Exploring Differences Among Student Populations During Climate Graph Reading Tasks: An Eye Tracking Study

Communicating climate information is challenging due to the interdisciplinary nature of the topic along with compounding cognitive and affective learning challenges. Graphs are a common representation used by scientists to communicate evidence of climate change. However, it is important to identify how and why individuals on the continuum of expertise navigate graphical data differently as this has implications for effective communication of this information. We collected and analyzed eye-tracking metrics of geoscience graduate students and novice undergraduate students while viewing graphs displaying climate information. Our findings indicate that during fact-extraction tasks, novice undergraduates focus proportionally more attention on the question, title and axes graph elements, whereas geoscience graduate students spend proportionally more time viewing and interpreting data. This same finding was enhanced during extrapolation tasks. Undergraduate novices were also more likely to describe general trends, while graduate students identified more specific patterns. Undergraduates who performed high on the pre-test measuring graphing skill, viewed graphs more similar to graduate students than their peers who performed lower on the pre-test

Structural and Functional Studies of Bacterial Adhesion Proteins Staphylococcus aureus immunoglobulin-binding proteins Sbi and SpA and their interactions with serum proteins

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The Illusion of the Prima Pratica and Seconda Pratica in the Music of Willaert and Rore

In his famous Dichiaratione defending Claudio Monteverdi from Giovanni Maria Artusi, Giulio Cesare Monteverdi listed Adrian Willaert as the composer that typified the prima pratica and Cipriano de Rore as the leader of the the seconda pratica. Giulio Cesare Monteverdi's construction of the prima and seconda pratica and the composers who supposedly typify it is a strategy in his debate with Artusi, but the accuracy of his assessment has been taken for granted by musicologists. I uncouple the analysis of Willaert and Rore's music from the writings of Giulio Cesare Monteverdi. The end results of this analysis show Willaert and Rore to be clear contemporaries in style, with Willaert more progressive in his text setting than his prima pratica association indicates, and Rore frequently following the older eight-mode system that informed the publication of his first books of madrigals.Master of Art

Cancelling the Queers: Activism in Art Education Conference Planning

This paper examines how individual and collective strategies and interventions countered homophobia and censorship in a public venue, in this particular case at a state art education association annual conference. We reveal our personal actions and reactions to hysteria, institutional homophobia, and find solutions. Our individual and collective responses demonstrate how layers of emotional, intellectual and activist energy co-exist and that harmony and quick solutions to such complex social problems involve sustained and dedicated efforts

Iron intakes of Australian infants and toddlers: findings from the Melbourne Infant Feeding, Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT) Program

Fe deficiency remains the most common nutritional deficiency worldwide and young children are at particular risk. Preventative food-based strategies require knowledge of current intakes, sources of Fe, and factors associated with low Fe intakes; yet few data are available for Australian children under 2 years. This study&rsquo;s objectives were to determine intakes and food sources of Fe for Australian infants and toddlers and identify non-dietary factors associated with Fe intake. Dietary, anthropometric and socio-demographic data from the Melbourne Infant Feeding, Activity and Nutrition Trial Program were analysed for 485 infants (mean age: 9&middot;1 (sd 1&middot;2) months) and 423 toddlers (mean age: 19&middot;6 (sd 2&middot;6) months) and their mothers. Dietary intakes were assessed via 24-h recalls over 3 non-consecutive days. Prevalence of inadequate Fe intake was estimated using the full probability approach. Associations between potential non-dietary predictors (sex, breast-feeding status, age when introduced to solid foods, maternal age, maternal education, maternal employment status and mother&rsquo;s country of birth) and Fe intakes were assessed using linear regression. Mean Fe intakes were 9&middot;1 (sd 4&middot;3) mg/d for infants and 6&middot;6 (sd 2&middot;4) mg/d for toddlers. Our results showed that 32&middot;6 % of infants and 18&middot;6 % of toddlers had inadequate Fe intake. Main food sources of Fe were Fe-fortified infant formula and cereals for infants and toddlers, respectively. Female sex and current breast-feeding were negatively associated with infant Fe intakes. Introduction to solid foods at or later than 6 months was negatively associated with Fe intake in toddlers. These data may facilitate food-based interventions to improve Australian children&rsquo;s Fe intake levels.<br /

Housing needs, expectations, and satisfactions of public housing and Turnkey III residents in High Point, North Carolina

It was the purpose of this study to determine to what extent selected internal and external product characteristics of public and Turnkey III housing in High Point, North Carolina, meet the perceived needs and expectations of its residents; whether the selected human needs for social and psychological stimulation, creative outlets, a sense of place or rootedness, and to relate to others are being met in public and Turnkey III housing; and how needs, expectations, and other selected factors influence residents expressed degree of housing satisfaction. It was hypothesized that there would be no difference between the selected internal and external product characteristics of existing public and Turnkey III housing and the characteristics expected by the residents. A second hypothesis stated that there would be no significant difference between the criteria representing an environment supporting the needs for social and psychological stimulation and creative outlets and what is actually available in the public and Turnkey III housing project to meet these needs. It was also hypothesized that there would be no significant difference between the criteria representing an environment supporting the need for a sense of place or rootedness and the need to relate to others and the perceived satisfaction of these needs as reported by the residents

Implementing a Pain Toolkit to Improve Pain Management

Abstract OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a pain toolkit to improve pain management. BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization and Joint Commission state effective pain management is a basic human right. METHODS: Patients’ ratings of pain management on a 25-bed orthopedic/neurology unit three months before and after implementation of a toolkit were compared. The toolkit included bedside report, care board, purposeful hourly rounding, pain algorithm, pain status indicator, and complex pain interventions. The data are comprised of patient responses to the following Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey questions: pain control and staff’s help with pain. RESULTS: There was statistically significant improvement in patients’ perceptions that staff “always” did everything to help with pain. There was no statistically significant improvement in patients’ perceptions that pain as “always” well controlled. CONCULSIONS: The toolkit is a valuable resource in improving pain management

The Grizzly, March 19, 1982

New Room Selection Procedure Instituted • Thefts and Break-ins Challenge Campus Security • Board Activates New Program • Going to the Dogs? • USGA Notes • News Briefs: Special Olympics Returns: Hugger Needed!; Red Cross Bloodmobile Urges Volunteer Donors; Advertising Association Sponsors Career Conference • Newly Formed Astronomy Club Approved by SAC • Bach Birthday Concert • UC Track and Field: A Team to be Reckoned With • Blades Shred F&M • Lacrosse Looking for Improvement • Potsdam Frustrates UC Again • Women\u27s Basketball Takes Second in Cinderella MACs • Aqua Women Achieve Personal Best at MACs and Nationalshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1075/thumbnail.jp

Aerial Damage Survey of the 2013 El Reno Tornado Combined with Mobile Radar Data

A detailed damage survey of the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado of 31 May 2013 combined with rapid-scanning data recorded from two mobile radars is presented. One of the radars was equipped with polarimetric capability. The relationship between several suction vortices visually identified in pictures with the high-resolution Doppler velocity data and swath marks in fields is discussed. The suction vortices were associated with small shear features in Doppler velocity and a partial ringlike feature of high spectral width. For the first time, a suction vortex that created a swath mark in a field was visually identified in photographs and high-definition video while the rotational couplet was tracked by radar. A dual-Doppler wind synthesis of the tornadic circulation at low levels near the location of several storm chaser fatalities resolved ground-relative wind speeds in excess of 90 m s−1, greater than the minimum speed for EF5 damage. The vertical vorticity analysis revealed a rapid transition from a single tornadic vortex centered on the weak-echo hole (WEH) to suction vortices surrounding the WEH and collocated with the ring of enhanced radar reflectivities. Several bands/zones of enhanced convergence were resolved in the wind syntheses. One of the bands was associated with an internal or secondary rear-flank gust front. An inner band of convergence appeared to be a result of the positive bias in tornado-relative radial velocity owing to centrifuging of large lofted debris swirling within the tornado. An outer band of convergence formed at the northern edge of a region of strong inflow that was lofting small debris and dust into the storm