Then and Now: The History and Effectiveness of the University of Maine System Sexual Assault Mandatory Reporting Policy

This thesis describes the legal, social and cultural landscape of campus sexual assault, the campus climate and its role in perpetuating sexual assault, mandatory reporting regarding students, as well as potential policies and practices that outside higher institutions have implemented and how the University of Maine may consider adopting these in order to encourage faculty reporting while still complying with federal law and remaining sensitive to the needs of the victim

Parental Distress, Parenting Practices, and Child Adaptive Outcomes Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Moderate and severe pediatric traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are associated with significant familial distress and child adaptive sequelae. Our aim was to examine the relationship between parental psychological distress, parenting practices (authoritarian, permissive, authoritative), and child adaptive functioning 12–36 months following TBI or orthopedic injury (OI). Injury type was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between parental distress and child adaptive functioning, demonstrating a significantly stronger relationship in the TBI relative to OI group. Authoritarian parenting practices were hypothesized to mediate relationship between parental distress and child adaptive functioning across groups. Groups (TBI n=21, OI n=23) did not differ significantly on age at injury, time since injury, sex, race, or SES. Parents completed the Brief Symptom Inventory, Parenting Practices Questionnaire, and Vineland-II. Moderation and mediation hypotheses were tested using hierarchical multiple regression and a bootstrapping approach, respectively. Results supported moderation and revealed that higher parental psychological distress was associated with lower child adaptive functioning in the TBI group only. Mediation results indicated that higher parental distress was associated with authoritarian parenting practices and lower adaptive functioning across groups. Results suggest that parenting practices are an important area of focus for studies attempting to elucidate the relationship between parent and child functioning following TBI

Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice

Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children’s literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis. Chapters are written by authors with expertise in both college teaching and the delivery of research-supported literacy practices in schools. The book features detailed explanations of a wide variety of literacy strategies that can be implemented by both beginning and expert practitioners. Readers will gain knowledge about topics frequently covered in college literacy courses, along with guided practice for applying this knowledge in their future or current classrooms. The book’s success-oriented framework helps guide educators toward improving their own practices and is designed to foster the literacy development of students of all ages.https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/oer-ost/1009/thumbnail.jp

The Garda Inspectorate: Driving Collaborative Reform Through a Model of Equilibrated Governance

In the Garda S?och?na Act of 2005, the Irish Government established a new oversight body, the Garda Inspectorate, to drive reform in its national police service, An Garda S?och?na. Appointed in 2006 as the first Chief Inspector of this nascent body, I was tasked to build the Inspectorate as an entity and to embed in its operations a system for driving effective and sustainable change. Determined to bring rigour and a scholarly approach to the Inspectorate?s work, I applied insider action research methodology. Over a five-year period, the Inspectorate undertook five core projects in alignment with this approach. Each of these projects produced practical and achievable recommendations for reform and innovation in Irish policing. Collectively, these projects formed the meta-cycle of my thesis work. In the course of the meta-cycle, I identified the recurring organisational themes of agile leadership, authentic engagement, and contextual intelligence that culminated in a model for driving collaborative reform that I term ?equilibrated governance.? Understanding ?governance? in this context, consistent with cited literature, as those psychological constructs and practises that build commitment and trust, I discuss how this model of equilibrated governance proved effective in driving reforms in the Garda S?och?na, and also suggest it may serve as an effective governance framework in other disciplines

Expression of PAX8 in nephrogenic adenoma and clear cell adenocarcinoma of the lower urinary tract: evidence of related histogenesis?

Recent evidence has showed that nephrogenic adenoma is a true nephrogenic lesion derived from the proliferation of exfoliated and implanted renal tubular cells in the urinary tract, a process that closely resembles the formation of endometriosis. This new concept has led to the identification of renal transcription factor PAX2 as a diagnostic marker for nephrogenic adenoma. PAX8 is another transcription factor structurally and functionally related to PAX2. Both are cell lineage restricted transcription factors expressed in normal and neoplastic tissues of related origin, including renal tubular cells in both fetal and adult kidneys. In this study, we investigated the expression of PAX8 in nephrogenic adenoma and its mimics. We report here that PAX8 was detected in all nephrogenic adenomas (N=35) and clear cell adenocarcinoma of the lower urinary tract (N=7), but not in prostate adenocarcinoma (N=100), adenocarcinoma (N=9), squamous cell carcinoma (N=5), or urothelial carcinoma (N=48) of the urinary bladder and its variants. PAX8 was neither detected in normal urothelium of the urinary bladder nor in prostate glands and stroma. PAX2 was also detected in 2 of the 7 clear cell adenocarcinomas of the lower urinary tract. We suggest that PAX8 is an additional marker for identifying nephrogenic adenoma. Expression of PAX8 or PAX2 in both nephrogenic adenoma and clear cell adenocarcinoma of the lower urinary tract may indicate a possible related tissue origin for these 2 lesions; both may be derived from proliferating renal tubular cells in the urinary tract. In addition, detection of PAX8 or PAX2 in clear cell adenocarcinoma of the lower urinary tract is helpful in differentiating it from urothelial carcinoma and its variants and adenocarcinomas of the urinary bladder or of the prostate

Report of the Governor\u27s Council on Capital Punishment

Symposium: Toward A Model Death Penalty Code: The Massachusetts Governor\u27s Council Report