Enabling Biodiversity Research with Open Source Workflow, GIS and Metadata Tools

Software developer, Informatics at the KU Biodiversity InstitutePlatinum Sponsors Coca-Cola Gold Sponsors KU Department of Geography KU Institute for Policy & Social Research KU Libraries GIS and Data Services State of Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC) Wilson & Company Engineers and Architects Silver Sponsors Bartlett & West Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program KansasView Bronze Sponsors Garmin KU Biodiversity Institut

Phylogeography and Meta-Community Analysis in QGIS

Biodiversity Institute, The University of KansasPlatinum Sponsors KU School of Business Gold Sponsors Bartlett & West KU Department of Geography KU Environmental Studies Program KU Institute for Policy & Social Research KU Libraries Silver Sponsors Kansas Biological Survey KU Center for Global & International Studies Bronze Sponsors Global Information Systems State of Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC) KU Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS

Adding Phylogenies to QGIS and Lifemapper for Evolutionary Studies of Species Diversity

Phylogenetic data from the “Tree of Life” have explicit spatial and temporal components when paired with species distribution and ecological data for testing contributions to biological community assembly at different geographic scales of species interaction. Important questions in biology about the degree of niche suitability and whether the history of a community’s assembly for an area can affect whether the species in a community are more or less phylogenetically related can be answered using several different spatially-filtered measures of phylogenetic diversity. Phylogenetic analyses which support the description of ecological processes are usually achieved in a handful of software libraries that are narrowly focused on a single set of tasks. Very few applications scale to large datasets and most do not have an explicit spatial component without relying on external visualization packages. This prompted us to explore bringing phylogenetic data into an open-source GIS environment. The Lifemapper Macroecology/Range & Diversity QGIS plug-in is a custom plug-in which we use to calculate and map biodiversity indices that describe range-diversity relationships derived from large multi-species datasets. We describe extensions to that plug-in which expand the Lifemapper set of ecological tools to link phylogenies to spatially derived ’diversity field’ statistics that describe the phylogenetic composition of natural communities

More than One Way to be Happy: A Typology of Marital Happiness

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100129/1/famp12028.pd

Professional Uncertainty and Disempowerment Responding to Ethnic Diversity in Health Care: A Qualitative Study

From a qualitative study, Joe Kai and colleagues have identified opportunities to empower health professionals to respond more effectively to challenges in their work with patients from diverse ethnic communities

Counteranion-Dependent Reaction Pathways in the Protonation of Cationic Ruthenium−Vinylidene Complexes

The tetraphenylborate salts of the cationic vinylidene complexes [Cp*Ru=C=CHR(iPr2PNHPy)]+ (R = p-C6H4CF3 (1a-BPh4), Ph (1b-BPh4), p-C6H4CH3 (1c- BPh4), p-C6H4Br (1d-BPh4), tBu (1e-BPh4), H (1f-BPh4)) have been protonated using an excess of HBF4·OEt2 in CD2Cl2, furnishing the dicationic carbyne complexes [Cp*Ru≡CCH2R(iPr2PNHPy)]2+ (R = p-C6H4CF3 (2a), Ph (2b), p-C6H4CH3 (2c), p-C6H4Br (2d), tBu (2e), H (2f)), which were characterized in solution at low temperature by NMR spectroscopy. The corresponding reaction of the chloride salts 1a-Cl, 1b-Cl, 1c-Cl, and 1d-Cl followed a different pathway, instead affording the novel alkene complexes [Cp*RuCl(κ1(N),η2(C,C)-C5H4N-NHPiPr2CH=CHR)][BF4] (3a−d). In these species, the entering proton is located at the α- carbon atom of the former vinylidene ligand, which also forms a P−C bond with the phosphorus atom of the iPr2PNHPy ligand. To shed light on the reaction mechanism, DFT calculations have been performed by considering several protonation sites. The computational results suggest metal protonation followed by insertion. The coordination of chloride to ruthenium leads to alkenyl species which can undergo a P−C coupling to yield the corresponding alkene complexes. The noncoordinating nature of [BPh4]− does not allow the stabilization of the unsaturated species coming from the insertion step, thus preventing this alternative pathway

Systematically reviewing and synthesizing evidence from conversation analytic and related discursive research to inform healthcare communication practice and policy: an illustrated guide

Background Healthcare delivery is largely accomplished in and through conversations between people, and healthcare quality and effectiveness depend enormously upon the communication practices employed within these conversations. An important body of evidence about these practices has been generated by conversation analysis and related discourse analytic approaches, but there has been very little systematic reviewing of this evidence. Methods We developed an approach to reviewing evidence from conversation analytic and related discursive research through the following procedures: • reviewing existing systematic review methods and our own prior experience of applying these • clarifying distinctive features of conversation analytic and related discursive work which must be taken into account when reviewing • holding discussions within a review advisory team that included members with expertise in healthcare research, conversation analytic research, and systematic reviewing • attempting and then refining procedures through conducting an actual review which examined evidence about how people talk about difficult future issues including illness progression and dying Results We produced a step-by-step guide which we describe here in terms of eight stages, and which we illustrate from our ‘Review of Future Talk’. The guide incorporates both established procedures for systematic reviewing, and new techniques designed for working with conversation analytic evidence. Conclusions The guide is designed to inform systematic reviews of conversation analytic and related discursive evidence on specific domains and topics. Whilst we designed it for reviews that aim at informing healthcare practice and policy, it is flexible and could be used for reviews with other aims, for instance those aiming to underpin research programmes and projects. We advocate systematically reviewing conversation analytic and related discursive findings using this approach in order to translate them into a form that is credible and useful to healthcare practitioners, educators and policy-makers