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Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - April 2024

Indigenous Science Network

This first edition of the Indigenous Science Network Bulletin for 2024 has a collection of articles and resources related to First Nations peoples and their science knowledge for a global audience of teachers, scientists and interested community members. It also considers the effects of colonisation on the learning and teaching of First Nations students and communities across other curriculum areas. Ron Vave of Fiji has written our editorial on the value of the indigenous knowledge systems of the Pacific Ocean’s many Indigenous peoples. By recognising and valuing the environmental and other knowledge that has built up over countless generations of …

Can Occupational Therapy Help Patients With Cancer?, Alanna Pritchard

Psychology Student Publications

No abstract provided.

The Silent Killer: Anorexia Nervosa, Sierra Malterud

Psychology Student Publications

Notice the warning signs! What do you need to look out for when those around you may be struggling with Anorexia nervosa?

Self Harm And Suicide And How Its Affecting People, Kayla Grabar

Psychology Student Publications

No abstract provided.

What Are The Behavioral Effects Of Artificial Dyes On Children In The Us?, Lauryn Ollerman

Psychology Student Publications

No abstract provided.

The Great Outdoor, Liddy Dewulf

Psychology Student Publications

No abstract provided.

Decorin Suppresses Tumor Lymphangiogenesis: A Mechanism To Curtail Cancer Progression, Dipon K. Mondal, Christopher Xie, Gabriel J. Pascal, Simone Buraschi, Renato V. Iozzo

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

The complex interplay between malignant cells and the cellular and molecular components of the tumor stroma is a key aspect of cancer growth and development. These tumor-host interactions are often affected by soluble bioactive molecules such as proteoglycans. Decorin, an archetypical small leucine-rich proteoglycan primarily expressed by stromal cells, affects cancer growth in its soluble form by interacting with several receptor tyrosine kinases (RTK). Overall, decorin leads to a context-dependent and protracted cessation of oncogenic RTK activity by attenuating their ability to drive a prosurvival program and to sustain a proangiogenic network. Through an unbiased transcriptomic analysis using deep RNAseq, …

On 'Sticky' Interior: Agglutinating As An Interplay Strategy For Building Adaptation, Verarisa Anastasia Ujung, Alya Amany

ARSNET

This paper is an exploration into the idea of agglutinating as a building adaptation strategy. This paper examines agglutinating as a potential operation to address the interplay and affective relations between spatial elements, creating a 'sticky' interior which merges or combines these elements. The study in this paper addresses agglutination as the process of re-reading the site in evocative and productive ways, rediscovering the underlying architectural logic which generates new ideas. The study is based on a fourth-year interior architecture design studio project at the Universitas Indonesia, which focuses on various experiments in regard to the theme of adaptative reuse. …

Visualising Daylight For Designing Optimum Openings In Tropical Context, Dany Perwita Sari

ARSNET

With the rising concern for global warming, reducing electricity consumption and promoting daylight utilisation for healthier living conditions are among residential buildings' top priorities. The utilisation of natural light for indoor lighting, particularly in tropical countries like Indonesia, provides health benefits and improves psychological well-being. However, the current condition shows that artificial lighting still accounts for the majority of energy consumption in residential buildings and, arguably, the failure to maximise daylighting was largely due to a limited understanding of the design of openings. This paper aims to exemplify how virtualisation can assist designers through simulation tools to better predict and …

Trilogies: Lessons From 50 Years Facilitating Community-Based Health Assessments And Planning In Appalachia, Bruce Behringer

Journal of Appalachian Health

Involvement of community and organizational groups is fundamental to most public ventures. Most social, health, economic, and educational improvements in Appalachia have been characterized by successfully integrating community input and finding ways to encourage organizational change and collaboration.

Managing group process and related facilitation skills are fundamental competencies for public health professionals and others guiding change efforts. Groups from communities and organizations can get stalled in their deliberations; a facilitator frequently must think quickly to diagnose the situation and propose alternative approaches. Creative and flexible approaches, learned through practice experiences, can blend with theories and frameworks learned in academic preparation …

Feminist Political Ecology In The Classroom, Ella J. Yeigh

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

As the effects of climate change are being felt more frequently, discussions on how to combat such a massive issue are increasingly prevalent. Finding solutions to the climate crisis requires an understanding of how mainstream economic systems have led to the climate crisis and using these same principles to get out of the climate crisis is misguided. Economic actions have inherent value biases that have real political effects. Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) as a theoretical model presents a better understanding of how values that are inherent in economic models such as reliance on efficiency, markets, and continual economic growth have …

Developing More Useful Equity Measurements For Flood-Risk Management, Adam Pollack, Casey Helgeson, Carolyn Kousky, Klaus Keller

Dartmouth Scholarship

Decision-makers increasingly invoke equity to motivate, design, implement and evaluate strategies for managing flood risks. Unfortunately, there is little guidance on how analysts can develop measurements that support these tasks. Here we analyse how equity can be defined and measured by surveying 167 peer-reviewed publications that explicitly state an interest in equity in the context of flood-risk management. Our main result is a taxonomy that systematizes how equity has been, and can be, defined and measured in flood-risk research. The taxonomy embodies how equity is a pluralistic and unavoidably ethical concept. Despite this, we find that most quantitative studies fail …

Learning To Teach About Climate Justice And Social Justice In Science Methods, Mindy J. Chappell

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

In November, the Editors of NWJTE sat down for a conversation with Dr. Mindy J. Chappell, a Science Teacher Educator in the College of Education at Portland State University. Dr. Chappell’s passions include developing teachers who are prepared to disrupt normative science ideologies and provide young people with science instruction that encourages and empowers them to be leaders in their communities. She engages in arts-based educational science research through the methodology of Ethnodance (a term she coined). She places young people and their lived experiences at the heart of her work.

2024 April, 30; Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes; 2024 April, 30

Cascading Crises: Climate Change And K-12 Education, Matt Ridenour

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

In this special issue of the Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, Richard Sawyer and I (the co-editors) examine a few of these consequences of climate change on the field of education. Specifically, we focus on teacher educators’ discussion of their work with their preservice students to understand and make a positive impact on climate justice education. All of the articles in this special issue take a realistic yet guardedly hopeful stance to the possibilities for climate justice.

Intersections Between Science And Social Justice: A Conversation With Liza Finkel, Liza Finkel, Maika Yeigh

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

In preparation for the special issue: Cascading Crises: Power, Equity and Liberation, the Editors of NWJTE sat down for a conversation with Dr. Liza Finkel, a Science Teacher Educator in the Graduate School of Education and Counseling at Lewis & Clark College. Dr. Finkel’s passions include science (especially geology), finding intersections between science and social justice and helping new teachers learn to include those connections in their teaching, knitting, cooking, birding, and reading mystery novels with women protagonists.

Preservice Teachers Learning To Teach In An Anti-Racist/Climate-Justice Program: Challenges And Promises, Richard Sawyer

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

The global climate crisis represents the most urgent problem facing the planet, impacting social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental dimensions of life. Alarmingly, it has impacted communities of color in disproportionate ways (Goddell, 2023; Pellow, 2013). The climate crisis, along with the intertwined context of racism, places a profound responsibility on social justice teacher educators to prioritize addressing these issues in teacher preparation. The intent of the following two case studies is to explore the impact of a project based teacher preparation program focused on cultural and environmental justice on the pedagogical knowledge and practice of teaching interns at the …

How Time With Dogs Affects Our Brains, Tessa Frampton

Psychology Student Publications

No abstract provided.

The Pied Piper Of Research: Increasing Clinical Research Capability For Mental Health Services In Somerset, Adrian Hayes, Alicia Long

South West Clinical School Journal

#400WORDS: DELIVERING A RESEARCH SKILLED WORKFORCE SPECIAL EDITION

‘My Life’: How A Co-Produced Lifestyle Intervention Can Support Individuals With Severe Mental Illness To Live Well, Nicola Dowdeswell

South West Clinical School Journal

#400WORDS: DELIVERING A RESEARCH SKILLED WORKFORCE SPECIAL EDITION

Evaluating Behavioral Skills Training To Improve Data Collection Procedures In Paraprofessionals, Megan Weber

Theses

When working with individuals with a variety of abilities and disabilities, data collection becomes arguably the most important tool in ensuring student success and growth. To put trust in collected data, both data reliability and treatment integrity must be considered. When one individual is taking all data required for a specific individual, reliability and integrity can be simpler to ensure (Vollmer et al., 2008). However, in many special education classrooms across the country, paraprofessionals are asked to perform many of the same data collection tasks as certified educators; a role which, as in many of the roles they serve within …

Development Of Prepare For Autistic Adults: An Adult Autism Training For Resident Physicians Designed With Autistic Adults And Family Members, Brittany N. Hand, Prepare For Autistic Adults Advisory Board, Daniel Gilmore, Holden Devassie, Anne Longo, Lisa Juckett, Christopher Hanks, Susan M. Havercamp, Daniel Coury

Institute on Disability

One barrier to meeting autistic adults' health care needs is the dearth of physicians with autism training. We developed an adult autism training for residents, who are postdoctoral physicians training to become specialists, in internal medicine or family medicine. We used formative evaluation to design the training with autistic adults and family members of autistic adults, who were paid consultants. The training includes six prerecorded presentations, six case studies, and two standardized patient scenarios. We conducted focus groups and interviews with 23 residents and 14 faculty who educate residents. We described the curriculum, reviewed the content in one module, and …

Margaret Grandy Oral History, Margaret Grandy

Raymond College

No abstract provided.

Hybrid Method Neighbor Node Discovery In Wireless Sensor Networks: A Framework, Sagar Mekala, Shahu Chatrapati Kaila, Jyothi Rani Matang

Makara Journal of Technology

Wireless devices are now being adapted for diverse purposes, such as healthcare, agriculture, transportation, and tactical operations, which present challenges in network formation owing to high device mobility. Current methods rely on discovery techniques for forming wireless sensor networks (WSNs); however, the existing research has been criticized for its high time complexity and redundant neighbor discovery process. In this study, we provide a hybrid strategy to effectively handle the difficulties of locating neighboring nodes in WSNs. Our method combines several strategies to produce precise and effective neighbor detection. Herein, shared memory–based discovery, a beacon technique, and range and distance overlap …

Direct Precipitation Of Siderite In Ferruginous Environments, A Grengs, G Ledesma, Y Xiong, S Katsev, S W. Poulton, E D. Swanner, C Wittkop

Faculty Publications

Siderite (FeCO 3 ) is often assumed to precipitate from dissimilatory reduction of Fe-(oxyhydr)oxides, but geochemical and mineralogical analyses from ferruginous (anoxic, Fe-rich) Canyon Lake, USA, suggest Fe-carbonate represents a direct early precipitate unrelated to substantial oxide burial.X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy of sediment trap materials and an anoxic sediment core indicated a mixture of Fe(II) and Fe(III) in water column particulates and ferruginous surface sediments, while all Mn phases were reduced.About 60 cm below the sediment-water interface, Fe-Mn carbonates were detected by X-ray diffraction and XANES, while Fe extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra were best …

Sediment Characteristics And Hydrocarbon Composition Of Makukwa Seep In Southern Tanzania: Potential Implications For Subterranean Hydrocarbon Accumulation, Makungu M. Madirisha

Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET)

Exploring the interplay between natural seeps and nearby sediment and hydrocarbon properties is key to unlocking subsurface hydrocarbon potential. This study presents findings on the hydrocarbon composition and sediment characteristics of the Makukwa seep in southern Tanzania, providing insight into subterranean hydrocarbon accumulation. Sediment analysis across areas A and B, located approximately 20 m apart, showed a decrease in porosity with depth, indicative of typical sandstone formations. Area A, near the seeps, exhibited porosity ranging from 23% to 36%, whereas Area B, further away, showed porosity ranging from 22% to 38%. This suggests that a lower cretaceous sandstone layer may …

The Effect Of Blended Learning On Crisis Management During The Corona Pandemic (Covid-19), Azat Allah Yousif, Atheer Abdullah Mohammed

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This research endeavors to investigate the influence of blended learning on the effective management of the educational challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic within nine government and private colleges in Iraq, to assess the level of interest exhibited by these institutions in the principal research variables and their dimensions. Additionally, the research seeks to formulate a set of conclusions aimed at enhancing performance standards to ensure the attainment of quality outcomes. These conclusions are founded upon the novelty and pressing significance of these variables in sustaining the educational process. The research methodology adopted for this research is primarily descriptive and …

The Role Of Innovative Marketing In Enhancing Creativity Of Industrial Organizations, Ghfran Ahmed Khalf, Sheffaa Mohammed Ali

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Innovative marketing has become a basic pillar that countries and industrial companies rely on to achieve creativity in their work, a true criterion for their success and failure, and an essential element for their profit or loss. Innovative marketing has become an urgent necessity and there is no way to ignore it, because of its vital therefore, industrial organizations must shift from traditional marketing to innovative marketing and think outside traditional frameworks by constantly keeping pace with development, encouraging innovation, generating modern ideas, and adopting the concept of creativity by following modern and innovative marketing means and methods based on …

The Impact Of Making Organizational Sense On Lean Management: A Descriptive Analytical Research In The Iraqi Ministry Of Education, Abd-Al Hakeem Daham Khalaf, Salah Abd- Alqadeer Ahmed Al- Nuiami

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The idea of ​​organizational sense industry involves how members of organizations reach to understandings about the environment through different behaviors, and how these understandings represent the basis for the nature of subsequent reactions. The organizational sense industry variable represents the independent variable. The lean management approach has become a comprehensive thought applied in all fields and business activities. In order to achieve the best performance through the best outputs. The research aims to highlight the level of general awareness of the educational administrations regarding the nature of the sense making in the institution of the Iraqi educational sector. The research …

Volume 122, Number 5 - Tuesday, April 30th, 2024, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.