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A Student Guide To Using Ai To Enhance Algebraic Understanding, Karan Puri

Open Educational Resources

This is a step-by-step guide that students can follow to use AI tools to check their understanding of concepts that have been tested in the introductory/college algebra classroom.

The Skills-Based Business Case For Hiring Veterans - Report, Adam Pritchard, Rosalinda V. Maury

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This report explores the current state of skills-based hiring, examining trends, challenges, and future predictions. It focuses on how military veteran jobseekers can identify and communicate their skills. The report includes expert insights and offers recommendations for employers to develop skills-first frameworks and for veterans to navigate the employment landscape and maximize career prospects through upskilling.

2024 Lifetime Achievement Award: Biology Unbalanced: Genes, Gene Dosage, And Disease Susceptibility, James R Lupski

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

This article is based on the address given by the author at the 2024 meeting of The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Denver, CO. A video of the original address can be found at the ASHG website.

Sequence Variants In Hectd1 Result In A Variable Neurodevelopmental Disorder, Gazelle Zerafati-Jahromi, Elias Oxman, Hieu D Hoang, Wu-Lin Charng, Tanvitha Kotla, Weimin Yuan, Keito Ishibashi, Sonia Sebaoui, Kathryn Luedtke, Bryce Winrow, Rebecca D Ganetzky, Anna Ruiz, Carmen Manso-Basúz, Nino Spataro, Peter Kannu, Taryn Athey, Christina Peroutka, Caitlin Barnes, Richard Sidlow, George Anadiotis, Kari Magnussen, Irene Valenzuela, Alejandro Moles-Fernandez, Seth Berger, Christina L Grant, Eric Vilain, Gudny A Arnadottir, Patrick Sulem, Telma S Sulem, Kari Stefansson, Shavonne Massey, Natalie Ginn, Annapurna Poduri, Alissa M D'Gama, Rozalia Valentine, Sara K Trowbridge, Chaya N Murali, Rachel Franciskovich, Yen Tran, Bryn D Webb, Kim M Keppler-Noreuil, April L Hall, Bobbi Mcgivern, Kristin G Monaghan, Maria J Guillen Sacoto, Dustin Baldridge, Gary A Silverman, Sonika Dahiya, Tychele N Turner, Tim Schedl, Joshua G Corbin, Stephen C Pak, Irene E Zohn, Christina A Gurnett

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Dysregulation of genes encoding the homologous to E6AP C-terminus (HECT) E3 ubiquitin ligases has been linked to cancer and structural birth defects. One member of this family, the HECT-domain-containing protein 1 (HECTD1), mediates developmental pathways, including cell signaling, gene expression, and embryogenesis. Through GeneMatcher, we identified 14 unrelated individuals with 15 different variants in HECTD1 (10 missense, 3 frameshift, 1 nonsense, and 1 splicing variant) with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), including autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and epilepsy. Of these 15 HECTD1 variants, 10 occurred de novo, 3 had unknown inheritance, and 2 were compound heterozygous. While all individuals in this cohort displayed …

Impact Of Primary Care Team Configuration On Access And Quality Of Care, Sylvia J Hysong, Kelley Arredondo, Houston F Lester, Richard Sorelle, Trang Pham, Frederick L Oswald, Lechauncy Woodard, Laura A Petersen, Joshua Hamer, Ashley M Hughes

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Background: Team-based primary care has become the norm within many large healthcare systems; however, limited guidance exists on how to optimally staff primary care teams in relationship to healthcare.

Objective: This paper examines the associations between variations in team staffing configurations on primary care access and clinical quality.

Design: Observational study linking national Veterans Health Administration (VHA) data from February 2020 on primary care team staffing configurations to data on access to and quality of care the teams delivered.

Participants: We examined data from 22,390 primary care personnel assigned to 7050 teams from 1050 VA Medical Centers and Community-Based Outpatient …

Nanoengineered Constructs For Immunomodulatory Therapeutic Delivery, Zoe Elisa Clapacs

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Immune processes are central to aspects of human health ranging from wound healing to pathogen recognition, yet even within the field of drug delivery, immunomodulatory therapeutics remain relatively niche. In this work we apply nanoscale peptide, lipid and polymer engineering principles to address present challenges in immunomodulatory therapeutics delivery, particularly in the treatment of non-healing wounds and vaccination against flaviviruses and other pathogens that exhibit antibody dependent enhancement. In both cases, nanoengineered delivery systems allowed us to overcome challenges associated with immune hyperactivation using targeted immune stimuli rather than nonspecific signals. A frequent driver of non-healing wounds is failure of …

Nanoengineered Constructs For Immunomodulatory Therapeutic Delivery, Zoe Elisa Clapacs

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

Immune processes are central to aspects of human health ranging from wound healing to pathogen recognition, yet even within the field of drug delivery, immunomodulatory therapeutics remain relatively niche. In this work we apply nanoscale peptide, lipid and polymer engineering principles to address present challenges in immunomodulatory therapeutics delivery, particularly in the treatment of non-healing wounds and vaccination against flaviviruses and other pathogens that exhibit antibody dependent enhancement. In both cases, nanoengineered delivery systems allowed us to overcome challenges associated with immune hyperactivation using targeted immune stimuli rather than nonspecific signals. A frequent driver of non-healing wounds is failure of …

Conversational Voice User Interfaces Supporting Individuals With Down Syndrome: A Literature Review, Franceli L. Cibrian, Concepción Valdez, Lauren Min, Vivian Genaro Motti

Engineering Faculty Articles and Research

Conversational Voice User Interfaces (CVUIs) are widely used in commercial applications such as personal assistants. CVUIs are beneficial for most users as they enable interaction through speech and natural language. However, recent studies indicate that underrepresented user groups, such as individuals with speech impairments and specifically those with Down syndrome, face challenges in using voice commands to control CVUIs. The anatomical and physiological differences affecting the voice, speech, fluency, and prosody of users with Down syndrome hinder their experience with CVUIs. This article presents the results of 43 papers related to the use of voice user interfaces supporting individuals with …

A Role For The Actin Cytoskeleton And Plastin-3 In Osteoblast Mineralization And Mechanosensation, Samantha Meagan Chin

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

The great diversity in actin network architectures and dynamics is exploited by cells to drive fundamental biological processes including cell migration, intracellular trafficking, and cell division. One such system that relies on the actin cytoskeleton to fulfill its physiological function are osteoblasts, which are mesenchymal lineage bone cells that promote bone formation through depositing a collagen scaffold and subsequently promoting mineralization of this matrix. A number of factors are known to drive osteogenic differentiation of pre-osteoblast cells including extracellular matrix cues such as substrate stiffness, which are primarily detected via mechanosensitive machinery linked to the actin cytoskeleton. Disruptions to β-actin, …

Communication, Collaboration, And Teamwork Among Health Care Professionals, Laura L. Ellingson

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Neuromodulation Techniques For Drug-Resistant Epilepsy: Effects On Seizures And Quality Of Life, Kevin Garcia Valdez, Anesu Karen Murambadoro, Megan W. Szobody, Blake C. Martin, Kory D. Punch, Tori Sayers, Tirath Patel, Nina Mourao, Sriya Gullapalli, Nikhilesh Anand, Bharathi S. Gadad

Research Symposium

Introduction: Although there are over twenty antiseizure drugs currently available, around one third of patients with epilepsy do not benefit from these medications. Patients with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) experience higher rates of hospitalization, notable decline in cognitive and physical abilities, diminished quality of life, and sudden unexpected death. Neuromodulation techniques such as Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS), Responsive Neurostimulation (RNS), and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) are quickly emerging as alternative and adjunct therapies for epilepsy, offering patients and physicians a new avenue of treatment. Despite their promise, a notable gap exists in comprehensive, comparative data assessing the efficacy and suitability of …

Phage Therapy: A Fresh Look At Last Century's Candidate For Fighting Bacteria, Savannah Del Cid

Osmosis Magazine

Humanity has fought infectious bacteria for ages, but it wasn't until recently that humans began to distil chemicals from nature to fight bacteria, which we know as antibiotics. At first, bacteria were easily treated with antibiotics, such as the well-known penicillin. However, the improper and overuse of antibiotics over the decades has created the perfect environment for mutated bacteria to thrive despite antibiotic treatments. This has become a major concern for doctors and patients because the need to utilize methods beyond the pharmaceutical has not become widely apparent until now.

Osmosis Magazine - Fall 2018

Osmosis Magazine

Osmosis is a student read, led, and written publication from the University of Richmond, focusing on all aspects of healthcare and science.

Notes Compiled For The Conference Of Black History Of Florida, Eartha M.M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Notes: Information compiled for the conference of Black History of Florida, including notable people in Jacksonville, Florida. Lists doctors, lawyers, teachers, policemen, councilmen, judges, firemen, postmen, businessmen, banks, bankers and other notes. Undated.

Protecting The Anti-Oppression Legacy Of Obergefell After Dobbs, Tracy Turner

St. John's Law Review

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This Article contributes to the task of revitalizing Justice Kennedy’s analysis after its absence from Dobbs by explaining the inadequacies not only of the Glucksberg substantive due process test, but also of the Court’s interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause. The flaws in equal protection doctrine include the Court’s overly narrow view of which groups are entitled to protection as “suspect classifications” and its failure to address unintentional government support of systemic discrimination. When these gaps in equal protection doctrine are viewed together with the gaps in the Glucksberg test for substantive due process, the need for Justice Kennedy’s …

An Affective Assessment Intervention To Improve The Motivational Climate In Courses, Brett D. Jones, Meghan Byrnes, Harold Mckenzie

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The motivational climate and student engagement within courses are important for instructors to consider during the instructional design process because they can affect student learning. To help instructors improve the motivational climate and student engagement within their courses, we implemented an affective assessment intervention within the first- and second-year courses in a US college of veterinary medicine. Based on the MUSIC Model of Motivation Theory, the intervention was administered near the end of the courses, and the results were presented to the course instructors in an attempt to improve the motivational climate within the courses the following year. The purpose …

Maximum Engagement, Minimum Distraction, And Knowledge Transference, Jooyoung Kim, Sharmita Lahiri

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

In the Indian academia, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, the focus on teaching “writing” is relatively new; traditional focus has been on teaching the English language or Communication Skills. The novelty of academic writing has called for rigorous efforts in its operation in the Indian context. In addition, the virtual learning environment required by the pandemic posed the serious challenge of adopting the academic writing pedagogy to the new format of the virtual classroom. This article showcases successful strategies adopted for graduate and undergraduate foundation writing courses at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, which ensured maximum engagement and …

Transformative Learning Outcomes: Shifting The Learning Outcome Conversation From Assessment To Design, Mat Duerden, Jamin Rowan

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

What if the focus of learning outcomes shifted from telling students what they will know at the end of a course to who they will become? Learning outcomes have drifted away from informing curriculum design to providing parameters for external assessment. This article reviews this shift along with a proposal to reimagine learning outcomes as transformative learning outcomes. It discusses previous work on transformative learning outcomes and proposes a new conceptual definition: learning outcomes that articulate habits of mind or ways of being that students will develop because of a learning experience or sequence of learning experiences. Such learning outcomes …

Academic Honesty During The 2020 Covid-19 Shutdown: Perspectives From Instructors And Students In Higher Education, M'Lyn Spinks, Stacy L. Kluge, Jody L. Langdon, Mike Metzler, Tiffany A. Esmat

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

The higher education Spring semester of 2020 was heavily impacted by stakeholders' calls for a complete shutdown of in-person gatherings. This call to action forced instructors and students to transition from face-to-face education to the virtual, online classroom. Institutions were given a few days to 2 weeks for this transition. During this crisis, 14 faculty from across Georgia formed a research consortium to investigate the perspectives of instructors and students on multiple topics, including academic honesty. As part of a mixed method approach, surveys were distributed via email across the university system, which included both quantitative items and narrative, open-text …

Using Stimulated Recall And Reflection On Action With Music Studio Teachers In Higher Education, Kelly A. Parkes, Ryan Daniel

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This article focuses on the issue of reflection for music studio teachers in higher education. Although stimulated recall and reflection on action are well-developed research fields in classroom education settings, the application of these methods to studio teaching is rare, a form of pedagogy which is heavily influenced by the master–apprentice tradition, with many teachers engaging in this practice without any formal training. The article presents the findings associated with three different studio pedagogues reflecting on video recordings of their lessons via cooperative analysis. Each of the three pedagogues took part in a live session with the researchers where their …

Evaluation Of Teacher, Self-Assessment, Versus Combined Feedback To Increase Students’ Behavioral Observation Skills, Jie Zhang, Marcie N. Desrochers, Michael Fensken

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Feedback is an important component of online instruction. Few experiments have examined combined types of feedback (teacher feedback or student self-assessment) compared to extra practice with each on student learning. In this study, the experimental effectiveness of four methods of feedback delivery on students’ acquisition of behavioral observation skills was evaluated—teacher feedback only (TT condition), student self-assessment only (SS condition), teacher-then-student self-assessment (TS condition), or student self-assessment-then-teacher (ST condition). The results, both for a random sample of individual learners as well as at an overall group level, suggest that the SS condition was superior to the TS condition. In the …

Professor Oppressors: College Classrooms As Spaces Of Racist And Sexist Microaggressions, Ellen Halvorson, Jörg Vianden

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

This article describes minoritized college students’ encounters with faculty-generated or -condoned racial and gender microaggressions in college classrooms. The Racial Microaggressions Model (Pérez Huber & Solorzano, 2015) and the Taxonomy of Gender Microaggressions (Capodilupo et al., 2010) were used to inform the experiences of microaggressions of 88 college students with minoritized identities at seven institutions around the U.S. Based on the findings, the authors delivered recommendations for teaching and learning in four areas: faculty awareness and training; classroom management; policy, assessment, and evaluation of teaching; and improved mechanisms for student feedback.

The Rhetoric Of Public Dialogue, Rob Anderson, Kenneth N. Cissna, Meghan K. Clune

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Globalization And The Media: The Debate Continues, Emile G. Mcanany

Communication Research Trends

No abstract provided.

Indigenising Official Referencing Style Guides: An Indigenous Australian Case Study, Tracy Maniapoto, Yanti Ropeyarn

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Globally, Indigenous communities are increasingly asserting their agency within academia, advocating for the recognition and integration of Indigenous knowledge paradigms alongside western knowledge systems. Indigenous research methodologies, often relational in nature, provide Indigenous researchers with the mechanisms to advance and contribute to this growing body of collective knowledge. In this paper presentation, we explore the case study of an Australian academic library that has Indigenized university processes associated with citational attribution in research. This case study examines strategies, challenges, and best practice exemplars that empower and support its academic communities to respectfully acknowledge both Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous knowledge holders’ …

From Experiment To Impact: How A Library Peer Mentors Program Transformed Student Engagement At Unsw Library, Martin Borchert, Jane Campbell, Peter Smith, Ben Conyers, Xiaxia Zhang

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Academic podcasting provides an innovative platform to capture and communicate the voices of all, disrupting traditional academic publishing models through open and accessible media. But can they serve as a platform to include living indigenous knowledge,reithin a context relevant to your library community? This workshop will enable IATUL delegates to explore this question and develop the skills to plan an effective podcast. We will explore possibilities and share our experiences of developing the IATUL Beyond the Shelves podcast based on a collaborative IATUL funded International Research and Study Programme project. This will cover the pre-production, production and post-production stages of …

Decolonising Information Literacy: Diversity Integration For Empowering Minority Groups, Elize Du Toit

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

For a long time, library guides (LibGuides) have been essential resources for linking students with information related to faculty, specific subjects, and coursework. However, the scope of LibGuides has expanded significantly in contemporary library practices. They now include a wide variety of resources, such as guides on particular library products, platforms, resources, instructional materials, and 'how-to' guides. These enhanced features demonstrate the changing requirements of library users as they navigate a more complicated academic environment. In 2016, the University of Johannesburg launched an online course on information literacy using the SpringShare LibGuide platform, which was highly successful. Originally created in …

Inspiration For Learning: The Development Of A Design Concept For Library Space, Gry Bettina Moxnes, Hege Undem Store

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In this lightning talk we will tell you about the process of rethinking and redesigning the existing library space at the main library at Oslo Metropolitan University. We will be using pictures to help illustrate and give you a better understanding on the process.

Libraries For Belonging: Empowering Monash University Library Staff, Kaye Sullivan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2024, Monash University Library launched its Libraries for Belonging program, which builds on its longstanding role in supporting the University's goals of fostering inclusion and a sense of belonging. Research shows that students who feel a strong sense of belonging are not only more engaged and have better mental health outcomes but are also more successful academically. Having a sense of belonging has also been shown to be particularly important for international students and student retention. As part of the initiative, the Monash Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Team worked with the Library to develop a Library EDI Action …

From Intent To Action: Reconciliation And Inclusion In Three Canadian Academic Libraries, Lisa O'Hara, Talia Chung, Vivian Lewis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

A sense of belonging and inclusion creates conditions for individuals and organizations to thrive. Many Canadian university libraries have been initiating actions which advance reconciliation with Indigenous communities in Canada, and to support equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. Efforts to operationalize reconciliation and inclusion share important qualities yet require distinctive approaches due to historic and contemporary factors. Reconciliation in Canada must recognize the significance and centrality of the land to Indigenous communities. While inclusion strives to more broadly create conditions in which individuals may thrive, with a focus on those from groups who have historically faced systemic barriers. For both …