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Operationalizing National Protocol For Preventing And Managing Pe/E In Community Facilities In Bangladesh, Population Council

Reproductive Health

Considering the maternal deaths associated with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E), the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, with technical assistance from the Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh, developed a national protocol allowing community providers to provide a magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) loading dose. With the approval of the National Technical Committee of the Directorate General of Family Planning, this study operationalized and assessed the ability of community providers to detect and treat PE/E, and administer the loading dose of MgSO4 before referral to higher-level facilities. The study results presented in this brief indicate that with national protocol, training, and …

Formative Research On Factors Influencing Access To Fistula Care And Treatment In Uganda, Pooja Sripad, Charlotte E. Warren

Reproductive Health

This formative research builds upon the results of a systematic review by the Population Council for better understanding of the barriers and enabling factors for fistula repair care and access in Uganda. The study focuses on Fistula Care Plus project-supported treatment facilities where fistula camps are routinely held. Results reveal the nuances of women’s experiences, along with the additional perspectives of their spouses, family members, community stakeholders, and fistula camp care providers including nurses/counselors, surgeons, and facility and district managers. Barriers and enablers to fistula repair care are clustered around the following factors: psychosocial, cultural, social, financial, transportation, facility shortages, …

Adapting A Health Systems Strengthening Model To Improve Access To Health Services In A Factory: A Pilot Project In Haiti, Carolyn Rodehau, David Wofford, Suzanne Brockman

Reproductive Health

The pilot intervention described in this brief took place at an apparel manufacturing company, Caribbean Island Apparel SA, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The project by the USAID-funded RAISE Health Initiative sought to demonstrate the value of a new management approach to workplace health services and practices in a garment factory. Specifically, the pilot looked at how the health systems strengthening model could be adapted to the private sector and could help build the factory’s capacity to manage the health staff and infirmary, institute clinical best practices, and expand the primary care roles for nurses, including providing family planning and reproductive …

Analyzing The Building Blocks Of Resilience: Findings From A Baseline Survey Of The Tuungane Population, Health, And Environment Project In Western Tanzania, Kristin Bietsch, Reshma Naik, Kristen P. Patterson, Cara Honzak, Mustafa Kudrati, Hellen Magige, Cheryl Margoluis, Laura Subramanian, Christopher Hale, Carolyn Lamere, Sebastiaan Hess, Craig Leisher

Reproductive Health

Although the value of population, health, environment (PHE) programs is appreciated by the development community and the conceptual linkages they incorporate are sound, little evidence exists to demonstrate their short- and long-term impacts—particularly the role that the family planning (FP) component of PHE projects plays in building resilience, improving livelihoods, and helping people adapt to climate change. To contribute to filling this gap, the Evidence Project collaborated with Tuungane, a PHE project jointly implemented by The Nature Conservancy and Pathfinder International, to conduct further analysis of their existing data and examine the evidence base around integrated PHE programming, FP, climate …

Landscape Analysis Of The Family Planning Situation In Pakistan—District Profile: Lahore, Population Council

Reproductive Health

This district profile of Lahore is part of the Landscape Analysis of the Family Planning Situation in Pakistan. The factsheet provides a detailed picture of contraceptive use and unmet need; use of antenatal and delivery care services; other socioeconomic indicators; availability of health facilities, pharmacies, and lady health workers; distribution of public static and private facilities by cadre; provision of specific family planning methods by sector; and presence and provision of family planning services/products. The factsheet concludes with a review of consumers’ perspectives on barriers to use of family planning and a chart listing district-specific donors, projects, and implementing partners. …

Fact Sheet: Potential Transfer Of Garrison Dam/Lake Sakakawea Project Lands, United States Army Corps Of Engineers

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

This 2016 fact sheet released by the United States (US) Army Corps of Engineers, discusses the potential return of lands within the Fort Berthold Reservation to the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. The lands in question are part of 153,000 acres that were taken for the construction and operation of the Garrison Dam. The authority of this return is granted by the Fort Berthold Mineral Restoration Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-602). The fact sheet includes a brief history of the lands in question, the process of the return, and the status of the return.

(Wp 2016-01) Transformation Without Paternalism, John B. Davis, Tom Wells

Economics Working Papers

Human development is meant to be transformational in that it aims to improve people’s lives by enhancing their capabilities. But who does it target: people as they are or the people they will become? This paper argues that the human development approach relies on an understanding of personal identity as dynamic rather than as static collections of preferences, and that this distinguishes human development from conventional approaches to development. Nevertheless this dynamic understanding of personal identity is presently poorly conceptualized and this has implications for development practice. We identify a danger of paternalism and propose institutionalizing two procedural principles as …

Perceptions Of Council Member– Department Head Interactions In Local Government, Brian Cherry, Douglas Ihrke, Mike Ford, Nate Grasse

Journal Articles

In this article, we use data collected from municipal council members and department heads in Michigan municipalities with over 10 000 residents to determine how, and why, they view the quality of their interactions with one another. Building theories of small group dynamics and political control of bureaucracy, we test several hypotheses and conclude that council members and department heads hold divergent views of their interactions with one another and that their views are determined by government form and community characteristics. We conclude with simple steps that local government officials and administrators can take to improve their small group dynamics …

Book Launch, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Book launch planning notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD

Physics Colloquium, University Of Maryland, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• University of Maryland physics colloquium folder notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-25_Univ... p. 1)
• Taxi receipt from College Park Marriott Hotel to New Carrollton train station by Taxi-Taxi Inc. (23-25_Univ... p. 2)
• Hotel guest folio by College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center (23-25_Univ... p. 4)
• Amtrak electronic ticket by Amtrak (23-25_Univ... p. 6)
• University of Maryland physics colloquium presentation notes by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-25_Univ... p. 7)
• Correspondence regarding Amtrak ticket printing by Anwar Shaikh, PhD (23-25_Univ... p. 8)
• Correspondence regarding itinerary for visit to University of Maryland by Victor Yakovenko (23-25_Univ... p. 11)
• Spring 2016 …

Tackling Culturally Diverse Situations With Ease, Michele Villagran

Faculty Publications

It is not enough to be simply “aware” anymore. We must go beyond our own self-awareness and our awareness of others to really understand how we work and interact effectively in culturally diverse situations, whether domestic or global. As law firms and corporate entities operate in an ever-changing, global environment, we need to be prepared to handle any diverse situation. As our workforces become more diverse, we face the challenge of how to successfully manage increasingly diverse interactions. To address this concern, organizations are applying the framework of cultural intelligence, or CQ.

The Constancy Of Immediacy: From Printing Press To Digital Age, Nik Usher

Communication: Faculty Scholarship

The newspaper crisis has raised considerable concern about the quality of daily news in the United States. Fears about the decline of watchdog journalism have been sounded as newspapers cut investigative staff, slash State House and Washington bureaus, and turn to more banal, audience-pleasing local news in an effort to capture Web attention. Books, whitepapers, and essays have maligned the erosion of what Alex Jones (2009) of Harvard's Shorenstein Center calls the “Iron Core” of journalism – quality, public interest journalism. Much of the discourse about the state of journalism takes place at a macro level, rather than through a …

Anonymized Data Analyzed In Paula R. Dempsey And Heather Jagman. 2016. “I Felt Like Such A Freshman”: First-Year Students Crossing The Library Threshold. Portal: Libraries And The Academy 16.1: 89-107., Paula Dempsey, Heather Jagman

Staff Publications - University Libraries

Anonymized data analyzed in Paula R. Dempsey and Heather Jagman. 2016. “I Felt Like Such a Freshman”: First-Year Students Crossing the Library Threshold. portal: Libraries and the Academy 16.1: 89-107.DePaul University Institutional Review Board Research Protocol # HJ081313ADM To request permission for further research and non-commercial publication, email Paula Dempsey: [email protected] License for educational purposes is granted with attribution. 

A Latent-Class Discrete-Choice Model To Demonstrate How Course Attributes And Student Characteristics Influence Demand For Economics Electives: The Challenge To Increase Enrollment, Reginald T. Dillingham Ii

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

A primary goal of universities is to maximize student enrollment by improving course curriculum and enhancing specific programs. This is especially a challenge for smaller universities who want to offer specialized and highly diverse electives. This study aims to increase the quality and relevance of electives offered by understanding specifically what attributes students prefer more or less when choosing among alternatives. The results are used to explore how to use limited marketing and student-outreach financial resources to target students that are most likely to enter and complete courses and programs, based in part on their socioeconomic or demographic characteristics. The …

Same As It Ever Was: Collaborative Librarianship’S Future, Jill Emery, Michael Levine-Clark

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Everyone Deserves A Badge!, Lori Bowen Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

East By Northeast, Susan Stearns

Collaborative Librarianship

The Eastern Academic Scholars’ Trust (EAST) is a shared print initiative involving 48 libraries across the Northeast. Initiated in 2012 with a planning grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, EAST addresses directly the growing need for academic libraries to ensure that monographs and journals of scholarly value are not inadvertently discarded as they undertake weeding and deselection programs to free up space for other library services. EAST is currently completing a large-scale analysis of collections across 40 of the participating libraries. This analysis will provide insight into both uniqueness and overlap across the libraries’ holdings and will result in …

Jrnl: Journal Retention And Needs Listing — A Software Tool For Managing Print Journal Archives, Judith C. Russell, Benjamin F. Walker

Collaborative Librarianship

The Journal Retention and Needs Listing (JRNL) program: 1) allows libraries to expose lists of print journals for which they have made retention commitments; 2) express needs (or gaps) in their holdings; and 3) communicate offers to fill the gaps in other participating libraries’ holdings. Multiple library consortia and their member libraries use JRNL to facilitate communication between library staff to identify holding commitments, fill gaps, and guide deselection decisions. JRNL is commonly developed and governed by the participating consortia. Currently, those consortia are the Florida Academic Repository (FLARE), the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)/Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), …

Shared Print Analysis Tool At The Colorado Alliance Of Research Libraries, George Machovec

Collaborative Librarianship

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries has launched the Alliance Shared Print Trust and is in the process of developing a shared print analysis tool. The system allows libraries to compare themselves with other libraries that have added their MARC records so that they can easily and quickly determine what records are unique or held in common with other libraries. The comparison system is built on open source tools and has been embedded in the Gold Rush framework. The author provides a brief overview of other shared print analysis tools.

Now Streaming: A Consortial Pda Video Pilot Project, Sheryl Knab, Tom Humphrey, Caryl Ward

Collaborative Librarianship

In 2014, eight academic libraries in the state of New York collaborated on a group patron driven acquisition (PDA) pilot program with Kanopy, a video streaming service for libraries. The institutions, despite vast differences in size and profile, each launched Kanopy’s streaming solution on their campuses under a program where they would jointly contribute to and acquire films based on group usage. The pilot ran for seven months and led to some fascinating insights into the differences in demand for film across campuses, the possibility of PDA as a model for library acquisition, and the feasibility of a group approach …

Library-Vendor Collaboration: Sleeping With The Enemy?, Michael Levine-Clark

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Finding The Principles Of The Commons: A Report Of The Force11 Scholarly Communications Working Group, Robin Champieux, Bianca Kramer, Jeroen Bosman, Ian Bruno, Amy Buckland, Sarah Callaghan, Chris Chapman, Stephanie Hagstrom, Maryann E. Martone, Daniel Paul O'Donnell

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Towards The Collective Collection: Lessons Learned From Palci’S Dda Pilot Projects And Next Steps, Jeremy Garskof, Jill Morris, Tracie Ballock, Scott Anderson

Collaborative Librarianship

The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) developed demand-driven acquisition (DDA) programs to facilitate resource sharing of e-monographs and to build collective ebook collections thereby complementing E-ZBorrow, the consortium’s print-based ILL service. Committed to perpetual ownership, PALCI’s programs deliberately eschewed aggregator models with STL (short term lease/ loan) thresholds in favor of purchasing upon the first substantial use at a negotiated multiplier. This unique approach to consortial DDA resulted in hundreds of titles triggered for purchase, many of which experienced post-purchase usage across the membership. It also resulted in irregular starts and stops and workflow frustrations illustrating challenges related to …

Supporting Open Access Processes Through Library Collaboration, Chris L. Awre, Paul Stainthorp, Graham Stone

Collaborative Librarianship

The HHuLOA project is a two-year collaborative project run by the Universities of Hull, Huddersfield, and Lincoln in the United Kingdom. The project is funded under the Jisc Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder Projects and seeks to identify how open access support mechanisms can be used to assist with the development of research. By working together, the institutions hope to achieve more than the sum of our individual developments. This paper outlines a number of work packages that the project has completed. These work packages have all involved crowdsourcing with other United Kingdom universities in order to sense check the …

What Collaboration Means To Me: Working Together To Build A Strong And Sustainable Digital Research Infrastructure, Alice Meadows

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

Niso Recommended Practice: Outputs Of The Alternative Assessment Metrics Project, Jill O'Neill

Collaborative Librarianship

In September of 2016, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) published the collaboratively produced Recommended Practice, NISO RP-25-2016, Outputs of the Alternative Assessment Metrics Project. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the project sought to establish a consensus among stakeholders whose activities require robust and precise tools for gauging the impact and reach of scholarship in a globally networked research environment—more robust than were available from impact factor and other such measures.

Contributions to this effort came from an international population via one-on-one interviews, satellite meetings at conferences, and numerous teleconference gatherings. Based on those inputs, working group …

Evaluating The Consortia Purchase: Journal Usage In A Multi-Institution Setting, Elsa K. Anderson, Stephen Maher, Bill Maltarich

Collaborative Librarianship

When two or more institutions share a license, how do they measure use and value? For over a decade, the Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Sid and Ruth Lapidus Library at the New York University School of Medicine, and New York University Libraries at New York University have shared several publisher packages and journal title subscriptions. In this paper, we present our analysis of usage data to assess the value of some of these consortial arrangements in their totality and to each library. Based on this analysis, we were able to adjust how …

Monograph Validation Strategies In Shared Print Programs: Variations And Value, Teresa Koch, Andrew J. Welch

Collaborative Librarianship

In 2013, the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative (CI-CCI) entered into a shared print monograph retention agreement which resulted in a project to fully validate the assigned retention commitments. While shared print retention programs are becoming increasingly common, they often do not include a process for verification of availability and condition of volumes. This article focuses on the validation aspect of the CI-CCI program and the rationale behind it, and examines how other print collaborative projects view and approach validation. Finally, the article concludes with a summary and an analysis of the value of this effort.

Leveraging Our Trust: Taking Action In Support Of Our Democracy, Lori Bowen Ayre

Collaborative Librarianship

Librarians need to build on their trusted status to be more actively engaged in activities that support our democratic system whose success relies on having an informed citizenry. These activities including teaching media literacy skills to patrons in the library as well as in the schools in partnership with teachers. In addition, libraries should be facilitating community conversations and promoting a wide variety of community collaborations that get people engaged and out of their isolated bubbles.

Collaborative Librarianship: A Minority Opinion, Linda Ueki Absher, Melissa Cardenas-Dow

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.