SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for Teamwork

SMARTER Teamwork: System for Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation for TeamworkThe rapid adoption of Team-Maker and the Comprehensive Assessment of Team MemberEffectiveness (CATME) tools for team formation and peer evaluation make it possible to extendtheir success to have a significant impact on the development of team skills in higher education.The web-based systems have been used by more than 110,000 students of more than 2400faculty at more than 500 institutions internationally—the figure below shows the growth of theuser base. 2400 The system has had 113,373 unique student users. 2200 Fitted curves are third order. 2000 1800 Faculty and staff 1600 1400 1200 Number of 1000 users 800 Institutions 600 400 Aug Oct. 2005 2012 200 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Years since software was releasedThis paper and its accompanying poster will describe strategies for broadening the scope of thosetools into a complete system for the management of teamwork in undergraduate education. TheSystem for the Management, Assessment, Research, Training, Education, and Remediation ofTeamwork (SMARTER Teamwork) has three specific goals: 1) to equip students to work inteams by providing them with training and feedback, 2) to equip faculty to manage student teamsby providing them with information and tools to facilitate best practices, and 3) to equipresearchers to understand teams by broadening the system’s capabilities to collect additionaltypes of data so that a wider range of research questions can be studied through a secureresearcher interface. The three goals of the project support each other in hierarchical fashion:research informs faculty practice, faculty determine the students’ experience, which, if wellmanaged based on research findings, equips students to work in teams. Our strategies forachieving these goals are based on a well-accepted training model that has five elements:information, demonstration, practice, feedback, and remediation.The paper that will be submitted and the poster presented at the conference will focus on newfeatures of the system, the development of training materials, and the deployment of a partnerwebsite that shares information about the SMARTER tools for teamwork and provides basicinformation about teamwork and team management

Gender differences and access to a sports dietitian influence dietary habits of collegiate athletes

BACKGROUND: Limited research exists on the effect of a sports dietitian (SD) on athletes’ dietary habits and nutrient periodization, which is the deliberate manipulation of macronutrient intake to match training goals. Further, the difference in dietary habits between men and women collegiate athletes has been understudied. A survey questionnaire examining dietary habits and practices was administered to athletes at two universities that employed a full time SD. Not all athletes used the SD as their primary source for nutritional guidance. The purposes were to examine the effect of a SD as a primary source of nutrition information, and the effect of gender on dietary habits in collegiate athletes. METHODS: Three hundred eighty-three women (n = 240) and men (n = 143) student-athletes (mean ± SD: age = 19.7 ± 1.4 years) from 10 collegiate sports took a 15-min survey consisting of questions on dietary habits and practices. Topics queried included eating habits, breakfast habits, hydration habits, nutritional supplementation use, pre-workout nutrition, post-workout nutrition, nutrition during team trips, and nutrient timing. Data were sorted by the athlete’s source of nutritional information (i.e., sport dietitian, other). Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and 2-way Pearson X(2) analyses (p ≤ 0.10). RESULTS: When a SD was indicated as the primary nutrition information source, athletes appeared to have a greater understanding of nutrient periodization (47.12 % vs. 32.85 %), were more likely to have school-provided boxed meals while on team trips (21.29 % vs. 6.77 %), and also less likely to consume fast food while on team trips (9.90 % vs. 19.55 %). Men athletes consumed fast food or restaurant meals more frequently, had higher weekly and more frequent alcohol intake during the competitive season. Women athletes were more likely to prepare meals, eat breakfast 7 days a week, and have school-provided boxed meals. CONCLUSIONS: Positive effects on dietary habits were observed when a SD was the primary nutrition information source. Practitioners should be aware of the gender differences in alcohol intake, fast food consumption, and knowledge of nutrient periodization. Collegiate athletes and athletic staff members could benefit from SD access to safeguard against dietary habits detrimental to performance

Ultrasound evaluation of soft-tissue foreign bodies by US army medics

Objective: The study's primary objective was to determine army medics' accuracy performing bedside ultrasound (US) to detect radiolucent foreign bodies (FBs) in a soft-tissue hand model. Secondary objectives included the assessment of US stand-off pad effects on soft-tissue FB detection rates and assess established FB detectable lower limit size of 2 mm. Methods: Prospective, single blinded, observational study of US-naïve Army medics' abilities utilizing bedside US to detect wooden FBs in a chicken thigh model with or without an US stand-off pad. After a 2 h training period, medics' abilities to detect 1–3 mm FB utilizing a SonoSite®M-Turbo US and 13–6 MHz linear probe were assessed. Results: After a 2 h training period, 28 medics had a sensitivity and specificity of 73% and 78% detecting 1–3 mm FBs utilizing standard US equipment. The medics' sensitivity and specificity were both 78% in detecting radiolucent FBs 2 mm and larger without a stand-off pad. The sensitivity and specificity decreased to 48%, 62%, and 67% when utilizing a stand-off pad to detect 1, 2, and 3 mm soft-tissue FBs. Sub 2 mm detection rates decreased from 82% for 2 mm FB to 64% for 1 mm FBs without utilizing a stand-off pad. Conclusion: Army medics with minimal US experience successfully identified FBs embedded in hand models with accuracies similar to radiologists and emergency medicine physicians. However, radiolucent FB detection sensitivity and specificity decreased in US-naïve Army medics utilizing stand-off pads. In addition, this study reconfirmed the lower limit of FB detection rates at 2 mm. These results support Army medics' utilization of US to evaluate for superficial radiolucent FBs of the hand

Genres et acteurs du cinéma français

Le cinéma populaire français d'avant la Nouvelle Vague est le continent oublié des études cinématographiques ; peu étudié, il est aussi peu enseigné dans nos universités, à l'exception de quelques « écoles » (le réalisme poétique par exemple) et de quelques cinéastes, dont les films ont été mis au panthéon par la « politique des auteurs ». L'ouvrage propose d'explorer le cinéma français des années 1930, 1940 et 1950 en dépassant la dichotomie anachronique entre « cinéma d'auteur » et « cinéma commercial », pour tenter de l'appréhender tel qu'il était perçu par ses contemporains. Nous abordons ici le cinéma français classique par le biais des genres et de leurs acteurs, typiques des goûts du public de l'époque et de ce cinéma populaire où cohabitent des films qui accèderont au « panthéon », des « films du sam'di soir » et des films de qualité tombés dans l'oubli. Dans cette perspective d'une approche socioculturelle du cinéma cherchant à comprendre le sens des films dans leur contexte de production et de réception, nous avons retenu trois genres principaux qui caractérisent la production de cette longue période : la comédie, avec ces variantes (boulevard, vaudeville, comique troupier, comédie de mœurs) ; le film policier et criminel ; le film en costumes (film historique, film de cape et d'épée). Non pas que ces trois genres soient les seuls, mais ils dominent ces trois décennies tout en donnant au cinéma français sa couleur propre. L'ouvrage montre comment ces genres ont largement conditionné l'emploi des acteurs les plus populaires (Danielle Darrieux, Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Odette Joyeux, Louis Jouvet, Fernandel, Eddie Constantine, Gérard Philipe, Annie Girardot, Jeanne Moreau, etc.) et construisent ainsi les représentations dominantes de l'époque. En croisant genre et acteur, les contributions font apparaître les traits saillants de ce cinéma populaire et nous éclairent sur la manière dont les acteurs contribuent, de manière individuelle ou collective, à donner à ces genres leur spécificité. Il s'agit également de comprendre comment certains acteurs ont pu faire évoluer les genres, à travers leur aptitude à circuler d'un genre à l'autre

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Reduced Testing Frequency for Glycated Hemoglobin, HbA(1c), Is Associated With Deteriorating Diabetes Control

Objective: We previously showed that in patients with diabetes mellitus, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) monitoring outside international guidance on testing frequency is widespread. Here we examined the relationship between testing frequency and diabetes control to test the hypothesis that retest interval is linked to change in HbA1c level

DNA barcode data accurately assign higher spider taxa

The use of unique DNA sequences as a method for taxonomic identification is no longer fundamentally controversial, even though debate continues on the best markers, methods, and technology to use. Although both existing databanks such as GenBank and BOLD, as well as reference taxonomies, are imperfect, in best case scenarios “barcodes” (whether single or multiple, organelle or nuclear, loci) clearly are an increasingly fast and inexpensive method of identification, especially as compared to manual identification of unknowns by increasingly rare expert taxonomists. Because most species on Earth are undescribed, a complete reference database at the species level is impractical in the near term. The question therefore arises whether unidentified species can, using DNA barcodes, be accurately assigned to more inclusive groups such as genera and families—taxonomic ranks of putatively monophyletic groups for which the global inventory is more complete and stable. We used a carefully chosen test library of CO1 sequences from 49 families, 313 genera, and 816 species of spiders to assess the accuracy of genus and family-level assignment. We used BLAST queries of each sequence against the entire library and got the top ten hits. The percent sequence identity was reported from these hits (PIdent, range 75–100%). Accurate assignment of higher taxa (PIdent above which errors totaled less than 5%) occurred for genera at PIdent values >95 and families at PIdent values ≥ 91, suggesting these as heuristic thresholds for accurate generic and familial identifications in spiders. Accuracy of identification increases with numbers of species/genus and genera/family in the library; above five genera per family and fifteen species per genus all higher taxon assignments were correct. We propose that using percent sequence identity between conventional barcode sequences may be a feasible and reasonably accurate method to identify animals to family/genus. However, the quality of the underlying database impacts accuracy of results; many outliers in our dataset could be attributed to taxonomic and/or sequencing errors in BOLD and GenBank. It seems that an accurate and complete reference library of families and genera of life could provide accurate higher level taxonomic identifications cheaply and accessibly, within years rather than decades

The frequency of testing for glycated haemoglobin, HbA1c, is linked to the probability of achieving target levels in patients with suboptimally controlled diabetes mellitus

Introduction:We previously showed, in patients with diabetes, that >50% of monitoring tests for glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) are outside recommended intervals and that this is linked to diabetes control. Here, we examined the impact of tests/year on achievement of commonly-utilised HbA1c targets and on HbA1c changes over time.Subjects & Methods:Data on 20,690 adults with diabetes with a baseline HbA1c of >53 mmol/mol (7%) were extracted from Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory records at three UK hospitals. We examined the impact of HbA1c tests/year on: (i) probability of achieving targets of =53mmol/mol (7%) and =48mmol/mol (6.5%) in a year using multi-state modelling and (ii) changes in mean HbA1c using a linear mixed-effects model.Results:The probabilities of achieving =53mmol/mol (7%) and =48mmol/mol (6.5%) targets within 1 year were 0.20 (95% confidence interval:0.19-0.21) and 0.10 (0.09-0.10), respectively. Compared with 4 tests/year, having 1 test or >4 tests/year were associated with lower likelihoods of achieving either target; 2-3 tests/year gave similar likelihoods to 4 tests/year. Mean HbA1c levels were higher in patients who had 1 test/year compared to those with 4 tests/year (mean difference: 2.64mmol/mol [0.24%], p<0.001).Conclusions:We showed that =80% of patients with sub-optimal control are not achieving commonly recommended HbA1c targets within 1 year, highlighting the major challenge facing healthcare services. We also demonstrated that, while appropriate monitoring frequency is important, 6-monthly testing is as effective as quarterly testing, supporting international recommendations. We suggest that the importance HbA1c monitoring frequency is being insufficiently recognised in diabetes management