Fusing Administrative Data to Combat the Opioid Crisis

Opioid-related overdose deaths remain the leading cause of unintentional injury fatalities in the United States. State lawmakers have responded to this crisis by establishing a regulatory environment that extends various legal protections to persons who may help save the life of someone experiencing an opioid-related overdose. Most states now protect specific parties (e.g., doctors, pharmacists, first responders, laypersons) from civil or criminal liability who prescribe, dispense, possess or administer an opioid antagonist in accordance with the provisions of the state’s law. In addition to standing orders that facilitate access to opioid antagonists, many states offer legal protection to “Good Samaritans” seeking medical and emergency assistance for a person experiencing an overdose. Some states additionally mandate that addiction-treatment services be offered in conjunction with the dispensing of an opioid antagonist, whereas others designate revenue to purchase opiate antagonists or to fund treatment programs. Little is known about the potential impact of such regulatory actions on the opioid crisis. RTI’s Data Fusion Center seeks to meet this need by combining administrative data across sources and systems to inform research and policy. The current paper describes the Data Fusion Center and presents preliminary results from a study that predicts opioid-related overdose deaths based on the existence and strength of opioid-related state laws among 50 states from 2006 to 2016. Policy data were webscraped from state agencies, systematically coded, and associated with target outcomes sourced from CDC. Study findings may help inform lawmakers and stakeholders in prioritizing data-driven policy responses to the opioid crisis

Grammar in the French elementary school: a teaching under tension ...

The question of the teaching of the language in the school is sensitive in France and trigger regularly debates and controversies that go beyond the school. Grammar crystallises such controversy, at linguistic, didactic, pedagogic, political, institutional, and social levels. Indeed, we are dealing with an issue under tension. This contribution will seek to interrogate and combine two dimensions, the knowledge prescribed, and the knowledge taught. Two axes will articulate such an approach: first, from a diachronic viewpoint, we will present the analysis of some of the institutional texts released over the last two decades to understand the Ministry’s attempts in a very centralised national context; and second, from a synchronique viewpoint, drawing on recent research outcomes, we will try to shed light to the pedagogic reality of two groups, one in CE2 (8-9 years of age) and one in CM1 (9-10 years of age). Grammar tasks proposed to the pupils will be analysed, as well as the institutional rules set up in the class to explain the language, and the different steps set up in the textbooks, which are meant to follow the official syllabuses (those published in 2020). From these elements, we will attempt to shed light to the points in tension and see the paradoxes that cross the teaching of the language in Language Arts in the French context

La grammaire à l'école élémentaire française:un enseignement sous tension?

La question de l’enseignement de la langue à l’école reste sensible en France et entraine régulièrement des débats et des controverses qui dépassent le cadre scolaire. La grammaire cristallise ces oppositions tant au niveau linguistique, didactique et pédagogique, politique, institutionnel, social… Nous sommes de fait face à un enseignement sous tension. Notre proposition tentera d’interroger et de croiser deux dimensions, les savoirs prescrits et les savoirs enseignés. Cette mise en interaction se fera selon deux axes: sur un axe diachronique, nous proposerons une analyse de quelques textes institutionnels qui se succèdent depuis vingt ans pour comprendre les attentes ministérielles dans un contexte national très centralisé ; sur un axe plus synchronique et en appui sur des recherches récentes, nous tenterons de cerner la réalité pédagogique de classes de CE2 et de CM1 en analysant les exercices de grammaire proposés aux élèves, les règles institutionnalisés dans les classes pour «expliquer» la langue et les démarches préconisés dans des manuels qui se disent conforment aux programmes en vigueur (ceux de 2020). À partir de ces éléments, nous tenterons de cerner les points de tension, voire les paradoxes qui traversent cet enseignement de la langue dans le contexte français

Intercultural communication between African-American and Zimbabwean women: focussing on identity and survival/liberation

African-American and Zimbabwean women live and do theology from different cultural and contextual worldviews, although they share the same skin colour. The narrative stories of three Zimbabwean and one African-American Christian women and how they share inter culturally the struggle of identity, identity-formation and survival/liberation while maintaining their cultural uniqueness form die basis of this research project. These shared experiences can offer significant contributions to the broader feminist liberation theology. The Christian faith has served as a shared source of sustenance, resilience, healing and renewal as well as a shared source for constructive and affirming identity-formation for Zimbabwean and African-American women. Consequently, building strong relationships that address contextual issues facing women of Africa and the Diaspora, as suggested by this research, offers significant opportunities for eliminating some of the barriers and boundaries that prevent Zimbabwean and African- American women from enjoying the quality of life that God meant for everyone.Christian Spirituality, Church History and MissiologyM.Th. (Missiology

Les auxiliaires vétérinaires en France‎ : statuts, activités et perceptions de leur métier

Les auxiliaires vétérinaires représentent souvent le premier et le dernier contact entre le client et la structure vétérinaire. Accueil, vente, ménage, aide, soins, stocks, comptabilité, secrétariat sont autant de termes qui peuvent entrer dans le descriptif très complet des tâches qu’(elles)ils peuvent assurer. Il est aisé de comprendre qu’un(e) auxiliaire bien formé(e) et bien managé(e) représente un atout pour une structure tant pour le vétérinaire, que pour la clientèle. Afin de mieux comprendre la grande diversité et les enjeux du métier, nous avons mené une enquête auprès d’auxiliaires exerçant en France, dans le but d’éclairer les praticiens vétérinaires sur les attentes de leurs salariés, mais aussi les auxiliaires sur les réalités du métier. L’objectif est également d’envisager des pistes d’évolution possibles pour ce métier d’avenir

A case study of management shortcomings: Lessons from the B737-Max aviation accidents

This case study looked into the shortcomings in of Boeing’s upper management in the engineering and fielding of the B737-Max. Under pressure to build a plane with identical flying characteristics to the existing B737 family, Boeing included modifications but purposely concealed those changes from regulators and pilots. This decision resulted in fatal accidents in 2018 and 2019 and caused the deaths of 346 passengers. Unlike previous aviation accidents, these mishaps were entirely preventable and a direct result of Boeing’s organizational failures and management shortcomings. This case study analyzed the behavior, decision making process, and reasons which led Boeing to push for the certification of the B737-Max despite these known flaws in the design. Additionally, this poster studied the consequences and punitive actions that followed the investigation of the two crashes. The poster concludes by offering recommendations to the aviation industry on how accidents such as this can be avoided in the future

Système éducatif et aménagement du territoire : le haut pays niçois

Le développement des services publics d’éducation dans le haut pays niçois s’inscrit dans une logique de valorisation et d’aménagement local. Les partenariats créent un réseau de synergies entre économie, culture et patrimoine, environnement et administration. Les fonctions de base de l’école, placée au cœur d’une activité plurielle, pôle public d’animation, s’en trouvent enrichies