New Wisconsin Record for \u3ci\u3ePterostichus Punctatissimus\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

A single specimen of Pterostichus punctatissimus (Randall) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) was recovered from an unbaited pitfall trap in northern Wisconsin in late May, 2013. This is the first recorded extant specimen of the species collected in Wisconsin

Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law

"Family, Unvalued" documents the crippling barriers same-sex binational couples face in pursuing a goal enshrined in America's founding document -- happiness. One fact sets them apart from other binational families. A heterosexual couple where one partner is foreign, one a U.S. citizen, can claim the right to enter the U.S. with a few strokes of a pen. But a lesbian or gay couple's relationship -- even if they have lived together for decades, even if their commitment is incontrovertible--is irrelevant. Instead they face a long limbo of legal indifference, harassment, and fear. Delays, bureaucracy, inconsistency, and injustice make the U.S. immigration system a nightmare for millions. Debate over that system is intensifying. Family, Unvalued shows how its failures affect, and sometimes destroy, families which prejudice has deprived of any legal protection. This report reveals how today's discrimination grows from a long history of anti-immigrant campaigns. Most of all, Family, Unvalued lets the reader hear the sometimes horrifying, always enlightening testimony of lesbian and gay families: people simply seeking to build a better future ... together

Working Toward Tetanus, Diptheria, Acellular Pertussis in Every Pregnancy: Protecting Our Most Vulnerable Population

Pertussis is a highly contagious, acute respiratory illness caused by the bacteria Bordetella pertussis. This illness can last for several months and is most notable by a paroxysmal cough on inspiration. Pertussis affects all ages and genders without discrimination but has a disproportionately high rate of morbidity and mortality in infants less than three months old. Protection from pertussis comes in the form of the tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine for adults and the diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine for children and infants. The first whole cell pertussis vaccine was introduced in the 1940s, which brought about a dramatic decrease in pertussis rates. This vaccine was associated with high fevers and seizures in children. This version of the vaccine was removed from the market in the 1980s and a safer acellular alternative was introduced. The acellular vaccine had fewer side effects; however, immunity was noted to wane and pertussis incidence began to increase. Infants who did not receive their first dose of Tdap until two months of age were left vulnerable after exposure to adolescents and adults with pertussis. In October 2012, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC; 2013b), in conjunction with the American Council for Immunization Practices (ACIP), released a national recommendation to provide every pregnant woman with a Tdap vaccine between 27- and 36-weeks gestation. Vaccination during pregnancy would induce an immune response, creating antibodies passed on to the fetus. The purpose of this project was to improve the rates of Tdap in the pregnant population at North Colorado Family Medicine (NCFM) in Greeley, Colorado. The project included three specific interventions: (a) update of an existing provider reminder tool located in every obstetric patients chart to include a prompt to give the Tdap vaccine between 27 and 36 weeks, (b) inclusion of a patient-oriented CDC (2015c) factsheet in the new patient packet given to every pregnant patient at the initial intake visit, and (c) an educational session provided to the clinic’s medical assistants to offer education on the purpose of the Tdap during pregnancy and their role in administering the vaccine under the clinic’s standing order. This project was implemented over a 14-week intervention period and results were measured with comparison of pre- and post-intervention vaccine rates and provider/medical assistant surveys. Pre-intervention rates were calculated after chart review of all pregnancy and delivery codes for 2013-2015 after the initial recommendation. Prior to the intervention, a total of 394 women delivered and 274 of those women were given the vaccine (69%). Post-intervention chart reviews showed a total of 74 pregnant women were seen in the intervention window and 65 of those women were given the vaccine (88%). Post-intervention provider and medical assistant surveys were distributed with a return rate of 48% for providers and 75% for medical assistants. Survey results showed participating medical assistants and providers agreed or strongly agreed the interventions would be beneficial in reminding them to provide the Tdap vaccine to pregnant women between 27- and 36-weeks gestation. Indirectly, an increase in Tdap vaccination rates in pregnant women would likely decrease pertussis rates and, therefore, the morbidity and mortality in infants less than three months of age. This project was sustainable with future implications in practice as it utilized up-to-date evidence in an effort to increase rates of adherence to national recommendations and reduce rates of pertussis in a vulnerable population. As the clinic is part of a larger system, the interventions can be disseminated to the different Banner health clinics and have a wider impact on pregnant women throughout the western United States

The Name is a Guest of the Substance

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, writer, researcher and educator with over 15 years working experience in the arts. My upbringing in a multi-racial, multinational, working class family guides the perspectives I seek to uplift across a variety of disciplines in my work. For the decade prior to pursuing my MFA at UMass, I devised, designed and performed my own original works of theater and installation in New York City at a variety of professional venues. In May 2022 I was accepted into the phD program in the History department of UMass Amherst where I will study 20th and 21st century American history and contemporary arts visual culture through a public history lens.https://scholarworks.umass.edu/art_mfa_projects/1003/thumbnail.jp

Fluctuations in Student Understanding of Newton's 3rd Law

We present data from a between-student study on student response to questions on Newton's Third Law given throughout the academic year. The study, conducted at Rochester Institute of Technology, involved students from the first and third of a three-quarter sequence. Construction of a response curve reveals subtle dynamics in student learning not captured by simple pre/post testing. We find a a significant positive effect from direct instruction, peaking at the end of instruction on forces, that diminishes by the end of the quarter. Two quarters later, in physics III, a significant dip in correct response occurs when instruction changes from the vector quantities of electric forces and fields to the scalar quantity of electric potential. Student response rebounds to its initial values, however, once instruction returns to the vector-based topics involving magnetic fields.Comment: Proceedings of the 2010 Physics Education Research Conferenc

Examining Relational Aggression and Conflict Resolution Skills In Overtly Aggressive Non-Caucasian Females

In this study, the researcher sought to examine the differences in relational and social aggression for a non-Caucasian adolescent at-risk population across three different groups. Specifically, the study seeks to determine if the Goodwill Girls Curriculum will decrease covert bullying behaviors (i.e., relational and social aggression) in youth who have been removed from their home school districts due to aggressive behaviors including acts of bullying. A secondary aim of this study will be identify the effects of the Goodwill Girls Curriculum on increasing conflict resolution skills within the sample. The Goodwill Girls curriculum is designed to be implemented alongside a school-wide prevention program. This paper will elaborate upon the history, development, and recent research of relational aggression, social aggression and conflict resolution. A pretest-posttest posttest only control group design independent samples and paired samples design will be used to answer the first research question for Group A: O1 x O2 and Group B: O3. As a result of Group C being different and adding a second post-test measure, a RMANOVA will be used to answer question one. Group C is utilizing a different method than Group A and B because this group is being measured across three different time points. In regard to the second research question, a pre/post/post test quasi-experimental repeated measures ANOVA design will be used within this study; Group C: O1 x O2 ...O3. The results indicated the GWG curriculum did not significantly produce a decrease in relational aggression or social aggression. Yet, descriptive statistics demonstrated differences in the means showing some improvement. Lack of significance may have been due to the small sample size of this study. However, this research supported Crothers and colleagues (2009) research that relation aggression and social aggression is two separate constructs. Similar results were found with conflict participant\u27s display of conflict resolution skills. The conclusions will expand the limited research in this area by describing the characteristics and needs of these at-risk non-Caucasian female adolescents

Southerned: queer marginality in two souths

The metropolis has featured prominently in queer theory, cultural productions and advocacy work as the ideal site of queer life (Massad, 2002; Gray, 2009; Herring, 2010). Because of the concentration of resources in the metropole and discursive investments in locating ‘outof-the-way places’ (Tsing, 1993) at a temporal and geographic distance from metropolitan centres, I argue that queer organising in ‘out-of-the-way places’ is ‘southerned’. In other words, work that happens at the geographic margins continues to be rendered unrecognisable in a metric of ‘rights’, generated in a specific location and projected as ‘universal’. This dissertation is an account of the way that ‘discursive formations’ (Foucault 1972) shape the context for queer presence and work in ‘out-of-the-way places.’ The ethnographic work presented here was conducted in the United States South and South Africa over a period of two years, during which I collected and analysed public presentations and semi-structured in-depth interviews thematically and with discourse analysis. Through field work in two ‘souths’, the analysis presented here is situated in relation to a body of theoretical work that is interested in spatial and temporal politics of sexuality that frame ‘out-of-the-way places’ as inhospitable to queer existence. The hegemonic discourses of ‘rights’ generated in the metropole renders the kinds of work and existence carried out by queer bodies in ‘out-of-the-way places’ illegible. Queer work is ongoing in ‘out-of-the-way places’. This dissertation seeks to understand how that work is shaped both by the contexts in which the work unfolds and by the metronormative demands placed on what working queerly is supposed to look like. The research concludes that the complexities of queer existence and queer work in the ‘two souths’ represented here must be understood on their own terms rather than through the reductive lens of expectations and interpretations projected from the metropole. In order for queer work to thrive in ‘out-of-the-way places’, historical and contemporary issues that are residues of colonial legacies of resource extraction, violence, exploitation, environmental degradation and restricted access to a range of things not reducible to the metronormative rubric of ‘rights’ must be addressed