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No full textCreated by a 4th grade student from Marshwood Great Works School in South Berwick.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/mapmaking-contest-2025/1332/thumbnail.jp
Farm Island
No full textCreated by a 4th grade student from Marshwood Great Works School in South Berwick.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/mapmaking-contest-2025/1335/thumbnail.jp
Generative AI Integration in Leadership Practice: Foundations, Challenges, and Opportunities
No full textIntegrating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into leadership practice represents a pivotal transformation in organizational dynamics, presenting unprecedented opportunities and complex challenges. The current article develops a comprehensive conceptual framework grounded in sociotechnical systems and complex adaptive leadership theories to guide future research and practice. By carefully examining leader-follower relationships, decision-making processes, and organizational learning patterns, we demonstrate how GenAI reshapes traditional leadership paradigms while raising critical ethical considerations. Our analysis reveals four key areas demanding attention: ethical decision-making in AI implementation, trust dynamics between human and artificial agents, GenAI literacy development across organizational levels, and integrating AI systems with existing organizational structures and governance policies. The framework emphasizes the crucial balance between technological advancement and human-centered leadership, particularly highlighting how the Human Interaction lens can guide responsible AI adoption. By identifying specific research questions in each domain, the article provides a roadmap for scholars and practitioners navigating the evolving landscape of AI-enhanced leadership
Pedagogy of Dialogic Communication: Becoming Aware of Our Unconscious Beliefs
No full textNorms of the classroom limit our learning about ourselves. Hidden scripts guide our behavior. Beliefs we are unaware of are often behind our responses to ideas. Unconscious beliefs are connected to our immediate, spontaneous responses, referred to as intuitions in social intuitionist theory. Intuition is what we believe and can access at high speed without being aware of what we believe, without being aware of our reasons for believing it, and without knowing how we came to this belief or how we access it in memory. We experience intuitions as knowing something all at once. We know what we like, what we agree with, and the meaning of something all at once. We often know how we feel about something in a flash. The classroom is a place where we not only do not openly explore our intuitions, emotions, or who we are, but also a place where we ought not to deal with emotions or ourselves, and a place where we ought not to challenge one another’s beliefs. These are norms of classroom communication. We confuse disagreeing with others’ beliefs with disrespect. This paper argues that our beliefs are who we are and that learning who we are is best accomplished in dialogue that includes discussing our strong beliefs and challenging others’ beliefs. If we rule out expressing emotions, conflict, and deep beliefs in the classroom, we go a long way toward killing learning at its best: learning about ourselves
Hush Isle
No full textCreated by a 6th grade student from York Middle School in York.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/mapmaking-contest-2025/1301/thumbnail.jp
Mesoderm-specific transcript has a role in the systemic regulation of obesity
No full textMesoderm specific transcript (Mest) expression in white adipose tissue (WAT) is variable in genetically identical mice. Previous studies have shown a connection between Mest high expression and propensity for fat mass expansion. WAT and liver crosstalk has been well documented with hormone-like peptides signaling and regulating important metabolic pathways. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between these circulating factors and Mest expression in mice after exposure to a high fat diet (HFD). A group of 120 C57B6/J mice, males and females, were exposed to a HFD (Western Diet, 40 kcal% fat) for 4 weeks (8-12 weeks of age). Body composition by NMR and body weights were measured every 2 weeks from 4 until 12 weeks of age. WAT Mest and Lep expression was measured using qPCR after the 4 weeks of high fat diet. Plasma was collected at 4, 8 and 12 weeks of age and levels of circulating factors RBP4, adropin, NEFA (non-esterified fatty acids) and leptin were measured utilizing ELISA . Mice with high WAT Mest expression had higher susceptibility to obesity after 4 weeks of HFD with similar trends seen in males and females. Circulating levels of RBP4 and leptin were higher after 4 weeks of HFD in male and female mice with high WAT Mest expression. In contrast, circulating levels of adropin in males was not significantly different between mice with high or low WAT Mest expression. The same was seen with circulating NEFA levels in both male and female mice. These results suggest a potential connection between circulating RBP4 and leptin, and Mest expression that leads to fat mass expansion after exposure to a high fat diet. Further research to unveil the specific regulatory mechanisms and pathways involved is needed
Effectiveness of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation Stretching For Improving Hamstring Flexibility in Athletes: A Critically Appraised Topic
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During a clinical rotation as a graduate athletic training student, I worked with collegiate-level football athletes. A common issue frequently observed was hamstring tightness, which often presented with discomfort during activity, limited range of motion, or reduced performance in activities like sprinting, cutting, or kicking. Traditional static and dynamic stretching was part of the daily warm-up routines, but many athletes continued to demonstrate limited hamstring flexibility. In a therapeutic exercise course, Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) stretching, specifically the contract-relax technique, was introduced as a method to improve flexibility by targeting both the contractile and reflexive components of muscle tissue.1 2 Hamstring flexibility plays a crucial role in athletic performance and injury prevention. Limited hamstring flexibility has been associated with altered biomechanics, reduced functional performance, and an increased risk of strain injuries.2 This Critically Appraised Topic aims to evaluate the current evidence on the effectiveness of PNF stretching in improving hamstring flexibility in athletes, and to inform clinical decision-making in athletic training settings
USM Teaching Symposium 2025_46
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USM Teaching Symposium 2025_45
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