African American Male Achievement Initiative: A Deeper Look At African American Males In OUSD

This report provides further insights into the status of African American boys in Oakland Unified School Distric (OUSD) and aims to reverse the academic and social inequities they face in seven key areas: the achievement gap, graduation rates, literacy, suspensions, attendance, middle school holding power, and juvenile detention. A framework of three levels of well-being (on course, at risk of falling off course, and off course) was used to understand how African American male students are faring in these areas

African American Male Achievement Initiative: A Closer Look At Attendance Of African American Males In OUSD

This report examines data, best practices, and policies related to attendance and chronic absence and offers recommendations for reducing the levels of chromic absence for African American males in Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). It analyzes one year of attendance data (2010-2011) for African American males in OUSD, looking at chronic absence by grade level, types of absence, and reasons given for absence, as well as comparing rates of chronic absence to other males groups in OUSD

African American Male Achievement Initiative: A Closer Look At Suspensions Of African American Males In OUSD

This report examines the data, literature, and policy around suspensions of African American male students to uncover and better understand the disparities between this group and all other ethnic and gender groups. This report analyzes one year of suspension data from the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD, 2010-11), looking at suspensions by demographics, grade level, school level, and types of offenses

Signaling pathways of nucleic acids for bone healing: A review

Different kinds of nucleic acid (NA) molecules are promising therapeutic tools in a variety of tissues and their pathogenesis, and bone pathologies are not the exception. NAs interact in cytosol or nucleus to generate a specific response. Some of these NAs can be used to generate a positive response in relation to bone formation and differentiation in osteoblast and osteocyte. This work aims to briefly and clearly show main signaling pathways in osteoblasts and osteocytes, and to state the mechanism of how miRNA agonists (miRNA) and miRNA antagonists (antagomir) affect them. Thus, this summarizes the mechanism of promising therapeutic strategies for bone repair. NAs are fragile and can be degraded quickly outside the cells. These problems are more and more frequently resolved by nanotechnology and tissue engineering approaches. Further research in this field wills probably generate safe and therapeutic effective therapy in relation to bone healing.Fil: Camal Ruggieri, Iván Nadir. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Laboratorio de Biología Osteoarticular, Ingeniería Tisular y Terapias Emergentes; ArgentinaFil: Feldman, Sara. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Rosario; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Laboratorio de Biología Osteoarticular, Ingeniería Tisular y Terapias Emergentes; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Consejo de Investigaciones de la Universidad de Rosario; Argentin

Fine Lines: Hebrew and Yiddish Translations of Alexander Pushkin’s Verse Novel Eugene Onegin, 1899–1937.

This dissertation is a literary and historical case study of Russian-Jewish translation, one of the competing strategies in the East European Jewish “language wars” to create a modern literature in either Hebrew or Yiddish. I argue that Yiddish and Hebrew writers, who were anxious for their respective chosen literary languages to earn a place in world literature, fashioned their literary movements after Russian examples. In particular, they understood Russian national poet Alexander Pushkin as not just a genius, but as the transformer and modernizer of Russian literature who gave voice to the indigenous and mastered the foreign. Those who translated Pushkin into Jewish languages aimed to enrich Hebrew or Yiddish in accordance with the foreign, or Westernizing, side of this program, but when Hebrew poet H. N. Bialik chose to gather Jewish materials rather than translate Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin, he was following a Jewish version of Pushkin’s Slavophilic side. The imperative to render the masterpiece, macaronic novel in its sonnet-like “Onegin stanzas,” in accordance with the greater project of translating world literature into Jewish languages, cut across the language war’s Yiddish-Hebrew lines and the Jewish political and aesthetic spectrum. The lines of the language war are clear, however, in this diachronic study which shows that the institutional and linguistic features of the two languages at given times in history determined how and when the novel was translated. Fine Lines explores translations and their paratexts by Buki ben Yogli, Dovid Frishman, A. Y. Grodzenski, Leyb Naydus, Avraham Levinson, and Avraham Shlonsky, and is among the first scholarly attention several of them have received despite their prominence as poets and public intellectuals. Covering the period between the Jewish celebrations of the centennial of Pushkin’s birth and that of his death, it begins in 1899 in Saint Petersburg with liberal maskilim, moving to the Great War, Russian Civil War, and interwar years in Vilna, Grodno, Kustin, Ekaterinoslav (mostly Polish and Lithuanian Jewish communities) amid Diasporist and Zionist politics, and concludes in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in 1937, demonstrating that Jews in Palestine left the Jewish Diaspora but found the Russian Diaspora.PhDNear Eastern StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/107294/1/feldmans_1.pd

Personal motivation and child protection decision-making: The role of regulatory focus in removal recommendations

Decision-making in the field of child protection has been the subject of focused study for decades, propelled by repeated reports of its questionable reliability. Although researchers have examined the extent to which caseworker characteristics influence child protection decision-making, studies into the influence of caseworker motivation on decision-making is scarce. This initial study into the regulatory focus of child protection investigators adds to the nascent body of knowledge on the impact of caseworker motivation on the specific decision of whether to place a child in out-of-home care. Drawing from Higgins' (1997) regulatory focus theory this study seeks to explain, at least in part, why caseworkers make the kinds of decisions they do. It was hypothesized that child protection investigators' placement recommendations would be related to their regulatory focus generally speaking, and in more pronounced ways for investigators with a strong prevention focus. A sample of 100 child protection investigators employed by a large urban public child welfare agency participated in the study, in which workplace regulatory focus was measured using the Work Regulatory Focus scale. Participants were asked to read and react to two vignettes adapted from actual child protection cases. Following each vignette were questions regarding placement recommendations, assessments of risk, and emotional reactions to reading the vignettes. Socio-demographic information was also collected. Findings suggest a relationship between regulatory focus and placement recommendations, although test statistics at the margin of statistical significance and low power preclude definitive statements as to whether the null hypotheses can truly be rejected. Interpretation is made more difficult given the duality that characterized the regulatory focus of this sample of child protection investigators, with more than half of the sample scoring high on both the prevention and promotion subscales of the WRF scale. Implications for future research and practice are discussed

Brief for Respondents. County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, 137 S.Ct. 1539 (2017) (No. 16-3690), 2017 WL 696103

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Does the legal framework set out in Grnham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989), apply to actions by police that foreseeably create a need for the use of force? 2. In an action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where a house search that violates the Fourth Amendment results in the shooting of an innocent resident who did not know that the intruders were sheriff’s deputies, does a resident’s nonculpable response to the intrusion constitute a superseding cause that bars relief for the residents’ injur