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Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory (MNILI) Self-Assessment and Leadership Development Resource
No full textThe Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory (MNILI) is a self-assessment tool designed to help nursing informatics leaders evaluate their leadership skills across diverse organizational cultures and scenarios. Developed at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, the MNILI is grounded in the Competing Values Framework (CVF), one of the most widely validated models for understanding organizational culture and leadership effectiveness in healthcare settings. Nursing informatics leaders operate at the intersection of clinical practice, technology, and organizational change. They must navigate complex human and technological systems while managing competing values and priorities. The MNILI was created to address a gap in assessment options: while informatics competency tools existed, there was no instrument specifically designed to assess the requisite variety of leadership skills needed by nursing informatics leaders to succeed across different organizational cultures. This resource is designed for nursing informatics professionals at all career stages, including current and aspiring chief nursing informatics officers, informatics team leaders, educators, consultants, data analysts, quality improvement specialists, EHR trainers and builders, researchers, policy analysts, and graduate students in nursing informatics programs. It is equally valuable for experienced leaders seeking to refine their approach and for emerging leaders building foundational awareness of their leadership strengths. This is a standalone resource that does not require internet access or a website. It includes everything one needs to complete the MNILI, score results, interpret a leadership profile, and create a professional leadership development plan. Work through the sections in order: first complete the demographics section, then respond to all four scenarios, score results using the worksheet provided, interpret the profile using the guidance in Section 5, and finally use Section 6 to create a personalized leadership development plan.The Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory (MNILI) is a free, theory-based self-assessment instrument grounded in the Competing Values Framework (CVF) that measures leadership skill preferences across four organizational culture types and four nursing informatics scenarios. Since its pilot validation in 2020, the instrument has been completed by 508 nursing informatics leaders and students across 59 countries. The MNILI was designed from the outset as both a research instrument and a professional development tool. Its four-scenario structure mirrors the case-based pedagogies that nursing educators already use effectively. Its Likert rating format (0 = not like me to 4 = very much like me) generates a quantitative profile that students can track over time, making it suitable for both formative and summative assessment. Its theoretical grounding in the CVF connects individual self-assessment to broader organizational and leadership theory, facilitating deep learning rather than superficial competency-checking. The MNILI demonstrates strong psychometric properties — excellent overall internal consistency, adequate item discrimination, theoretically consistent intercorrelation structure, moderate cross-scenario stability, and expected null known-groups findings — that support its use as a validated instrument for nursing informatics leadership assessment across diverse global populations. The scale's CVF-based four-culture structure is supported empirically by the pattern of inter-scale correlations, consistent with both the instrument's theoretical foundations and prior organizational culture research. The MNILI has been validated for use in nursing informatics education (pre-post assessment of leadership development), research (cross-national comparison of leadership profiles), and professional practice (individual self-assessment and organizational leadership planning). Future investment in formal measurement invariance testing, test-retest reliability, and criterion validity will further consolidate its position as the leading theory-grounded leadership assessment instrument for the nursing informatics field.Monsen, Karen; Pesut, Daniel. (2026). Minnesota Nursing Informatics Leadership Inventory (MNILI) Self-Assessment and Leadership Development Resource. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278943
Episode 28: A Deep Dive on Managing Conflict
No full textRuntime 32:26Wolford, Amanda; Tichich, Emily. (2026). Episode 28: A Deep Dive on Managing Conflict. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278240
Episode 333 - Beef on Dairy in a Hot Market: Calf Prices, Cattle Numbers, and Sire Selection - UMN Extension's The Moos Room
No full textRuntime 00:32:04Calf prices are making headlines, and in this episode Emily and Brad are joined by UMN Extension beef educator Melissa Runck to talk through what today’s hot beef and beef-on-dairy markets mean for producers. They discuss why newborn beef-cross calves are bringing record prices, how that cash can help dairy farms when milk prices are low, and what the latest Cattle on Feed report tells us about declining inventories and producers’ reluctance to keep heifers as replacements. The group then dives into beef-on-dairy sire selection, emphasizing realistic goals over the search for a “perfect” bull, the importance of calving ease and fertility, and when carcass traits and indexes matter based on how calves are marketed. The episode wraps up with a practical look at facilities and management, underscoring that good management—more than perfect buildings—drives success with beef-on-dairy cattle.Krekelberg, Emily; Heins, Brad; Runck, Melissa. (2026). Episode 333 - Beef on Dairy in a Hot Market: Calf Prices, Cattle Numbers, and Sire Selection - UMN Extension's The Moos Room. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278857
Effect of water suppression and metabolite cycling on quantification of 1H MRS spectra in the human brain at 3 Tesla
No full textThe deposited data contain:
1) Ten datasets from five subjects, where each subject includes two water-suppressed metabolite spectra acquired using VAPOR and MC, along with the corresponding two water-reference scans acquired using VAPOR and MC.
2) Two datasets of macromolecule (MM) spectra, acquired using VAPOR and MC water-suppression techniques, summed across five subjects.
All datasets have been pre-processed (frequency, phase, and eddy-current correction applied) and summed. The data are provided in ASCII format.
For the metabolite datasets:
Column 1: real part of the metabolite FID
Column 2: imaginary part of the metabolite FID
Column 3: real part of the water FID
Column 4: imaginary part of the water FID
For the macromolecule datasets:
Column 1: real part of the MM FID
Column 2: imaginary part of the MM FID
All MRS data were acquired using a semi-LASER sequence (TE = 28 ms, spectral width = 6000 Hz, B₀ = 123.23 MHz). See the corresponding paper for additional details.Purpose: This study investigates the effect of VAPOR water suppression and metabolite cycling on metabolite quantification and macromolecules in proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Methods: Single-voxel semi-LASER spectra (TR/TE=3000/28ms) and metabolite-nulled spectra (macromolecules) were acquired in 5 healthy subjects in the posterior cingulate cortex at 3T using two different water suppression schemes: VAPOR or metabolite-cycling (MC). Post-processed spectra were quantified using LCModel. Metabolites concentrations were compared between the two schemes.
Results: Region specific differences in macromolecules resonances were observed and the concentration of most metabolites was significantly higher when using MC compared to VAPOR. The difference was most pronounced for total creatine (-14% with VAPOR vs. MC, P<0.05).
Conclusion: The macromolecules spectrum included in the LCModel basis set must be measured with the same water suppression scheme as the metabolite spectrum for accurate quantification.This work was supported by NIH grants: R01 EB030000, P41 EB027061, P30 NS076408 and 1S10OD017974-01.Deelchand, Dinesh Kumar; Henry, Pierre-Gilles. (2026). Effect of water suppression and metabolite cycling on quantification of 1H MRS spectra in the human brain at 3 Tesla. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278916
Rights Review: An approach to applying Rights Statements from RightsStatements.org (2026 version)
No full textInformation design by Andrew Palahniuk. Graphic design by Jordan Wagaman.An illustration of one possible approach to determining which rights statement (from RightsStatements.org) to associate with a digital object. Developed for use by Minnesota Digital Library Contributors and other cultural heritage organizations. Not intended as legal advice. First edition released in 2018; this edition fully updated for 2026.Bahnemann, Greta; Huber, Molly E.; Ring, Sara; Sims, Nancy. (2026). Rights Review: An approach to applying Rights Statements from RightsStatements.org (2026 version). Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278964
Integrating the Complementary Nature with the OPT Model of Reflective Clinical Reasoning
No full textConsider the daily realities of nursing: a patient who wants autonomy but desperately needs guidance; a policy that improves population outcomes while potentially reducing individualized care; a leadership culture that prizes decisiveness in a world that demands nuance. These are not simply problems to be solved—they are polarities to be navigated, paradoxes to be held, and complementarities to be understood. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, writing in 1817, observed that 'Imagination is the reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities.' He was writing about poetry, but he might have been writing about nursing. The nurse who skillfully holds tension between evidence-based protocols and compassionate individualization—who integrates scientific rigor with relational knowing—exercises precisely this reconciling imagination. The Complementary Nature (TCN), as articulated by Kelso and Engstrøm in their 2006 book, provides scientific and philosophical scaffolding for this kind of thinking. Drawing from coordination dynamics, complexity science, and information theory, they propose that the world is organized through complementary pairs—the squiggle (~) representing the dynamic, coexisting, context-sensitive relationship between what appear to be opposites. Rather than 'either/or,' TCN asks: 'both~and.' The OPT Model of Reflective Clinical Reasoning, developed by Pesut and Herman is a nursing framework that has arrived at structurally similar conclusions through a different path. Where TCN emerges from the neuroscience of self-organizing systems, the OPT Model emerged from nursing practice, nursing process evolution, and the need to cultivate metacognitive clinical judgment. Yet their deep architecture is strikingly parallel: both reject linear, sequential thinking; both insist on the concurrent consideration of multiple dimensions; both make the management of dynamic tension—rather than its resolution—the central cognitive task. Together, they form a mutually illuminating framework for nursing's engagement with complexity.Health care exists at the intersection of opposites: certainty and uncertainty, technology and humanity, individual and population, stability and change. The Complementary Nature (TCN), developed by neuroscientist J.A. Scott Kelso and philosopher David A. Engstrøm, offers nursing a transformative lens grounded in coordination dynamics and complexity science. When set alongside the Outcome-Present State-Test (OPT) Model of Reflective Clinical Reasoning—a powerful conceptual resonance emerges. Both frameworks insist that clinical and professional challenges cannot be resolved by collapsing complexity into single answers; both cultivate the capacity to hold multiple dimensions of a situation simultaneously; both are grounded in systems thinking, metacognition, and reflective practice. This article explores these convergences in depth and draws out their practical implications for nursing practice, education, research, and policy. It further integrates polarity intelligence and polarity management as essential leadership competencies for nurses navigating the intrinsic paradoxes of health care.Pesut, Daniel. (2026). Integrating the Complementary Nature with the OPT Model of Reflective Clinical Reasoning. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278957
Thomas J. Farrell Takes Stock of What It Means for Him to Be a Fan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
No full textSee the above abstract.In the wide-ranging and deeply personal review essay "Thomas J. Farrell Takes Stock of What It Means for Him to Be a Fan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I succinctly highlight (1) my OEN articles about being a fan, and (2) the mature work of the american Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University, where, over the years, I took five courses from him, and (3) my life.N/AFarrell, Thomas. (2026). Thomas J. Farrell Takes Stock of What It Means for Him to Be a Fan, and Walter J. Ong's Thought. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278831
Modeling Household VMT from Accessibility
No full textTo meet goals for climate emissions and vehicle miles traveled (VMT), transportation agencies must understand how household VMT differs predictably across demographic contexts, location, and especially the influence of the transportation and land use system. To aid MnDOT in understanding variation in household VMT, we combine high quality individual travel behavior survey day records with spatially matched residential access to opportunity data calculated for three modes at variable travel time thresholds. Specifically different types of accessibility are characterized as local (bike access to jobs within 20 minutes), transit (walk plus transit access to jobs between 10 and 40 minutes of travel), and regional (auto access to jobs traveling between 20 and 60 minutes). These complementary access variables significantly predicted household VMT, in the full context of other known drivers such as the number of workers, vehicle availability, income, and spatial autocorrelation. Transit and local access impacts are negative, and small, although meaningful VMT reductions could be possible with large interventions. Regional auto access is more influential, and positively predictive of VMT, meaning reductions to regional auto access provide the largest theoretical level to reducing household VMT in the region, absent other changes to household demographics and land use.Lind, Eric; Tan, Tiansheng; Owen, Andrew; Liu, Shirley Shiqin. (2026). Modeling Household VMT from Accessibility. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/277934
Stormwater reduction and pollutant sourcing from urban trees
No full textThis project produced empirical data on urban trees’ ability to mediate the water and nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) balance at the site scale through evapotranspiration (ET), interception, throughfall, as well as how urban tree impacts are upscaled to watershed-level stormwater quantity and quality. Trees are ubiquitous in urban environments and are appreciated for a range of ecosystem services. However, the tradeoff in their ability to reduce stormwater runoff volumes versus their potential contributions of nutrient and coarse organic matter in dissolved and particulate forms has been largely ignored in stormwater management practices due to lack of robust data. Our project has now filled some of these data gaps through a three-year monitoring effort to quantify tree-scale water quantity and quality fluxes across eighteen ash (Fraxinus spp.) trees and four Norway maple (Acer platanoides) trees in the city of St. Paul. We also examine how these local measurements and seasonal patterns relate to corresponding watershed-level stormwater observations.
Our results revealed that throughfall nutrient fluxes were higher under trees than in open precipitation, despite an overall reduction in water volumes due to canopy interception. This increase in throughfall nutrient fluxes can be attributed to a substantial increase in the nutrient concentration in throughfall, as canopy nutrients become dissolved in precipitation as it passes through the canopy. Furthermore, the differences in throughfall nutrient fluxes existed across seasons, sites, and canopy conditions. Next, our results highlight the importance of tree health for hydrologic function. The evapotranspiration rates as measured through sap flux varied seasonally but was substantially reduced in ash trees with poor canopy conditions due to the effects of Emerald Ash Borer. These “unhealthy” trees also had higher foliar nutrient content, particularly for nitrogen. Finally, our results indicate that tree placement within the urban landscape could be an important consideration for stormwater nutrient management. Nutrient content was highest in live foliage and progressively declined as litterfall was transported closer to the pavement curb, suggesting that trees near and overhanging impervious road surfaces can contribute throughfall nutrient fluxes that quickly enter the stormwater network.
Our work has numerous implications for urban trees management in the context of stormwater regulation. First, in addition to litterfall contributions, the nutrient contributions from urban trees into the stormwater must be accounted for during the growing season, when they occur through dissolved forms in throughfall. Next, these nutrient contributions can potentially be mitigated through improved tree health, which will also increase soil water uptake through enhanced evapotranspiration. While our work was not focused on directly quantifying ecosystem services associated with evapotranspiration, we know from literature that evapotranspiration improves the infiltration capacity of soils near trees and can cool the surrounding environment. Therefore, tree health is likely to yield additional co-benefits like cooling and runoff reduction downstream. Finally, city planners and landscape architects can consider creating pervious buffer zones around urban trees to allow for enhanced soil water infiltration, so that throughfall nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus can be reabsorption before reaching the stormwater network.
Our results provide stormwater practitioners with estimates of stormwater reduction capacity, nutrient contributions, and evapotranspiration of urban trees that are species-specific and locally relevant to Minnesota. The related recommendations can potentially guide the adoption of urban trees into the portfolio of green infrastructure practices and maintenance of their health and resilience under future climate conditions.
In addition to practical research outcomes, this project also contributed to the training of three graduate students, four undergraduate students, and one postdoctoral scholar. We have presented our results at numerous local, national, and international conferences, seminars, and workshops, and have incorporated them into two undergraduate level hydrology classes at the University of Minnesota. Finally, our work has contributed to the creation of two interactive exhibits in the Solution Studio at the Bell Museum in St. Paul (in the summers of 2024 and 2025), where intergenerational family groups from across the state come to creatively solve problems inspired by University of Minnesota research.Minnesota Stormwater Research Council, Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area Long Term Ecological Research ProgramFeng, Xue; Karwan, Diana; Rose, Lucy; Chen, Xiating. (2026). Stormwater reduction and pollutant sourcing from urban trees. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/277923
Minutes: P&A Consultative Committee (PACC): January 15, 2026
No full textIn these minutes: Chair’s Report; Civil Service Report; Items for P&A Senate Agenda; Updating P&A Infographic for FY26; AF&T Task Force Report; Preparing for Discussion with President Cunningham in April; P&A Representation at 2026 Day at the Capital; Honors and Award Nominations Working Group Update; Vote on Changes to the Constitution, Bylaws, and Rules; Old Business/New BusinessUniversity of Minnesota: P&A Consultative Committee. (2026). Minutes: P&A Consultative Committee (PACC): January 15, 2026. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/278928