assignments. Furthermore, information literacy assessment has failed to address the social and …

Book Reviews

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

A Notorious Woman: Anne Royall in Jacksonian America by Elizabeth J. Clapp

Melinda Meador

Grant Invades Tennessee: The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson by Timothy B. Smith

John Ridge

Faith in Black Power: Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois by Kerry Pimblott

George Humphreys

Irvin S. Cobb: The Rise and Fall of an American Humorist by William E. Ellis

Melony Shemberger

Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men: A Reader’s Companion by Jonathan S. Cullick

Constance Alexander

A New History of Kentucky by James C. Klotter and Craig Thompson Friend

George Humphreys

Heroes of Peace – A …

Meetings Of The Jackson Purchase Historical Society 2018-2019

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Meetings of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society 2018-2019

William H. Mulligan, Jr.

President’S Report 2018-2019

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

President’s Report 2018-2019

Bill Mulligan

Editor’S Remarks

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Editor’s Remarks

James S. Humphreys

The Black Patch Tobacco Wars’ Effects On African Americans And Women

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

The Black Patch Tobacco Wars’ Effects on African Americans and Women

Richard Dwayne Parker

Using Oral History: Two Projects And Lessons Learned

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Using Oral History: Two Projects and Lessons Learned

Melony Shemberger

Perpetuating The Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign Of The United Daughters Of The Confederacy In Kentucky, 1895-1925

Jackson Purchase Historical Society Journal Archive

Perpetuating the Lost Cause: The Misinformation Campaign of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Kentucky, 1895-1925

Nicholas Jackson

การประเมินผลการใช้เครื่องมือวัดคุณภาพชีวิตด้านการรักษาด้วยยาร่วมกับการบริบาลทางเภสัชกรรมสำหรับผู้ป่วยนอก, อชิรญา บุตรดาน้อย

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วัตถุประสงค์: ประเมินผลของการใช้แบบสอบถาม PROMPT ในการให้บริบาลทางเภสัชกรรม ในด้านการสื่อสารเรื่องคุณภาพชีวิตด้านการใช้ยาระหว่างเภสัชกรและผู้ป่วย การค้นหาปัญหาจากการใช้ยา การติดตามผลการแก้ไขปัญหาจากการใช้ยา ความร่วมมือในการใช้ยา การเปลี่ยนแปลงแนวทางการรักษาผู้ป่วยของแพทย์ และคุณภาพชีวิตด้านการใช้ยา วิธีการวิจัย: การทดลองแบบสุ่มที่มีกลุ่มควบคุม ในผู้ป่วยนอกจำนวน 315 คน ที่เข้ารับการรักษาที่โรงพยาบาลสมุทรปราการระหว่างเดือนสิงหาคม 2561 ถึง กุมภาพันธ์ 2562 แบ่งผู้ป่วยเป็น 2 กลุ่มคือ กลุ่มมาตรฐาน (กลุ่มที่ไม่ใช้แบบสอบถาม PROMPT ในการบริบาลทางเภสัชกรรม) และกลุ่มศึกษา (กลุ่มที่ใช้แบบสอบถาม PROMPT ในการบริบาลทางเภสัชกรรม) โดยมีการเก็บข้อมูลจำนวน 2 ครั้ง คือ ก่อนการแทรกแซกและหลังการแทรกแซงเมื่อผู้ป่วยมาพบแพทย์ในครั้งถัดไป ผลการวิจัย: คะแนนการสื่อสารของผู้ป่วยทั้ง 2 กลุ่ม มีความแตกต่างกันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ (p < 0.001) กลุ่มศึกษาพบปัญหาจากการใช้ยามากกว่ากลุ่มมาตรฐาน (p<0.05) และมีคะแนน คุณภาพชีวิตด้านการใช้ยาดีขึ้นอย่างมีนัยส าคัญทางสถิติเมื่อเทียบกับกลุ่มมาตรฐาน (p<0.01) สรุปผลการวิจัย: การให้บริบาลทางเภสัชกรรมโดยใช้แบบสอบถาม PROMPT ช่วยเพิ่มการ สื่อสารเรื่องคุณภาพชีวิตการใช้ยาระหว่างผู้ป่วยกับเภสัชกร และช่วยให้คุณภาพชิวิตด้านการใช้ยาของ ผู้ป่วยดีขึ้นได้

Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins Of American Empire, Kate Bjork

Hamline Faculty and Staff Books and Publications

Traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898. Bjork follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled - Hugh Lenox Scott, Robert Lee Bullard, and John J. Pershing - internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott's ethnographic knowledge and experience …

Asymmetric Mandible Identification Using Cone Beam Computed Tomography (Cbct), Barunawaty Yunus, Zulfikar R. Mailili, Dwi P. Wulansari

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

No abstract provided.

Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Dentists And Dental Students In West Sumatera, Indonesia, Abu Bakar, Rifani Rifani, Valendriyani Ningrum, Shih C. Lee

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

No abstract provided.

Indonesian Propolis Suppressed The Expression Of Cox-2 In Inflamed Rat Dental Pulp In Direct Capping Treatment, Ardo Sabir

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

No abstract provided.

Localized Alveolar Osteitis: The Role Of Suture Technique Following Disimpaction Of Mandibular Third Molars In A Nigerian Teaching Hospital, Thomas Owobu, Auwal S. Balarabe, Sylvester Nwabueze, Babatunde O. Bamgbose

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

No abstract provided.

Saliva Parameter Analysis On Smoker And Non Smoker Patients Exposed To Intraoral Radiography, Rafikah Hasyim, Aryadi Arsyad, Irene E. Rieuwpassa, Dwi P. Wulansari

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

No abstract provided.