Friends matter. The relationship between Korean international students\u27 friendship networks and study abroad outcomes

This study examined the determinants of international students\u27 interactions with different friendship networks and the relationships of these interactions with study abroad outcomes, using data from 482 Korean college students who had participated in international student exchange programs. The results showed that students\u27 participation in extracurricular and off-campus activities while studying abroad was significantly related to their interactions with local and other international students. The results also showed that students\u27 interactions with co-national, local, and other international students while studying abroad were positively associated with their intercultural competence, personal development, and career development, even after controlling for other variables. We discuss the policy implications of these findings beyond the Korean context. (DIPF/Orig.

The Student Movement Volume 105 Issue 7: Please Pass the Plexiglass: Friends Unite for Shielded Bite

NEWS Receiving the COVID-19 Vaccine, Interviewed by TJ Hunter Andrews University Choral Performs “Celebrating the Light” Concert, Jenae Rogers AUSA Hosts Sabbath Experience at PMC, Caralynn Chan Dr. Kizzmekia Shanta Corbett Gives Lecture on the Safety and Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines, Terika Williams Loving in the Grey: This Semester’s First In-Person Chapel, Kristin Ferrer PULSE Holilday Recap, Gloria Oh New Year’s Aspirations, Wambui Karanja The Wellness Column: No Longer Sitting Ducks, Jessica Rim Winter Break Endeavors, by HeeYun Oh HUMANS AU Christmas Album Interview, Interview by Abigail Lee My Experience in COVID Isolation, Interview by Terika Williams Spring Semester 2021 Club Events, Interview by Celeste Richardson ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Creative Spotlight: Brent LaPorre, Interviewed by Megan Napod Current February Favorites, Megan Napod Long Live the King, Joshua Deonarine IDEAS Insurrection, Impeachment, and Inauguration: Three Wednesdays in January, Solana Campbell What We Learned from 2020 and Are Keeping in 2021, Sion Kimhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/sm-105/1000/thumbnail.jp

Status and Risk of Noncompliance of Adherence to Medications for Metabolic Diseases According to Occupational Characteristics

Thus far, little attention has been paid to adherence to medications focusing on the workers and occupational characteristics. This study aimed to assess the status and risk of noncompliance among workers compared to nonworkers, and the association between nonadherence to medication of metabolic diseases and occupational characteristics. Self-reported adherence to medications for hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia and occupational characteristics were evaluated using the Korea Health Panel Study (2008–2018). The status of adherence to medications was evaluated based on working status, with detailed reasons provided for noncompliance. The risk of noncompliance was estimated using the generalized estimating equation, and a subgroup analysis with age-standardized prevalence ratio according to occupational characteristics was also conducted. During the follow-up period, 19,660 (13.9%) person years were noncompliant with medication adherence for 141,807 person years. Workers had a higher prevalence (15.0%) of noncompliance than nonworkers (13.0%). Workers (OR:1.10, 95% CI:1.04–1.14) showed an increased risk of noncompliance compared to nonworkers. Workers who were manual, unpaid family workers, irregular, or dispatched workers showed an increased prevalence of noncompliance. This study found that workers were susceptible to nonadherence to metabolic disease medication. Future research on the role of working conditions in medication adherence would benefit metabolic disease prevention

A Fad or the New Norm for Student Access Today? Holistic Admissions and Student Enrollment Patterns in Korea

Since it was introduced in 2007, holistic admissions have been one of the most controversial policies in Korea. In 2007, the Korean government launched the Admissions Officer Project and selected leading institutions to administer holistic admissions in reviewing their applicants. The selected institutions received financial assistance for implementing holistic admissions and were subject to government control including enrollment monitoring and compliance with guidelines. Holistic admissions have diffused widely even among the institutions not receiving the government grant that about two-thirds of entire four-year colleges and universities administer them as of 2016. While holistic admissions is prevalent in the Korean higher education system after 15-years of effort, now it is also faced with significant controversies about its fairness and impact on students’ access. In this dissertation, I examine whether the adoption of holistic admissions at the institutions, either unsubsidized or subsidized by the government, changes the composition of entering student body. To do so, I analyze data from the Higher Education Statistics Survey, which is a panel-type administrative data. In terms of analysis, I employ difference-in-differences to estimate the treatment effect of policy adoption at the subsidized and unsubsidized institutions. I also examine whether the government’s monitoring of the enrollment of disadvantaged students at subsidized institutions affected the enrollment of this student group. Finally, I examine heterogeneity in the effect of holistic admissions adoption by institutional selectivity. I find that, in general, there is no significant change in the overall enrollments after the adoption of holistic admissions. The government’s imposition of enrollment monitoring even had an adverse effect of decreasing the proportion of traditional high school students enrolling at the subsidized institutions. Further, the subsidized institutions enrolled significantly more selective high school students after the monitoring began. The adoption of holistic admissions also produced heterogeneous effects by institutional selectivity. Among Seoul institutions, that are mostly selective, unsubsidized adopters with the highest degree of implementation experienced a 6.3 percentage point increase in the proportion of graduates from selective high schools after adopting holistic admissions. The results from this study suggest that without a carefully designed monitoring and rewarding system accounting for institutional contexts, characteristics, and capacities, holistic admissions may be a mechanism that widens the gap in student access. Given the conflicting goals that the government, institutions, and society may have regarding college admissions, the success of holistic admissions in improving student access and success depends on whether society and institutions value these goals, and how the government designs admissions policies to reduce agency problems and motivate the institutions to achieve not only their own, but also social goals.PHDHigher EducationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/174453/1/heeyunk_1.pd

Status and Risk of Noncompliance of Adherence to Medications for Metabolic Diseases According to Occupational Characteristics

Thus far, little attention has been paid to adherence to medications focusing on the workers and occupational characteristics. This study aimed to assess the status and risk of noncompliance among workers compared to nonworkers, and the association between nonadherence to medication of metabolic diseases and occupational characteristics. Self-reported adherence to medications for hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia and occupational characteristics were evaluated using the Korea Health Panel Study (2008–2018). The status of adherence to medications was evaluated based on working status, with detailed reasons provided for noncompliance. The risk of noncompliance was estimated using the generalized estimating equation, and a subgroup analysis with age-standardized prevalence ratio according to occupational characteristics was also conducted. During the follow-up period, 19,660 (13.9%) person years were noncompliant with medication adherence for 141,807 person years. Workers had a higher prevalence (15.0%) of noncompliance than nonworkers (13.0%). Workers (OR:1.10, 95% CI:1.04–1.14) showed an increased risk of noncompliance compared to nonworkers. Workers who were manual, unpaid family workers, irregular, or dispatched workers showed an increased prevalence of noncompliance. This study found that workers were susceptible to nonadherence to metabolic disease medication. Future research on the role of working conditions in medication adherence would benefit metabolic disease prevention

Predicting Law School Enrollment: The Strategic Use of Financial Aid to Craft a Class

In this study, we explore what factors predict student decisions to enroll at law schools and how the probability of enrollment varies across students with various profiles and conditions. To find the predictors of enrollment and differences in the probability of enrollment across groups, we employ a logistic regression model using the institutional data obtained from one of the top-ranked law schools in the nation. After estimating the logistic regression model, the probabilities of enrollment are calculated for students with specific profiles and conditions based on the coefficients generated by the logistic regression analysis. The findings reveal many factors that are associated with the probability of enrollment at this law school. Particularly, students with higher academic qualifications, underrepresented minority status, the most selective undergraduate school, STEM background, and previous applicant status have a lower probability of enrollment compared to their respective counterparts. Simulation analysis findings show that the increase in financial aid does not increase the probability of enrollment for URM students and that out-of-state and international students are more sensitive to financial aid increases than in-state students. Admissions and enrollment management offices at individual institutions could apply this exercise with their own data to understand who is more or less likely to enroll and how their students with various profiles respond differently to various financial aid offers and recruitment efforts. It is our hope that this article is used as an example to other law schools to leverage their institutional data to create enrollment models that will help make more effective admission decision making

Receding Horizon Control of Cooling Systems for Large-Size Uninterruptible Power Supply Based on a Metal-Air Battery System

As application of electric energy have expanded, the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) concept has attracted considerable attention, and new UPS technologies have been developed. Despite the extensive research on the batteries for UPS, conventional batteries are still being used in large-scale UPS systems. However, lead-acid batteries, which are currently widely adopted in UPS, require frequent maintenance and are relatively expensive as compared with some other kinds of batteries, like metal-air batteries. In previous work, we designed a novel metal-air battery, with low cost and easy maintenance for large-scale UPS applications. An extensive analysis was performed to apply our metal-air battery to the hybrid UPS model. In this study, we focus on including an optimal control system for high battery performance. We developed an algorithm based on receding horizon control (RHC) for each fan of the cooling system. The algorithm reflects the operation properties of the metal-air battery so that it can supply power for a long time. We solved RHC by applying dynamic programming (DP) for a corresponding time. Different variables, such as current density, oxygen concentration, and temperature, were considered for the application of DP. Additionally, a 1.5-dimensional DP, which is used for solving the RHC, was developed using the state variables with high sensitivity and considering the battery characteristics. Because there is no other control variable during operation, only one control variable, the fan flow, was used, and the state variables were divided by section rather than a point. Thus, we not only developed a sub-optimal control strategy for the UPS but also found that fan control can improve the performance of metal-air batteries. The sub-optimal control strategy showed stable and 6–10% of improvement in UPS operating time based on the simulation

The Student Movement Volume 106 Issue 3: ¡Levanta la Bandera!: AU Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

HUMANS La Chula Mexican Market Food Truck Visits Andrews University for Hispanic Heritage Month, Interviewed by: Heeyun Oh New Chapel Set Up with Student Chaplain Kevin Galeano, Interviewed by: Timmy Duado Student Missionary Spotlight: Elizabeth Cisneros (senior, speech pathology), Karenna Lee ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Hispanic Heritage Month in Song, Solana Campbell Julio Cortázar y Continuidad de los parques ( Continuity of the Parks ), Hannah Cruse The Hispanic Media Gap, Steven Injety NEWS A Glimpse Into AU\u27s Club Fair, Andrew Pak AFIA Throws Welcome Back Bash, Caralynn Chan The History of Hispanic Heritage Month and AU Happenings Honoring the Holiday, Nathan Mathieu IDEAS Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shot, Sion Kim Rainbows & Butterflies, Evin-Nazya Musgrove Statehood for Puerto Rico, Sung Been Han PULSE Asian Harvest Festival at Andrews University, Gloria Oh De-stress from your Distress, Brendan Syto Nu Sigma x Scriptorium Poetry Night, Izzy Koh THE LAST WORD Too Many Hispanics , Alyssa Henriquezhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/sm-106/1002/thumbnail.jp