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Education Freedom And Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated With Higher State-Level Performance On The Naep?, Patrick J. Wolf, Jay P. Greene, Matthew Ladner, James D. Paul Mar 2021

Education Freedom And Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated With Higher State-Level Performance On The Naep?, Patrick J. Wolf, Jay P. Greene, Matthew Ladner, James D. Paul

School Choice Demonstration Project

School choice is on the rise in many states. Since the start of the new millennium, many states have launched or expanded private school choice options, permitted and expanded independently operated public charter schools, eased restrictions on homeschooling, and enacted policies that allow and encourage various forms of public school choice. One thing that is not on the rise, unfortunately, is average student scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP). Student performance on the assessments, typically called “The Nation’s Report Card,” were flat from 2001 until 2015 and have dropped slightly in both 2017 and 2019.

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Haptic Heritage And The Paradox Of Provenance Within Singapore's Cottage Food Businesses, Orlando Woods, John A. Donaldson Mar 2021

Haptic Heritage And The Paradox Of Provenance Within Singapore's Cottage Food Businesses, Orlando Woods, John A. Donaldson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper offers a “more-than-representational” understanding of how heritage value is reproduced by cottage food businesses in Singapore. It advances the notion of haptic heritage to highlight the importance of touch and feel in inculcating food with a sense of heritage value. Haptic heritage is reproduced through the physical handling of ingredients in ways that contribute to more “authentic” products. However, it also foregrounds food production processes that are more tactile, time-consuming and thus unscalable than their automated counterparts. Accordingly, the reproduction of haptic heritage is becoming increasingly unviable in Singapore’s competitive economic landscape. These ideas are explored through a …

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Estimating The Loss Reduction Effects Of Disaster Preparedness: An Empirical Study Of U.S. Coastal States, Qing Miao, Meri Davlasheridze Mar 2021

Estimating The Loss Reduction Effects Of Disaster Preparedness: An Empirical Study Of U.S. Coastal States, Qing Miao, Meri Davlasheridze

Coastal Response Research Center

This research is one of the first to estimate the loss-reduction benefit of government investments in community-level disaster preparedness. Based on empirical, observational data, our approach is different from most disaster-related benefit-cost analyses using probabilistic loss estimation models. Drawing upon disaster aid data, we are able to distinguish preparedness from mitigation projects, develop more precise estimates of the effect of preparedness spending, and also compare the cost-effectiveness of different types of disaster projects and programs (preparedness vs. mitigation). With a particular focus on coastal areas, this project sheds light on the benefits of preparedness for coastal hazards (e.g., floods, hurricanes, …

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Biological Biomedical Seminar | Paleontology's Forgotten Continent, March 8, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Mar 2021

Biological Biomedical Seminar | Paleontology's Forgotten Continent, March 8, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Adapting A Critical Friends Consultancy To A Virtual Environment, Rebecca Cheung, Jennifer Robinson, Rebecca Rufo-Tepper, Jessica Charles Mar 2021

Adapting A Critical Friends Consultancy To A Virtual Environment, Rebecca Cheung, Jennifer Robinson, Rebecca Rufo-Tepper, Jessica Charles

Graduate School of Education

This inquiry brief explores how a cross-institutional consultancy project examining anti-racist teacher and leader preparation adapted to a virtual environment amid COVID-19.

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Establishing A Conditional Driver's Permit In Texas, Texas A&M University School Of Law Community Development Clinic, Madeline Marguerite Byers, Olivia Countryman, Taylor Garner, Crystal Hernandez, Luz E. Herrera, Lisa Mares Mar 2021

Establishing A Conditional Driver's Permit In Texas, Texas A&M University School Of Law Community Development Clinic, Madeline Marguerite Byers, Olivia Countryman, Taylor Garner, Crystal Hernandez, Luz E. Herrera, Lisa Mares

Legal Clinics

This report recommends expanding access to state-issued driver permits for Texans who are unable to obtain a driver license due to state requirements imposed pursuant to federal law. Many Texans, especially some of our most vulnerable residents, have difficulty meeting heightened identification requirements under federal law, and consequently drive without state authorization and auto insurance. This report also highlights the benefits of establishing a new driver’s permit and why it should be accessible by Texans who are natural disaster victims, experiencing homelessness, family violence survivors, and immigrants with no lawful status, a complicated immigration status, or in the process of …

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Extension’S Potential To Respond To Suburban Food Insecurity, Daniel T. Remley, Glennon Sweeney, Julie Fox, Laquore J. Meadows Mar 2021

Extension’S Potential To Respond To Suburban Food Insecurity, Daniel T. Remley, Glennon Sweeney, Julie Fox, Laquore J. Meadows

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Between 2000 and 2013, the suburbs in the country’s largest metro areas saw their low-income population grow twice as fast as primary urban cities. In 2018, the Pew Research Center reported that poverty increased more sharply in suburbs than in urban and rural counties (Parker et al., 2018). The rise in suburban poverty coincides with an increasing prevalence of food insecurity. The social and physical environments of suburban communities pose unique food-related challenges for the suburban poor. Awareness and stigmatization of food assistance programs, lack of transportation options, access to food pantries, and limited community gardens are examples of challenges …

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A Review On X?Ray Excited Emission Decay Dynamics In Inorganic Scintillator Materials, Vineet Kumar, Zhiping Luo Mar 2021

A Review On X?Ray Excited Emission Decay Dynamics In Inorganic Scintillator Materials, Vineet Kumar, Zhiping Luo

College of Health, Science, and Technology

Scintillator materials convert high?energy radiation into photons in the ultraviolet to visible light region for radiation detection. In this review, advances in X?ray emission dynamics of inorganic scintillators are presented, including inorganic halides (alkali?metal halides, alkaline?earth halides, rare?earth halides, oxy?halides, rare?earth oxyorthosilicates, halide perovskites), oxides (bi-nary oxides, complex oxides, post?transition metal oxides), sulfides, rare?earth doped scintillators, and organic?inorganic hybrid scintillators. The origin of scintillation is strongly correlated to the host material and dopants. Current models are presented describing the scintillation decay lifetime of inorganic materials, with the emphasis on the short?lived scintillation decay component. The whole charge generation and the …

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The Impact Of Block Scheduling On Student Achievement, Graduation Rate, And Attendance At The High School Level, Sedric G. Clark Mar 2021

The Impact Of Block Scheduling On Student Achievement, Graduation Rate, And Attendance At The High School Level, Sedric G. Clark

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of block scheduling on student achievement, graduation rate, and attendance at the high school level. The study was a mixed methods study that compared existing data from three high schools from the same school district in a southern state which all moved from a traditional schedule to a block schedule and back to a traditional schedule over the same period of time. The study results included the comparison of composite ACT scores and attendance rates from the years pre-block implementation, the years of block implementation, and the years post-block implementation. …

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Mandalas In The Nursing Classroom, Audrey C. Tolouian Mar 2021

Mandalas In The Nursing Classroom, Audrey C. Tolouian

Nursing Faculty Publications

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Connections: Exploring Charles Moravia’S Le Fils Du Tapissier: Épisode De La Vie De Molière In The Introductory French Language Classroom, Jacob Abell, Stacey Margarita Johnson Mar 2021

Connections: Exploring Charles Moravia’S Le Fils Du Tapissier: Épisode De La Vie De Molière In The Introductory French Language Classroom, Jacob Abell, Stacey Margarita Johnson

Dimensions

This paper describes one approach to focusing on Connections, one of the five Cs from the World Readiness Standards for Learning Languages, as a means of exposing introductory language students to culturally diverse authentic texts through drama-based pedagogy. Our approach focuses on an instructor working within an established departmental curriculum for introductory language courses. Despite these constraints, the instructor was able to create a two-day instructional sequence that allowed students to interact with each other through their engagement with the work of the Francophone playwright Charles Moravia (1875-1938). The activity sequence was embedded in the grammar and vocabulary presented in …

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Evaluating Innovative Financing Mechanisms For The California High-Speed Rail Project, Shailesh Chandra, Timothy Thai, Vivek Mishra, Princeton Wong Mar 2021

Evaluating Innovative Financing Mechanisms For The California High-Speed Rail Project, Shailesh Chandra, Timothy Thai, Vivek Mishra, Princeton Wong

Mineta Transportation Institute

Millions of dollars are involved in high-speed rail (HSR) infrastructure construction and maintenance. Large-scale projects like HSR require funding from a variety of avenues beyond those available through public monies. Although HSR serves the general public’s mobility needs, any funds (whether State or Federal) flowing from the public exchequer usually undergo strict review and scrutiny. Funds from public agencies are always limited, making such traditional financing mechanisms unsustainable for fulfilling HSR’s long-term operational and maintenance cost needs—on top of initial costs involved in construction. Therefore, any sustainable means of financing HSR projects would always be welcome. This research presents an …

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Nos Disparus - W. Wesley Pue, Douglas C. Harris Mar 2021

Nos Disparus - W. Wesley Pue, Douglas C. Harris

All Faculty Publications

In April 2019, the Allard School of Law lost one of its most enthusiastic, innovative and generous scholars when Professor W. Wesley Pue passed away after liv- ing courageously with cancer for four years. His con- tributions to the law school and the University of British Columbia over 25 years of dedicated service were many and his impact profound.

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Full Issue, Volume 9, Number 1, Donna J. Peterson, Kathleen Kelsey Mar 2021

Full Issue, Volume 9, Number 1, Donna J. Peterson, Kathleen Kelsey

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

No abstract provided.

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Cutr Connections [March 2021], Cutr Mar 2021

Cutr Connections [March 2021], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

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Support For Me Results From The Care Integration Assessment, Rachel M. Gallo Mph, Mary Lindsey Smith Phd, Katie Rosingana Ba, Evelyn Ali Bs, Karen Pearson Mlis, Ma, Mark Richards Bs, Tyler Egeland Ba, Olivia Dooley Mpa Mar 2021

Support For Me Results From The Care Integration Assessment, Rachel M. Gallo Mph, Mary Lindsey Smith Phd, Katie Rosingana Ba, Evelyn Ali Bs, Karen Pearson Mlis, Ma, Mark Richards Bs, Tyler Egeland Ba, Olivia Dooley Mpa

Substance Use Research & Evaluation

In 2019, Maine’s Department of Health & Human Services received a $2.1 million grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) SUPPORT Act, establishing the SUPPORT for ME initiative within the Office of MaineCare Services. The primary goal of this planning grant is to increase MaineCare providers’ capacity to deliver Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery services for Medicaid beneficiaries. One key component of this project is an assessment to collect information from Maine organizations to help MaineCare better understand levels of care integrations within organizations and across several dimensions of care (“Care Integration Assessment”). This report …

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Gynaecological Morbidities Among Married Women And Husband's Behaviour: Evidence From A Community-Based Study, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Neelofar Sami, Adil Ali Saeed, Parveen Ali Mar 2021

Gynaecological Morbidities Among Married Women And Husband's Behaviour: Evidence From A Community-Based Study, Tazeen Saeed Ali, Neelofar Sami, Adil Ali Saeed, Parveen Ali

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Aim: To determine the association between gynaecological morbidities and IPV among married women specifically, with attention to the attitudes of the husband and the degree of satisfaction in a marital relationship.
Design: Cross-sectional study design.
Methods: Data were collected using face-to-face interviews with married women aged 15-49 years, living in selected communities. Information was collected on demographic characteristics, gynaecological morbidities and IPV using a self-developed tool. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data.
Results: Logistic Regression showed a significant association between physical violence and burning micturition, increased urinary frequency, constant dribbling of urine, genital ulcers, lower abdominal …

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Regional Economic Impacts Of China's High-Speed Rail Development And Its Institutional Challenges, Hankun Zhao Mar 2021

Regional Economic Impacts Of China's High-Speed Rail Development And Its Institutional Challenges, Hankun Zhao

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This article studies the impact of connecting to high-speed rail (HSR) network on regional development and the replication and sustainability of China’s GIUR system, aiming to summarize the experience of China’s HSR, which can provide several policy references for developing countries. This article conducts two research: (1) explore the impact of connecting to HSR network on the urban industrial structure, urban creativity and urban-rural income gap of cities in different regions and cities with heterogeneous locations along the HSR lines in the long and short term; (2) explore the advantages and disadvantages of the Government-Industry-University-Research (GIUR) system in the process …

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Michael Tippett: The Biography By Oliver Soden (Review), Justin Vickers Mar 2021

Michael Tippett: The Biography By Oliver Soden (Review), Justin Vickers

Faculty Publications - Music

No abstract provided.

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Measuring Human And Economic Activity From Satellite Imagery To Support City-Scale Decision-Making During Covid-19 Pandemic, Rodrigo Minetto, Maurício Pamplona Segundo, Gilbert Rotich, Sudeep Sarkar Mar 2021

Measuring Human And Economic Activity From Satellite Imagery To Support City-Scale Decision-Making During Covid-19 Pandemic, Rodrigo Minetto, Maurício Pamplona Segundo, Gilbert Rotich, Sudeep Sarkar

All publications

The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments worldwide to impose lockdowns and quarantines to prevent virus transmission. As a consequence, there are disruptions in human and economic activities all over the globe. The recovery process is also expected to be rough. Economic activities impact social behaviors, which leave signatures in satellite images that can be automatically detected and classified. Satellite imagery can support the decision-making of analysts and policymakers by providing a different kind of visibility into the unfolding economic changes. In this article, we use a deep learning approach that combines strategic location sampling and an ensemble of lightweight convolutional neural …

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Aspirations Incubator: 2017–2023 Interim Evaluation Report, Sarah Goan, Elora Way, Alexa Plotkin Mar 2021

Aspirations Incubator: 2017–2023 Interim Evaluation Report, Sarah Goan, Elora Way, Alexa Plotkin

Publications

The Emanuel & Pauline A. Lerner Foundation’s Aspirations Incubator (AI) is a six-year pilot initiative invested in strategic capacity building for six youth development organizations in rural Maine. Grounded in the Trekkers Youth Programming Principles, the Aspirations Incubator invests targeted resources to provide long-term, comprehensive relationship-based programming to youth. This structured yet flexible program model aims to increase resiliency and introduce new opportunities to cohorts of young people starting in 7th grade and continuing through high school graduation. To document the potential impact and effectiveness of this unique model, the Lerner Foundation contracted with the Data Innovation Project to conduct …

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What Documents Cannot Do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi And The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma, C. Sean Burns Mar 2021

What Documents Cannot Do: Revisiting Michael Polanyi And The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma, C. Sean Burns

Information Science Faculty Publications

Our culture is dominated by digital documents in ways that are easy to overlook. These documents have changed our worldviews about science and have raised our expectations of them as tools for knowledge justification. This article explores the complexities surrounding the digital document by revisiting Michael Polanyi’s theory of tacit knowledge—the idea that “we can know more than we can tell.” The theory presents to us a dilemma: if we can know more than we can tell, then this means that the communication of science via the document as a primary form of telling will always be incomplete. This dilemma …

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Building Bridges: Improving Extension Support To Organic Growers In North Georgia, Amanda Olbrick Marabesi, Kathleen D. Kelsey, James C. Anderson, Nicholas E. Fuhrman Mar 2021

Building Bridges: Improving Extension Support To Organic Growers In North Georgia, Amanda Olbrick Marabesi, Kathleen D. Kelsey, James C. Anderson, Nicholas E. Fuhrman

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Organic agriculture has the potential to improve the environmental performance of U.S. agriculture, supporting increasing food demand and diversification of food consumption while improving the quality of ecosystems. Organic growers are challenged by a lack of Cooperative Extension agent support as agents have not served organic growers to the same extent as conventional growers nationwide. Rogers’ (2003) diffusion of innovations theory guided our phenomenological inquiry to explore (a) what agents experienced while supporting organic growers, and (b) how agents experienced providing support to organic growers in north Georgia. According to participants, the essence of the support offered to organic growers …

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Diagrammatics And The Proactive Visualization Of Legal Information, Michael D. Murray Mar 2021

Diagrammatics And The Proactive Visualization Of Legal Information, Michael D. Murray

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule: Will The Fdic Eventually Adopt The New Regulations, Kevin Goldman Mar 2021

Community Reinvestment Act Final Rule: Will The Fdic Eventually Adopt The New Regulations, Kevin Goldman

North Carolina Banking Institute

No abstract provided.

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Expanding Constituency Support Through Shared Local Roots In U.S. House Primaries, Charles Hunt Mar 2021

Expanding Constituency Support Through Shared Local Roots In U.S. House Primaries, Charles Hunt

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper addresses the enduring connection of localism and place-based roots shared between many elected leaders and their constituents, which previous work has either ignored or improperly specified. I argue that representatives of the U.S. House with these roots—meaning authentic, lived experience in their districts prior to their officeholding—sustain more supportive constituencies in primary election stage. Using an original 7-point index of local biographical characteristics of incumbents seeking renomination from 2002 to 2018, I find that deeply-rooted incumbents are less than half as likely to receive a primary challenge, and on average perform more than 5 percentage points better in …

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Using High Resolution Images From Uav And Satellite Remote Sensing For Best Management Practice Analyses, Bo Yang, S. T. Y. Tong, R. Fan Mar 2021

Using High Resolution Images From Uav And Satellite Remote Sensing For Best Management Practice Analyses, Bo Yang, S. T. Y. Tong, R. Fan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Best Management Practices (BMPs) are commonly adopted to ameliorate the quality of runoff and reduce the frequency and intensity of flash floods in urban areas. To date, many of the BMP studies are conducted using coarse resolution data. However, the accuracy of such studies may be compromised due to the shortcomings inherent in the input data; as such, the evaluation of the BMP cost-effectiveness may not be accurate. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the improvements of higher resolution images over coarse resolution data in BMP analyses. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was used to collect a more …

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Characteristics Of Historical Precipitation In High Mountain Asia Based On A 15-Year High Resolution Dynamical Downscaling, Collin Riley, Summer Rupper, James W. Steenburgh, Courtenay Strong, Adam K. Kochanski, Savanna Wolvin Mar 2021

Characteristics Of Historical Precipitation In High Mountain Asia Based On A 15-Year High Resolution Dynamical Downscaling, Collin Riley, Summer Rupper, James W. Steenburgh, Courtenay Strong, Adam K. Kochanski, Savanna Wolvin

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The mountains of High Mountain Asia serve as an important source of water for roughly one billion people living downstream. This research uses 15 years of dynamically downscaled precipitation produced by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to delineate contrasts in precipitation characteristics and events between regions dominated by the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) versus westerly disturbances during the cool season (December to March). Cluster analysis reveals a more complex spatial pattern than indicated by some previous studies and illustrates the increasing importance of westerly disturbances at higher elevations. Although prior research suggests that a small number of westerly …

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Abaloparatide Real-World Patient Experience Study, Deborah T Gold, Richard Weiss, Tammy Beckett, Chad Deal, Robert S Epstein, Andrew L James, Jacqueline M Kernaghan, Mahshid Mohseni, Michael Spiegel, Tamara Vokes, Jenna Roberts, Tom Bailey, Yamei Wang, Setareh A Williams Mar 2021

Abaloparatide Real-World Patient Experience Study, Deborah T Gold, Richard Weiss, Tammy Beckett, Chad Deal, Robert S Epstein, Andrew L James, Jacqueline M Kernaghan, Mahshid Mohseni, Michael Spiegel, Tamara Vokes, Jenna Roberts, Tom Bailey, Yamei Wang, Setareh A Williams

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Despite the availability of various osteoporosis treatments, adherence remains suboptimal. One contributing factor may be patient experience with therapy. This US, multicenter, combined retrospective chart review and patient questionnaire study included postmenopausal women at high risk for fracture and is the first study to describe real-world patient experience with abaloparatide (ABL) injection. Eight geographically diverse secondary care sites in the United States participated (

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Paid Sick Time: An Essential Benefit For All Of Minnesota's Workers, Leah Hanson, Caitlin Kemp, Carrie Leggett Mar 2021

Paid Sick Time: An Essential Benefit For All Of Minnesota's Workers, Leah Hanson, Caitlin Kemp, Carrie Leggett

Master of Social Work Student Policy Advocacy Briefs

Paid sick time is an essential benefit for all workers in Minnesota. Paid sick time is an economic issue, a public health issue, and an equity issue. Workers should not have to choose between going to work sick or losing a day of pay. Low wage workers, women, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and people living in rural areas are least likely to work at jobs that provide paid sick time. Three cities in Minnesota have implemented paid sick time for workers, along with twelve States and the District of Columbia. It is time for Minnesota to act now and …

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