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Compte rendu de Otávio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen, Melinda Bonnie Fagan (eds.), Individuation, process, and scientific practices
No full textBook review of Otavio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen, Melinda Bonnie Fagan (eds), Individuation, process, and scientific practicesCompte rendu de Otavio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen, Melinda Bonnie Fagan (eds), Individuation, process, and scientific practice
Bonnie Jo Campbell, 33rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textBonnie Jo Campbell is the author of Women and Other Animals, Q Road, and American Salvage. She is the winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction and the Southern Review’s 2008 Eudora Welty Prize. Her stories have appeared in Southern Review, Kenyon Review, and Ontario Review. American Salvage was a 2009 finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction
Read this, picture that - ekphrastic narration in the works of Paloma Díaz-Más
No full textPh.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Bonnie Butle
Assessing Graduate and Undergraduate Student Needs to Redesign a Chemistry Seminar Course
No full textThe Chemistry Seminar course at Rutgers University-Newark consists of newer graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students. To maximize student learning, the physical sciences librarian and professor assessed the knowledge and needs of both groups at the beginning of the course and utilized the results in course redesign. The course objectives of learning chemical information literacy skills to prepare for an oral presentation and engagement in department seminars remain of utmost importance, but addressing general curriculum gaps is also considered. Post-course assessments show students find the redesigned course highly useful and valuable for their short and long term needs.Peer reviewe
A systematic review of barriers and facilitators to mammography in Hispanic women
No full textPurpose: A systematic review of the research on barriers and facilitators to mammography in Latinas was conducted to determine if the challenges faced by these women are unique to this population.
Method: Medline and CINAHL database searches for the years 2005-2013 were included. The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines were used to guide this review.
Results: Of the 174 articles identified, 18 articles met inclusion criteria. The most consistent findings were that income and education were associated with screening.
Conclusions: Financial barriers and social characteristics were significant predictors of mammography in these studies, which were composed almost exclusively of low-income Latinas. These findings are similar to those found in other populations of low-income women and therefore are not likely unique to Latinas.
Implications for Practice: It is likely that there is little difference between poor Latinas and other populations of poor, non-English-speaking women in barriers and facilitators to mammography.Peer reviewe
Validation of the cultural cancer screening scale for mammogram utilization in a sample of African American women
No full textBackground: The Cultural Cancer Screening Scale (CCSS) was developed to identify cultural factors relevant to breast and cervical cancer screening in a sample of Hispanic and white women in Southern California. This scale identified 5 distinct cultural factors as relevant in cancer screening decision making.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to consider psychometric estimates of the validity and reliability of this scale in a sample of African American women residing in an urban area of New Jersey.
Interventions/Methods: A total of 122 women, aged 40 to 90 years, with no history of breast cancer participated in the study. Internal consistency, reliability, construct, and predictive validity were assessed.
Results: Exploratory factor analysis resulted in the formation of 5 subsets: cancer screening fatalism, negative beliefs about health professionals, catastrophic disease expectations, symptomatic deterrents, and sociocultural deterrents, all clearly independent of each other. The Cronbach’s [alpha] for the composite score of the scale was .89. Predictive validity of the composite scale score was not significant, but 4 cultural items were significant: problems making an appointment, lack of transportation, discomfort with health professionals, and health professionals inappropriately touch their patients.
Conclusions: Overall, the CCSS demonstrated acceptable preliminary values of reliability and validity in this population.
Implications for Practice: Cultural and social factors relevant to cancer screening are very important for all women. The CCSS has not yet been used in nursing research but would be very appropriate for nurses to use to better understand why women choose to access cancer screening services.Peer reviewe
Tensions in the East China Sea
No full textIntroduction: This workshop report comprises four papers presented at an international workshop, \u27Tensions in the East China Sea\u27, which was held at the Lowy Institute in Sydney in June 2013. The papers are written by Ms Bonnie Glaser, Ms Linda Jakobson, Prof Jin Canrong and Mr Wang Hao, and Lt Gen (Ret) Noboru Yamaguchi.
They assess decisions in Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and Washington after Japan’s central government’s purchase in September 2012 of three of the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands sparked a downward spiral in relations between Japan and China.
Key findings:
Lt Gen Yamaguchi reasons that in Japan the island purchase was driven by an unsettled relationship with the landowner, upcoming elections, and a desire by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to burnish his national security credentials.
Prof Jin argues that Tokyo’s tougher stance since the 2010 fishing boat incident combined with demands by special interest groups in China compelled Beijing to react to Japan’s attempts to what Beijing perceives as a unilateral change in the status quo.
Ms Glaser contends that Washington walks a diplomatic tightrope between Tokyo, a US ally, and China. Glaser argues that given the limited viable policy options available to the US, the current strategy is the most appropriate.
Ms Jakobson’s paper explores the landmark fishing agreement signed between Taipei and Tokyo in April 2013. In the report’s Concluding thoughts, she notes that the sovereignty dispute is but one element of complex power politics unbalancing China-Japan ties
Establishment of the Genetic/Genomic Competency Centerfor Education
No full textPurpose: Develop a trans-disciplinary repository of genomics education resources using a Web-based learning management system. The repository maps and organizes genetic-genomic information and materials relevant to educators by healthcare discipline-specific competencies and performance indicators.Methods: An interdisciplinary project team was established to guide toolkit repository building and usability testing. The toolkit was built using the X-CREDIT software on the Moodle learning management platform, which includes a mapping matrix and browsing function that captures teaching resources in a searchable database linked to competencies, knowledge areas, performance indicators, learning activities and resources, and outcome assessments. Discipline-specific advisory groups assisted in resource identification, competency mapping, and peer review. The toolkit is multidisciplinary, currently including physician assistants and nurses, and provides a resource crosslink to discipline-specific competencies. All resources have a detailed description, and users may contribute new resources, which are peer reviewed for relevance and accuracy by an editorial board. Alpha and beta testing using online usability surveys that included toolkit exercises helped refine the structure, look, and navigation of the final website.Findings: One hundred thirty faculty– 124 nursing and 6 physician assistant faculty– agreed to participate. Of those, 59 users (45.4% response rate) completed the online usability survey. Nearly all users (94.9%) were able to find a competency that was relevant to their topic, and 85.4% were able to locate the relevant performance indicators. The majority (86.5%) felt the model adequately described the relationships between competencies, performance indicators, learning activities-resources, and assessments, and made conceptual sense. Survey respondents reported font color and size made the information difficult to read, windows were not large enough, and the “shopping cart” concept was confusing; all of these areas have been modified for the final toolkit version.Conclusions: Alpha and beta testing of the toolkit revealed that users can successfully obtain educational materials by searching competencies and performance indicators. The platform is accessible on the Internet at http://www.g-2-c-2.org and can be continually updated as new resources become available.Clinical Relevance: Faculty members need easy access to a wide range of accurate, current resources to facilitate integration of genomics into the curriculum.The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.comPeer reviewedThis project and research was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, including support from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute
Embedded Data Librarianship: A Case Study of Providing Data Management Support for a Science Department
No full textThis case study details how a data services librarian and a science librarian collaborate to provide embedded data management support for the research-oriented Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University–Newark. Combining their familiarity with emerging professional practices and resources, their efforts to gain a deeper understanding of the specific data management needs of researchers in the department, and their research into the evolving research data infrastructure in that particular discipline, the two are able to successfully connect researchers with the best practices in data management, suitable data repositories, and experts in the campus’ Computing Services unit.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Science & Technology Libraries, published online on 24 September 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0194262X.2015.1085348.Peer reviewe
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