Screening for Food Insecurity in a Suburban Pediatric Urgent Care

Problem: Screening for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), including food insecurity (FI) should be done on a regular basis at a child’s pediatrician. Many children in the state of Missouri do not have a pediatrician or do not regularly see their pediatrician and are therefore never being screened for FI. Methods: This observational descriptive quality improvement (QI) project utilized a prospective observational analysis to implement a voluntary FI screening tool in a pediatric only urgent care. The project sampled pediatric patients aged two days to 21 years of life. All participants were given local resources after completing the screening. The project included a staff education phase, implementation phase, and data collection and analysis phase. The project used plan-do-act-study method to evaluate limitations. Results: 261 families were screened over a one-month period with 33% of the screenings being positive for FI. Two two-tailed, independent t-tests were performed to assess a correlation between a child being food insecure and the child seeing a pediatrician in the last 12 months. The results were not significant with p values of 0.98% and 0.52% Implications for Practice: A FI positivity rate of 33% suggests screening for SDOH should be done outside of a child’s pediatrician and families should be better connected to resources when they do screen positive for FI

3000 Years of Educational Technology

This paper contains a very broad history and survey of teaching. Important teachers or leaders are used as examples. The application Psychology, History, and Experience are discussed. This discussion includes a model or ideal teaching and aids such as computers. A summary includes suggestions as to how the ideas presented can be used to make learning experiences more effective and valuable. Specific suggestions are made that live teachers are part of appropriate educational technology. The teachers should use lectures, illustrations, visual aids , and various techniques to make presentations more interesting and memorable. New electronic equipment such as video and computer hardware and software should be used to present repetitive instruction more effectively than live professors. Class members must be appropriately involved in the learning process. In general, effective teaching approaches EXPERIENCE as closely as possible

Ancientness and Traditionality: Cultural Intersections of Vocal Music and History in the Republic of Georgia

Drawing on varied sources and personal fieldwork, data suggests the use of Georgian traditional music as a way for modern Georgians to reclaim and re-imagine the past. The history of Georgia and Georgian perspectives of history both gives context for the music and illustrates many modern Georgians' sense of being under siege. Within Georgian ethnomusicology and within the dominant Georgian culture itself, two concepts, "traditionality" and "ancientness," play prominent roles in perspectives of Georgian traditional vocal music and identity formation. After describing traditionality and ancientness in the Georgian context, we explore several roles they play in the formation of Georgian identity. Many current Georgians, in choosing to practice traditionality with their musical performances and perceptions, draw close to their imagined, idealized past. Furthermore, ancientness of Georgian traditional vocal music helps defend the border against the "theoretical other" - whether geographic neighbors or historical oppressors - through difference-making

Collaborative Argumentation As A Learning Strategy To Improve Student Performance In Engineering Statics: A Pilot Study

Educators have used argumentation to help students understand mathematical ideas which often appear abstract to the novice learner.  A preliminary investigation was conducted to determine if collaborative argumentation is a strategy that can improve the student’s conceptual understanding of the topics taught in the engineering course commonly titled Statics.  The academic performance of students enrolled in a traditional problems-solving session was compared to the academic performance of students enrolled in a problem-solving session where collaborative argumentation was used. Results suggest that argumentation improved student performance as measured by grades associated with one-hour long exams, although student written responses on a course evaluation survey responses indicate that students did not believe argumentation was a learning strategy was effective.&nbsp

Brain stimulation treatments in epilepsy: Basic mechanisms and clinical advances

Drug-resistant epilepsy, characterized by ongoing seizures despite appropriate trials of anti-seizure medications, affects approximately one-third of people with epilepsy. Brain stimulation has recently become available as an alternative treatment option to reduce symptomatic seizures in short and long-term follow-up studies. Several questions remain on how to optimally develop patient-specific treatments and manage therapy over the long term. This review aims to discuss the clinical use and mechanisms of action of Responsive Neural Stimulation and Deep Brain Stimulation in the treatment of epilepsy and highlight recent advances that may both improve outcomes and present new challenges. Finally, a rational approach to device selection is presented based on current mechanistic understanding, clinical evidence, and device features

Disintermediation and Its Mitigation in Online Two-sided Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb

Disintermediation, where providers and customers transact bypassing an intermediary, has challenged the business model and dwindled profits of the multi-billion-dollar platform economy. Despite the platforms’ efforts to mitigate disintermediation, little is known regarding the extent of disintermediation or efficacy of the mitigation policies, largely due to unobservability of disintermediation. We tackle these challenges by designing a geo-analytic methodology to identify and quantify disintermediation by matching online Airbnb booking and offline granular mobile location data. We further leverage DiD with matching samples to causally examine the efficacy of four Airbnb policies; and finally propose a cost-and-benefit conceptual framework to interpret the findings and guide platform designs of mitigation policies. We find, for instance, a 5.4% of disintermediation in Austin, TX over Summer 2019; and Instant Bookable reduces disintermediation by 9%, with a stronger effect among the hosts without preference for long-term lease, with more repeated guests, and more hosting experience