268 research outputs found
Binge drinking
No full textRuntime 1:30 minutesThis resource is provided for informational purposes only and may not reflect current scientific knowledge or medical recommendations.Welcome to Public Health Moment from the University of Minnesota. Binge drinking is common among active-duty military personnel, according to a new study released by the University of Minnesota and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the study, involving more than 16,000 military personnel, binge drinking was reported by 43 percent of military personnel during the past month. How does one define binge drinking? Lead author of the study, Mandy Stahre, a University of Minnesota Ph.D. student, explains. Stahre says the study shows that binge drinking is a significant public health problem. With another Public Health Moment, I’m John Finnegan.Finnegan, John; Mandy Stahre. (2009). Binge drinking. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/257616
The Human Leader: Leading from Weakness
No full textHow might human limitations empower rather than impede our leadership? Mandy Smith, author of The Vulnerable Pastor, will explore themes related to vulnerability and weakness in leadership and ministry. Interspersing teaching with guided roundtable discussion, this seminar will empower you to lead out of your deep humanity
Localiser la génétique : faire sens du diabète dans la recherche, le soin et la santé publique au Mexique
No full textLe gène est intégré dans divers domaines de connaissances et de pratiques dans lesquels les médecins, scientifiques et expert.e.s en santé publique au Mexique donnent un sens au diabète, aux maladies génétiques, à la santé et à l'hérédité. La génétique médicale dans la clinique (pédiatrique) traite principalement des maladies monogéniques, des troubles métaboliques congénitaux et des anomalies chromosomiques. Elle occupe cependant une place marginalisée dans la politique et les investissements en matière de soins de santé dans le pays. La présence croissante du diabète en tant que problème de santé publique a donné lieu à des campagnes incitant les gens à manger mieux et à faire plus d'exercice. Mais le diabète est également au cœur de la recherche portant sur le profil génomique particulier de la population mexicaine — rendu unique par les contributions ancestrales à un génome mestizo — et sur ses relations à la prédisposition accrue au diabète et à d'autres maladies chroniques courantes. Des travaux récents ont proposé des méthodes pour expliquer la présence croissante du diabète au Mexique par une approche biosociale prenant en compte le rôle de l'environnement (social) dans l'apparition de la maladie. L'épigénétique, en étudiant l'influence des facteurs environnementaux sur l'expression des gènes, apporte de nouvelles façons de penser les gènes et leur articulation à la maladie et l'hérédité. En combinant les données biologiques et les enquêtes sur la situation sociale des communautés étudiées, l'épigénétique intègre activement l'environnement. Cette intégration fournit aux scientifiques des outils pour réfléchir à la façon dont l'environnement s'inscrit dans les corps. Ces travaux permettent donc aux chercheur.e.s de biomédecine et de sciences sociales de (re)penser la façon dont le corps et l'environnement agissent ensemble, ouvrant la porte à de nouvelles façons de conceptualiser la prédisposition génétique et la maladie.The gene is embedded in various domains of knowledge and practices in which doctors, scientists and public health experts make sense of diabetes, genetic disease, health and heredity in Mexico. Medical genetics in the (specialized pediatric) clinic, which deals with mostly single-gene disorders, congenital metabolic disorders and chromosomal abnormalities, takes up a marginalized/small place in health care policy or investments. The growing presence of diabetes as a pubic health problem has led to campaigns instructing people to eat better and exercise more. But it has also been at the heart of genomics research interested in the particular genomic makeup of Mexicans — made unique by ancestral contributions to a mestizo genome — and its relations/as an explanation for heightened predisposition to diabetes and other common chronic disorders. Recent work has proposed ways to explain the growing presence of diabetes in Mexico through a biosocial approach that considers the role of the (social) environment in the onset of disease. Epigenetics, in studying how environmental factors can influence gene expression, brings in new ways to think about genes and the articulation of these in relation to illness and heredity. As scientists combine biological data with inquiries into the social circumstances in the communities they study, epigenetics actively brings the environment in and gives scientists tools to think about how the environment becomes embodied. These studies provide room for biomedical and social scientists to (re)think how body and environment act together, opening the door to new ways to conceptualize genetic predisposition and disease
Changes in science content knowledge and attitudes toward science teaching of educators attending a zoo-based neuroscience professional development
No full textInformal learning environments often host teachers for learning opportunities, but little is known about the impact of these experiences on teacher professional development (PD). This article describes a unique collaborative PD experience between zoological park personnel and university faculty, examining the impact on teacher content knowledge, attitudes, and classroom lessons. Our findings suggest that the PD improved science content, but made no impact on already high attitudes toward science. In light of the high level of self-reported satisfaction and high frequency of teacher lesson plan use, we propose that the PD had other positive outcomes such as pedagogical knowledge and authentic learning experiences.John L. Pecore, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education, College of
Professional Studies at the University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL. Mandy L.
Kirchgessner is a doctoral candidate in Curriculum, Instruction and Technology in
Education at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. Laura L. Carruth, PhD, is an
Associate Professor at the Neuroscience Institute, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.John L. Pecore , Mandy L. Kirchgessner & Laura L. Carruth (2013) Changes in Science Content Knowledge
and Attitudes toward Science Teaching of Educators Attending a Zoo-based Neuroscience Professional Development, The
Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 86:6, 238-245Journal Articl
Multi-source monitoring data and numerical analyses for the assessment of settlements affecting built-up areas in variable soil conditions
No full textThis paper presents an integrated analysis based on the use of multi-source wide-area datasets consisting of hydro-mechanical properties of geomaterials, in-situ investigations/measurements (e.g. groundwater levels in wells) and innovative space-borne data (i.e. DInSAR techniques) to support numerical analyses aimed at assessing and predicting the settlements affecting built-up areas in variable soil conditions. To this aim, an expeditious procedure was developed and tested with reference to a district in Rotterdam City (The Netherlands) affected by subsidence phenomena due to the presence of heterogeneous settling strata mainly composed by peat and organic soils. The results obtained allowed investigating the role of predisposing factors of the settlement occurrence and assessing the induced damage on buildings. Considering the widespread diffusion of such geohazards, the followed procedure could help the in-charge authorities to carry out activities at urban scale aimed at identifying the areas most affected by subsidence risk and to select the most suitable and sustainable mitigation strategies.Applied MechanicsGeo-engineerin
Exploring the afterlives of environmental citizen science projects in Latin America
No full textDerived from their current popularity in public and scientific discourse, citizen science projects tend to receive a lot of attention during their planning and initial implementation. This is especially true for environmentally focused projects. Citizen science is usually portrayed as a key tool to allow citizens to gain a deeper understanding and/or start acting regarding the local effects of environmental degradation, from assessing industrial pollution to enacting small-scale restoration initiatives. It is usually assumed that after implementation, when the organizing scientists leave and/or funding runs out, these projects will continue somehow or at least serve as catalyzers for new local initiatives. However, very little research has been done exploring the critical issue of sustainability and the impact for the local communities involved. The afterlives of citizen science projects remain a largely unexplored territory in STS and public engagement in science. We present early insights from an ongoing project analyzing the afterlives of several environmental citizen science projects carried out in Latin America in the last decade. Instead of the promised path of growing engagement, our findings show how these projects tend to develop something like zombie lives after scientists leave; being neither death nor alive. This outcome severely diminishes citizens’ potential to enact substantive processes of local transformation. Exploring the situated afterlives of these projects and how citizens (can) make do with their remainders, we provide insights into multiple forms of zombie lives of citizen science projects. This will help us think about how we can do such projects otherwise
On unregulated markets and the freedom of media the transition of the East German press after 1989
No full textThis thesis fills a gap in research, literature and our understanding of transitioning media in post-socialist countries. It tells the fascinating and complicated story of a press moving from state control to a Western free press model. The focus lies on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 until after German unification in October 1990. It is a story untold in English-language literature, and it is a largely ignored part in contemporary German media history. Being written for an international readership while engaging largely with a unique moment in German and international media history, this thesis bridges a gap between national, continental and academic disciplines. Its primary question is in how far the democratic potential that existed in the moment of revolutionary change in 1989/1990 found its institutional and/or political manifestation in the post-socialist East German press. Contrary to current research, it answers this question by approaching it from the perspective of an expanding Western democratic, and market economic order. It is, thus, not concerned with case studies or one press-related sector but looks at structural change on various levels; its focus lies on the simultaneous battles fought over a free press. Core concern is the intersection between the normative role the press holds in a democratic society and that of a newly developing, or rather established expanding Western market economy.
This thesis analyzes three press-related sectors within a transitioning political setting: first, the opening of the GDR to (and sale of) West German print media; second, the reform and building of distribution infrastructures, and, third, emerging East-West joint ventures and subsequent changing newspaper ownerships. While closely interlinked, reforming distribution became the point of conflict over which issues of a “free press” were being debated. This thesis shows that nothing that happened in the GDR before, during and after the transition happened in isolation nor was it an exclusively East German problem. Instead, East Germany became the battle ground for various interests groups, East and West, but with clear and all-overshadowing interests of West German political and economic groups. These groups generally expanded and continued their long-established interests and disputes onto the newly opened political arena and economic market. Aiming for power at different levels, all had an interest in influencing media and its policies to their own advantage or, by simply circumventing them, created situations on the ground that, once put into place, were hard to change.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-08-01The student, Mandy Troger, accepted the attached license on 2018-07-06 at 20:31.The student, Mandy Troger, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-07-06 at 20:43.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-07-10 at 13:34.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12765 on 2018-09-27 at 11:16:44Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-27T16:30:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Empirical fragility curves for settlement-affected buildings: Analysis of different intensity parameters for seven hundred masonry buildings in The Netherlands
No full textThe analysis and prediction of damage to buildings resting on highly compressible fine-grained ‘‘soft soils” containing (organic) clay
and peat are key issues to be addressed for a proper management of subsidence-affected urban areas. Among the probabilistic approaches suggested in literature, those oriented to the generation of empirical fragility curves are particularly promising provided that a comprehensive dataset for both the subsidence-related intensity (SRI) parameters and the corresponding damage severity to buildings is available. Following this line of thought, in the present paper, a rich sample of more than seven hundred monitored (by remote sensing) and surveyed masonry buildings – mainly resting with their (shallow or piled) foundations on soft soils – is analysed in four urban areas of The Netherlands. Probabilistic functions in the form of fragility curves for building damage are retrieved for three different SRI parameters (i.e., differential settlement, rotation and deflection ratio) derived from the processing of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images by way of a differential interferometric (DInSAR) technique in combination with the severity levels of the damage recorded from the visual inspection of over 700 masonry buildings. As a novelty with respect to earlier similar studies, the work points out the methodological steps to be followed in order to identify the most appropriate SRI parameter among the selected ones. Thus, the objective of the paper is to improve the existing geotechnical forecasting tools for subsidence-affected urban areas, in order to target areas that require more detailed investigations/analyses and/or to select/prioritize foundation repairing/replacing measures
Contemporary knowledge of what music 'is' and 'does' and the implications for music education
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2003 Mandy StefanakisThis study investigates whether current music components of arts education rationale statements adequately reflect contemporary understandings of what music ‘is’ and ‘does’. This is in order that this knowledge informs the structure and content of contemporary music curriculum. An analysis is conducted of rationale statements in the series of Victorian and national Australian arts curriculum frameworks developed since 1988. The analysis compares the statements of the defining features of music and the arts and determines whether these features are reflected in the learning models and the frameworks developed from them.
A review of contemporary literature is then undertaken to investigate whether there are commonalities in the theories of the purposes and distinctive features of music put forward by researchers from a range of disciplines including philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, anthropology and music. What might be considered unique aspects of the perceptive process in the arts and music are also reviewed.
The study finds that there is an interrelationship between the purposes and defining features of music and common features in the perceptive process of the arts, and music as an art form. The conclusion is also drawn that the definitions in three of the four analysed arts curriculum frameworks emphasise the expressive, communicative purposes of music. The review of literature suggests that music is an holistic experience fulfilling a range of purposes. The study determines that there is, therefore, a need to revise music rationale statements within an arts context if they are to reflect contemporary knowledge of what music ‘is’ and ‘does’.
The study also finds that a greater logical progression in the development of arts frameworks is required for the statements of definition and purpose to be reflected in the development of a statement of learning, art education goals and the learning model. Therefore, a re-modelling of an arts curriculum statement is proposed
Learning theories and interprofessional education: a user's guide
No full textThere is increasing interest in the theoretical underpinning of interprofessional education (IPE) and writers in this field are drawing on a wide range of disciplines for theories that have utility in IPE. While this has undoubtedly enriched the research literature, for the educational practitioner, whose aim is to develop and deliver an IPE curriculum that has sound theoretical underpinnings, this plethora of theories has become a confusing, and un-navigable quagmire. This article aims to provide a compass for those educational practitioners by presenting a framework that summarizes key learning theories used in IPE and the relationship between them. The study reviews key contemporary learning theories from the wider field of education used in IPE and the explicit applications of these theories in the IPE literature to either curriculum design or programme evaluation. Through presenting a broad overview and summary framework, the study clarifies the way in which learning theories can aid IPE curriculum development and evaluation. It also highlights areas where future theoretical development in the IPE field is required
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