Returns on Resilience: The Business Case

Real estate projects designed to withstand the effects of climate change can provide substantial returns on investment and an array of other benefits, according to this new report. Case studies from 10 leading resilience projects are highlighted, ranging from a Boston hospital built to withstand coastal storms to a residential community in San Antonio built to withstand the effects of intense heat and drought. Other communities with highlighted case studies include Queens, N.Y.; Miami, FL; Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; Nashville, TN; Tucson, AZ and Lancaster, CA.The study found an array of benefits from the climate-smart designs in addition to their strength against climate unpredictability. They include:Better energy efficiency. For example, multilayered impact-resistant windows save energy and reduce utility bills.Greater marketing, sales and leasing success driven by buyers' desires for well-built structures that will withstand harsh conditions and keep their value longer.Better financing options and lower insurance rates based on the reduced risk from resilient and hardened structures

Transcript Conventions and Examples for Audio and Video Stories

This document was developed to guide members of the research team as they prepared transcripts of audio and video stories that were collected as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. The document includes information on general formatting conventions, stylistic issues, and examples for reference

The influence of iron and manganese oxides on the production of marine sedimentary cerium anomalies

Cerium is the only metal in the yttrium and rare earth element (YREE) series that can be oxidized under natural conditions, resulting in anomalous Ce distributions relative to those of the other YREE. Marine sedimentary cerium anomaly records have thus been used to signify relative shifts in bottom water oxygenation. However, Ce anomalies form via several pathways often not considered in paleo-oceanographic interpretations. To determine the relative influence of two important marine particulate components, Fe and Mn, on Ce oxidation, YREE sorption was investigated under anaerobic conditions in 0.5 M NaCl solutions over a range of pH (4-8) on hydrous ferric, manganese(IV) and ferromanganese oxides. Non-electrostatic surface complexation models were developed that describe non-oxidative sorption mechanisms on each surface. Cerium oxidation occurred on all sorbents containing Mn, indicating that sedimentary Ce records cannot be directly related to past marine oxygen conditions, even in the presence of relatively little manganese

Engaging with the Dory Fleet: A Panel Discussion on a Collaborative College and Community Oral History Project

This peer-reviewed program was presented at the annual Northwest Communication Association Conference in Coeur d’Alene Idaho on April 15, 2016. The presentation features an overview of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project and includes detailed notes from each speaker. Special thanks go to Mary Beth Jones and Brenda DeVore Marshall, who served as transcriber and editor for the detailed speaker notes

Schizophreniform disorder

This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of schizophreniform disorder

Institutional Repositories Supporting Community Engagement: Campus and Community Partnerships at Linfield College

Building partnerships with community-oriented research centers and departments is one of the best ways to develop an institutional repository into a valued community resource. This presentation examines partnerships with the Linfield Center for the Northwest (LCN) and the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts to demonstrate how Linfield’s institutional repository supports faculty research, student internships, multimedia exhibits, oral histories, and original theatrical productions

The Dory Fleet of Pacific City: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography has been created as part of the Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City project. Kathleen Spring, Brenda DeVore Marshall, Andrea Snyder, Mary Beth Jones, Alicia Schnell, and Gabrielle Leif have contributed to the document. Many of the articles and other documents were found in personal scrapbooks and files. In many cases, the bibliographic information is incomplete. Research is ongoing, and the bibliography will be updated as additional information becomes available

The International Mental Health Assessment: Validation of an Efficient Screening Inventory

The International Mental Health Assessment (IMHA) was developed to provide efficient screening to facilitate prevention and early intervention among employees or community adults at three levels of analysis: a P-factor of general functioning and tendency toward disorder; broad spectra of internalizing and externalizing tendencies and for life difficulties; and nine subscales for common, familiar psychological and behavioral health categories. This study describes the development, refinement, and validation of the inventory using item response theory (IRT), specifically the partial credit model (PCM). Explicit, behavior-focused items drew on commonalities among domain-specific inventories, the DSM-V and empirical literature. A response scale based on concrete frequency of occurrence over the last month was developed to avoid the reference-group effects that plague cross-group survey research, facilitating cross-group comparison at both scale and item levels. In Study 1, a preliminary 69-item version was administered to 5,307 employees, family members, and counseling clients. PCM calibration was used to remove items with overlapping discrimination or unclear scale correspondence. In Study 2, the refined 59-item IMHA was administered to 4,048 employees. In Study 3, the subscales were compared to relevant established inventories to assess and confirm their convergent/divergent validity in a third sample (N = 500). The final 54-item IMHA, intended both for screening for psychological problems among community adults and to facilitate research including cross-cultural and cross-group comparisons, is made available freely for educational, non-profit or research purposes. The three-level measurement strategy draws on recent evidence for the continuous nature of psychopathology and on the well-established co-morbidity of traditional disorder categories, making use of them for communication purposes without unnecessarily reifying them in the model