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Interview With Sarah Walker, Sarah Walker, Maxwell A. Perkins

Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) Oral Histories

The interviewee is Sarah Walker, who has lived in the Rio Grande Valley for her entire life. She was hired at a local restaurant shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic reached the Valley, working there well into the summer of 2020 under shifting policies and protocols, until contracting the coronavirus herself, recovering, and quitting. Based on her experiences during this time, Sarah gives us insight to how the pandemic affected a part of the food industry in McAllen, Texas, during the pandemic, as well as from a COVID-19 survivor.

Content Modelling For Unbiased Information Analysis, Milind Gayakwad, Suhas Patil Dr

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Content is the form through which the information is conveyed as per the requirement of user. A volume of content is huge and expected to grow exponentially hence classification of useful data and not useful data is a very tedious task. Interface between content and user is Search engine. Therefore, the contents are designed considering search engine's perspective. Content designed by the organization, utilizes user’s data for promoting their products and services. This is done mostly using inorganic ways utilized to influence the quality measures of a content, this may mislead the information. There is no correct mechanism available to …

Reviews, Various Authors

Marvels & Tales

No abstract provided.

Identifying Diversity And Committing To Inclusivity In The Online Classroom, Holly Farley, Jacy Ghast

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

In a traditional classroom, diversity can be considered an asset if the instructor recognizes the value in the varied backgrounds of students, and leverage this through intentional pedagogies that improve success for all. Can traditional pedagogies be transferred to the online classroom? Creating a community in the online classroom can be challenging, especially with online courses moving to accelerated 5-8 week formats and eliminating synchronous activities. Often it is a struggle to facilitate a face-to-face classroom with an open culture that fosters exchange of ideas and different perspectives. In a face-to-face classroom faculty can directly ask questions and attempt to …

Affirmative Action And Mismatch: Evidence From Statewide Affirmative Action Bans, Leon Ren

Undergraduate Economic Review

This paper empirically evaluates the mismatch hypothesis by exploiting the quasi-experimental variation in the adoption of statewide affirmative action bans. Specifically, this paper examines the effect of such bans on minority graduation rates using a difference-in-difference, synthetic control, and triple-difference approach. My results suggest that statewide affirmative action bans are associated with an increase in minority graduation rates, consistent with the mismatch hypothesis, at highly selective institutions. Moreover, mismatch effects are not confined to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors. JEL Codes: I28, J15

Intersectionality As A Framework To Develop Best Practices To Improve Access To Higher Education For Marginalized Groups, Danielle Bank, Manu Kaur, Pat Somers

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

The Combahee River Collective (1986) may have been one of the first groups to describe the complex interrelationships among social influences that overlap, intersect, converge and combine to directly and indirectly affect the lives of individuals and the groups to which they belong. Later theorists and activists (Cooper, 2017; Crenshaw, 2006; Hooks, 1994) have elaborated on the nature of these social forces which include race, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, sexuality, ability status, national/citizenship status, age, and others. Examining the ways that these social forces limit or advance the life decisions and opportunities of individuals and their social groups sheds light …

Educator Self-Care, Resiliency, And Inclusion, Carolyn B. Jester, Peggy Woodall, Tammy Wrobbel

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

Acosta, J., Chandra, A., & Madrigano, J. (2017) stated that “Resilience is defined as the capacity of any dynamic system to anticipate and adapt successfully to difficulties. Individual resilience is the process of, capacity for, or outcome of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress.” The Seven streams of resilient behavior – community, competence, connections, commitment, communication, coordination, and consideration – act as a whole system response, as a practical theory that has the capacity to adapt and mold to changing data and shifting circumstances in the face of new technology according …

Sexuality And Aging, Debra Lynn Hagerty Dr.

Center for Social Gerontology Community Conference (2017-2022)

Older adults have sexual needs and intimacy desires. This presentation will celebrate those opportunities for normal sexual contact and stress rights and dignity concerns.

Clinical Approach To A Request For Phentermine-Topiramate In A Young Woman With A History Of High-Risk Eating Behavior, Erin Spencer

Clinical Research in Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates

A clinical decision report appraising Safer DL, Adler S, Dalai SS, et al. A randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial of phentermine-topiramate ER in patients with binge-eating disorder and bulimia nervosa. Int J Eat Disord. 2019;(September):1-12. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23192 to inform the clinical decision of whether or not to prescribe phentermine-topiramate to an overweight 27-year-old woman who endorses risky eating behaviors.

Incorporating Brain-Based Learning Into Virtual Career Support And Delivery, Angela Evans, Hannah Nicolaisen, Mildred Wallace

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

Career development is a life-long, continuous process with many complex factors and interplay. This is also reflected in what makes up the learner of today and the demands of the current pandemic on flexible learning styles and modes of delivery to prepare for success. An eclectic toolbox is needed to meet and adapt to one’s unique strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences via different modes of communication. A purposeful and enhanced focus on experiential learning strategies may be achieved by using pseudo-flipped career training and brain-based learning. Some tenets include emotional intelligence, cognitive behavior therapy, and stages of readiness which may …

The Psychological Trauma Of Black Students And Black Professionals On Campus After The Murder Of George Floyd, Katherine Helm, Kristi Kelly, Tenille Allen

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

In this time of great racial unrest in American society, many Black students and professionals on campus are experiencing significant psychological trauma which can include feelings of: sadness, anger, irritability, emotional disconnection, problems concentrating, and diminished motivation triggered by the murder of George Floyd. Subsequent national racialized events and tensions have only increased these reactions. Black students and black professionals may be reporting emotional and physical exhaustion, feelings of not feeling safe (physically and emotionally), and a lingering anger and hopelessness, which has significant consequences for academic and career success. This is one of the most important social justice issues …

Assessing Motivation And Utilizing Motivational Interviewing In Introductory College Biology For Improved Student Success, William Martin

Together We RISE (Making Excellence Inclusive)

Student motivation, metacognition and engagement are strong predictors of academic success in the undergraduate biology classroom. Implementation of diverse active learning strategies results in increased student engagement and improved student performance. Instructors direct students on behaviors aimed to promote self-reflection and self-efficacy towards academic success yet see varying follow-through from students. This research study assesses motivation in students in two separate but parallel, introductory biology courses required for majors. Students in one course, with traditionally high attrition and serving students from diverse majors, will be compared to a second with low historical attrition and serving a single pre-professional program at …

“The Stranger And The Ancient Race”: Collective Responsibility In Educational Research, Denise H. Heppner

Journal of Indigenous Research

Taking up, and working towards implementation, of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action necessitates complex conversations and collective responsiveness to past, present, and future challenges; including, as is the topic of this paper, within educational research. This article is an appeal for collaborative research within an ethical space of engagement in order to meet the needs of Indigenous students and teachers within Canada’s education system.

2020 12th Annual Student Center For Science Engagement Research Symposium, Student Center For Science Engagement

Student Center for Science Engagement Research Symposium

Student presentations in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, & Psychology

Please note, this conference was held remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Intimate Partner Violence, Emergency Care Center (Ecc) Screening And Intervention, Diane Martinez

St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, CA. Evidence Based Practice Conference

No abstract provided.

Teacher Wellbeing During A Pandemic: Surviving Or Thriving?, Anna Dabrowski

Teacher workforce and careers

As cases of COVID-19 surge across the world, research has begun to emerge which considers the implications of school lockdowns on student learning, engagement, and achievement. Yet as face-to-face teaching and learning recommences, it is not only students who will need help adjusting to "the new normal". While 2020 has seen a dramatic increase in the workload of teachers, many of whom have negotiated a continuity of learning in adverse circumstances, we must remember that long before COVID-19 disrupted schools, teachers were already at risk of burnout. The novel coronavirus has further exacerbated the stresses facing teachers, and as countries …

Emergence Of Organisms., Andrea Roli, Stuart A Kauffman

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Since early cybernetics studies by Wiener, Pask, and Ashby, the properties of living systems are subject to deep investigations. The goals of this endeavour are both understanding and building: abstract models and general principles are sought for describing organisms, their dynamics and their ability to produce adaptive behavior. This research has achieved prominent results in fields such as artificial intelligence and artificial life. For example, today we have robots capable of exploring hostile environments with high level of self-sufficiency, planning capabilities and able to learn. Nevertheless, the discrepancy between the emergence and evolution of life and artificial systems is still …

“Helping Me Learn New Things Every Day”: The Power Of Community College Students’ Writing Across Genres, Tanzina Ahmed

Publications and Research

Although community colleges are important entry points into higher education for many American students, few studies have investigated how their students engage with different genres or develop genre knowledge. Even fewer have connected students’ genre knowledge to their academic performance. In the present article, 104 ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students reported on classroom genre experiences and wrote stories about college across three narrative genres (Letters, Best Experience, Worst Experience). Findings suggest that students’ engagement with classroom genres in community college helped them develop rhetorical reading and writing skills. When students wrote about their college lives across narrative genres, they …

Gulf Coast Faculty Council Minutes - October 16, 2020, Usm Gulf Coast Faculty Council

Gulf Coast Faculty Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Structured Risk: Black Women, Perceived Integration Into Campus Hook-Up Culture, And The Potential For Sexually-Transmitted Infection Diagnoses At A Predominately White College, Jasmine L. Harris

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

No abstract provided.

1.16 The Effect Of Quarantine On The Emotional Well-Being Of Kids: A Systematic Review, Raheel I. Memon, Irum Aamer, Muhammad I. Sharif, Zubair H. Bodla, Sadiq Naveed

Behavioral Health Meeting Abstracts

Objectives: COVID-19 has a significant impact on the mental health of children and adolescents including adverse consequences from quarantine or isolation. In this systematic review, we explore the impact of quarantine and isolation on psychological well-being of youth and propose a comprehensive strategy to reduce psychological burden.

Methods: Three electronic databases including PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched for relevant articles by using the following search terms: (stigma OR stigmas OR stigmatization OR stigmatization) AND (psych* OR mental OR anxiety OR depression OR stress OR insomnia OR adjustment) AND (quarantin* OR patient isolation OR isolate* OR lockdown OR …

Psychological Detachment: A Creativity Perspective On The Link Between Intrinsic Motivation And Employee Engagement, Debjani Ghosh, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Yuka Fujimoto

Management Faculty Publications

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop an additional perspective on when and why intrinsic motivation predicts employee engagement by presenting a contextual boundary of psychological detachment in relation to the relationship between intrinsic motivation, employee creativity and employee engagement of workers.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were collected from 288 full-time Japanese workers using an online survey. The study used a bootstrap method (Preacher and Hayes, 2008) to test mediation, and a Hayes method (2013) to test moderation and a first-stage moderated mediation model.

Findings

Employee creativity mediated the relationship between intrinsic motivation and employee engagement, and the relationship between …

A Fidelity-Based Integration Model For Explicit And Implicit Ensemble Coding, Ke Tong

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Human observers benefit from encoding summary statistical information from multiple similar stimuli, also known as ensemble coding. Empirical studies on ensemble coding have adopted paradigms with vastly different task requirements, raising questions about ensemble coding’s underlying mechanisms in different tasks. Are ensemble coding mechanisms task-dependent? How to model ensemble coding in different tasks? The current paper aims to answer these questions by systematically reviewing the ensemble coding tasks and models and proposing a computational model framework of ensemble coding in different tasks. The task review categorizes the tasks into two main types: Summary tasks (explicitly require observers to summarize ensemble …

Does Job Satisfaction Predict Organizational Commitment? An Information Professionals’ Perspective, Haroon Idrees Phd, Muhammad Asif Naveed, Muhammad Ahmad Shah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study examined the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment among information professionals working at university libraries in Pakistan. A cross-sectional survey using a questionnaire was conducted. The questionnaire contained items related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment along with demographic variables. All the professionals working in university libraries of Punjab and Islamabad were considered as study population. It was decided to collect data from all these professionals. The questionnaire was administered either through personal visits or through email. A total of 329 questionnaires retuned which were used for data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for data …

Pain Relief After Surgical Decompression Of The Distal Brachial Plexus, Elizabeth Ouellette

All Publications

Background Brachial plexopathy causes pain and loss of function in the affected extremity. Entrapment of the brachial plexus terminal branches within the surrounding connective tissue, or medial brachial fascial compartment, may manifest in debilitating symptoms. Open fasciotomy and external neurolysis of the neurovascular bundle in the medial brachial fascial compartment were performed as a surgical treatment for pain and functional decline in the upper extremity. The aim of this study was to evaluate pain outcomes after surgery in patients diagnosed with brachial plexopathy.

Methods We identified 21 patients who met inclusion criteria. Documents dated between 2005 and 2019 were reviewed …

Attitude Towards Information Technology And Digital Divide: A Study Among Students In Universities In Kerala, India, Aswathi P, Mohamed Haneefa K

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main aim of this research is to evaluate the attitude of university students' towards Information Technology (IT) and to identify whether their attitude plays any significant role in contributing digital divide among them. The study used quantitative research design and administered a pre-validated questionnaire to a sample of 644 postgraduate students selected with stratified random sampling. This study reports that about one third of the students fall under the high level attitude towards IT, while just above two thirds of them came under the medium level attitude. A significant gender divide persisted in the case of attitude towards IT …

Chimes: October 16, 2020, Calvin University

Chimes

Pence rallies in RG: "The road to victory runs right through Michigan" by Katherine Benedict

Supply chain disruptions force Dining Services to adapt by Alex Raycroft

Women in science celebrate Nobel Prize milestone, critique male-dominated field by Sarah Gibes

Calvin top five in state for student loan repayment by Harm Venhuizen

Tutoring services continue online, maintain numbers even during pandemic by Susannah Epp

Calvin's Crossing vandalized over summer, repairs underway by Lauren Vanden Bosch

Jubilee Fellows offers opportunities for students interested in ministry by Michaela Giovannelli

A faith and nation fractured: Prof. Kristin Du Mez reflects on book reception and …

How Might Improved Estimates Of Hiv Programme Outcomes Influence Practice? A Formative Study Of Evidence, Dissemination And Response, Njekwa Mukamba, Laura K Beres, Chanda Mwamba, Jeanna Wallenta Law, Stephanie M Topp, Sandra Simbeza, Kombatende Sikombe, Nancy Padian, Charles B Holmes, Elvin H Geng, Izukanji Sikazwe

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: While HIV programmes have started millions of persons on life-saving antiretroviral therapy in Africa, longitudinal health information systems are frail and, therefore, data about long-term survival is often inaccurate or unknown to HIV programmes. The 'Better Information for Health in Zambia' (BetterInfo) Study - a regional sampling-based survey to assess retention and mortality in HIV programmes in Zambia - found both retention and mortality to be higher than prevailing estimates from national surveillance systems. We sought to understand how Zambian health decision-makers at different health system levels would respond to these new data, with a view to informing research …

Covid-19 Deaths In People With Intellectual Disability In The Uk And Ireland: Descriptive Study, Bhathika Perera, Richard Laugharne, William Henley, Abigail Zabel, Kirsten Lamb, David Branford, Ken Courtanay, Regi Alexander, Kiran Purandare, Anusha Wijeratne, Vishwa Radhakrishnan, Eileen Mcnamara, Youshan Daureeawoo, Indermeet Sawhney, Mark Scheepers, Gordon Taylor, Rohit Shankar

Peninsula Medical School

Background: Rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected people with intellectual disability disproportionately. Existing data does not provide enough information to understand factors associated with increased deaths in those with intellectual disability. Establishing who is at high risk is important in developing prevention strategies, given risk factors or comorbidities in people with intellectual disability may be different to those in the general population. Aims: To identify comorbidities, demographic and clinical factors of those individuals with intellectual disability who have died from COVID-19. Method: An observational descriptive case series looking at deaths because of COVID-19 in people with intellectual …

Domestic Violence: Going Beyond The Home, Linda Sears

Dignity Initiative

Virtual presentation sponsored by the Plano (Spring Creek) Campus District Team

This panel discussion will focus on the effects of domestic violence on local and national communities. Panelists will discuss their efforts to bring awareness to the dangers of domestic violence, to create programs that prevent domestic violence, and to provide services for victims of domestic violence. A representative from the Collin County District Attorney's Office Domestic Violence Unit will discuss the legal rights of the victims as well as prosecution of perpetrators of domestic violence. A Q & A session will follow the panel discussion.

Panelists:

• Kim Gerber - …