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Measuring heart rate variability: a comparison of devices
No full textConducted by the Dysphagia Research Lab, Department of Speech Language Pathology. Proposed research is required to provide a comparison on the accuracy and efficiency of heart rate measurement devices. Results will allow for the improved collection of heart rate data in a series study relating to the alteration of the afferent limb of the gag reflex via a hand-glove device (in terms of autonomic response)
Common Sense for Caring Organizations: Results from a Study of High-Performing Home Care Agencies and Nursing Homes--Research Brief
No full textThis research brief provides highlights from the full report on a study of high-performing home care agencies and nursing homes
Delivering Long-Term Services to Ohio Elders: Good Progress, but Challenges Await
Get PDFThis study describes the changes in Ohio's approach to delivering long-term services that have occurred in the last 20 years
Ghana Design and Build Studio
No full textIn the summer of 2012 I, along with 15 other design students and our professor, travelled to Ghana Africa for a 6 week experience. We spent the first two weeks traveling the country and learning about the culture. The last four weeks were spent taking the knowledge we gained and combining it with our architecture and interior design knowledge to design and build a double occupancy teachers' cottage for the village of Abrafo Odumasi
Privacy and Sharing: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
No full textPresentation at Digital Ethics Track of the National GeoGebra Conference 2013Increasingly, our digital lives have moved off hard drives and into the cloud. What are the privacy implications of cloud-based services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter? Who is watching us, and – more importantly – what decisions are being made about us based on our online behavior? Yet our online world is not sinister. People online share information, build social connections, and foster trust. Online collaboration and scientific breakthroughs spurred Craig Newmark to call sharing "a civic duty." What are the implications of sharing information online? Most importantly, how can we build online experiences that provide us with protection and connection
Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
Get PDFAcademic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating
access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation
upon which scholarly information is managed. In the past 50 years, we have seen an increase in
production of scholarly information, more complex production models and workflows,
increasingly complex formats, and greater expectations from users for granularity of access.
Scholars and library users can now organize their own information in a way that makes sense to
them – we have a proliferation of organizing structures and indexing methods. The good news
is that this places technical services librarians in a pivotal role in the knowledge economy. The
challenge is that we have to rethink how we practice our craft. Future technical services
librarians will become knowledge engineers, designing knowledge architecture solutions and
new and dynamic ways of organizing information. This presentation will describe automated
classification, indexing and summarization tools available on today’s market, and how technical
services librarians will leverage these technologies in these new roles
Problem-Based Approach to Assessment
No full textPeggy Maki, Peggy Maki Associates.
Respondent: Robert DiDonato, Director, Global Initiative; Interim Chair, Spanish & Portuguese Department, Miami Universit
Contradictions and Consensus: Clusters of Opinions on E-books
Get PDFQ methodology was used to determine attitudes and opinions about e-books among a group of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates at Miami University of Ohio. Oral interviews formed the basis for a collection of opinion statements concerning e-books versus print. These statements were then ranked by a second group of research participants. Factor analysis of these rankings found four distinct factors that reveal clusters of opinions on e-books: Book Lovers, Technophiles, Pragmatists, and Printers. Two of the four factors take a more ideological approach in their understanding of e-books: Book Lovers have an emotional attachment to the printed book as an object, while Technophiles feel just as strongly about technology. In contrast, the other two factors are more utilitarian: Printers might find e-books more palatable if usability were improved, while Pragmatists are comfortable with both print and e-book formats
What difference does "digital" make to the humanities?
No full textIn this presentation, the speaker talked about key differences that digital media make in the humanities and debates about those differences were presented and illustrated with specific examples of projects
Global Business Brigades, Miami University - Project Development Leadership Manual
No full textThis manual represents the culmination of the planning for, execution of, and reflection upon a uniquely valuable experience in the lives of 23 Miami University students who took the time to learn about a foreign culture, raise the money required to travel there, and help its indigenous people by sharing the education we so often take for granted. It was made possible, in part, by the generosity of Miami University’s Associated Student Government and University Honors Program, as well as the invaluable leadership of Molly Babbington, our fearless leader.
The contents of the manual represent a variety of resources that were accumulated during the course of the semester leading up to the Winter 2011 Brigade to Piriati Embera, Panama. As Vice-President of Project Development, it was my responsibility to gather what information I could about the Global Business Brigades model as well as the culture to which we would be applying it and share this, in turn, with our team of brigaders. Not having traveled on a brigade before, and finding myself at the tail end of a complete restructuring in the Global Business Brigades model, this was a daunting task at times. In retrospect, there are many things I wish our group had done to better prepare ourselves for the incredible experience that awaited us. In hopes of continuing to improve the international impact of this organization as it seeks to serve the kind, passionate people of communities such as Piriati Embera, I offer this manual as a resource for all those who will follow in my footsteps. Just as the model of Global Business Brigades applied abroad is meant to be sustainable in the long run, I hope that this manual will help Global Brigades leave a long-standing legacy of learning, hard work, and compassion at Miami University.
-C. Nathan Warde