Navigating Ambiguous Waters: Providing Access to Student Records in the University Archives

Because privacy laws heavily restrict access to student records, archivists are forced to weigh the research potential of these documents against their availability. At the center of this issue is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which protects individual student records from unauthorized third-party review. In 2003, the authors conducted a survey of one hundred Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Archives in the United States to gauge FERPA‟s impact on current archival appraisal and access policies for student records. Based on their survey findings, the authors suggest guidelines for instituting access policies that comply with FERPA and allow for the greatest possible access

From cellular properties to population asymptotics in the Population Balance Equation

Proliferating cell populations at steady state growth often exhibit broad protein distributions with exponential tails. The sources of this variation and its universality are of much theoretical interest. Here we address the problem by asymptotic analysis of the Population Balance Equation. We show that the steady state distribution tail is determined by a combination of protein production and cell division and is insensitive to other model details. Under general conditions this tail is exponential with a dependence on parameters consistent with experiment. We discuss the conditions for this effect to be dominant over other sources of variation and the relation to experiments.Comment: Exact solution of Eq. 9 is adde

Are Groups more Rational than Individuals? A Review of Interactive Decision Making in Groups

Many decisions are interactive; the outcome of one party depends not only on its decisions or on acts of nature but also on the decisions of others. In the present article, we review the literature on decision making made by groups of the past 25 years. Researchers have compared the strategic behavior of groups and individuals in many games: prisoner’s dilemma, dictator, ultimatum, trust, centipede and principal-agent games, among others. Our review suggests that results are quite consistent in revealing that groups behave closer to the game-theoretical assumption of rationality and selfishness than individuals. We conclude by discussing future research avenues in this area.group decision making, interactive decision making, rationality, discontinuity effect

Factors Affecting Stunting in Toddlers in Karay and Angar District, East Seram Regency

Karay Village and Angar Village are one of sub-districts which are registered in East Seram Regency as villages with children registered as stunting toddlers. The type of research used was Spearman's correlation with a total of 60 samples of toddlers in Karay Village and Angar Village. Research methods using surveys and interviews using a questionnaire. The results of this study used sperman rho palm fiber using univariate and bivariate analysis. This research is that there is a relationship between maternal education, consumption of various foods, toilet facilities, drinking water facilities, and livable homes with the incidence of stunting in toddlers aged 0-5 years in Karay and Angar District. Based on the results of the study, it showed that there was a relationship between Mother's Education (P < 0.05), Consumption of Various Foods (P < 0.05), Latrine Facilities (P < 0.05), Drinking Water Facilities (P < 0.05), and Livable Houses (P < 0.05), on the other hand, there was no relationship between the age of marriage (P > 0.05), the number of children (P > 0.05) and the mother's source of income (P > 0.05) with the incidence of stunting in children under five in Karay Village and Angar Village

Data Curation and the University Archives

Data curation—the active and ongoing management of data through its life cycle—is a concern for researchers. As caretakers, it would seem natural that the university archivist and the university archives have a role in the data curation process. This article addresses the authors' research project to determine the level of involvement of archives and archivists in data curation. The results are contextualized within archival theory and practice, and the authors suggest additional steps that should be taken if the profession is to have a role in data curation.Introduction -- Defining data curation -- Survey setup -- Survey results -- Discussion and implications of study -- Further considerations of curating data -- Conclusions -- Appendix I: Initial survey instrument -- Appendix II: Follow-up surveyPublisher allows immediate open acces

Ulcerative C2 neurocutaneous dysesthesia (trigeminal trophic syndrome in an alternative distribution)

Trigeminal trophic syndrome is an uncommon condition characterized by paresthesia, itch, and self-inflicted wounds following the trigeminal dermatome(s). Similar processes adhering to cervical nerve distributions have been reported, calling into question the specificity of trigeminal trophic syndrome for the trigeminal network. Herein, we report patient with trigeminal trophic syndrome adhering to the C2 dermatome, a previously unreported distribution