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The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP4 file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family." Sheryll Cashin, lawyer, professor, Vanderbilt alumnus, Board of Trust member, and author of the book The Agitator's Daughter, speaks on Nov. 6, 2008, about the roles her family and Vanderbilt played in shaping her activism and success. This is the second annual Walter Murray Jr. Commons Lecture. Frank Wcislo, Dean of the Commons, speaks briefly about Murray and the Vanderbilt Commons, and introduces Cashin. She answers questions after the lecture
Technology Enhanced Teaching and Professional Staff Development: Minding the Ethical Gap
No full textAcademic digital competence in this age of technology is one of the most important considerations for higher education institutions globally. Overall, as higher education institutions increasingly pivot to online learning, academics must keep up with the new trends and developments as new tools and systems reshape their classroom. However, a critical challenge emerging in the literature is the limited support provided to academics to make this transition. This paper canvases the ethical responsibility of higher education institutions to ensure that staff are adequately trained where online teaching is the approved model for learning
Cross-cultural health care
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A biased historical perspective of women in the engineering field at Dryden from 1946 to November 1992
No full textBeing a woman in engineering, and in particular, being the woman with the dubious distinction of having the most years at Dryden, gives the author a long-term perspective on the women who worked in the engineering field and their working environment. The working environment for the women was influenced by two main factors. One factor was the Dryden's growth of 14 persons (2 of them women) at the end of 1946 to the present size. The other factor was the need for programming knowledge when the digital computers came into use. Women have been involved with flight research at Dryden since the days of the first transonic and supersonic airplanes. This paper uses available records, along with memory, to document the number of women in engineering at Dryden, to comment about observed trends, and to make personal observations
Temporal trends and determinants of COVID-19 vaccine coverage and series initiation during pregnancy in Ontario, Canada, December 2020 to December 2021: a population-based retrospective cohort study
No full textBACKGROUND: Population-based COVID-19 vaccine coverage estimates among pregnant individuals are limited. We assessed temporal patterns in vaccine coverage (≥1 dose before or during pregnancy) and evaluated factors associated with vaccine series initiation (receiving dose 1 during pregnancy) in Ontario, Canada. METHODS: We linked the provincial birth registry with COVID-19 vaccination records from December 14, 2020 to December 31, 2021 and assessed coverage rates among all pregnant individuals by month, age, and neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics. Among individuals who gave birth since April 2021—when pregnant people were prioritized for vaccination—we assessed associations between sociodemographic, behavioral, and pregnancy-related factors with vaccine series initiation using multivariable regression to estimate adjusted risk ratios (aRR) and risk differences (aRD) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). RESULTS: Among 221,190 pregnant individuals, vaccine coverage increased to 71.2% by December 2021. Gaps in coverage across categories of age and sociodemographic characteristics decreased over time, but did not disappear. Lower vaccine series initiation was associated with lower age (<25 vs. 30-34 years: aRR 0.53, 95%CI 0.51-0.56), smoking (vs. non-smoking: 0.64, 0.61-0.67), no first trimester prenatal care visit (vs. visit: 0.80, 0.77-0.84), and residing in neighborhoods with the lowest income (vs. highest: 0.69, 0.67-0.71). Vaccine series initiation was marginally higher among individuals with pre-existing medical conditions (vs. no conditions: 1.07, 1.04-1.10). CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 vaccine coverage among pregnant individuals remained lower than in the general population, and there was lower vaccine initiation by multiple characteristics
