The Training and Mentoring of Social Work Field Directors within the Academy: An Ethical Dilemma or Not?

Field education is lauded as the signature pedagogy of social work education. However it is unclear how new field directors, charged with administering this aspect of social work education, are prepared for leadership of field education. This banded dissertation examines how new field directors assuming field administrative responsibilities, are trained and mentored for the position within the academy. Three distinct scholarly products make up the banded dissertation. A conceptual paper highlighting the writer’s own experience through a scholarly personal narrative is the first product. A scholarly personal narrative is valuable because it provides perspective drawn from a non-traditional but scholarly approach to traditional research content (Nash, 2004). The second product is a national quantitative research study of field directors, examining respondent’s experiences with mentoring and training when first starting as a field administrator. The study looked at the experiences of training and mentoring field directors had when first beginning within the academy, using the lens of two ethical standards of the NASW Code of Ethics, standards 104(b) and 3.08. The final product is a scholarly presentation of the research findings at the Council on Social Work Educations Annual Program Meeting. Another purpose of this scholarly presentation was to present the preliminary research finding utilizing quantitative descriptive analysis of the dependent and independent variables of the study. Recommendations included the use of a training framework to consistency in training all new field directors

La mise en scène du mâle : étude des rôles masculins et féminins dans les films québécois les plus populaires

La présente thèse étudie les rapports homme-femme dans les films québécois les plus populaires. En mettant à profit les théories féministes du cinéma (les théories de l’identification), les études de genre (Gender Studies) et les études culturelles (Cultural Studies), la thèse tente de comprendre deux phénomènes: la surreprésentation des hommes par rapport aux femmes dans les films québécois les plus populaires et le décalage entre la représentation du statut des femmes au cinéma, traditionnel et confiné à la sphère privée, par rapport à leur statut, plus émancipé et équitable, dans l’univers social québécois. La thèse propose d’étudier la mise en scène filmique des hommes et des femmes. L’argumentaire se divise en quatre parties, qui correspondent aux quatre lieux du développement de la masculinité dans les films québécois les plus populaires : le rapport des hommes à la figure héroïque, au père, au couple et à la gang de chums. Le travail présenté consiste en une analyse stylistique des principaux films emblématiques de la masculinité en misant plus particulièrement sur le dispositif narratif, ainsi que la perspective et la voix narratives. Mots-clés: Film populaire québécois, masculinité, masculinocentrisme, féminisme, perspective narrative, études de genre, études culturelles et théorie de l’identification.This thesis gives a detailed study of the relationships between men and women in Quebecois most popular movies. Building on the feminist film theories (identification theories), gender studies and cultural studies, the thesis tries to make sense of two phenomena: the overrepresentation of men compared with women in the Quebecois most popular movies and the discrepancy in the representation of the status of women in films, traditional and confined to the private space, lagging “behind” the more emancipated and equitable status that they have in the social universe of Quebec. The thesis proposes to study the cinematographic staging of men and women. The argument is divided into four parts, which correspond to the four sites of the construction of masculinity in Quebecois most popular movies: the relationship between men and, respectively, the heroic figure, the father, the couple, and the friends (gang de chums). The work consists of a stylistic analysis of the main emblematic films of masculinity, focusing on the narrative device and the narrative perspective and voice. Mots-clés: Quebecois popular movies, masculinity, masculinocentrism, feminism, narrative perspective, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies and Identification Theory

Evolution of high-sensitivity troponin-T and echocardiography parameters in patients undergoing high efficiency on-line hemodiafiltration versus conventional low-flux hemodialysis.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:On-line hemodiafiltration (HDF) has been associated with better inflammatory markers profile and survival than low-flux hemodialysis (HD). This study aimed at determining the effect of HDF vs HD on hs-TnT and echocardiography parameters evolution at one year follow-up. METHOD:Patients were randomized from 2007 to 2013 to HD or HDF in accordance with the CONvective TRAnsport STudy protocol initially as part of the Montreal cohort and subsequently as part of a local cohort. Pre-dialysis hs-TnT were analyzed at baseline and 1-year follow-up. RESULTS:A total of 54 HDF patients and 59 HD patients were included. At baseline, median hs-TnT value was 49 ng/L (IQR 31-89) in the HDF group vs. 60 ng/L (36-96) in the HD group (p = 0.370). At one year follow-up, median hs-TnT remained stable in the HDF group (p = 0.707 vs. baseline), but significantly increased to 62 ng/L (40-104) in the HD group (p = 0.021 vs. baseline). The median variation (delta) in hs-TnT values was -3 ng/L (IQR -7-+8) in the HDF group vs. +8 ng/L (-5 -+25) in the HD group (p = 0.042). In the HDF group, LVEF increased from 60.0% (IQR 55.0-65.0) at baseline to 65.0% (60.0-65.5) at 1-year follow-up (p = 0.040) whereas it remained stable in the HD group (LVEF of 60.0% [IQR 55.0-65.0] at baseline and 65.0% [55.0-65.0] at 1-year follow-up [p = 0.312]). CONCLUSIONS:High-efficiency HDF is associated with stability in hs-TnT values, whereas low-flux HD is associated with significant increase in hs-TnT levels

Change in Pictures: Creating best practices in archiving ecological imagery for reuse

The research data repository of the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is building on over 30 years of data curation research and experience in the National Science Foundation-funded US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. It provides mature functionalities, well established workflows, and now publishes all ‘long-tail’ environmental data. High quality scientific metadata are enforced through automatic checks against community developed rules and the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) standard. Although the EDI repository is far along in making its data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), representatives from EDI and the LTER are developing best practices for the edge cases in environmental data publishing. One of these is the vast amount of imagery taken in the context of ecological research, ranging from wildlife camera traps to plankton imaging systems to aerial photography. Many images are used in biodiversity research for community analyses (e.g., individual counts, species cover, biovolume, productivity), while others are taken to study animal behavior and landscape-level change.Some examples from the LTER Network include: using photos of a heron colony to measure provisioning rates for chicks (Clarkson and Erwin 2018) or identifying changes in plant cover and functional type through time (Peters et al. 2020). Multi-spectral images are employed to identify prairie species. Underwater photo quads are used to monitor changes in benthic biodiversity (Edmunds 2015). Sosik et al. (2020) used a continuous Imaging FlowCytobot to identify and measure phyto- and microzooplankton. Cameras at McMurdo Dry Valleys assess snow and ice cover on Antarctic lakes allowing estimation of primary production (Myers 2019).It has been standard practice to publish numerical data extracted from images in EDI; however, the supporting imagery generally has not been made publicly available. Our goal in developing best practices for documenting and archiving these images is for them to be discovered and re-used. Our examples demonstrate several issues. The research questions, and hence, the image subjects are variable. Images frequently come in logical sets of time series. The size of such sets can be large and only some images may be contributed to a dedicated specialized repository. Finally, these images are taken in a larger monitoring context where many other environmental data are collected at the same time and location.Currently, a typical approach to publishing image data in EDI are packages containing compressed (ZIP or tar) files with the images, a directory manifest with additional image-specific metadata, and a package-level EML metadata file. Images in the compressed archive may be organized within directories with filenames corresponding to treatments, locations, time periods, individuals, or other grouping attributes. Additionally, the directory manifest table has columns for each attribute. Package-level metadata include standard coverage elements (e.g., date, time, location) and sampling methods. This approach of archiving logical ‘sets’ of images reduces the effort of providing metadata for each image when most information would be repeated, but at the expense of not making every image individually searchable. The latter may be overcome if the provided manifest contains standard metadata that would allow searching and automatic integration with other images