GIST Implementation at St. John Fisher College

St. John Fisher College’s Lavery Library implemented GIST (Getting It System Toolkit) with the intention of integrating Purchase on Demand into the Interlibrary Loan process. This strategy was chosen to make the request submission process remain seamless for Lavery patrons while improving our collection through patron-driven acquisitions. Leveraging the power of ILLiad, combined with GIST, we were able to change perceptions about collection development and allow our users to guide the growth of our collection at their curricular, research, or leisure point of need. Since the initial setup, Lavery has increased the number of items provided to our patrons through ILLiad requests by an average of 22% a year. Our approach continues to be customer driven by focusing efforts on communication between all parties involved, including multiple departments and the patrons themselves. GIST complements this process by allowing us to customize the information gathered, which influences Library decision making and service quality to our patrons

Five Ways to Inspire your Library\u27s Tomorrow, Today

Academic libraries are learning how to demonstrate their value via evidence based assessment. This is a complex process for the long term road ahead, which is currently under heavy construction. In the meantime, this presentation will guide you through thinking about practices you are currently performing and how to evaluate them in order to provide a more immediate overview of your value and support of academic learning on your campus. Lavery Library has chosen five areas of service to share during this presentation. These five areas each demonstrate a different influence the library has on facilitating learning. They also demonstrate trends within the library which inform decisions for change as well as value sound bites to be shared with stakeholders. Learn how to take a creative and inspiring approach to the services you provide your patrons and show your library\u27s value at the same time

British personnel in the Dutch navy, 1642-1697

An international maritime labour market study, the thesis focuses on the Dutch naval labour market, analysing wartime Zeeland admiralty crews. The research is based primarily on unique naval pay sources. Analysis of crew compositions has not been made on this scale in the period before. The 1667 Dutch Medway Raid is the starting point, where a few British played a leading role – amongst many others reported on the Dutch side. Pepys and Marvell primarily blamed their joining the enemy on the lure of superior Dutch payment. The thesis asks how many British there were really, how they came to be in Dutch service, and whether this involvement occurred, as indicated, at other times too. Part One is thematic and explores the background mechanisms of the maritime environment in detail, determining causation. First, the two naval recruitment systems are compared and completely reassessed in the light of state intervention in the trade sphere. Two new sets of ‘control’ data – naval wages and foreign shipping – are amongst the incentives and routes determined. British expatriate communities are examined as conduits for the supply of naval labour and civilian support. British personnel are compared and contrasted with other foreigners, against the background of Anglo-Dutch interlinkage and political transition from neutrality through conflict to alliance. Part Two is chronological, covering four major wars in three chapters. Micro-case studies assembled from the scattered record streams enable analysis of the crews of particular officers and ships. Seamen were an occupation that made them a very little known group: the thesis examines the different career types of British personnel of many different ranks, shedding light on their everyday lives. The thesis shows that British personnel were an integral part of Dutch crews throughout the period, even when the two nations were fighting each other. The basic need of subsistence labour for employment took precedence over allegiance to nation/ideology, demonstrating limitations in state power and the continual interdependence forced on the maritime powers through the realities of the labour market

Trusting children to enhance youth justice policy: The importance and value of children’s voices

Purpose: To explore the integration of children’s voices within youth justice policy and practice development. Design/methodology/approach: The authors theorise the efficacy of participatory practices in youth justice by presenting original empirical data drawn from innovative child friendly methodological approaches, including activity-oriented focus groups, questionnaires and in-depth interviews. Findings: Children’s voices have been noticeably absent from youth justice policy development in England. Children continue to be the recipients of adult-led, deficit-facing practices underpinned by a longstanding preoccupation with identifying and managing ‘risk’. These practices have undermined children’s knowledge and potential by distrusting their perspectives. In contrast, the internationally-relevant cogent arguments set out in this paper allude to the importance and benefits of engaging with children and listening to their voices in the planning and delivery of ‘Child First’ youth justice. Practical implications: It is recommended that youth justice professionals treat children in the Youth Justice System as children (not ‘offenders’), fostering non-hierarchical, empathic, trusting relationships with children, strengthen the child’s involvement in policy and practice processes and centralise their educative, health and wellbeing needs. Originality/value: The paper explores empirical examples from the emerging (but still limited) evidence-base of youth justice research studies that have placed the child’s voice at the centre of understanding their experiences at different stages of the Youth Justice System

Application of end-systolic pressure-volume and pressure-wall thickness relations in conscious dogs

The usefulness of end-systolic measures of ventricular function was compared with that of standard contractility indexes in conscious dogs. End-systolic relations between left ventricular pressure and volume and between pressure and wall thickness were analyzed in dogs previously instrumented with ultrasonic crystals. Progressive angiotensin infusions were used to generate computer-averaged pressure-volume and pressure-wall thickness loops. Both relations were linear in every study and highly reproducible.With low and high dose dobutamine, the end-systolic pressure-volume relations were significantly displaced, with increased slope and inconsistent changes in intercept. This relation was more useful than the ejection fraction for detecting contractility increases at different afterloads, but it showed no advantage over maximal left ventricular dP/dt at all ranges of preload and after-load. The end-systolic pressure-volume relations were insensitive for detecting mild decreases in inotropic state produced by propranolol, and maximal dP/dt was superior for detecting such mild acutely reduced contractility. The end-systolic pressure-wall thickness relations showed displacement with dobutamine, although slope and intercept changes were not significant; these relations did not detect mild decreases in contractility produced by propranolol.It is concluded that the end-systolic pressure-volume relation and a simplified end-systolic measure using pressure and wall thickness provide sensitive, load-independent and reproducible approaches for defining acute increases in left ventricular contractility in conscious animals. Maximal dP/dt was equally effective for defining these increases in contractility and more sensitive for detecting slight acute decreases in contractility

A bayesian multilevel modeling approach for data query in wireless sensor networks

In power-limited Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), it is important to reduce the communication load in order to achieve energy savings. This paper applies a novel statistic method to estimate the parameters based on the realtime data measured by local sensors. Instead of transmitting large real-time data, we proposed to transmit the small amount of dynamic parameters by exploiting both temporal and spatial correlation within and between sensor clusters. The temporal correlation is built on the level-1 Bayesian model at each sensor to predict local readings. Each local sensor transmits their local parameters learned from historical measurement data to their cluster heads which account for the spatial correlation and summarize the regional parameters based on level-2 Bayesian model. Finally, the cluster heads transmit the regional parameters to the sink node. By utilizing this statistical method, the sink node can predict the sensor measurements within a specified period without directly communicating with local sensors. We show that this approach can dramatically reduce the amount of communication load in data query applications and achieve significant energy savings

An Evaluation of the Texas Team’s Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Toolkit

This project was funded by the Texas Council on Family Violence. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the State of Texas or of the Texas Dating Violence Prevention Team.Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (IDVSA

Quality Assurance: Procedures for Enhancing Project Sustainability

This presentation will provide an overview of quality assurance procedures employed by professionals at the Center for Education and Training for Employment (CETE) in the College of Education and Human Ecology. CETE's quality assurance procedures are based on the concept of "total quality management." Total quality management can be described as a management philosophy focused on the continual improvement of products, services or interventions based on customer satisfaction (Ahire, Landros & Gohar, 1995). The American Society for Quality (n.d.) identifies eight primary principles associated with total quality management. These principles include customer determination of quality; use of data in decision making; view of actors and processes as integrated systems; and reliance on strategic planning as a means for assessing systems and opportunities to improve interventions. Presenters will review principles and provide concrete examples of the use of quality assurance tools in several projects including application to the development of faculty grant proposals.AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Ryan Kapa, postdoctoral researcher, Center on Education and Training for Employment, College of Education and Human Ecology, [email protected] (Corresponding Author); David Julian, program director, Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State College of Education and Human Ecology; Keli Bussell, graduate research associate, Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State College of Education and Human Ecology; Alexis Little, doctoral student, Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State College of Education and Human Ecology; Melissa Ross, program director, Center on Education and Training for Employment, Ohio State College of Education and Human EcologyQuality assurance provides a valuable model for evaluating the efficacy of and sustaining community partnerships and projects. Learn about principles and concrete examples of the use of quality assurance tools in several projects, including application to the development of faculty grant proposals

A combined group treatment for nightmares and insomnia in combat veterans: A pilot study

Insomnia and nightmares are hallmarks of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sleep disturbances in PTSD negatively impact clinical course and functioning. In this open clinical trial, the preliminary effects of a combined treatment for insomnia and nightmares in combat veterans with PTSD were assessed. Ten combat veterans participated in a 10-session group treatment combining cognitive–behavioral therapy for insomnia with exposure, rescripting, and relaxation therapy. Participants maintained daily sleep and dream diaries and completed self-report measures of sleep quality and PTSD symptoms pre- and posttreatment. Participants reported improvements in sleep and nightmares following treatment. Future research using controlled designs to evaluate this treatment is warranted.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64565/1/20468_ftp.pd