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Graduate Medical Education Annual Report 2019-2020, Children's Mercy Hospital

GME Annual Reports

Annual report of the Children's Mercy Hospital Graduate Medical Education department, including pediatric residency, internal medicine/pediatrics residency, fellowship programs, medical students, continuing medical education, and library services.

The Relationship Between Asthma, Race & Fine Particulate Matter In The United States, Samantha Mcknight

Scholarship in Medicine - All Papers

Objective: To assess how environment and race may impact childhood asthma prevalence. Methods: I analyzed data from CDC WONDER (www.wonder.cdc.gov). I performed descriptive statistics on average fine particulate matter for various states, as well as descriptive statistics on childhood asthma prevalence for various states. I determined if there was a correlation between states with higher prevalence of childhood asthma and states with higher levels of fine particulate matter using Pearson correlation. I used ANOVA with post hoc test to determine childhood asthma prevalence based on race/ ethnicity in the various states.

Results: The mean fine particulate matter in the 49 …

2020 Winter Newsletter, Nova Southeastern University

Suicide and Violence Prevention Newsletters

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Dying For Equal Protection, Teri Dobbins Baxter

Scholarly Works

When health policy experts noticed that health outcomes for African Americans were consistently worse than those of their White counterparts, many in the health care community assumed that the poor outcomes could be blamed on poverty and lifestyle choices. Subsequent research told a different story. Studies repeatedly showed that neither money, nor marriage, nor educational achievement protect African American men, women, or children from poor health. Instead, the disparities were more likely explained by racism. Specifically, multiple studies have shown that experiencing racism has been linked to increased infant and maternal mortality rates, elevated stress levels, and an increased risk …

Climate Change And Seed Security Among Smallholder Farmers In Northern Ghana, Michael Biwalib Madin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Smallholder agriculture is highly susceptible to climate variability and change. According to recent projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this sensitivity would likely increase in the coming decades, with more erratic rainfall, prolonged dry periods, shorter growing seasons, and seed germination failures. In the African context, the mechanisms through which these ecological stressors would affect seed security are poorly understood. Drawing upon a case study of semi-arid Ghana, this study examines climate change impacts on seed security among smallholder farmers. It adopts a mixed-methods approach with intensive fieldwork in two farming communities. Conceptually, the study uses a political …

Epipelagic Ocean Waters, Kate E. Watermeyer, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Imants G. Priede, Tracey Sutton, David A. Keith

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Books and Book Chapters

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Lewisburg Shade Tree Commission: Tree Inventory Repair, Community Awareness, And Policy Recommendations, Jiaxuan Zhao, Brian Gockley

Student Project Reports

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Rock Glacier Development In The San Juan Mountains, Brandon K. Bailey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Rock glaciers are common landform features found in deglaciated alpine areas. They are commonly used in the study of climatic changes throughout the Holocene and the reconstruction of neoglacial chronologies. For this research, Schmidt hammer rebound values, weathering rind thicknesses, and the length of lichen thalli diameters found on rock glacier surfaces are used to investigate their effectiveness as field-based relative age determination techniques. Additionally, the ability to identify periods of neoglacial activity using these methods is assessed in two neighboring cirque basins in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. 41 field sites across three rock glaciers are established with …

Using Multi-Source Data To Assess The Dynamics Of Socioeconomic Development In Africa, Xuantong Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Frequent and rapid spatially explicit assessment of socioeconomic development is critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at both national and global levels. In the past decades, scientists have proposed many methods for monitoring human activities on the Earth’s surface on various spatiotemporal scales using Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Line System (DMSP-OLS) nighttime lights (NTL) data. However, the DMSP-OLS NTL data and the associated processing methods have limited their reliability and applicability for systematic measuring and mapping of socioeconomic development. This research utilizes Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) NTL and the Isolation Forest (iForest) machine learning algorithm …

College Of Arts And Sciences: January 2020, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• Bringing Social Issues to Light
• NSF Awards Two Faculty Members for STEM Advancement Ideas
• A Year of Number 1S at Western
• WMU Professor's Research Paves the Way to Improving Pedestrian Safety Nationwide
• Alumni Spotlight: From Waldo Library to the Library of Congress
• The Fund for Western
• On the Frontlines of Combating Human Trafficking Nationwide
• Geography Professor Recognized for Watershed Hydrology Work

Mansfield Library Annual Report, 2018-2019, University Of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library

Mansfield Library Annual Reports

This Annual Report highlights the services, instruction, collections, and programs library personnel developed and delivered during the 2019 fiscal year that align with the University of Montana’s Priorities for Action.

Assessing Trends In Industry Payments To Orthopaedic Surgeons: A Sub-Specialty Analysis, Neil Pathak

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Background: The Open Payments Database (OPD), mandated by the Sunshine Act, is a listing of physician-industry payments. With the growing scrutiny of such transactions, the present study aims to characterize and investigate trends in industry payments to orthopaedic surgeons using four full years of data available. The study assessed payments to four orthopaedic sub-specialties: (1) pediatric surgery, (2) foot and ankle (F&A) surgery, (3) spine surgery, (4) adult reconstructive surgery. As the majority of industry payments were classified as General (other categories are Research and Ownership), the present study primarily focused on General payments.

Methods: Industry payments were characterized by …

Discipline, Diagnose & Punish: A Critical Analysis Of Ptsd Diagnostication Amongst Syrian Migrants In Jordan, Erik Kramer

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

This qualitative project seeks to explore sociopolitical factors influencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostication in Syrian migrants living in Jordan. Interviews were performed with twenty-three key informants, comprised of clinicians, organizational staff, and scholars, using semi-structured techniques which were analyzed with grounded theory analytic approaches. The results illuminate the complex social forces governing the practice of PTSD diagnostication in the Syrian migrant population in Jordan, with a focus on the effects of financial pressures. This is the first study to report extensively on the financial pressures affecting PTSD diagnostication in this setting. These data served as rooted substrate for a …

The Researcher Journey Through A Gender Lens, Maria De Kleijn Msc, Mba, Bamini Jayabalasingham Phd, Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski Phd, Thomas A. Collins Phd, Liliane Kuiper-Hoyng Msc, Isabelle Cingolani Phd, Jin Zhang Phd, Guillaume Roberge, Gemma Deakin, Abigail Goodall, Kjersten Bunker Whittington Phd, Stephane Berghmans Dvm, Phd, Sarah Huggett Ma, Stacey Tobin Phd

Public Reports

An examination of research participation, career progression and perceptions across the globe.

As part of Elsevier’s ongoing efforts to promote gender diversity and advance gender equity in research using an evidence-based approach, we developed this latest report to understand how gender impacts the researcher journey. Drawing on robust data sets, we analyzed information about authors of academic publications, grant recipients and patent applicants to gain insights into trends in gender-based representation across 15 countries and the EU28.

In addition to the general global trends, there were notable country-specific findings. For example, Argentina was the closest to gender parity among authors …

Ua37/44 Faculty Personal Papers Gordon Wilson, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Personal papers of Gordon Wilson.

Staying Safe In A Tornado: A Qualitative Inquiry Into Public Knowledge, Access, And Response To Tornado Warnings, Jayme E. Walters, Lisa Reyes Mason, Kelsey N. Ellis

Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Tornadoes in the southeastern United States continue to cause substantial injury, death, and destruction. The present study seeks to 1) understand inadequate warning access, less understanding, and/or less likelihood of responding to tornado warnings; 2) examine public attitudes about NWS communications; and 3) explore the perceptions of NWS personnel regarding public response to tornado warnings, factors that might influence response, and how their perceptions impact their communication. Participants include a purposive sample of NWS forecasters in Tennessee (n = 11) and residents (n = 45) who were identified as having low access to, low knowledge of, or an unsafe response …

Using Ground Penetrating Radar To Investigate A Sedimentary Archive At Pj Hoffmaster State Park, Peter Duimstra, Melinda C. Higley

Summer Research

Ground Penetrating Radar is a non-invasive method of observing the Earth’s subsurface using emitted radio waves. The coastal dune environment present at PJ Hoffmaster State Park represents an ideal environment to utilize this technology (1). The contrast of subsurface soils show up as reflective layers which can be interpreted as sedimentary layers using GPR data. Subsurface layers provide insight to the historic dune structure, revealing past erosional or depositional events and possibly paleo wind directions (2).

Integration Of Citygreen Landscape Ecological Analysis Into A Capstone Environmental Science Course, David L. Kulhavy, Daniel R. Unger, Reid Viegut, I-Kuai Hung, Yanli Zhang

Faculty Publications

CITYgreen Geographic Information Systems software was used to develop a campus wide cover type map for Stephen F. Austin State University in an environmental science landscape ecology course. The finding indicated an equal division of forest cover type compared to impervious surface of buildings and paved surface. Once the classification was completed, students chose an area for reforestation identified in CITYgreen, while raising funds for the purchase of trees for the project. Before completing the project, students reviewed tenets of landscape ecology, civic ecology education, and benefits of urban forestry. At the completion of the project, students reviewed service-learning aspects …

Understanding Global Change: From Documentation And Collaboration To Social Transformation, Karen E. Pennesi

Anthropology Publications

The conclusion to the book situates the chapters within four programs of anthropological research on climate change: (1) documentation of local impacts of and adaptations to climate change, (2) connections to socioeconomic and political contexts, (3) collaborations with nonanthropologists, and (4) activism and social transformation. The final section notes the persistent challenges to creating positive change and meaningful research outcomes. It highlights some examples of success and outlines future directions for politically engaged anthropological work around climate change.

Soundscaping The Archives: Disrupting Boundaries Through Sensory Research, Kathryn Allyn, Roza Tchoukaleyska

Geography & Environment Publications

Through this paper, we seek to re-imagine and challenge the meaning of archival spaces. While archival spaces are repositories of information, they are also sites where cultural values and public memory are shaped, and forms of power enacted. Drawing on sensory ethnography research in the Le Corbusier archives in Paris, France, we consider how boundaries are disrupted through noise, echo, reverberations, buzzing, and other “sounds.” Our work is presented in two overlapping textures: a soundtrack, with recordings from the Le Corbusier archives; and the text written out below. Alongside tracing archival soundscapes, a secondary function of this paper is to …

Supports For Migrant Farmworkers: Tensions In (In)Access And (In)Action, Susana Caxaj, Amy Cohen, Sarah Marsden

Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Publications

Purpose: This study examined the role of support actors in promoting or hindering access to migrant agricultural workers' (MAWs) needs, and, to determine the factors that influence adequate support for this population.
Methodology: Employing a Situational Analysis methodology, we carried out focus groups and interviews with 35 support actors complimented by a community scan (n=28) with public-facing support persons and a community consultation with migrant agricultural workers (MAWs).
Findings: Two major themes were revealed: (In)access and (In)action, and; Blurred Lines in Service Provision. The first illustrated how support actors could both reinforce or challenge barriers for this population through tensions …

Intra-Household Decision Making Arrangements And Food Security In Semi-Arid Ghana, Kamaldeen Mohammed

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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Estimating Yield Of Household Groundnut Fields In Rural Smallholder Farming Systems: Implication For Household Food Security, Daniel Kpienbaareh, Isaac Luginaah, Jinfei Wang

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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Credit Access And Perceived Climate Change Resilience Of Smallholder Farmers In Semi-Arid Northern Ghana, Evans Batung

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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The Conundrum Of Vanishing 'Gold' In The African Savannah, Eunice Annan-Aggrey

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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Coping Strategies Of Agrarian Households, Daniel Amoak

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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Tackling Access To Water And Sanitation, And Gender-Based Violence: A Parallel Case Study Of Ngos In Sub-Saharan Africa, Maurice Dogoli, Susan J. Elliott

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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When You Preach Water And You Drink Wine: Exploring The Implementation, Use And Management Of Wash In Healthcare Facilities In Kisumu County, Thelma Zulfawu Abu, Susan J. Elliott, Diana Karanja

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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Hiv Prevention Among Heterosexual Blackmen In Ontario: The Need To Revisit Provincial Policy, Roger Antabe Western University, London Ontario, Erica Lawson, Winston Husbands, Josephine Wong, Godwin Arku, Isaac Luginaah

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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Place Of Hope Or Despair? Investigating Social Mobility In Harare's Informal Settlements, Senanu Kwasi Kutor

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

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