The role of refereed journals in integrating theory, research, and practice

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San Bernardino residents\u27 participation in the planning and implementation of Downtown Revitalization

This study serve as an avenue for people from this community to voice their opinions; to share personal hopes and concerns in light of their urban neighborhood, soon to become a lake

I Can Be Silent and Be Saying a Lot: Teachers\u27 Racial Literacy in a Southern Elementary School

In order to better understand how teachers make sense of race in schools today, this ethnographic study explores the following research question: How do teachers in this school make sense of race, and how does the spatiality of the school inform this process? The study was conducted over a 14-month period in a southern elementary school and is presented as a poetic, narrative, and thematic analysis of the connections between the geographic location of this particular school and the teachers\u27 practices, pedagogies, and conversations about race both inside their classrooms and in other school spaces. This study demonstrates how teachers\u27 racial (il)literacy is manifested in spatialized moments that have real and lasting implications for teachers and students in the school. Results from this study provided the foundation for a conceptual tool that could be utilized by educational researchers interested in better understanding the intersections of geographic place and race in educational settings

Stress and depression among veterinary medical students

While existing literature suggests that professional students (e.g., medical, dental, law, nursing, etc.) experience high levels of stress and depression, the experiences of veterinary medical students have been less well examined. The purpose of this study was to explore the levels of stress and depression among veterinary medical students and to examine the relationship between these variables. Study participants were 1,245 veterinary medical students from North America. The findings provide support for the assertion that veterinary medical students experience high levels of stress and depression. Results also indicated that there is a correlation between stress and depression for veterinary medical students and that female students experience higher levels of stress and depression than their male counterparts.Accepted manuscrip

Perceived influences on the career choices of children and youth: an exploratory study

Children’s understanding of factors influencing their career choices was examined. Seventy-two children, in grades kindergarten, 4, and 8, responded to questions about their perceptions of career influences. Responses were coded to capture the nature of the influences identified, including the global versus specific and linear versus interacting nature of these influences. Further, influences were coded as existing proximal versus distal to the child. Results indicate that older children identified more career influences that were either specific or categorical and interacted in dynamic ways. No evidence was found for older children offering influences that existed at a systems level of organization.Accepted manuscrip

Analyses of Kings Creek Water and Watershed Runoff Samples for Bacteroidales using qPCR to Detect Human Fecal Contamination

The purpose of this work was to evaluate and analyze water samples collected from the Kings Creek watershed using a qPCR-based method to detect both total Bacteroidales and Bacteroidales reported to be associated with human fecal contamination. Quantitative real-time PCR assays were used to significantly reduce processing times and at the same time yield estimates of target concentrations. Initial efforts focused on evaluation of various Bacteroidales primer sets reported in the literature tested against human and animal fecal samples collected from the Kings Creek watershed. Most samples, both animal and human, were positive with the universal (i.e. general or total) Bacteroidales assay. Strong positive signals were found with human sewage using the humanspecific assay that was chosen for this study. Most animal scat samples were negative with respect to the human-specific Bacteroidales indicator. The few animal samples that were positive with the human-specific assay had very low signal intensity. Despite the generally pervasive drought conditions during this study, evidence of human contamination was detected at certain feeder stream locations, and was widespread after a significant rain event that occurred in late fall. Use of the human-specific Bacteroidales indicator holds promise as a tool to identify potential human, as opposed to animal, sources of contamination but will require a more comprehensive field monitoring and sample collection effort than could be managed in this preliminary study

The intersection of race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, trans identity, and mental health outcomes

The present study examined patterns in trans individuals’ multiple identities and mental health outcomes. Cluster 1 (socioeconomic and racial privilege; n = 239) was characterized by individuals who identified as trans women or cross-dressers, lesbian, bisexual, or questioning; had associates degrees; reported household incomes of $60,000 or more a year; and were non-Latino White. Cluster 2 (educational privilege; n = 191) was characterized by individuals who identified as trans men or genderqueer, gay, or queer; had a bachelor’s degree; reported household incomes of$10,000 or less a year; and were people of color. There was a pattern of individuals in Cluster 1 who identified with two privileged identities (identifying as White and having higher household incomes), whereas individuals in Cluster 2 identified only formal education as a privilege. Individuals in Cluster 2 reported statistically significant levels of anxiety. Implications of these results for future research and clinical practice are examined.Accepted manuscrip

Giant Planet Occurrence in the Stellar Mass-Metallicity Plane

Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used to inform the target selection of future planet search efforts and provide valuable clues about the planet formation process. We analyze a sample of 1194 stars drawn from the California Planet Survey targets to determine the empirical functional form describing the likelihood of a star harboring a giant planet as a function of its mass and metallicity. Our stellar sample ranges from M dwarfs with masses as low as 0.2 Msun to intermediate-mass subgiants with masses as high as 1.9 Msun. In agreement with previous studies, our sample exhibits a planet-metallicity correlation at all stellar masses; the fraction of stars that harbor giant planets scales as f \propto 10^{1.2 [Fe/H]}. We can rule out a flat metallicity relationship among our evolved stars (at 98% confidence), which argues that the high metallicities of stars with planets are not likely due to convective envelope "pollution." Our data also rule out a constant planet occurrence rate for [Fe/H]< 0, indicating that giant planets continue to become rarer at sub-Solar metallicities. We also find that planet occurrence increases with stellar mass (f \propto Mstar), characterized by a rise from 3.5% around M dwarfs (0.5 Msun) to 14% around A stars (2 Msun), at Solar metallicity. We argue that the correlation between stellar properties and giant planet occurrence is strong supporting evidence of the core accretion model of planet formation.Comment: Fixed minor typos, modified the last paragraph of Section

The Future Viability of the Federated Structure

Agribusiness,

STEM and Branches: Update on the Columbus State University STEM-II Initiative

Two USG STEM Initiative awards to Columbus State University have spawned the growth of several STEM and STEM education programs and nearly $2.6 million in grants. We provide an update on STEM-II Initiative projects including a peer leader program for core math and science courses, a faculty mini-grants program to promote scholarship on teaching and learning and awareness of best practices models, and a service learning course. The infrastructure that emerged through the first STEM Initiative and continued to develop with the STEM-II Initiative paved the way for a$1.4 million UTeach replication grant and a $1.2 million Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program grant. We describe key developments in these two programs designed to recruit and prepare more STEM teachers