Making Content Relevant (Or Not): Exploring the Outcomes of a Project-Based Curriculum in Post-Secondary Art Appreciation

Because college students often struggle to understand the relevance of isolated and abstract art content to their programs of study and daily lives, this study explores the potential to generate meaningful education through a project-based curriculum in a college Art Appreciation course. Informed by research from educational psychology and neuroscience, this curriculum design was intended to help students (all non-art majors) connect course content to their social, emotional and physical realities and offer the potential to improve them. In class, students explored forms of visual communication, various media, and the relationship between art and culture before applying their findings to the design of a public artwork for their nearly art-free campus. Based on a constructivist epistemology and a phenomenological methodology, this study utilized participant observation, student projects and illustrated reflections as data sources. The results suggest positive outcomes, such as demonstrable understanding and application of course content as well as shortcomings, specifically the potential to fortify and actualize these connections

Analysis of diabetes attitudes, wishes and needs in Switzerland, the Swiss DAWN2™ Study.

AIMS OF THE STUDY Swiss DAWN2™ aimed to evaluate the difficulties and unmet needs of individuals with diabetes and stakeholders, based on the assessments of diabetes care and self-management: the individual burden of disease, the perception of the quality of medical care, and the treatment satisfaction of individuals with diabetes living in the Canton of Bern. The results of the Swiss cohort were analysed and compared with the global DAWN2™ results. METHODS 239 adult individuals with diabetes were enrolled in a cross-sectional study at the Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism at the University Hospital of Bern between 2015 and 2017. The participants completed validated online questionnaires regarding health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-3L) and emotional distress (PAID-5), diabetes self-care activities (SDSCA-6), treatment satisfaction (PACIC-DSF), and health-related wellbeing (WHO-5). Eligibility criteria were as follows: participants were aged >18 years, had a diagnosis of diabetes type 1 or 2 since at least 12 months and gave written informed for the participation in the present study. RESULTS When compared globally, the Swiss cohort reported a higher quality of life (77.28 ± 16.73 vs. 69.3 ± 17.9 EQ-5D-3L score, p 7% correlated to emotional distress (PAID-5, 26.08 ± 23.37 vs. 18.80 ± 17.49, p = 0.024), unfavourable eating habits (4.28 ± 2.22 vs. 4.99 ± 2.15, p = 0.034) and decreased physical activity (3.95 ± 2.16 vs. 4.72 ± 1.92, p = 0.014). Sleeping problems were most commonly reported (35.6%). In total, 28.8% of respondents completed diabetes-related educational programs. CONCLUSION In global comparison, Swiss DAWN2™ showed a lower burden of disease and yet a higher level of treatment satisfaction in patients who were treated in Switzerland. Further studies are required to assess the quality of diabetes treatment and unmet needs in patients treated outside of a tertiary care center

Adolescencias, juventudes y voluntariado en el barrio de Villa Argüello, Berisso

La presente tesina de especialización en Intervención con niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes, propuso caracterizar el espacio de jóvenes de la organización social “La Jungla” en el barrio de Villa Argüello, ciudad de Berisso, provincia de Buenos Aires, durante el año 2019. Se trato de un estudio de corte cualitativo poniendo especial énfasis en caracterizar las prácticas e identificar participes, como así también las posibilidades y límites del trabajo voluntario para sostener las actividades con jóvenes. En la reconstrucción de la experiencia se utilizaron entrevistas a voluntarios/as y jóvenes participes de la experiencia, a la vez que la revisión de documentos.Especialista en Intervención Social con Niños, Niñas, Adolescentes y JóvenesUniversidad Nacional de La PlataFacultad de Trabajo Socia

Guide to electric and natural gas utilities in South Carolina

This report is intended to serve as a customer-focused guide to South Carolina's retail electricity and natural gas distribution utilities, based on the most current publicly-available data. The following data are included in this report: customer, revenue, sales, and average price, green power customer, revenue, sales, and average price, net metering customer and purchases, automatic meter reading and advanced metering Infrastructure and demand-side management programs

Saving Energy, Saving Money : How South Carolina's Electric and Natural Gas Utilities Are Using Demand-Side Management to Help Customers Reduce Their Energy Bills

Demand-side management ("DSM") is a strategy that electric and natural gas utilities employ to decrease or defer demand for their energy services. South Carolina's three large investor-owned electric utilities (Duke Energy Carolinas, Progress Energy Carolinas, and South Carolina Electric & Gas Company) and state-owned Santee Cooper all offered a broad range of DSM programs in 2011

Japan's Orphan Tsunami of 1700: A Jello Stratigraphy Activity for K-12 Students

As a Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Science Ambassador, I created an activity for middle school science students regarding Tsunamis. I presented a brief introduction to tsunamis and how they occur, and the story of Japan's "Orphan Tsunami' in 1700. Researchers scoured coastal wetlands in the Pacific NW looking for evidence of large tsunamis. They discovered tsunami deposits in several locations that dated back to around 1700. My activity involved making Jello stratigraphy layers in opaque cups, that included tsunami sand (sprinkles) and fossils (shell shaped pasta). Students used straws to take core samples of their "wetland sediment layers) and looked for tsunami sand. Spoons were included so the students could dig trenches in their sediment layers

Problemas Emocionais e Percepção de Coerção em Pacientes com Diabetes Tipo 2: Um Estudo Observacional

Introdução: A participação ativa no tratamento, o cuidado psicológico e a comunicação efetiva entre paciente e equipe de saúde são fundamentais para ao tratamento efetivo do diabetes.Objetivo: Identificar os problemas enfrentados pelos pacientes com diabetes e avaliar o grau de coerção associado a estes aspectos.Método: Estudo transversal com 152 pacientes com diabetes tipo 2 foi conduzido utilizando duas escalas: Problem Areas in Diabetes Scale (PAID) e Percepção de Coerção. A hemoglobina glicada foi avaliada com HPLC.Resultados: Mulheres apresentaram nível maior de problemas emocionais com relação ao diabetes (PAID ≥ a 40) do que os homens (X2=5,3; gl=1; P=0,021). Com relação à percepção de coerção, 94,4% (N=118) consideraram ter tido oportunidade suficiente de dizer para a equipe de saúde se queriam se tratar e 83,2% (N=104) o que queriam a respeito do tratamento. Enquanto 12,7% (N=16) referiram que ninguém parecia interessado em saber se ele/ela queria se tratar e 16% (N=20) consideram que a sua opinião sobre o tratamento não interessou à equipe de saúde. O nível de hemoglobina glicada apresentou moderada correlação com a percepção do paciente sobre a oportunidade que recebeu de dizer para a equipe de saúde se queria se tratar.Conclusão: Nesta amostra de pacientes com diabetes tipo 2, os problemas emocionais relacionados ao diabetes se mostram frequentes, principalmente nas mulheres. A percepção de coerção mostrou associação com PAID e com o nível de hemoglobina glicada.

Development and psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Schizotypy Scale: a new measure for assessing positive, negative, and disorganized schizotypy

This dissertation reports on the development of a new self-report questionnaire measure of schizotypy – the Multidimensional Schizotypy Scale (MSS). Schizotypy offers a useful and unifying construct for understanding schizophrenia-spectrum psychopathology. Questionnaire measures have been widely used to assess schizotypy and have greatly informed our understanding of the construct; however, available measures suffer from a number of limitations, including lack of a clear conceptual framework, outdated wording, unclear factor structure, and psychometric shortcomings. The MSS is based on current conceptual models and taps positive, negative, and disorganized conceptual dimensions of schizotypy. The derivation sample included 6,265 participants sampled from four universities and Amazon Mechanical Turk. A separate cross-validation sample of 1,000 participants from these sources was used to examine the psychometric properties of the final subscales. Scale development employed classical test theory, item response theory, and differential item function methods. The positive schizotypy and negative schizotypy subscales contain 26 items each, and the disorganized schizotypy subscale contains 25 items. The psychometric properties were almost identical in the derivation and validation samples. All three subscales demonstrated good to excellent reliability, high item-scale correlations, and good item and test curve characteristics

Hybrid magnetization dynamics in Cu2OSeO3/NiFe heterostructures

We investigate the coupled magnetization dynamics in heterostructures of a single crystal of the chiral magnet Cu 2 OSeO 3 (CSO) and a polycrystalline ferromagnet NiFe (Py) thin film using broadband ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) at cryogenic temperatures. We observe the excitation of a hybrid mode (HM) below the helimagnetic transition temperature of CSO. This HM is attributed to the spin dynamics at the CSO/Py interface. We study the HM by measuring its resonance frequencies for in plane rotations of the external magnetic field. We find that the HM exhibits dominantly fourfold anisotropy in contrast to the FMR of CSO and P

H.M. Misemer to Wife Martha August 17, 1864

This manuscript is a letter written from Henry M. Misemer (signed as H. M. Misemer) to his wife, Martha J. Misemer, dated August 17th, 1864, and sent from Decatur, Alabama. This transcription and its attendant annotations, explanatory material, and bibliography were prepared by students in ENGL 618: Research Methods in English, the required gateway class for the MA in English at Western Carolina University