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Investigating ER Overuse Team Photos
No full textGrundy County is defined as a Medically Underserved Area (MUA), meaning that the county lacks the health care services required to adequately meet community needs. Research shows that across the U.S. in rural MUAs, citizens are increasingly seeking primary care at ERs. Our partner believes that analyzing ER discharge data may offer helpful insight into how Grundy County is medically underserved. Our team’s objective is to create an interactive dashboard that expresses trends in ER discharge data from Grundy County and the surrounding area to aid the SCHN in creating solutions to Grundy’s health service shortage.The South Cumberland Plateau (SCP) is made up of three counties, Grundy, Franklin, and Marion, all of which are defined as "medically underserved" by the Health Resources and Services Administration. This means that these communities lack the primary health care services and providers necessary to sufficiently meet residents' needs. Our partner, the South Cumberland Health Network (SCHN), wants to understand how these communities are being medically underserved. Our work this summer is dedicated to investigating trends in emergency room use from the South Cumberland Plateau in order to better understand how the community is medically underserved. The insight gained from our findings will inform the South Cumberland Health Network's advocacy moving forward aimed at closing the health care service gaps within these communities.Jim Peterman, Myles Elledge, South Cumberland Health Network (SCHN
The Effect of Diversity on Revenue in Major League Baseball
Get PDFMajor League Baseball’s popularity is decreasing and as such, the league seeks to diversify and increase viewership, especially among younger generations. There is not significant literature that measures the relationship between roster diversity and revenue. Therefore, our paper estimates the effect of a team’s diversity on their revenue. We estimate three Ordinary Least Squares equations for the 2005 Major League Baseball Season using data from Statista and Baseball Reference. We measure diversity as the share of players on the roster that are born in Asia, Latin America, and other (outside of the United States) countries. After controlling for city-level characteristics, we find no statistically significant effect of diversity on revenue
ComBATing Ecological Challenges
No full textPhotos of the DataLab 2022 Team for Protecting the Bat PopulationBats are a vital part of ecosystems serving as pollinators, pest control, and seed dispersers for important crops. Some bat populations have been declining due to one of the worst wildlife diseases in modern history, Pseudogymnoascus destructans - more commonly known as white-nose syndrome. Dr. Amy Turner and the Sewanee Bat Study group have collected years of data on the behavior and habitats of local bat species. The goals of this project include: analyzing the trends in frequencies in bat activity across time and management areas to see which locations are crucial for bats, what land management practices are harmful or helpful, and what species seem to be thriving or not.Amy Turner, Kevin Fouts, Eric Kee
Confronting the Phenomenon of Religious Shame With a Pastoral Theology of Mercy
No full textReligious shame damages the self and creates wounds that may never heal. One extremely harmful way religious institutions perpetuate shame on their parishioners and clergy occurs in their formal disciplinary processes. A shame-driven disciplinary process employs what I describe as four characteristics of institutional shame: l) Public exposure, 2) public judgment, 3) isolation from 'the faith community, and 4) prescribing a person's identity to them (e.g., regarding them "flawed" or "evil"). A central theme of this project is how the four shame characteristics drive various religious disciplinary actions, especially disciplinary actions against clergy for nonsexual infractions. To confront this religious shaming process, I present a theology of mercy that relies on God's mercy in the sacraments and mercy expressed in the life and ministry of Jesus. First, my research explores religious shame from a practical and psychological standpoint; next, it examines the contributions of depth psychology theorists Carl Jung and Heinz Kohut to shame studies; and finally, it investigates the role of sacramental theology as a means to confront religious shame. Ultimately, I propose a theology of mercy that calls for reform of current shame-based disciplinary practices.Rev. Dr. Amy Lambor
Mindfulness-based social and emotional programs in schools: developmental, educational, and curricular components
Get PDFMindfulness-based social and emotional learning programs are associated with a variety of beneficial outcomes for children. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the appropriate age of delivery or what implementation may cost a school. This review outlines current SEL
programming focused on developmental and curricular components. 102 articles met our inclusion criteria review and were coded and categorized for abstraction. Findings in three categories study population, curricular intervention, and outcomes suggest current curricula are not developmentally appropriate and schools take on a heavy resource load for implementation. The current review supports a shift in mindfulness-based social and emotional learning programs toward early education models, specifically with the potential for unstructured easy-to-use
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ComBATing Ecological Challenges
No full textBats are a vital part of ecosystems serving as pollinators, pest control, and seed dispersers for important crops. Some bat populations have been declining due to one of the worst wildlife diseases in modern history, Pseudogymnoascus destructans - more commonly known as white-nose syndrome. Dr. Amy Turner and the Sewanee Bat Study group have collected years of data on the behavior and habitats of local bat species. The goals of this project include: analyzing the trends in frequencies in bat activity across time and management areas to see which locations are crucial for bats, what land management practices are harmful or helpful, and what species seem to be thriving or not.Amy Turner, Kevin Fouts, Eric Kee
Exploring the Local Economic Effects of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant Closure
Get PDFWith a focus on reducing global carbon emissions and volatility in the power grid, nations, localities, and individual companies are deciding to close coal and nuclear plants that have become increasingly unprofitable. As major employment hubs for the surrounding communities, the closure of such facilities can have socioeconomic effects past the initial job losses at the plant itself. Using the town of Vernon, Vermont as a case study, this paper evaluates the direct and indirect economic effects of the closure of the Vermont Yankee (VY) nuclear plant on three surrounding counties. Data was compiled from the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns survey, and GDP and employment statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis from 2001 to 2018 for the three counties surrounding the plant. Using an event study, I find that in the five years following the closure of the VY plant, the three surrounding counties saw a $116,239,710 decrease in real GDP, a decrease in the labor force by 1,589 people, and an estimated closure of 19 businesses. In contrast, specific industries saw growth such as retail trade, and health care. This suggests that the closure of the VY plant induced direct job losses from the closure itself, and indirect economic impacts shown by the decline in overall GDP. Future research should focus on creating a more robust data set of socioeconomic indicators that better reflect changes in demographics, tax revenue, and housing prices on similar closures
Testing the Effectiveness of Carbon Sequestration Credits on the Retention of Timberland Area
Get PDFCarbon sequestration credits (CSCs) have increased in popularity as a tool to offset carbon emissions for large corporations. However, it is unclear if forest CSCs achieve the goal of increasing forest area retention, or if they simply generate revenue for timberland landowners for forest they were planning to leave unharvested, even in the absence of carbon credits. While previous studies have analyzed the monetary incentives related to the issuance of forest CSCs, little research has been conducted in regards to how CSCs affect timberland area over time. Using state-level timberland estimates from the U.S. Forest Service and carbon credit data from the California Air Resource Board, we study the effects of CSCs on the change in state timberland acreage from 2004 to 2017. We find that more CSCs issued within a state do not lead to greater retention of timberland area within that state, suggesting that forest CSCs do not achieve their goal of offsetting carbon emissions elsewhere.Katherine Theyso