Learning Moo-re About the Dairy: Publishing a Middle Level Place-Based Informational Text

This manuscript describes the creation of an middle level informational text about the local university dairy. The place-based assignment introduced the elementary education teacher candidates to the everyday workings of the university dairy. The preservice teachers engaged in the writing process throughout the creation of the informational text

Improving the Impact of Extension Through the Use of Anticipation Guides

In this article, we present the anticipation guide as a tool for preparing Extension audiences to learn the main points of Extension materials. Anticipation guides improve learner comprehension by appealing to an individual\u27s natural curiosity and helping the individual focus on key ideas. Anticipation guides can be used with all types of Extension materials and across all Extension programs. We describe how to create anticipation guides for use with Extension materials and explain how to use them effectively and easily. We also provide examples of anticipation guides based on various Extension topics

How Economists Read Economic Texts

Using a “think aloud” framework previously applied to history, this research leads the investigation in how economists read economics text to improve students’ abilities to meet standards calling for reading, thinking, writing, and speaking like practitioners. Economic education has the reputation for being a difficult subject to teach and learn which is evidenced by disappointing individual and national economic literacy outcomes. This research finds precision, close reading, sourcing, and re-reading to be important practices of economists, and begins to fill the gap in the disciplinary literacy and economic education literatures providing direction for research and disciplinary literacy tools for educators

Fostering Graduate Education Majors’ Dispositions Toward Teaching Content Reading through a Transdisciplinary Approach

Few inquiries have investigated master\u27s students in education as they learn about transdisciplinarity (Richards, in press). Transdisciplinatiry is descriptive of collaborative research and problem solving that crosses both disciplinary boundaries and sectors of society (Repko, 2008, p. 15). This is a true story about how I introduced the concept of transdisciplinarity to a group of graduate education majors. The graduate education majors tutored at a summer literacy camp as part of their field experience requirements for a capstone literacy course

Fostering Graduate Education Majors’ Dispositions Toward Teaching Content Reading through a Transdisciplinary Approach

Few inquiries have investigated master\u27s students in education as they learn about transdisciplinarity (Richards, in press). Transdisciplinatiry is descriptive of collaborative research and problem solving that crosses both disciplinary boundaries and sectors of society (Repko, 2008, p. 15). This is a true story about how I introduced the concept of transdisciplinarity to a group of graduate education majors. The graduate education majors tutored at a summer literacy camp as part of their field experience requirements for a capstone literacy course

White blood cell fractions correlate with lesions of diabetic kidney disease and predict loss of kidney function in Type 2 diabetes

A correction has been published: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, Volume 32, Issue 12, 1 December 2017, Pages 2145, https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfx303International audienceBackground:Inflammation linked to diabetic kidney disease (DKD) may affect white blood cell (WBC) counts and differentials. We examined the cross-sectional associations of total WBC count and WBC fractions with structural lesions of DKD in 108 Pima Indians with Type 2 diabetes who underwent research kidney biopsies. We also examined the longitudinal association of these WBC variables with renal function loss (RFL) in 941 Europeans with Type 2 diabetes from the SURDIAGENE study.Methods:Associations of WBC variables with morphometric parameters were assessed by linear regression. RFL was defined as≥40% loss of estimated glomerular filtration rate from baseline. Associations with RFL were evaluated by Cox regression. Hazard ratios (HRs) were reported per standard deviation increment of each WBC variable.Results:After multivariable adjustment, lymphocyte (r  = -0.20, P = 0.043) and eosinophil (r = 0.21, P = 0.032) fractions in the Pima Indians correlated with glomerular basement membrane width. Eosinophil fraction also correlated with glomerular filtration surface density (r  = -0.21, P = 0.031). Lymphocyte fraction (r = 0.25, P = 0.013), neutrophil fraction (r  = -0.23, P = 0.021) and the neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (r  = -0.22, P = 0.024) correlated with percentage of normally fenestrated endothelial cells. During median follow-up of 4.5 years, 321 SURDIAGENE participants developed RFL. Lower lymphocyte fraction [HR = 0.67, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.60-0.76] and higher neutrophil fraction (HR = 1.35, 95% CI 1.20-1.52), total WBC count (HR = 1.20, 95% CI 1.08-1.35) and neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio (HR = 1.44, 95% CI 1.28-1.62) each predicted RFL in this cohort.Conclusions:WBC fractions associate with morphometric lesions of DKD and predict RFL in individuals with Type 2 diabetes

Urine metabolites are associated with glomerular lesions in type 2 diabetes

International audienceIntroduction: Little is known about the association of urine metabolites with structural lesions in persons with diabetes.Objectives: We examined the relationship between 12 urine metabolites and kidney structure in American Indians with type 2 diabetes.Methods: Data were from a 6-year clinical trial that assessed renoprotective efficacy of losartan, and included a kidney biopsy at the end of the treatment period. Metabolites were measured in urine samples collected within a median of 6.5 months before the research biopsy. Associations of the creatinine-adjusted urine metabolites with kidney structural variables were examined by Pearson's correlations and multivariable linear regression after adjustment for age, sex, diabetes duration, hemoglobin A1c, mean arterial pressure, glomerular filtration rate (iothalamate), and losartan treatment.Results: Participants (n = 62, mean age 45 ± 10 years) had mean ± standard deviation glomerular filtration rate of 137 ± 50 ml/min and median (interquartile range) urine albumin:creatinine ratio of 34 (14-85) mg/g near the time of the biopsy. Urine aconitic and glycolic acids correlated positively with glomerular filtration surface density (partial r = 0.29, P = 0.030 and r = 0.50, P < 0.001) and total filtration surface per glomerulus (partial r = 0.32, P = 0.019 and r = 0.43, P = 0.001). 2-ethyl 3-OH propionate correlated positively with the percentage of fenestrated endothelium (partial r = 0.32, P = 0.019). Citric acid correlated negatively with mesangial fractional volume (partial r=-0.36, P = 0.007), and homovanillic acid correlated negatively with podocyte foot process width (partial r=-0.31, P = 0.022).Conclusions: Alterations of urine metabolites may associate with early glomerular lesions in diabetic kidney disease