Moving beyond the Written Comment: Narrowing the Gap between Response Practice and Research

While our field’s response practices have changed dramatically over the past two decades to involve more student comments on their own texts, empirical studies have lagged far behind classroom practices, focusing almost exclusively on teachers’ written comments as texts. By broadening our notion of response—and acknowledging the many and varied ways that teachers respond to student writing as well as the many and varied ways that students influence and interpret those responses—we will be able to narrow the gap between our teaching practices and our research questions

Evaluating the Use of Photo-Identification to Verify Resights and Determine Site Fidelity of Bottlenose Dolphins, \u3cem\u3eTursiops Truncatus\u3c/em\u3e, in Beaufort, North Carolina

Research completed at Beaufort, North Carolina with Keith Rittmaster and Victoria Thaye

The Structural Clinical Model: Disrupting Oppression in Clinical Social Work Through an Integrative Practice Approach

It is critical that clinical social workers become actively aware of the endemic processes and manifestations of racism, social inequities, structures and dynamics of white supremacy within and across organizational, supervisory and clinical relationships. The Structural-Clinical Model (SCM) is presented, providing a multi-layered and theoretically rich pathway for clinical social workers to examine the intricate, and multifaceted interconnections expressing racialized oppressive forces across macro, meso and micro systems that impact the totality of clinical practice. SCM integrates critical race theory, liberation psychology, and relational theories bridging long standing theoretical and conceptual divides. The SCM aims to de-pathologize clients, recognizing instead the pathology of white supremacy, racism, and other oppressive structural forces affecting organizations, relationships and people’s lives, particularly those most racially, ethnically and historically marginalized within our society. The SCM is introduced with a structural assessment framework designed to explore how structural social inequalities produced by white supremacy impact social work organizations, the clinical supervisory relationship and the supervisor-therapist-client relationship. A multilevel case example is provided to demonstrate how structural power dynamics that influence service delivery can be identified through critical dialogue using the SCM in the clinical supervisory relationship and between the clinical social worker and client

The Emerging Clean Transportation Workforce: Opportunities and Recommendations to Support the Growing Alternative Fuels Industry

America’s transportation system is the backbone of its economy, connecting households to employment, healthcare, and education and supporting the movement of goods and services across supply chains. This system while indispensable is facing mounting challenges in traffic and congestion, decaying infrastructure, over-dependence on foreign oil, and in many communities a lack of infrastructure for public transit, cyclists, and pedestrians. In 2017, congestion alone cost the U.S. an estimated $305 billion from lost worker productivity, wasted fuel, and other economic factors. Even this number fails to account for the true size of the problem, externalizing traffic’s toll on health, both external (air pollution) and internal (stress), and the environment. In fact, the transportation sector is now the largest source of climatechanging greenhouse gas emissions in the nation. As increasing tailpipe emissions continue to alter the climate, amplified extreme weather and natural disasters could threaten the safety and reliability the transportation system, as well as increase the costs of maintaining it. Clearly, a break from business as usual is needed to create a transportation system that is cleaner, more equitable, and accessible. While solving transportation’s modern challenges will require a number of place-based solutions, such as walkable and bikeable streets and improved access to public transit, this paper focuses on expanding the use of alternative fuels, for example with electric vehicles (EVs). More EVs on the road means spending less on imported fuels, saving consumers billions of dollars at the pump, and keeping more transportation dollars within local economies. These economic gains are especially key in rural communities, where on average households spend 7% more of their budgets on transportation compared to urban households. As Northeast states increasingly invest in clean energy and transportation, tens of thousands of new jobs in fields such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM); public transit; and construction will be created. The evolving landscape of transportation technologies, from EVs to autonomous vehicles, will require new educational programs, training, and competencies. This paper examines what education and training programs exist today to support the alternative fuels transportation industry, and provides recommendations on further building out a workforce pipeline to meet anticipated growth. Job seekers should read on to discover what training and education opportunities are currently available, while educators and workforce development professionals are provided with recommendations on how to provide more training and education programs to keep pace with the growing market for EVs and other alternative fuels

A Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition Studies

One of the first collections to focus on independent writing programs, A Field of Dreams offers a complex picture of the experience of the stand-alone. Included here are narratives of individual programs from a wide range of institutions, exploring such issues as what institutional issues led to their independence, how independence solved or created administrative problems, how it changed the culture of the writing program and faculty sense of purpose, success, or failure.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1134/thumbnail.jp

SMAP Detects Soil Moisture Under Temperate Forest Canopies

Soil moisture dynamics in the presence of dense vegetation canopies are determinants of ecosystem function and biogeochemical cycles, but the capability of existing spaceborne sensors to support reliable and useful estimates is not known. New results from a recently initiated field experiment in the northeast United States show that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) satellite is capable of retrieving soil moisture under temperate forest canopies. We present an analysis demonstrating that a parameterized emission model with the SMAP morning overpass brightness temperature resulted in a RMSD (root‐mean‐square difference) range of 0.047–0.057 m3/m3 and a Pearson correlation range of 0.75–0.85 depending on the experiment location and the SMAP polarization. The inversion approach included a minimal amount of ancillary data. This result demonstrates unequivocally that spaceborne L‐band radiometry is sensitive to soil moisture under temperate forest canopies, which has been uncertain because of lack of representative reference data

IDENTIFICATION OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN-A AS A BLOCKING FACTOR IN HUMAN MALIGNANT MELANOMA.

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