10 Steps to Social Justice: A Guide to Engaging in Successful and Dynamic Museum Social Work

This paper was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Museum Studies.Today’s museums are eager to become a more relevant force in the struggle for social justice through the use of their programming and decision-making. Unfortunately, implementing these socially oriented programs for the first time can often be complex and confusing, even treacherous. The lack of a comprehensive manual to museum social work, one that details best practices and recommends specific approaches from experienced professionals, is a disservice to the field and to these institutions. This guide aspires to fill that role. It will direct museum professionals and other stakeholders to the most important qualities of successful museum social work and deliver ten achievable steps for making it work at their own institutions. This guide will also describe the two categories of museum social work – conversational and provisional – explain their importance, and suggest the best methods for implementing both

Inventory needs and areas of botanical significance on the Colorado Plains

Prepared for: Colorado Natural Areas Program, Colorado Parks and Wildlife.March 2020.Includes bibliographical references

Front Range Eco-regional Partnership Invasive Plant Species Strategic Plan: June 29, 2007

Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-60).The purpose of this project is to develop a Strategic Plan for the control of invasive plant species on military installations along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and Wyoming. The project rolls up goals and objectives from individual installation invasive species control plans and prioritizes control efforts by species and specific infestations in the context of protecting significant natural resources. The primary goal of this strategy is to identify the most critical 10-15 weed infestations in need of control at the Front Range military installations and to facilitate developing a regional strategy to encourage an efficient approach to natural resource and noxious weed management involving sharing knowledge, tools, and expertise across the Front Range region. The strategic plan is coordinated with the counties and states where the installations occur. For the purposes of this report, we focus primarily on invasive plant species that are legally designated "noxious weeds". "Noxious weeds" are non-native plant species which have been designated for mandatory control by local, state, or federal government because of the harm that they are capable of inflicting upon the resources and values of society (Lane 2001). We also provide information about other non-native plants found on the installations as available

Optical Tweezers and Optical Trapping Improved for Future Automated Micromanipulation and Characterization

Optical trap arrays are being developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center for holding, manipulating, and optically interrogating arrays of nanotube sensors. The trap arrays, for example, might be used to arrange arrays of chemical sensors for insertion onto a chip in liquid, air, and vacuum environments. Neural-network-controlled spatial light modulators (SLMs) are to generate and control the trap positions and trap profiles in three dimensions

Rare plant surveys on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, 2006-2007

Prepared for: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.December 21, 2007.Includes bibliographical references

Comparison of H2O2 screen-printed sensors with different Prussian blue nanoparticles as electrode material

In order to determine hydrogen peroxide condensing from gaseous and liquid phases screen-printed electrodes with controlled and adjustable thickness, shape and size of the working electrode as well as electrode paste composition were investigated. For this purpose Prussian blue (PB) nanoparticles with a different particle size distribution of 20- 30 nm (synthesized) and 60-100 nm (commercially available) were mixed with carbon paste and screen-printed on Al2O3 templates to establish H2O2-sensitive electrode. These two types of screen-printed sensors were compared to the commercial one during measurements in H2O2/water solutions at concentrations between 10-5 and 10-2 M H2O2. The linear signal in the investigated concentration range was found only for the sensor with the commercially available PB particles. Thus, this sensor prepared with PB particles of the size 60-100 nm showed the most reproducible and time-stable response versus the analyte in comparison to the others. This result offers the possibility to create sensors with adjustable design adapted to the concrete functionality. Thin films of collecting electrolytes based on agarose gels were printed on the sensor structures. They showed a distinct response on the application of H2O2-containing aerosols and gaseous phase

Knowledge and Awareness Among Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3

Knowledge is a prerequisite for changing behavior, and is useful for improving outcomes and reducing mortality rates in patients diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The purpose of this article is to describe baseline CKD knowledge and awareness obtained as part of a larger study testing the feasibility of a self-management intervention. Thirty patients were recruited who had CKD Stage 3 with coexisting diabetes and hypertension. Fifty-four percent of the sample were unaware of their CKD diagnosis. Participants had a moderate amount of CKD knowledge. This study suggests the need to increase knowledge in patients with CKD Stage 3 to aid in slowing disease progression

The catch and effort data to be used in GLM analyses to produce CPUE indices for the four islands of the Tristan da Cunha group

The Tristan da Cunha group of islands consist of the main island of Tristan da Cunha, and three outer islands – Gough, Nightingale and Inaccessible. Fishing at the outer islands uses two methods – longlining and powerboats – although longlining is the predominant method. Fishing around Tristan is normally by powerboats only. Fishing data are recorded differently for the outer islands and for Tristan, and are thus treated separately

Hake Data: problems, solutions and GLM CPUE sensitivity to alternate scenarios

The checks carried out on the hake offshore trawl catch and effort data, which provide the basis to split the catches by species and to obtain GLM-standardised CPUE indices of abundance by species, have focused on two separate steps. The first was a re-extract of the data from the original files to check for possible errors in the earlier extracts (this applies to the subset of the data for which size composition information can be unambiguously extracted). The second step was to increase the proportion of the data utilised (and at the same time to check for possible selection biases in the existing sample) by assigning size composition to drags for which this information was not directly available, on the basis of the average for other vessels for which this was available for the area and time at which the fishing concerned took place. The first step revealed a problem with extractions over the last few years which at times for certain vessels had linked the accumulated catch for the day with only the effort for the last trawl of the day, rather than for all trawls that day combined

Self-management interventions in stages 1 to 4 chronic kidney disease: an integrative review

The prevalence, effect on health outcomes, and economic impact of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have created interest in self-management interventions to help slow disease progression to kidney failure. Seven studies were reviewed to identify knowledge gaps and future directions for research. All studies were published between 2010 and 2013; no investigations were conducted in the United States. Knowledge gaps included the focus on medical self-management tasks with no attention to role or emotional tasks, lack of family involvement during intervention delivery, and an inability to form conclusions about the efficacy of interventions because methodological rigor was insufficient. Educational content varied across studies. Strategies to improve self-management skills and enhance self-efficacy varied and were limited in scope. Further development and testing of theory-based interventions are warranted. There is a critical need for future research using well-designed trials with appropriately powered sample sizes, well-tested instruments, and clear and consistent reporting of results