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The Relationship between Assistive Technology State Standards for Teachers, Assistive Technology Implementation, and Student Performance in the Context of Evidence-based Practice
Get PDFIdentifies, through a national survey, states\u27 formally-adopted assistive technology standards for teachers, the evidence on which these standards were based, and the extent of state support for the implementation of these standards by teachers. Applies descriptive analysis to the data collected for these three areas of study and compares the results with national performance measures for students with disabilities via regression analysis
Commencement Program 2009
Get PDFThis commencement program is for baccalaureate and advanced degrees.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/commencement_programs/1122/thumbnail.jp
Finding Solutions to Language Barriers between Nurses and Their Clients
Get PDFExplores perceptions of current registered nurses\u27 encounters with limited English proficiency (LEP) Spanish speaking clients, negative outcomes related to LEP perceived by these nurses, and suggestions offered by these RNs for innovative interventions that would lessen language barriers. Describes an exploratory study conducted via a survey of nurses working in urban health clinics within Rhode Island and discusses microscopic and macroscopic nursing implications related to language barriers between nurses and their clients
Species vs. Height as Predictors of Increased Growth Rate in New England Canopy Trees
Get PDFAs part of a larger study on the effect of an experimentally-created gap within a forest on adult canopy trees, focuses on the possible effect of tree height versus type of species on radial growth response to gap creation. Sample includes fifty trees within four transects next to a gap in the Yale-Myers Experimental Forest in Connecticut, with results showing that type of species affects radial growth response
Expression of Three Novel Alternative Splice Forms of UFD2A during Zebrafish Development
Get PDFUfd2a is a ubiquitylation enzyme that is involved in protein degradation, cell division, and apoptosis signaling. Data has shown that cardiac and skeletal muscle cells of adult rodents and humans express alternatively spliced isoforms of Ufd2a. Ufd2a I (exons 1-6, 8-27) has been found to be expressed in murine myoblasts, but, upon differentiation, myotubes began to express Ufd2a II (includes exon 7), followed by Ufd2a III (includes exon 7a). Since zebrafish are an ideal in vivo model organism, this study examines the spatial-temporal expression patterning of Ufd2a and its isoforms in zebrafish embyros during development
Thinking Outside the Master\u27s House: New Knowledge Movements and the Emergence of Academic Disciplines
Get PDFThis paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding emergent disciplines as knowledge-focused social movement phenomena called New Knowledge Movements, or NKMs. The proposed theoretical framework is developed through a synthesis of new social movement theory and Frickel and Gross\u27s Scientific/Intellectual Movements (SIMs) model. In contrast to the SIMs model, this paper argues that many new disciplines emerge through contentious collective action on the part of political and intellectual outsiders rather than through the action of intellectual elites. The framework is examined through historical narratives of two disciplines, women\u27s studies and Asian American studies, in the USA. This framework will be useful to scholars studying the emergence of other disciplines and their related social movement dynamics, particularly those disciplines connected to deeply held personal identities or belief systems
Spring 2009
Get PDFInside this issue: -Message from the Director, Hedi BenAicha -On Being a Writer by Marlene Lopes -Film Libraries/Archives & Film Research by Brian Baker Our Staff: -David and Lisa Maine, Access Services Supervisors by Debra Thomson -Diplomacy and Librarianship: Liaison to the Art Department by Kresten Jespersen Our Collections: -Standing on the Edge: Graphic Novels in the Adams Library by Kresten Jespersen -Check It Out: Graphic Novels -On the Media by Dena Janson Friends Corner: -In Appreciation: Joseph R. Muratore by Sharon Giacobbi -Friends Recognized by RI Coalition of Library Advocates by Jean Brown Alumni Voices: William Corrente \u2708 A Year in Revie
Eye on Ethics: Novel Boundary Challenges-Social Networking
No full textThe relatively recent advent of electronic social networking sites has created yet another ethical challenge in social work and an opportunity to develop ethical guidelines designed to protect clients, as well as practitioners. The two most relevant ethics concepts are boundaries and privacy
Eye on Ethics: Balancing Our Professional and Personal Lives
No full textOrdinarily, social workers are able to separate their professional and personal lives, as they do not socialize or become friends with clients. On occasion, however, social workers’ professional and personal lives may intersect, often in unexpected ways. As in the two case scenarios, clients may turn up unexpectedly in social workers’ private spheres. Social workers may have little or no control over the possibility that, for example, their clients’ children and a social worker’s child become playmates or friends. A social worker’s spouse and a client’s adult son may work closely together in a local company. Especially in small and rural communities, it may be virtually impossible for social workers to avoid encounters with clients in social settings. The same is true for social workers who are members of a particular ethnic group and also provide social services to that community
Putting the Spotlight on Smaug
Get PDFDespite its popularity, much of the scholarly criticism available on Tolkien’s works focus on his even more popular and well-known epic, The Lord of the Rings, or his earlier work, The Silmarillion. The Hobbit, due to its traditionally younger audience, does not receive nearly as much attention. Much of the criticism of The Hobbit engenders does not focus on the dragon. Smaug is one of the focal characters in the story, and yet very little has been written about him. Almost all of the critical treatments I have found do not address Smaug as a character, but treat him as a plot device, a literary archetype, or evidence of Tolkien’s interest in and knowledge of Norse mythology. For example, a recent book-length study, Myth and Middle-Earth by Leslie Ellen Jones, mentions Smaug only in comparison to the dragon in Beowulf. Even critics who view Smaug as exceptionally well-written often consider his function in the novel to be that of a destructive force to be overcome, as Sandra Unerman does in her essay “Dragons in Twentieth-Century Fiction.” In The Mythology of Middle-Earth, Ruth S. Noel argues that “Wherever a dragon appears in Tolkien’s works, it is wholly within the tradition of European myth” (154) and that “Once Tolkien left the adventure story for the ethical quest, the dragon became too stereotyped a symbol to use” (156)