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Coming of Age: Tracking the Progress and Challenges of Delivering Long-Term Services and Supports in Ohio
Get PDFIn a 16 year tracking of utilization trends for institutional and home and community-based services, we learned that Ohio has made considerable change in its approach to delivering and funding long-term care services. The main finding revealed that now more than four in ten older people with severe disability on Medicaid received assistance in a non-institutional setting. This research brief summarizes findings from the larger study report
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
Counterfactual-seeking: The scenic overlook of the road not taken
Get PDFDecision-makers faced with an opportunity to learn the outcome of a foregone
alternative must balance anticipated regret, should that information be unfavorable, with
the potential benefits of this information in reducing experienced regret. Counterfactualseeking,
the choice to learn more about foregone alternatives, may be a functional, regretregulating
strategy for individuals already experiencing regret. Counterfactual-seeking
increases in response to dissatisfying outcomes (Studies 1 & 2). Counterfactual-seeking
is generally able to reduce dissatisfaction (Study 2), regardless of whether individuals
personally chose to view this information or were randomly assigned to do so (Study 3).
Moreover, both imaginative (versus factual) thoughts about the foregone option and
upward (versus downward) counterfactual thoughts play a role in this improvement in
satisfaction (Study 4). Regret thus has a complex influence in how individuals engage
with counterfactual information.In press at Personality and Social Psychology Bulleti
Writing the Urals: Permanence and Ephemerality in Ol'ga Slavnikova’s 2017
Get PDFOl'ga Slavnikova’s novel 2017 (Vagrius, 2006) made her the second
woman to win Russia’s coveted Booker Prize, garnering conflicting critical
responses in the process. Many hurried to label the narrative a dystopia:
2017’s last hundred pages depict the centenary of the November ‘revolution’,
chronicling how crowds commemorate
the event by dressing up as
Reds
or Whites and slaughtering their
enemies
(Chantsev 287; Eliseeva 14).
Other critics, and Slavnikova herself,
see dystopia as only one strand in
the work (Slavnikova
‘Mne ne terpitsia’,
18; Basinskii 13)
Writing The Woman’s Documentary Voice in Perestroika Gulag Narratives
Get PDFA substantial body of fictional and factual literature discusses labor camps, imprisonment, and exile as aspects of Russian culture both before and after 1917. However, while the Thaw opened public discussion of the Gulag, women’s responses have received far less attention than their male counterparts. Beginning in the late 1980s, however, the nebulous genre of life writing allowed women a framework for more visibly representing their experiences in the lageri
Ohio's Aging Network Efforts to Enhance Nursing Home Diversion and Transition
Get PDFThis brief report provides preliminary results from an evaluation of Ohio's diversion and transition demonstration program
Right Place, Right Time, Right Care: An Evaluation of Ohio's Nursing Home Diversion and Transition Initiative
Get PDFIn 2010 the Ohio General Assembly asked the Ohio Department of Aging to develop and implement a nursing home diversion and transition initiative. This report describes the evaluation of that initiative. Results showed that 3800 Ohioans were diverted or transitioned during the project period and the majority were residing in the community six months later
Mystery Plots: Motivating Algebraic Model Building with Dynamic Sketches
Get PDFIn this paper, we explore the use of dynamic geometry software (DGS) as a medium for
changing student and teacher interactions (and attitudes) with functions. We o er three
examples of sketches that may be used to encourage students to build their own functions.
Moreover, we share a strategy for developing additional sketches, namely our three-step
MTA process (Measure - Trace - Algebratize). Note that these steps roughly correspond
to concrete, iconic, and symbolic levels of representation proposed by Bruner (1960; 1966).
As our examples illustrate, the MTA approach provides students with opportunities to
explore and construct remarkably non-standard functions - often beautiful, unexpected,
and thoroughly original