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Chanting The Medicine Buddha Sutra: A Musical Transcription And English Translation Of The Medicine Buddha Service Of The Liberation Rite Of Water And Land At Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Jeffrey W. Cupchik

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

A book review is presented for Reed Criddle, ed., Chanting the Medicine Buddha Sutra: A Musical Transcription and English Translation of the Medicine Buddha Service of the Liberation Rite of Water and Land at Fo Guang Shan Monastery. Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music 13. Philip V. Bohlman, general editor. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2020. 77 pages.

The Efl Students’ Perspectives On Library Modalities: Attitude And Correlation To Academic Achievement, Afif Ikhwanul Muslimin M.Pd., Fitrana Harintama M.Pd.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study aimed to scrutinize the EFL students' perspectives on library in various modalities to mediate EFL learning and to know the correlation of the EFL students' attitudes to the EFL students' academic achievement. Hence, quantitative research with descriptive and correlational research designs were applied. 112 EFL students in an English Education Department (EED) at a public university in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia contributed their responses by filling out an online questionnaire containing questions to answer the research goals and sharing their GPA files. To analyze the data, descriptive and correlational statistical calculations through SPSS 24 version were done. …

University Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes - November 10, 2022, University Curriculum Committee

University Curriculum Committee Meeting Materials

Minutes for the Governors State University Curriculum Committee Meeting held November 10, 2022.

Rochester College Tape Collection, 1977-1985, Rochester College

Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 10, 2022, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2022

Volume 159, Issue 35

Whistleblowing As An Anti-Corruption Strategy In Health And Pharmaceutical Organizations: A Scoping Review Protocol., Taryn Vian, Brianna Agnew Mph, Keith Mcinnes Jr

Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications

Background

Whistleblowing can bring suspected wrongdoing to the attention of someone who is in the position to rectify the problem. Whistleblowing research can help improve effectiveness of anti-corruption efforts in the health sector.

Objective

The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of evidence on whistleblowing as an anti-corruption strategy in health and pharmaceutical organizations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Methods

This scoping review searched the PubMed, Scopus, and EMBASE databases from 2005 to 2020, limited to English language. We also searched websites of multilateral agencies or international non-governmental organizations for policy documents, guidance …

Suffolk Journal, Vol.86, No. 7, 11/10/2022, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

Program Review: History Department, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Department Of History Faculty & Staff

Academic Program Reviews

No abstract provided.

Remarks From Opening Celebration, Sarah Burke Cahalan

Juggling for Mary

The story of the juggler, in brief, is a story about vocation and the gifts we each have to offer. On Christmas Eve, a juggler performs for a statue of the Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, scandalizing the other monks in his community. Juggling is not appropriate — not the kind of gift one should give. In other words, not appropriately intellectual or elevated, like the gift of a book or a poem. But those judgmental observers are wrong because when the juggler has finished his performance and collapsed in exhaustion, the statue comes to life: The Infant Jesus …

William Gibson And The Futures Of Contemporary Culture, Ed. Mitch R. Murray And Mathias Nilges, Sean Scanlan

Publications and Research

Sean Scanlan reviews the 2021 collection titled "William Gibson and the Futures of Contemporary Culture" for American Literary History. Edited by Mitch R. Murray and Mathias Nilges, this eleven-chapter study, published by University of Iowa Press, outlines Gibson’s career and addresses three overarching questions or problematics: Gibson and literary history, Gibson and the question of medium, and the problem of the present.

Sustainability In A Student's Words, Sustainability Institute

Sustainability Institute Blog

No abstract provided.

Validation Of A Script To Facilitate Social Determinant Of Health Conversations With Adolescent Patients, Emily M. Giorgi, Matthew J. Drescher, Zachary K. Winkelmann, Lindsey E. Eberman

Faculty Publications

Current social determinants of health (SDOH) tools exist to assess patient exposure; however, healthcare providers for the adolescent population are unsure of how to integrate SDOH knowledge into clinical practice. The purpose of this study was to validate a focused history script designed to facilitate SDOH conversations between clinicians and adolescents through the use of the Delphi method. Six individuals (1 clinician, 5 educators/researchers) participated as expert panelists. Panelists provided critical feedback on the script for rounds 1 and 2. For rounds 3–7, panelists received an electronic questionnaire asking them to indicate agreement on a 6-point Likert scale (1 = …

The Case Against Summary Eviction Proceedings: Process As Racism And Oppression, Andrew Scherer

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, November 10, 2022, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The November 10, 2022, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Veteran–Novice Pairing For Tutors’ Professional Development, Xuan Jiang, Jennifer Peña, Feng Li

The Writing Center Journal

This mixed methods study examines whether veteran–novice mentorship between tutors, as part of continuous in-service professional development, would have a positive effect on either party’s transferable skills (e.g., communication, collaboration, and professionalism). Quantitative findings from pre- and postsurveys about the veteran–novice mentorship suggest that tutors have significant gains in some transferable skills, such as oral/written communication skills, teamwork/collaboration skills, digital technology skills, and career management skills, after attending the continuous in-service professional development. Quantitative findings from the pre- and postsurveys further indicate that novice tutors improve more, compared to veteran tutors, in their self-perceived oral/written communication skill levels. Qualitative findings …

Electromechanical Effects On Micro And Nano Particles Generated From Drug Delivery Devices And Their Implications In Flow And Deposition Efficiency, Mohammed Ali, Mark Miller

Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This experimental investigation was undertaken to quantify the electrostatic charge and aerodynamic size distribution of the medicinal drug particles inhaled through an in-vitro mouth-throat (MT) in order to compare the amount of drugs can be delivered to the human lung while mimicking a patient is either sitting or lying. The MT model is a cadaver-based replica cast of human oral-pharyngeal-laryngeal region. Tested drug aerosols were generated by a commercially available metered dose inhaler (MDI). The MT model was placed inside a humidity (95%) and temperature (37^oC) controlled chamber. Its mouth-inlet was positioned horizontally and vertically to simulate sitting …

Inequity By Inequity: Community Driven Investigation Of Wheelchair User Discomfort By Infrastructure Failures, Steven Mccullough, Jessica Eisma, June Young Park, Mikila Salazar, Sarah F. Rose

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Wheelchair users face a variety of disability-related inequities in the built environment. The primary challenge is that current legislation for relieving disability inequities focuses on design guidelines and less so in monitoring their discomfort. While there is literature about monitoring wheelchair users, there is little available data regarding wheelchair user discomfort across the built environment. Therefore, we create a transformative approach to measure a wheelchair user’s personal comfort (WheelCom) using open-source solutions, allowing more citizens to engage in the inequity challenge. To demonstrate, we lectured our approach to local high school students to develop WheelCom. Subsequently, actual wheelchair users measured …

Disparities In Mobile Phone Use Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Participating In Clinical Trials 2017-2021, Lyndsay A Nelson, Sammy Alfonsi, Lauren M Lestourgeon, Lindsay S Mayberry

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Despite smartphone ownership becoming ubiquitous, it is unclear whether and where disparities persist in experience using health apps. In 2 diverse samples of adults with type 2 diabetes collected 2017-2018 and 2020-2021, we examined adjusted disparities in smartphone ownership and health app use by age, gender, race, education, annual household income, health insurance status, health literacy, and hemoglobin A1c. In the earlier sample (N = 422), 87% owned a smartphone and 49% of those had ever used a health app. Participants with lower income or limited health literacy had ≥50% lower odds of owning a smartphone. Comparatively, in the …

Poster Abstract: Constory: Automatic Story Investigator Of Public Perception On The Mega Urban Infrastructure Project, Alireza Shamshiri, Rok Ryu Kyeong, Steven Mccullough, June Young Park

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

We evaluate the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP) in Texas by analyzing social media data (Twitter) to determine the public perception on a series of issues in the project. We analyze the pertinent tweets since the project announcement (2008 to 2021). Our initial analysis is based on three distinct periods in which the volume of tweets has changed according to notable events: 1) release of the alternative design by the agency and 2) project pause, using topic modeling. Our results show a long-term public opinion shift from project itself to community and demolition. Although ’Neighborhood and Homes’-related tweets were …

Episode 21: Karen Ochoa, Christina Torres

Futures in Languages Transcripts

No abstract provided.

[D]Evolving Standards Of Decency? The Legacy Of Lynch Law Lingers As South Carolina Travels Back In Time, Abigail Grise

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Children’S Views On Playtime In Schools: A Systematic Literature Review, Thomas Clements, Emma L. Harding Dr

International Journal of Playwork Practice

Background and aim(s)

Playtime in schools has been shown to have wide-ranging benefits to children and young people. However, opportunities for playtime in schools have declined over time. It is important children’s voices are heard on matters that are important to them, yet playtime is often driven by adult policy. The aim of this systematic literature review (SLR) was to explore children’s views on playtime to further our understanding of what is important to them, and what affects their access to playtime.

Methodology

This SLR employed thematic synthesis to aggregate the views of children on playtime. This review includes 8 …

Improving Documentation Of Postdischarge Issue Mitigation During Postdischarge Phone Calls., Sarah Vepraskas, Snezana Nena Osorio, Sarah Corey Bauer, Alyssa Stephany, Sandra Gage

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

UNLABELLED: Postdischarge phone calls (PDPCs) are recommended to identify and mitigate postdischarge issues such as missed follow-up appointments, medication errors, and failure to activate contingency plans. A current state assessment showed variability in documenting PDPC content and postdischarge issue mitigation. Therefore, the primary aim was to improve the postdischarge issue mitigation documentation rate from 65% to 100% over 16 months.

METHODS: An interdisciplinary quality improvement team used the Model for Improvement to perform planned sequential interventions over 16 months. The outcome measure was documentation of postdischarge issue mitigation. Process measures included PDPC template use and completion and postdischarge issue identification. …

Understanding Servant Leadership Through The Lived Experiences Of Higher Education Administrative Leaders, Michael Roberts

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

In a global society steeped in increasingly complex environments, immediate modes of communication, flexible work arrangements, rapid advances in technology, and greater competition, the need for sound leadership has never been more important. Progressive, innovative, stronger leaders have the potential to provide organizations with a competitive advantage. A plethora of contemporary leadership frameworks exist, included among them situational leadership, transformational leadership, authentic leadership, relational leadership, and servant leadership. Each framework has its own unique set of characteristics which are embraced by the leaders who identify with them. This qualitative study used narrative inquiry through a postmodern lens to investigate the …

Revitalizing The Russian Of A Heritage Speaker, Aaron Jordan

Theses and Dissertations

This study presents a linguistic profile of a heritage speaker of Russian and recounts the efforts to revitalize his Russian after he had nearly stopped speaking it. The study was conducted over the course of almost two years, starting when the subject was twelve years old and ending when he was fourteen. Although this study found that the subject displayed many of the linguistic features typical of heritage speakers, the subject's Russian had suffered less attrition than is common for heritage speakers of Russian in the United States. This study presents its linguistic findings under the rubrics of phonology, morphosyntax, …

The Montclarion, November 10, 2022, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

On Networking The Writing Center: Social Media Usage And Non-Usage, Amanda M. May

The Writing Center Journal

This article presents findings from an IRB-approved study about writing center social media use and nonuse using survey data keyed to five factors: reasons for nonuse; purposes for use; platforms used; approaches to use that consider platforms and target audiences; and recommendations to other writing centers to use or not use social media. While the 91 writing centers not using social media commonly cited a lack of time, lack of staff, and lack of experience as reasons, the majority of writing centers in this study maintained a social media presence. These 153 writing centers tended to use multiple platforms, commonly …

Graduate Writing Groups: Evidence-Based Practices For Advanced Graduate Writing Support, Wenqi Cui, Jing Zhang, Dana Lynn Driscoll

The Writing Center Journal

Writing centers seek to expand their services beyond tutoring and develop evidence-based practices. Continuing and expanding the existing practices, the authors have adopted graduate writing groups (GWGs) to support graduate writers, especially those working on independent writing projects like a dissertation or article for publication. This article provides an effective model on how to develop and assess virtual graduate writing groups (VGWGs). This replicable, aggregable, and data-supported (RAD) research applied a mixed-methods design with pre- and postsurveys over the three semesters of running the VGWG. It found that the VGWG offered a full range of writing support that met graduate …

Writing Centers And Neocolonialism: How Writing Centers Are Being Commodified And Exported As U.S. Neocolonial Tools, Brian Hotson, Stevie Bell

The Writing Center Journal

The editors of the Writing Center Journal and Purdue University Press, publisher of WCJ, are retracting the following article:

Hotson, Brian, and Bell, Stevie. (2022). "Writing Centers and Neocolonialism: How Writing Centers Are Being Commodified and Exported as U.S. Neocolonial Tools." Writing Center Journal, vol. 40, no. 2, article 4. https://doi.org/10.7771/2832-9414.1020.

This article contains two significant factual errors that the authors have agreed to correct. The Writing Center Journal is committed to the highest standards of publication ethics and has accepted the request of Dr. Ron Martinez and colleagues from the Universidade Federal do Paraná and the article’s …

Treatment Of Severe Swallowing Dysfunction In Systemic Sclerosis With Ivig: Role Of Antimuscarinic Antibodies, Fabian A Mendoza, Anthony J. Dimarino, Sidney Cohen, Christopher Adkins, Shady Abdelbaki, Satish Rattan, Christopher Cao, Susie Denuna-Rivera, Sergio A. Jimenez

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Faculty Papers

Oropharyngeal and esophageal dysmotility can cause serious clinical complications such as aspiration pneumonia, cachexia, and sarcopenia, with a resulting increase in mortality and disability. The current standard of care for the treatment of SSc-associated swallowing dysfunction is mainly supportive, although severe cases are usually refractory to conventional management. Recent studies have shown that the abnormal production of functional autoantibodies such as anti-cholinergic muscarinic receptor III antibodies may participate in the pathogenesis of SSc-associated gastrointestinal dysmotility and may provide a novel target for therapeutic intervention. We describe two patients with severe and rapid onset of SSc-associated severe swallowing dysfunction and esophageal …