The Power of Information and Communities of Color

In this age of the Information Superhighway, access to information has become a human rights issue for communities of color. Access to information is the backbone for economic growth in the world marketplace. Information literacy, the ability to find, evaluate, analyze, and use information effectively is the currency of infinite power and control of one\u27s economic, social, and political destiny. For communities of color to gain access to this phenomenal communications/technological revolution, there is a need to become information literate

The Rescinding of the ACRL 2000 Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education…Really??

This is an opinion piece on the decision by the ACRL Board of Directors to rescind its “Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education” in June 2016

A Holistic Education Approach for Assessing Business Programs

Providing business students with a holistic education is essential for developing professionals who are equally proficient in their use of hard and soft skills and capable of applying various concepts from different disciplines to create innovative solutions. To understand if students are learning the content that a holistic business education is intended to deliver, a case study of business program assessment was conducted. Specifically, this research is focused on an assessment of business students from a comprehensive regional institution of higher education to determine if the business program has incorporated appropriate assessment strategies in order to meet the expectations of a holistic education including meeting student learning outcomes defined by the AACSB International accredited program

Promote interculturalism, leadership communication, and professionalism in your students: Success with a corporate communication certificate

Business educators share a common interest in encouraging their students to improve intercultural, leadership communication, and professionalism skills to enable and promote increased fulfilment, character development, and advancement toward graduation, in addition to improving student employability after graduation. While career success depends on the standards and knowledge of character and behavioral traits, much more than on technical knowledge, these attributes define the qualities desired across various professions (Barnhart, 2013) in these three areas. For example, Holmes (2015) found that the values and communication rules of discourse systems may be different from that which is expected in the international workplace.A Certificate in Corporate Communication promotes the skillsets for interculturalism, leadership communication, and professionalism. With the positive feedback already received from several entities, including business executives; the student success of relevant development of skillsets for any business or non-business major; and the opportunity to showcase the communication courses to all students and programs at the University, the Certificate of Corporate Communication has already proven its success

America\u27s Missing Link: Educational Reform and Workforce Development

This presentation was given at a White House meeting about the potential role of information literacy in Michelle Obama\u27s Reach Higher initiative on June 18, 2014

The Effects of Lead-Vehicle Size on Driver Following Behavior: Is Ignorance Truly Bliss?

The objective of this study was to examine whether size of a lead vehicle (passenger car or light truck) affects the distance at which following vehicles travel. Naturalistic following data were collected from drivers using instrumented passenger cars in place of their own vehicles. The results show that these drivers followed light trucks at shorter distances than they followed other passenger cars by an average of 5.6 m, or .19 s in headway time margin, but at the same velocities and range-rates. This result is discussed in the context of a passenger car driver’s ability to see beyond a lead vehicle to assess, and respond to, the status of traffic downstream. The results of this study suggest that knowing the state of traffic beyond the lead vehicle, even by only one additional vehicle, affects gap length. Specifically, it appears that when dimensions of lead vehicles permit other drivers to see through, over, or around them, drivers maintain significantly longer (i.e., safer) distances

Assessment of in silico BAC-based simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker development for tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.)

Tomato landraces are less sensitive to environmental stresses and grown mainly under rain fed conditions. They are still grown in small farms due to quality and special demand of consumers. These landraces are valuable sources of genetic traits, and plant breeders can use breeding programs for crop improvement. One of the primary needs of the crop improvement is the estimation of genetic diversity. Development of microsatellite simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers from map-referenced bacterial artificial chromosomes (BAC) clones is a very effective means of targeting markers to marker scarce positions in the genome. This study was aimed at developing a set of functional SSR markers via in silico analysis of publicly available tomato DNA sequences. As a result, 17 SSR markers were developed and tested on one tomato commercial cultivar and eight local landraces. 12 loci (27 alleles) were scored and showed 100% polymorphic patterns. The calculated polymorphism information content (PIC) values for the SSR markers developed ranged from 0.62 to 0.97 (mean 0.89). The SSR motifs CT(26) AT(27) and TTC(6) TTA(4) had the highest PIC value (0.97), while CAA(5)A(8) had the lowest PIC value (0.62). According to tomato expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis, some of these developed SSR markers, such as mono and di-nucleotide are related to some genes. The T(16) motif is related to hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein, which is a family protein from Arabidopsis thaliana. On the other hand, the SSR with tri-nucleotide repeat motif AAC(4)A(11) was related to a putative homologous protein to A7Q2S4 from Vitis vinifera.Keywords: Tomato landraces, in silico simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers, DNA markers, genetic diversit

Evaluation of person-level heterogeneity of treatment effects in published multiperson N-of-1 studies: systematic review and reanalysis.

OBJECTIVE:Individual patients with the same condition may respond differently to similar treatments. Our aim is to summarise the reporting of person-level heterogeneity of treatment effects (HTE) in multiperson N-of-1 studies and to examine the evidence for person-level HTE through reanalysis. STUDY DESIGN:Systematic review and reanalysis of multiperson N-of-1 studies. DATA SOURCES:Medline, Cochrane Controlled Trials, EMBASE, Web of Science and review of references through August 2017 for N-of-1 studies published in English. STUDY SELECTION:N-of-1 studies of pharmacological interventions with at least two subjects. DATA SYNTHESIS:Citation screening and data extractions were performed in duplicate. We performed statistical reanalysis testing for person-level HTE on all studies presenting person-level data. RESULTS:We identified 62 multiperson N-of-1 studies with at least two subjects. Statistical tests examining HTE were described in only 13 (21%), of which only two (3%) tested person-level HTE. Only 25 studies (40%) provided person-level data sufficient to reanalyse person-level HTE. Reanalysis using a fixed effect linear model identified statistically significant person-level HTE in 8 of the 13 studies (62%) reporting person-level treatment effects and in 8 of the 14 studies (57%) reporting person-level outcomes. CONCLUSIONS:Our analysis suggests that person-level HTE is common and often substantial. Reviewed studies had incomplete information on person-level treatment effects and their variation. Improved assessment and reporting of person-level treatment effects in multiperson N-of-1 studies are needed