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Wmdds Bulletin Summer 2024

West Michigan District Dental Society Bulletin

In the Summer 2024 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• Camp Blodgett Receives MDA Public Relations Grant Money
• Meet John Tramontana, the New Executive Director of the MDA
• Advocacy Avenue: Dental Compacts

Also included are your monthly tripartite update, news from West Michigan counties, the President's Message and Editor's Letter.

Temperature Affects Nest Box Selection, Nest Success, And Nestling Size In A Southeastern Population Of Eastern Bluebirds, Katie Stumpf

Georgia Journal of Science

Given the critical role of temperature in avian reproduction, rising global temperatures will likely impact reproductive success of many bird populations. We examined the effect of nest box temperature, nest box color, entrance orientation, distance to forest cover, and distance to water on net box selection, nest success, and nestling size in eastern bluebirds (Sialia sialis) in central Georgia. White painted nest boxes had significantly cooler temperatures than control nest boxes (P < 0.05). However, model selection revealed that eastern bluebird females selected control boxes, despite their overall warmer temperatures. Nest success was associated with year, likely because of high nest predation during the warmer 2022 breeding season (P < 0.05). Nest success was also associated with cooler nest boxes, possibly because incubating females spend more time incubating which can reduce predation risks. Larger nestlings fledged from painted nest boxes, nest boxes with cooler temperatures, and nests from 2021, which we attribute to decreased thermoregulatory demands enabling faster nestling growth in cooler boxes and years. These seemingly opposing results suggest there may be an optimal temperature range where nest box temperature maximizes reproductive fitness while minimizing energetic demands on incubating adults. Determining this temperature range can help target management efforts to ensure specific goals are met.

President's Message, Linda T. Cao Dds

New Orleans Dental Association News

Monthly update from Linda T. Cao, DDS with details of recent events, upcoming activities and news from the association.

Noda News October 2024

New Orleans Dental Association News

New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) News includes regular columns with regional news impacting the New Orleans membership including: columns from the President and Executive Director, feature articles relating to the field of dentistry, association events and upcoming activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Knowledge, Attitudes, And Practices Of Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting Among Family Medicine Faculty And Resident Physicians, Bruno J. Lewin, Daniel T. Lee, Thalia M. Nguyen, Jonathan C. Briganti, Janis Yao, Derjung M. Tarn

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Introduction: Health care professionals are mandated to report select adverse events following immunization (AEFI) to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Yet, information is lacking about the practices and knowledge of reporting requirements among family medicine faculty and resident physicians.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey of faculty and resident physicians in 10 family medicine residency programs was conducted in Southern California in May 2022. Outcomes included participant reporting practices and knowledge about VAERS.

Results: Of 108 survey respondents (45 faculty, 63 residents), 40 (89%) faculty physicians and 47 (73%) resident physicians had heard of VAERS. However, only 17 (20%) respondents …

Response Latency Reduction For Multimodal Prompts That Include Image And Text, Khalid Salama, Alessandro Agostini

Defensive Publications Series

Chatbot interfaces powered by multimodal large language models (LLMs) can enable users to submit queries that include both images and text. Image pre-processing is performed to analyze the images in the queries to confirm that the query is valid, to extract text and entities from the image, and to tokenize the image. These operations introduce a delay in generating a response to multimodal queries, in comparison to text-only queries. This disclosure describes the use of preemptive image analysis, with user permission, to reduce the time to first token, and thereby, the overall latency of a response from an LLM to …

Communication Embeddings And Router To Support Llm-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Defensive Publications Series

Large language models (LLM) agents are capable of taking actions and performing useful tasks. Complex tasks need collaboration between multiple such agents to accomplish a goal. Existing multi-agent communication frameworks are deficient in supporting such collaboration since these frameworks fail to incorporate critical aspects that would enable effective interactions between agents. This disclosure describes an inter-agent communication framework to improve communication, decision making, and collaboration between LLM agents. In the framework, new embedding paradigms centered around communicative facets can be utilized. The embeddings can enhance communication efficacy and also serve as a foundation for training multi-agent systems to accomplish their …

Smyly's Aftercare Service: A History And A Celebration.

Journal of Social Care

No abstract provided.

Navigating Involuntary Care Home Closures: Professional Perspectives And Thematic Analysis Of Failures In Norfolk, Farah-Leila Mughal, Vikki Bunting, Jessica Ruth Austin

Journal of Social Care

The Care Quality Commission is responsible for regulating care homes across England to make sure that residents are respected and provided for. But what happens when they find a home who are not doing this? Little is known about commonalities in the main failings that preclude a care home’s closure after CQC intervention and little is known concerning the effects of closing down a home on healthcare professionals. To understand the common themes precluding care home closure and whether debriefing can aid healthcare professionals in dealing with the emotional challenges of care home closure. This study used thematic analysis to …

A Workforce Development Team’S Reflections On Social Work Retention And Turnover In South-East London, Uk, Mark Taylor, Shalini Abrol, Sharon Frieslaar, Corlea Taylor

Journal of Social Care

Statutory children’s services in England experience a high turnover of social work staff. Workforce development teams from these services are seen as part of the solution to reduce the haemorrhaging of social workers. However, how do those working in these teams imagine the world of staff turnover? This paper presents the perspectives of three experienced social workers from a workforce development team in South-East London on staff churn and retention. Informed by a collective experience of over 80 years in social work practice, management and mentoring roles, Sharon, Shalini and Corlea reflect and speculate on two contrasting experiences of social …

Are Social Care Managers Ready For Professional Registration And What Will The Implications Be On Their Role?, Lorraine O Brien

Journal of Social Care

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of social care managers understanding of CORU (Irish Social Care Registration Board) and the professional registration process. It is timely as it focuses on the responsibilities that social care managers have inherited due to the commencement of registration in November 2023. Furthermore, it emphasises the dual responsibilities that social care managers will take on, both as a manager and as a practitioner. Literature is presented in relation to the history of social care and the evolution of the regulation of the social care sector. The literature extends to offer a comparative context specific to …

Stigma Experience Of Men With Eating Disorders: A Scoping Review, Rachael Maloney, Louise Lunney, Olivia-Mari Lennox, Elena Vaughan, Colette Kelly

Journal of Social Care

This scoping review aimed to synthesise the literature concerning the stigma experiences of men with eating disorders. Seven databases were searched using relevant keywords and subject headings. Following deduplication, articles published since 2000 were screened against eligibility criteria. Key information was charted and analysed using descriptive statistics and deductive content analysis. The final sample (n=9) was synthesised under four categories of stigma experiences within the Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework. Internalised stigma was the most prevalent stigma experience across the included studies. This review suggests that men with eating disorders experience stigma in many forms and across various contexts, including …

Forgotten Victims: Recommendations For Social Care On The Impact On Children Of Their Parent’S Incarceration, Karla Kane Ms, Susan Flynn Dr

Journal of Social Care

In the wake of parental incarceration, remains the plight of children who are hidden and seldom appreciated victims. In this article, findings of a novel study into key dimensions of the impact of parental incarceration on children will be presented, including socioemotional and behavioral harm, and disenfranchised grief. The study employed a critical literature method which applied in-depth thematic analysis to a sample of twenty peer-reviewed international publications. Findings reveal that due to direct and indirect harm caused to children arising from parental criminality and the ineptitude of the criminal justice system, children are being punished despite no fault being …

Outcomes Measurement In Social Care: Insights From Current Evidence, Susan Flynn Dr, Sowmia Lakkshme Sundaresan Ms, Louise Caffrey Dr

Journal of Social Care

Outcomes measurement and evaluation in social care services have become of increasing importance. Contemporary social care services operate in a climate where accountability, transparency and cost efficiency are key to providing assurance to stakeholders, funders, and the public. In this article, thematic findings of a funded literature review are presented. The aim is to enhance understanding of how outcomes measurement can be used in social care services to improve quality, accountability, and value. Five themes are presented. These refer respectively to the vital importance of outcomes measurement; the variable nature of outcomes; strengths and limitations of outcomes measurement; the …

The Value Of Cosma Outcomes: Student Learning Outcomes, Transferable Skills And Taxonomy Levels, Coral Bender, Lindsey Maxwell

The COSMA Journal

Using a content analysis of all published Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) of Commission on Sport Management Accreditation (COSMA) accredited programs, the current study analyzes SLOs to assess the most frequently used measurable verbs (utilizing a revised version of Blooms’ Taxonomy) and transferable skills (utilizing the definitions provided by AAC&U’s VALUE Outcomes and their corresponding rubrics) emphasized by accredited programs. An analysis of the most common Taxonomy Levels is presented at the aggregate level as well as a comparison between undergraduate and graduate education to provide a case study of SLO measurable verb alignment across accredited sport management programs. Further, content …

Spartan Daily, October 3, 2024, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2024

Volume 163, Issue 18

A Gendered History Of History In Gender Studies, Emily Bruce

Public Lectures

This talk, the first in a new, multiyear lecture series sponsored by the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies program, explores the role that the discipline of History played in the foundation of Women’s Studies and later evolution of the field at the University of Minnesota Morris. The contributions of beloved Professor Mimi Frenier are a central focus.

The Chanticleer, 2024-10-03, Coastal Carolina University

The Chanticleer Student Newspaper

The editorially independent student produced weekly newspaper of Coastal Carolina University.

The Indiana Statesman, October 3, 2024, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Vice Presidential Debate; Family Weekend; Spanish Film Festival, fall at Indiana State

Wavefront Sensor Based On Angle Selectivity Of An Optical Filter, Andreas Zepp, Emma Branigan, Julien Garnier, Kevin Murphy, Raphael Bellossi, Karin Stein, Szymon Gladysz

Conference Papers

The effectiveness of free-space laser communications is limited due to wavefront deformations caused by atmospheric optical turbulence. To determine these deformations, we propose a wavefront sensor that utilizes the angular selectivity of an optical transmission filter to measure the first derivative of the wavefront. The transmission filter converts the gradients of the incident wavefront into an intensity distribution. For each direction (x and y) this distribution is captured twice, with different angles between filter and optical axis for each measurement. The contrast of both measurements (calculated for each pixel of the used detector) and the local gradients of the wavefront …

Brawny Brackets: Connecting The Dots From Layout Design To Pull Flow, Rick Hardcopf, Vijay Kannan, Jonathan Ebbeler

Management Faculty Publications

Lean production (“Lean”) is a topic frequently taught in undergraduate and graduate operations/supply chain management courses. Lean's “pull system” is a common component of the instruction, and several useful simulations have been developed that allow students to experience a pull system firsthand. While existing simulations focus on the mechanics of a pull system, the Brawny Brackets simulation focuses on improving “flow”—that is, framing a pull system in the context of layout design and batch sizing, and the waste associated with jumbled flow patterns. The robust and flexible simulation allows instructors to expand or contract the topics taught to match the …

General Education Subcommittee Minutes October 3, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Call to Order

• Approval of Minutes – September 5, 2024

• Course Approvals/Removals/Syllabi Approvals

• New Business – USHE 402 Policy Draft, Final R470 Designation Outcomes

• Additional Items

• Adjourn: 9:30 am

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda October 3, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes
• Program Proposals
• Semester Course Approval Reviews
• Other Business - Registrar's Summit Topics, Graduate School
• Adjourn: 3:00 pm

Experience The Magic Of The Eagles With The Ultimate Eagles Tribute – On The Border, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The legendary sound of The Eagles is coming to Gardner-Webb University this fall, and it’s an experience you won’t want to miss! The Ultimate Eagles Tribute – On The Border will perform live at the Brinkley Amphitheater on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 5 p.m., immediately following the final home football game of the season. Gates open at 4 p.m.

College Readiness In Career And Technical Education Instruction During The Pandemic, Kenyetta A. Kendrick

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

College and career readiness (CCR) has become a priority in national education policy, leading to changes to CCR standards, practices, and measurements. In response to the COVID pandemic, school closings altered student engagement in career and technical education (CTE) courses. CTE teachers played a crucial role in providing CCR support to students by looking for ways to better align curriculum and engagement for successful transitions from high school to college. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to examine how teachers’ implementation of college and career instruction in CTE courses was influenced by the pandemic. Conley’s college readiness framework …

Vaping Dangers In Colorado Adolescence, James Clay Willis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In the last five years, the marketing of vaping and electronic cigarettes (‘e-cigarettes) has sky-rocketed among adolescents enrolled at middle school and high school campuses in the United States. In Colorado, the number of adolescents using vaping and e-cigarettes is at a high level. Colorado is seeing such high usage include because of appealing flavors, low cost, wide availability and discreet designs. For this study a quantitative secondary data analysis of the 2019 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey was conducted to investigate the effect of vaping and e-cigarette advertising on adolescents. The type of advertising (i.e., television, radio, and social media) …

Atmospheric Waves Experiment (Awe) Mission Overview, B. Lamborn, L. Scherliess, L. Ruley, H. Latvakoski, E. Syrstad, P. Sevilla, Y. Zhao, G. Cantwell, M. Taylor, D. Pautet

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) mission is a Heliophysics Small Explorers Mission of Opportunity designed to investigate how terrestrial weather affects space weather, via small-scale atmospheric gravity waves (GWs) produced in Earth’s atmosphere. Following its launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2023, AWE began a 2-year mission to explore the global distribution of AGWs, study the processes controlling their propagation throughout the upper atmosphere, and quantify their impacts on the ionosphere–thermosphere–mesosphere (ITM) system. The AWE science instrument is an ISS–compatible version of the Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper (AMTM)—a wide field-of-view Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) imager that quantifies gravity …

The Comment, October 3, 2024, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

Educational Policies Committee Minutes October 3, 2024, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes – September 5, 2024

• Subcommittee Reports – Curriculum Subcommittee, Academic Standards Subcommittee, General Education Subcommittee

• Other Business

• Adjourn: 3:30 pm

Information Accountability Foundation Names Two Maurer Faculty To Leadership Positions, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

he Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) has appointed two Indiana University Maurer School of Law faculty to lead the organization.

Fred H. Cate, a distinguished professor and C. Ben Dutton Professor of Law, was named the nonprofit think tank’s new executive director, while Stan Crosley, an adjunct faculty member and 1994 graduate of the Law School, was appointed chief policy strategist.

Founded in 2013, the IAF works with global regulators and industry executives to promote organizational accountability, data stewardship, and data ethics. Its mission is to help regulators and responsible companies better understand the challenges around Artificial Intelligence and data governance …