The Impact Of Administrative Support For Dental Hygiene And Nursing Online Faculty

This study examined online faculty in dental hygiene and nursing baccalaureate degree completion programs and their experiences with online education in the area of administrative support. The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of administrative support systems needed for dental hygiene and nursing faculty to teach in baccalaureate degree completion programs in New York State, which offer more than 50% of their curriculum online. The objective of this study was to provide leaders in institutions of higher learning with insight and aid in reaching the goal of improving dental hygiene and nursing online programs. A total of 17 accredited baccalaureate degree completion programs in New York State (15 nursing and two dental hygiene) were included in this study. Faculty members represented in this study were female (n=7), mostly at the assistant professor rank (n=6), teaching in academia for a range of years of one to ten years of online teaching experience, and mostly over 50 years of age. The data revealed that all the faculty respondents received online course development training and reported having adequate support services in the form of technology assistance/help desk. Yet, three respondents felt they needed more training with course management tools. Additionally, faculty with 11+ years in academia and teaching online 4 years or more (n=4) felt there is a lack of support concerning policy and standardization, property rights and course ownership. There were concerns about lack of recognition of greater workload and time commitment for online teaching at their institution. Examining the impact of administrative support for dental hygiene and nursing online faculty can enable administrators to meet the needs of online faculty and increase teaching effectiveness in the online learning environment. Moreover, understanding the challenges that online faculty face with faculty incentives for online teaching, workload valued for tenure and additional compensation, policy that addresses intellectual property rights and course ownership, and increased faculty training and professional development with technology tools for online course development will enable institutions of higher education to develop strategies for continuous administrative support and ultimately improve online teaching and learning

[Review of] Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales. Getting Home Alive

How does one get home when being home is not safe? Or how does one get home alive when the spirit can be killed in the journey there? Getting home alive means searching for the sacred place from which all life emanates. This search is an all consuming passion for both Aurora Levins Morales and Rosario Morales

Colonial discourse in U.S. and Puerto Rican newspapers

The aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico unveiled for many the colonial power of the U.S. in Puerto Rico. The natural disaster became a financial and public health problem in part due to laws that limit the scope of actions that Puerto Rico has in response to emergencies. This thesis analyses the media coverage following the natural disaster in September 2017 up to the local elections in January 2020. Using a Critical Discourse Analysis approach and postcolonial theory, this study examines colonial discourse in two major newspapers one in the United States (USA Today) and one in Puerto Rico (El Nuevo Dia). By exploring the intersection between postcolonial and communication studies, this thesis aims to demonstrate how the newspapers reflects and reinforces power imbalances between the US-PR. This study situates the texts within the broader social structures and power relations at play. Finally, this thesis provides examples of resistance and anticolonial sentiments that emerged and analyzes their portrayal in the news media outlets.Includes bibliographical references

Molecular Signatures of Major Depression

This work was funded by the Wellcome Trust (WT090532/Z/09/Z, WT083573/Z/07/Z, WT089269/Z/09/Z). All authors are part of the China, Oxford and VCU Experimental Research on Genetic Epidemiology (CONVERGE) consortium and gratefully acknowledge the support of all partners in hospitals across China. W.K. is funded by the Wellcome Trust (WT097307). N.C. is supported by the Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Graduate Academy. Research was in part funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London.Adversity, particularly in early life, can cause illness. Clues to the responsible mechanisms may lie with the discovery of molecular signatures of stress, some of which include alterations to an individual's somatic genome. Here, using genome sequences from 11,670 women, we observed a highly significant association between a stress-related disease, major depression, and the amount of mtDNA (p = 9.00 x 10(-42), odds ratio 1.33 [95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.29-1.37]) and telomere length (p = 2.84 x 10(-14), odds ratio 0.85 [95% CI = 0.81-0.89]). While both telomere length and mtDNA amount were associated with adverse life events, conditional regression analyses showed the molecular changes were contingent on the depressed state. We tested this hypothesis with experiments in mice, demonstrating that stress causes both molecular changes, which are partly reversible and can be elicited by the administration of corticosterone. Together, these results demonstrate that changes in the amount of mtDNA and telomere length are consequences of stress and entering a depressed state. These findings identify increased amounts of mtDNA as a molecular marker of MD and have important implications for understanding how stress causes the disease.Wellcome Trust WT090532/Z/09/Z WT083573/Z/07/Z WT089269/Z/09/Z WT097307Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Graduate AcademyNational Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College Londo

Apertura y crisis del agro salvadoreño : una propuesta para el desarrollo de la agricultura familiar

Este ensayo hace una reflexión sobre los impactos del proceso de desregulación y apertura económica en la agricultura salvadoreña; asimismo, presenta experiencias concretas de agricultores familiares asociados por superar la crisis del agro y encontrar nuevas vías para el desarrollo; finalmente, presenta una Propuesta de política agrícola y agroindustrial desde los intereses de la agricultura familiar

De novo transcriptome sequencing in Bixa orellana to identify genes involved in methylerythritol phosphate, carotenoid and bixin biosynthesis.

BackgroundBixin or annatto is a commercially important natural orange-red pigment derived from lycopene that is produced and stored in seeds of Bixa orellana L. An enzymatic pathway for bixin biosynthesis was inferred from homology of putative proteins encoded by differentially expressed seed cDNAs. Some activities were later validated in a heterologous system. Nevertheless, much of the pathway remains to be clarified. For example, it is essential to identify the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) and carotenoid pathways genes.ResultsIn order to investigate the MEP, carotenoid, and bixin pathways genes, total RNA from young leaves and two different developmental stages of seeds from B. orellana were used for the construction of indexed mRNA libraries, sequenced on the Illumina HiSeq 2500 platform and assembled de novo using Velvet, CLC Genomics Workbench and CAP3 software. A total of 52,549 contigs were obtained with average length of 1,924 bp. Two phylogenetic analyses of inferred proteins, in one case encoded by thirteen general, single-copy cDNAs, in the other from carotenoid and MEP cDNAs, indicated that B. orellana is closely related to sister Malvales species cacao and cotton. Using homology, we identified 7 and 14 core gene products from the MEP and carotenoid pathways, respectively. Surprisingly, previously defined bixin pathway cDNAs were not present in our transcriptome. Here we propose a new set of gene products involved in bixin pathway.ConclusionThe identification and qRT-PCR quantification of cDNAs involved in annatto production suggest a hypothetical model for bixin biosynthesis that involve coordinated activation of some MEP, carotenoid and bixin pathway genes. These findings provide a better understanding of the mechanisms regulating these pathways and will facilitate the genetic improvement of B. orellana

Inspección eléctrica y lumínica en la Institución Educativa la Victoria

En este trabajo tiene como objetivo hacer una inspección a las redes eléctricas de la institución educativa La Victoria para así detectar anomalías que se encuentren en la instalación, ya que se puede poner en riesgo a las personas y a los equipos que se encuentren conectados a esa red, también se realizara la medición del nivel de iluminación en cada uno de los espacios de puesto de trabajo de la institución. Para la realización de esta inspección se tendrá en cuenta las normas exigidas por la Norma Técnica Colombiana NTC 2050, Reglamento Técnico de Instalaciones Eléctricas RETIE y Reglamento Técnico de Iluminación y Alumbrado Público RETILAP. Esta inspección eléctrica se realizó ya que la institución educativa La Victoria fue construida antes que se exigiera las normas, por esto se decidió hacer este proyecto para que la institución cuente con lo estipula de dicha norma y así pueda cumplir. Adicionalmente se le entregara a la institución educativa La Victoria los planos eléctricos y se anexara fotos, tablas de datos medidos y otros más que dan soporte al trabajo realizado y brindan información más detallada del trabajo realizado

Comparaciones entre América Latina y el sudeste asiático : caso Malaysia Vs Chile-Costa Rica en los aspectos de integración internacional, política industrial y política macroeconómica

Dentro de la investigación se abordaron diferentes aspectos para poder realizar una comparación entre dos países de América latina (Chile y Costa rica) y Malaysia del sudeste asiático. Primeramente se realizó una visión rápida de las etapas de desarrollo de cada uno de los países, en donde se expusieron las tasas de crecimiento, los planes de expansión y las reformas políticas de cada país. Luego, en la integración internacional se estudio la estructura de las exportaciones de cada país; encontramos que Chile y Malaysia aumentaron sus exportaciones de bienes primarios con el pasar de los años, Chile dedicándose a la exportación de bienes tales como pescados, mariscos, cobre, madera y sus derivados, manzanas, etc.; Malaysia por su parte se ha dedicado a la exportación de caucho, aceite de palma, productos de madera, productos agrícolas, etc. pero ha ido diversificando sus exportaciones y se ha dedicado cada vez más a los productos electrónicos, eléctricos, químicos, equipos ópticos y científicos, siendo cada vez mas menos dependiente de los bienes primarios; seguidamente realizamos la comparación entre Costa rica y Malaysia y encontramos que estos dos países tienen una estructura de exportaciones similares, ya se dedican tanto a bienes primarios como bienes industriales, enfocándose Costa rica a la industria electrónica y Malaysia en las industrias mencionadas anteriormente. Del mismo modo, se estudio la política industrial tomando como punto de partida si la enfermedad holandesa afecta o no a estos tres países puesto que ella es la causante de desindustrialización; entre los hallazgos encontré que Chile ha podido controlar la enfermedad holandesa, asimismo Malaysia y Costa rica no han permitido que esta llegue a sus economías gracias a la diversificación de sus exportaciones.Incluye bibliografí