[Review of] Frederick Hale. The Swedes in Wisconsin

The Swedes in Wisconsin, Frederick Hale concludes, were the \u27\u27invisible immigrants\u27 of nineteenth and early twentieth-century America, never accounting for more than two percent of the Wisconsin state population. Hale avoids promoting the Swedes and, instead, realistically presents them as a minor part of a major European immigration. Hale\u27s realism means his primary focus is on the fluctuation and integration which characterized the Wisconsin Swedish presence

Self and Sexuality: Contemporary British Women Playwrights and the Problem of Sexual Identity

Self and Sexuality: Contemporary British Women Playwrights and the Problem of Sexual Identit

Case Study: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Home Schooling : One Family\u27s Perspective

This case study explored the advantages and disadvantages of the home schooling experience of one family. Data collection consisted of direct observations, review of taped lessons, samples of student work, curriculum review, pre- and post- interviews with parents and student, analysis of reflective journal kept by parents, interviews with extended family members and friends of the family, and results of standardized testing. Reasons for home-schooling were concerns over the quality of the public school education the student previously attended and religious concerns. Findings indicated that the advantages were a better quality education, teaching of religious values, more family time, and a flexible schedule. Disadvantages consisted of a lack of available resources, (financial and educational) and the teaching ability of parents at higher levels of academic subjects

A Survey Of The Knowledge And Attitudes Of The Elderly Towards Exercise

The purpose of this descriptive study was to survey the knowledge and attitudes of the elderly towards exercise. The researcher hypothesized that when black and white elderly men and women were surveyed about exercise and the results were compared, there would be no significant difference at the .05 level. A researcher-designed tool, Exercise: Knowledge and Attitudes Questionnaire, was used in data collection. Twenty-one elderly subjects were surveyed. Of these, 10 were white while 11 were black. The sample included 8 men and 13 women. The test results were analyzed using the ANOVA test. There was not a difference at the .05 level of significance; therefore, the researcher failed to reject the null hypotheses

Identifying Students at Risk of Dropping out: Indicators and Thresholds Using ROC Analysis

Each year a significant percentage of high school students in the United States do not graduate. School practitioners need accurate indicators for identifying potential dropouts in order to focus scarce intervention resources on students most in need. While the process of dropping out is complex, indicators measured at the end of students’ ninth-grade year provide information regarding their future graduation outcome. The current study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) empirical curves to assess the accuracy of three ninth-grade risk factors, GPA, credits earned, and over-age status, in predicting the likelihood that students sampled for the National Center for Education Statistics High School Longitudinal Survey of 2009, dropped out of high school. The results showed that all three gave better than chance predictions. GPA had a 74 percent probability of correctly distinguishing between dropouts and graduates. The cut point of GPA less than 1.7 identified 48 percent of the dropouts, 88 percent of the graduates, and had a false positive rate of 12 percent. The three indicators provide quantitative data for identifying students at the end of ninth grade who may benefit from strategies designed to keep them on track for graduation. School practitioners may want to conduct a similar analysis using their district data to assess the accuracy of the risk factors for their specific student population

Compositional and Metabolic Evaluation of Colostrum Preserved by Four Methods During Warm Ambient Temperatures

A study of giant Canada geese (Branta Canadensis maxima) nesting on stock ponds in western South Dakota was conducted during 1974 and 1975. Analysis of 10 selected variables at nests on natural sites indicated that distance of water below high water level and percent slope from wetland to horizon, contributed the most to the use of the site. Distance from wetland to horizon and disturbance factors were two important variable measured to determine use of artificial nesting structures. First nests were initiated on 1 April 1974 and 8 April 1975. Twenty-five nests (16 percent) were located on artificial nesting structures, and 134 (84 percent) were on natural nest sites. Eggs in 57 percent of all nests hatched. Mammalian predators destroyed the eggs in 44 (72 percent) of the nests lost. Gosling mortality between hatching and flight was estimated to be 16 percent. Marked geese began moving to staging sites on the study area during August each year. Migration then began in September but some geese remained on the study area until November. Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge was one of the wintering locations for the flock both years. A movement of the non-breeding portion of the flock is believed to occur prior to their annual molt

The Effect of a Nurse Practitioner Intervention on Women Referred for Screening Mammography

The use of mammography for the early identification of breast cancer when tumors are small and potentially curable has been well documented. Unfortunately, the rates at which women comply with their health care providers\u27 recommendation for screening mammography remain low. Many reasons have been identified for the failure to adhere with this recommendation; pain with procedure, cost, lack of physician recommendation, perceived radiation exposure, and fear of results have been cited. The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of a specific intervention by a nurse practitioner on adherence with screening mammography in a healthy population of women ages 40 and older in North East Texas. Additionally, using Bandura\u27s Social Learning Theory, the relationship between adherence with screening mammography and perceived self-efficacy were identified, as well as mammography adherence and attitude toward heath care approaches. The total sample for this study was 39 women in North East Texas of whom 20 participants were in the control group, 19 in the experimental group. The total sample adherence with mammogram was 56.4%, control group 43.6%, and 68% for the experimental group. Study findings identified a positive relationship between health motivation and intent to follow through with their health care providers\u27 recommendation for a mammogram. Results also identified a positive relationship between intent to have a screening mammogram and self-efficacy. Women who identified intent to have their mammogram, and then did so, had a positive health locus of control. These findings suggest further research is needed to identify how to encourage women to follow through with their health care providers\u27 recommendation for screening mammogram. Additional research to validate the findings of this study include identifying what type of specific intervention would best increase patient adherence with mammography, and further exploration of the role of the nurse practitioner encouraging adherence with screening mammography. Further research that tests specific interventions by nurse practitioners in practice is still needed, as very little research has been done in this area

How to Brief and Argue Appeals

Accomplished Georgia Law alumni Susan Boleyn (J.D.\u2776) and Michael Terry (J.D.\u2787) addressed how one should brief and argue appeals. Boleyn, a senior assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia, focused on How to Write an Effective Brief. Terry, a partner with the Atlanta law firm Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, addressed How to Make an Impact with Oral Argument

Decoding dynamic brain patterns from evoked responses: A tutorial on multivariate pattern analysis applied to time-series neuroimaging data

Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) or brain decoding methods have become standard practice in analysing fMRI data. Although decoding methods have been extensively applied in Brain Computing Interfaces (BCI), these methods have only recently been applied to time-series neuroimaging data such as MEG and EEG to address experimental questions in Cognitive Neuroscience. In a tutorial-style review, we describe a broad set of options to inform future time-series decoding studies from a Cognitive Neuroscience perspective. Using example MEG data, we illustrate the effects that different options in the decoding analysis pipeline can have on experimental results where the aim is to 'decode' different perceptual stimuli or cognitive states over time from dynamic brain activation patterns. We show that decisions made at both preprocessing (e.g., dimensionality reduction, subsampling, trial averaging) and decoding (e.g., classifier selection, cross-validation design) stages of the analysis can significantly affect the results. In addition to standard decoding, we describe extensions to MVPA for time-varying neuroimaging data including representational similarity analysis, temporal generalisation, and the interpretation of classifier weight maps. Finally, we outline important caveats in the design and interpretation of time-series decoding experiments.Comment: 64 pages, 15 figure