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Can Plan Recommendations Improve The Coverage Decisions Of Vulnerable Populations In Health Insurance Marketplaces?, Aj Barnes, Y Hanoch, T Rice

School of Psychology

OBJECTIVE: The Affordable Care Act's marketplaces present an important opportunity for expanding coverage but consumers face enormous challenges in navigating through enrollment and re-enrollment. We tested the effectiveness of a behaviorally informed policy tool--plan recommendations--in improving marketplace decisions. STUDY SETTING: Data were gathered from a community sample of 656 lower-income, minority, rural residents of Virginia. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted an incentive-compatible, computer-based experiment using a hypothetical marketplace like the one consumers face in the federally-facilitated marketplaces, and examined their decision quality. Participants were randomly assigned to a control condition or three types of plan recommendations: social normative, physician, and government. …

Seek Knowledge & Affirm Faith: Conflicting World Views?, Jay Brand

Andrews University Teaching and Learning Conference

I believe that the relationship between reason and faith necessarily involves one being subordinate to the other. However, the first two components of Andrews University's motto, "Seek Knowledge, Affirm Faith, Change the World" juxtapose these epistemologies as equals. In valuing peer-reviewed sources above others, graduate education tends to promote reason over faith as an approach to evidence, and in so-doing, undermines faith in Biblical authority. Peer-reviewed analyses of Scripture become more valuable than the Words of Scripture. Over time, this scholarly hermeneutic erodes the final authority of Scripture and compromises the foundation for faith.

Population Stability And Conservation Of The Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus Horridus), Lauren A. Spahr

2014-2016 Undergraduate

No abstract provided.

Wobbling On The Shoulders Of Giants: The Supreme Court's Failure In Lotus V. Borland, Bradley W. Grout

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Medical Process Patents: Can We Live Without Them? Should We?, Lara L. Douglass

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Brief Amicus Curiae Of Copyright Law Professors In Lotus Development Corp. V. Borland International, Inc., Pamela Samuelson

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

The Soul Of The Virtual Machine: In Re Alappat, W. Wayt King Jr.

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Protecting Intellectual Property Within Horizontal Exchange Relationships, Jerre B. Swann Jr.

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Intellectual Property And Public Health - A White Paper, Ryan Vacca, James Ming Chen, Jay Dratler Jr., Tom Folsom, Timothy Hall, Yaniv Heled, Frank Pasquale, Elizabeth Reilly, Jeff Samuels, Katherine J. Strandburg, Kara W. Swanson, Andrew W. Torrance, Katharine Van Tassel

Akron Intellectual Property Journal

On October 26, 2012, The University of Akron School of Law's Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an interest in IP and public health who met to discuss problems and potential solutions at the intersection of these fields. This report summarizes this discussion by describing the problems raised, areas of agreement and disagreement between the participants, suggestions and solutions made by participants, and the subsequent evaluations of these suggestions and solutions.

Led by the moderator, participants at the Forum focused generally on three broad …

Ip And Health Care: New Drugs Pricing And Medical Mistakes, Jay Dratler Jr.

Akron Intellectual Property Journal

I propose to address briefly two important IP questions from an economic perspective: patented drug pricing in an international context and trade secret protection for health care outcomes. The first will involve some algebra; the second involves a bit of common sense that so far seems to have eluded us.

Drone Technology For Low-Cost Precision Mapping On Campus And In The Community, Suresh Muthukrishnan, Mike Winiski

Earth and Environmental Sciences Presentations

Proliferation of consumer grade small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV) or drones brings many opportunities in the area of mapping and spatial analysis. Although misuse of drone technology is well-chronicled in the media, the important and positive role played by drones at the community level is often overlooked. At Furman University, we have integrated the use of drones into teaching, research, and various sustainability and safety initiatives on campus and with community partners. Using a combination of tools, including drones and GIS, we mapped the sprinkler irrigation network and streetlight locations on campus and in a local community. The general workflow …

Executive Committee - Meeting Minutes, 3/29/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Games And Simulations In Soft Skills Training, Deanna L. Proctor

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by DeAnna L. Proctor on March 29, 2016.

U.S. Drought Monitor, March 29, 2016, Brad Rippey

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

Drought map of U.S. for March 29, 2016 (3/29/16) plus: U.S. crop areas experiencing drought (map), Approximate percentage of crop located in drought, by state (bar graph), Percent of crop area located in drought, past 52 weeks (line graph) for: Corn, Soybeans, Hay, Cattle, Winter wheat.

Antarctic Ice Sheet Sensitivity To Atmospheric Co 2 Variations In The Early To Mid-Miocene, Richard Levy, David Harwood, David Harwood, Fabio Florindo, Francesca Sangiorgi, Robert Tripati, Hilmar Von Eynatten, Edward Gasson, Gerhard Kuhn, Aradhna Tripati, Robert Deconto, Christopher Fielding, Brad Field, Nicholas Golledge, Robert Mckay, Timothy Naish, Matthew Olney, David Pollard, Stefan Schouten, Franco Talarico, Sophie Warny, Veronica Willmott, Gary Acton, Kurt Panter, Timothy Paulsen, Marco Taviani, Rosemary Askin, Clifford Atkins, Kari Bassett, Alan Beu, Brian Blackstone, Gregory Browne, Alessandro Ceregato

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Geological records from the Antarctic margin offer direct evidence of environmental variability at high southern latitudes and provide insight regarding ice sheet sensitivity to past climate change. The early to mid-Miocene (23-14 Mya) is a compelling interval to study as global temperatures and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations were similar to those projected for coming centuries. Importantly, this time interval includes the Miocene Climatic Optimum, a period of global warmth during which average surface temperatures were 3-4 °C higher than today. Miocene sediments in the ANDRILL-2A drill core from the Western Ross Sea, Antarctica, indicate that the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) …

Creating A Learning Continuum: A Critical Look At The Intersection Of Prior Knowledge, Outdoor Education, And Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Ideas And Practices, Trisha Leigh Schlobohm

Dissertations and Theses

Outdoor School is a cherished educational tradition in the Portland, OR region. This program's success is attributed to its presumed ability to positively impact affective and cognitive student outcomes. Residential programs such as Outdoor School are considered to be an important supplement to the classroom model of learning because they offer an authentic, contextually rich learning environment. References to relevant literature support the idea that student gains in affective and cognitive domains occur as a result of the multi-sensory, enjoyable, hands-on nature of outdoor learning. The sample population for this study was 115 sixth graders from a demographically diverse Portland, …

Highway Expenditures And Associated Customer Satisfaction: A Case Study, Alexander Paz-Cruz, H De La Fuente-Mella, A Singh, R Conover, H Monteiro

Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction Faculty Research

This study analyzes the satisfaction of the Nevadans with respect to their highway transportation system and the corresponding expenditures of Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT). A survey questionnaire was designed to capture the opinions of the Nevadans (customers) about a number of characteristics of their transportation system. Data from the financial data warehouse of the NDOT was used to evaluate expenditures. Multinomial probit models were estimated to study the correlations between customers' opinion and the government expenditures in transportation. The results indicate the customer satisfaction is decreasing with respect to traffic safety throughout Northwestern and Southern Nevada highways. In addition, …

Yes!: A Workshop For Your Educational Success, Debora S. Coombs

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

The premise of the proposed poster presentation is to inform educators on the need to prepare students prior to attending their first day of class in a face to face classroom environment. A six hour workshop was developed to encourage students to take responsibility for their learning and to introduce the concepts of an active learning environment. Information necessary for understanding and identifying different learning styles that have a positive influence on their motivation and active involvement are provided within this workshop. Orientation and preparation to the rigors …

Relationships Among Entrance Examinations And Nursing Mathematics To Aid In Sudent Nurse Retention, Marlena Waylynn Bushway

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: Increasing student retention is a common theme in nursing education but comes with a need to graduate safe, quality nursing graduates. Medication miscalculation is a large problem in nursing and is a contributing factor to high nursing student attrition. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine if a relationship existed between TEAS V reading scores, TEAS V math scores, and the ability to pass the ATI Dosage Calculation Fundamentals examination scores. Using Patricia Benner's Novice to Expert Model as the theoretical framework, progression of a …

Executive Committee - Agenda, 3/29/2016, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Characteristic Length Scales Of The Secondary Relaxations In Glass-Forming Glycerol, Sudipta Gupta, Eugene Mamontov, Niina Jalarvo, Laura Stingaciu, Michael Ohl

Faculty Publications

We investigate the secondary relaxations and their link to the main structural relaxation in glass-forming liquids using glycerol as a model system. We analyze the incoherent neutron scattering signal dependence on the scattering momentum transfer, Q , in order to obtain the characteristic length scale for different secondary relaxations. Such a capability of neutron scattering makes it somewhat unique and highly complementary to the traditional techniques of glass physics, such as light scattering and broadband dielectric spectroscopy, which provide information on the time scale, but not the length scales, of relaxation processes. The choice of suitable neutron scattering techniques depends …

Tool Trouble: Challenges With Using Self-Report Data To Evaluate Long-Term Chemistry Teacher Professional Development, Deborah Herrington, Ellen J. Yezierski, Senetta F. Bancroft

Peer Reviewed Articles

The purpose of this study was to compare the ability of different instruments, independently developed and traditionally used for measuring science teachers’ beliefs in short-term interventions, to longitudinally measure teachers’ changing beliefs. We compared the ability of three self-report instruments (Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument Form A [STEBI], Teaching of Science as Inquiry instrument [TSI], Inquiry Teaching Beliefs instrument [ITB]) and one observational instrument (Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol [RTOP]) to appropriately measure high school chemistry teachers’ beliefs as they engaged in a two and a half year professional development program. Collectively our findings from these four instruments, across three separate …

Alumni Survey Fall 2015, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Community Engagement

The alumni survey provides the university information on the lives of students one or more years after graduation and their opinions about various topics concerning their time at UNO and beyond. In the past, UNO used an external vendor, ACT, to conduct the alumni survey. The survey was long, the cost was high, the response rate was extremely low, and, ultimately, the vendor discontinued the survey. UNO decided the best route was to create and administer their own alumni survey.

Alumni from 2010 and 2012 were surveyed by UNO in Fall 2015 in an effort to learn which cohort would …

Celebrating The Andrews Family With Hygge: At This Annual Awards Event

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

Novel Techniques In Chemical Ecology To Examine Life Histories In Fishes, Orian Tzadik

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Diet and movements in fishes are often logistically challenging to study. Trace element and stable isotope analyses have advanced these fields considerably, but are still constrained by methodological impediments, such as the tendency towards lethal sampling. Studying endangered fishes is particularly challenging as representative samples are difficult to obtain. However, the information gained from such studies is often critical to the recovery of endangered fishes as knowledge of life history attributes has the potential to greatly influence the success of management strategies.

I tested the viability of using fin rays in fishes as a non-lethal approach to study diet and …

The Differing Biogeochemical And Microbial Signatures Of Glaciers And Rock Glaciers, Timothy S. Fegel, Jill S. Baron, Andrew G. Fountain, Gunnar F. Johnson, Ed K. Hall

Geology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Glaciers and rock glaciers supply water and bioavailable nutrients to headwater mountain lakes and streams across all regions of the American West. Here we present a comparative study of the metal, nutrient, and microbial characteristics of glacial and rock glacial influence on headwater ecosystems in three mountain ranges of the contiguous U.S.: the Cascade Mountains, Rocky Mountains, and Sierra Nevada. Several meltwater characteristics (water temperature, conductivity, pH, metals, nutrients, complexity of dissolved organic matter (DOM), and bacterial richness and diversity) differed significantly between glacier and rock glacier meltwaters, while other characteristics (Ca²+, Fe³+, SiO₂ concentrations, …

Ucc Minutes, March 29, 2016, University Curriculum Council

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Nursing Educational Practices Related To Medication Dosage Calculation With Practice Expectations, Donna Crawford

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Accurate calculation of dosages and safe administration of medications in the clinical setting are essential skills for registered nurses (Coyne, Needham, & Rands, 2013; Jukes & Gilchrist, 2005; McMullan, Jones, & Lea, 2010). Nurse educators need to ensure that appropriate educational preparation is provided in order to ensure that student nurses become safe practitioners. The landmark study conducted by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM; 2000) To Err is Human: Building a Safer Healthcare System brought to light the serious problem of medication errors. In the years following this publication …

Byu Undergraduates Explore The Flipped Classroom In Search Of The Best Pedagogy For Introductory Biology, Jamie Jensen

Journal of Undergraduate Research

This report will outline how effectively we met our academic and mentoring objectives.I have listed below both the academic and mentoring objectives put forth in the original proposal and have outlined how they were met or modified over the course of the past two years.

Academic Objective: To test two hypotheses about the causal mechanisms behind the flipped classroom.

The Murray Ledger And Times, March 29, 2016, The Murray Ledger An Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.