The Complete Plus-Minus: A Case Study of The Columbus Blue Jackets

A new hockey statistic termed the Complete Plus-Minus (CPM) was created to calculate the abilities of hockey players in the National Hockey League (NHL). This new statistic was used to analyze the Columbus Blue Jackets for the 2011-2012 season. The CPM for the Blue Jackets was created using two logistic regressions that modeled a goal being scored for and against the Blue Jackets. Whether a goal was scored for or against the team were the responses, while events on the ice were the predictors in the model. It was found that the team\u27s poor performance was due to a weak defense and severe underperformances by key players

The social mission of medical education: Ranking the schools

The study proposes a new method of ranking medical schools through the creation of a social mission score, reflecting that many believe that medical schools should be accountable to society and have a social mission to train physicians to care for the population as a whole, taking into account such issues as whether schools produce physicians who practice primary care, work in underserved areas, and represent the diversity of the population

LMDA New & Noteworthy, October 2017

Contents include: Raquel Almazan; Maegan Clearwood; Diep Tran; Events/Announcements;https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1012/thumbnail.jp

Family roles and routines after pediatric liver transplantation: Implications for quality of life and beyond

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/93668/1/j.1399-3046.2012.01775.x.pd

Family routines and children\u27s representations: Relations with physical and psychological health in Head Start preschoolers with asthma

The relationship between family routines and mental and physical well being of Head-Start preschoolers with asthma was investigated in a study of 58 caregivers and their children. Family routines have been associated with health and psychological adjustment, both areas of risk for low-income children with asthma. This study asks if a general family routines model will serve a protective function for children with asthma, or if a more disease-specific model of asthma care routines is a better predictor of both asthma severity and behavioral adjustment. Children\u27s story-stem procedures were included in models as a method to assess family representations. The models predicting child behavior (both internalizing and externalizing) tested for the mediational effects of children\u27s representations of general family functioning (with the general routines model) and family response to asthma symptoms (with the disease-specific routines model). Results were that neither model predicted asthma severity or child behavioral adjustment in the ways hypothesized. However, children\u27s representations of family response to asthma symptoms reflected caregivers\u27 reports of family asthma care routines; reports of disease-specific family routines were a better predictor of both internalizing behavior and externalizing behavior in children with asthma than general family routines; and children\u27s representations of general family functioning predicted externalizing behavior. Factors such as child age, aspects of cognitive development, parent distress, family structure, and the nature of asthma care may have influenced findings. Study limitations included low power and the use of mostly self-report measures. Future directions for research and clinical applications, particularly for a Head Start population, are discussed