4-H 311 4-H Child Development Projects : Leader\u27s Guide for the Infant and Toddler Units

4-H 311: 4-H Child Development Projects Leader’s Guide for the Infant and Toddler Units; Working with young people, responsibility of the 4-H leader, 4-H philosophy, planning the project meeting, the infant, understanding infancy, caring for the infant, learning through play, an achievement meeting, the toddler, understanding the toddler, caring for the toddler, learning through the play and, an achievement meeting

A parenting skills currriculum for single parents of at risk youths

This project entails a curriculum targeted at helping improve the parenting skills of single parents that have children who are considered at risk by societal standards. This curriculum is the survival kit for the single parent. Learning the skills provided in this curriculum, the single parent will discover that parenting their at risk youth on a positive realm will become a fundamental standard for their lives

4-H 311 4-H Child Development Projects : Leader\u27s Guide for the Infant and Toddler Units

4-H 311: 4-H Child Development Projects Leader’s Guide for the Infant and Toddler Units; Working with young people, responsibility of the 4-H leader, 4-H philosophy, planning the project meeting, the infant, understanding infancy, caring for the infant, learning through play, an achievement meeting, the toddler, understanding the toddler, caring for the toddler, learning through the play and, an achievement meeting

4-h 325 4-H Child Development : The Preschooler

4-H 325: The Preschooler. This extension contains information about preschoolers including how they grow physically, mentally, socially and emotionally. You will also learn how to care for a preschooler and promote feeling of security and safety, and how to choose types of play a preschooler will enjoy

Red Carpet Service--Linking Rural Communities to Travelers and Tourists

As rural communities develop their tourism potential they often overlook one basic aspect, hospitality training for front-line staff. This article describes a train-the-trainer program, Red Carpet Service, designed to help front-line employees increase tourism awareness, discover traveler tools, and practice customer service skills. It is based on a service-profit chain model that outlines the relationship between internal service quality and business profitability. The article highlights program evaluation results from post-then-pre surveys and mystery shopper interviews as well as community development roles for Extension faculty and suggests tourism as way for communities to begin working together at a regional level

Discomfort in Addressing Spiritual Needs: A Hospital-Wide Exploration into the Hole in Holistic Care

Title from PDF of title page, viewed on January 25, 2017Dissertation advisor: Jennifer L. HunterVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 140-151)Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Nursing and Health Studies. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016Throughout its history, the nursing profession has claimed to provide holistic patient care, which is defined as bio-psycho-socio-spiritual care. However, many nurses do not feel comfortable with the “spiritual” element of care and are uncertain about their professional role in the assessment and delivery of spiritual care. Discomfort and avoidance of attending to the spiritual needs of human beings creates “a hole” in holistic patient care. This case study examined a specific healthcare organization in its entirety to identify professional roles, processes, communication, and language of spiritual care when addressing spiritual distress in dying patients and their families. The study included examination of organizational procedures and the designated and perceived roles of key professionals in defining, identifying, and addressing spiritual distress of dying patients and their families within the single hospital. Strengths and gaps were determined by comparing the findings against a proposed conceptual framework developed from a synthesis of existing practice models for spiritual assessment and care of dying patients and families experiencing spiritual distress. The major gaps or problem areas that were identified included: (a) Lack of an organizational structure for spiritual assessment, planning, and implementation of spiritual care, or communication of the spiritual care plan among healthcare professionals, (b) Screening questions that do not identify with spiritual distress, (c) No clear delineation of roles and responsibilities related to spiritual care, leading to tension between some disciplines, and (d) No healthcare provider education or training on understanding spirituality, assessing spiritual needs, and responding to spiritual distress.Introduction -- Review of the literature -- Methods -- Results -- conclusions and implications -- Appendix A. Spiritual Care Implementation Models -- Appendix B. Letter of Support -- Appendix C. Consent for Participation in a Research Study -- Appendix D. Interview Guid

Characterizing User Behavior and Information Propagation on a Social Multimedia Network

An increasing portion of modern socializing takes place via online social networks. Members of these communities often play distinct roles that can be deduced from observations of users' online activities. One such activity is the sharing of multimedia, the popularity of which can vary dramatically. Here we discuss our initial analysis of anonymized, scraped data from consenting Facebook users, together with associated demographic and psychological profiles. We present five clusters of users with common observed online behaviors, where these users also show correlated profile characteristics. Finally, we identify some common properties of the most popular multimedia content.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, to be published in the proceedings of the Int. Workshop on Social Multimedia Research (SMMR) 2013. 2013 IEE

A Validated Set of MIDAS V5 Task Network Model Scenarios to Evaluate Nextgen Closely Spaced Parallel Operations Concepts

The Closely Spaced Parallel Operations (CSPO) scenario is a complex, human performance model scenario that tested alternate operator roles and responsibilities to a series of off-nominal operations on approach and landing (see Gore, Hooey, Mahlstedt, Foyle, 2013). The model links together the procedures, equipment, crewstation, and external environment to produce predictions of operator performance in response to Next Generation system designs, like those expected in the National Airspaces NextGen concepts. The task analysis that is contained in the present report comes from the task analysis window in the MIDAS software. These tasks link definitions and states for equipment components, environmental features as well as operational contexts. The current task analysis culminated in 3300 tasks that included over 1000 Subject Matter Expert (SME)-vetted, re-usable procedural sets for three critical phases of flight; the Descent, Approach, and Land procedural sets (see Gore et al., 2011 for a description of the development of the tasks included in the model; Gore, Hooey, Mahlstedt, Foyle, 2013 for a description of the model, and its results; Hooey, Gore, Mahlstedt, Foyle, 2013 for a description of the guidelines that were generated from the models results; Gore, Hooey, Foyle, 2012 for a description of the models implementation and its settings). The rollout, after landing checks, taxi to gate and arrive at gate illustrated in Figure 1 were not used in the approach and divert scenarios exercised. The other networks in Figure 1 set up appropriate context settings for the flight deck.The current report presents the models task decomposition from the tophighest level and decomposes it to finer-grained levels. The first task that is completed by the model is to set all of the initial settings for the scenario runs included in the model (network 75 in Figure 1). This initialization process also resets the CAD graphic files contained with MIDAS, as well as the embedded operator models that comprise MIDAS. Following the initial settings, the model progresses to begin the first tasks required of the two flight deck operators, the Captain (CA) and the First Officer (FO). The task sets will initialize operator specific settings prior to loading all of the alerts, probes, and other events that occur in the scenario. As a note, the CA and FO were terms used in developing this model but the CA can also be thought of as the Pilot Flying (PF), while the FO can be considered the Pilot-Not-Flying (PNF)or Pilot Monitoring (PM). As such, the document refers to the operators as PFCA and PNFFO respectively

Type 2 innate immunity drives distinct neonatal immune profile conducive for heart regeneration.

Neonatal immunity is functionally immature and skewed towards a T 2-driven, anti-inflammatory profile. This neonatal immunotolerance is partly driven by the type 2 cytokines: interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-13 (IL-13). Studies on neonatal cardiac regeneration reveal the beneficial role of an anti-inflammatory response in restoring cardiac function after injury. However, the role of an imbalanced immune repertoire observed in neonates on tissue regeneration is poorly understood; specifically, whether IL-4 and IL-13 actively modulate neonatal immunity during cardiac injury. Neonatal mice lacking IL-4 and IL-13 (DKOs) examined at 2 days after birth exhibited reduced anti-inflammatory immune populations with basal cardiac immune populations like adult mice. Examination of neonates lacking IL-4 and IL-13 at 2 days post cardiac ischemic injury, induced on the second day after birth, showed impaired cardiac function compared to their control counterparts. Treatment with either IL-4 or IL-13 cytokine during injury restored both cardiac function and immune population profiles in knockout mice. Examination of IL-4/IL-13 downstream pathways revealed the role of STAT6 in mediating the regenerative response in neonatal hearts. As IL-4/IL-13 drives polarization of alternatively activated macrophages, we also examined the role of IL-4/IL-13 signaling within the myeloid compartment during neonatal cardiac regeneration. Injury of IL-4Rα myeloid specific knockout neonates 2 days after birth revealed that loss of IL-4/IL-13 signaling in macrophages alone was sufficient to impair cardiac regeneration. Our results confirm that the T 2 cytokines: IL-4 and IL-13, which skews neonatal immunity to a T 2 profile, are necessary for maintaining and mediating an anti-inflammatory response in the neonatal heart, in part through the activation of alternatively activated macrophages, thereby permitting a niche conducive for regeneration. [Abstract copyright: © The author(s).

Menstrual health intervention and school attendance in Uganda (MENISCUS-2): a pilot intervention study.

OBJECTIVES: Achieving good menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is a public health challenge and there is little evidence to inform interventions. The aim of this study was to pilot test an intervention to improve MHH and school attendance in Uganda, in preparation for a future cluster-randomised trial. DESIGN: Longitudinal study with pre-post evaluation of a pilot intervention. SETTING: Two secondary schools in Entebbe, Uganda. PARTICIPANTS: Of the 473 eligible students in secondary 2 (S2) at baseline, 450 (95.1%; 232 girls and 218 boys) consented/assented. 369 students (188 girls; 81.0%; and 181 boys; 83.0%) participated in the endline survey. INTERVENTION: The intervention comprised training teachers to improve delivery of government guidelines for puberty education, training in use of a menstrual kit and pain management, a drama skit, provision of analgesics and improvements to school water and sanitation hygiene facilities. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Feasibility and acceptability of delivering the intervention. Baseline and endline quantitative surveys were conducted, with qualitative interviews conducted at endline. School attendance was assessed using self-completed daily diaries among a nested cohort of 100 female students. RESULTS: There were high levels of uptake of the individual and behavioural intervention components (puberty education, drama skit, menstrual hygiene management (MHM) kit and pain management). The proportion of girls reporting anxiety about next period decreased from 58.6% to 34.4%, and reported use of effective pain management increased from 76.4% to 91.4%. Most girls (81.4%) reported improved school toilet facilities, which improved their comfort managing menstruation. The diary data and qualitative data indicated a potential intervention impact on improving menstrual-related school absenteeism. CONCLUSIONS: The pilot study showed that the multicomponent MHM intervention was acceptable and feasible to deliver, and potentially effective in improving menstruation knowledge and management. A cluster-randomised trial is needed to evaluate rigorously the intervention effects on MHM and school attendance. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NCT04064736; Pre-results