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Mind the Gap: Understanding Coverage Breaks of Newly-Launched Journals of Engineering and Computer Science in Various Databases
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18369/88442-thumbnail.jpgPoster presentation at MLA (Medical Library Association)/SLA (Special Library Association) 2023 Annual Conference
https://www.mlanet.org/page/mla23-home</p
Vocal Majority: 1969
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/17987/87911-thumbnail.jpgTitle panel for Vocal Majority: 1969. Photo taken by John Harris Dante on October 15, 1969. Theme art by Ariel Bradford and Jennifer Goubeaux.</p
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No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/17999/87904-thumbnail.jpgOctober 15th: Absences Excused But Classes Not Canceled. Kent State\u27s Moratorium Day Activities</p
Leveraging Math Cognition to Combat Health Innumeracy
No full textRational numbers (i.e., fractions, percentages, decimals, and whole-number frequencies) are notoriously difficult mathematical constructs. Yet correctly interpreting rational numbers is imperative for understanding health statistics, such as gauging the likelihood of side effects from a medication. Several pernicious biases affect health decision-making involving rational numbers. In our novel developmental framework, the natural-number bias-a tendency to misapply knowledge about natural numbers to all numbers-is the mechanism underlying other biases that shape health decision-making. Natural-number bias occurs when people automatically process natural-number magnitudes and disregard ratio magnitudes. Math-cognition researchers have identified individual differences and environmental factors underlying natural-number bias and devised ways to teach people how to avoid these biases. Although effective interventions from other areas of research can help adults evaluate numerical health information, they circumvent the core issue: people\u27s penchant to automatically process natural-number magnitudes and disregard ratio magnitudes. We describe the origins of natural-number bias and how researchers may harness the bias to improve rational-number understanding and ameliorate innumeracy in real-world contexts, including health. We recommend modifications to formal math education to help children learn the connections among natural and rational numbers. We also call on researchers to consider individual differences people bring to health decision-making contexts and how measures from math cognition might identify those who would benefit most from support when interpreting health statistics. Investigating innumeracy with an interdisciplinary lens could advance understanding of innumeracy in theoretically meaningful and practical ways.</p
Kent State University Libraries Constitution Day 2023
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/18400/88525-thumbnail.jpgUniversity Libraries hosted an event to celebrate the birth of the U.S. government, Constitution Day, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023 in the University Libraries\u27 Harrick Garden Room, located on the first floor. The event was also offered virtually.
The featured speaker will be Fabrizio Ricciardelli, Ph.D., director of the Kent State University Florence Center. Ricciardelli will speak on the topic "The Italian City-State, Republicanism and the Roots of Democracy."</p
Ohio History Spring 2023
No full texthttps://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/node/17656/87796-thumbnail.jpgOHIO HISTORY
Contents for Volume 130, Number 1, Spring 2023
Contributors ...... 6
“Back under the Jurisdiction of the Rev. Provincial”: The Dominican Sisters and the Limitations of Female Agency in the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Church in the Midwest
Elisabeth C. Davis ...... 9
Edited Letters Between Michael Hillegas and Jacob Kriebel: 1822–1840
Sally K Francis, Dale E. Schmolinsky, Benedikt Schreiner, and L. Allen Viehmeyer ...... 26
College Football Grounds at Ohio University: The Development of a Social Anchor
Chad S. Seifried, Benjamin Downs, and Khirey Walker ...... 68
Hooded Hatred: A Study of the Akron Ku Klux Klan
Steve Viglio ...... 91
Book Reviews ...... 110
On the cover: Jacob Kriebel’s letter of February 26, 1838, to Michael Hillegas (Henry K. Gerhard Collection, 179117j. Courtesy of Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Pennsburg, PA)</p
