Arts At Large Handbook Pt. 1 - The Arts @ Large Program

The Arts @ Large model is based on a simple mission: consistently advocate for the connection of arts to academics by building sustainable partnerships between the arts community, K-12 educators and students, public policy makers, and institutes of higher education. With this mission in mind, Arts @ Large strives to meet goals that make arts education accessible for ALL students.Arts @ Large:Provides ongoing, quality arts experiences for students that builds an arts-rich school climate, which encourages the inclusion of art and music specialists in school staffing plans.Forges sustainable partnerships with artists, arts and community organizations to enhance in-classroom and after school learning, and motivate ALL students to higher academic achievement.Provides arts education experiences in an inclusiveenvironment designed to motivate students with diverse learning and physical abilities.Helps teachers build skills to integrate performing, visual, and literary arts into all subjects in a manner sensitive to the needs of a diverse student population.The arts are essential because they:Are a unique languagethat all people use to communicate regardless of age, ability,ethnicity or gender.They allow people to move beyond individual differences such as race, society, culture, education and economic level.Are symbol systems like letters and numbers and are equally important to a person's development.Allow every child to learn.Connect the learning of both content and process.Develop independence and collaboration.Provide opportunities for self expression,creative problem solving and critical thinking.Improve student achievement -enhancing test scores, attitudes and social skills.Provide authentic assessment opportunities.Create a bridge between motivation, instruction, assessment and application - leading to deeper understanding.Integrate mind, body and spirit thereby addressing the whole child.Provide immediate feedback and opportunities for reflection.Exercise and develop higher order thinking skills including analysis, synthesis, and problem solving.Address the multiple intelligences and various learning styles

Community gardens involving young children as a potential obesity-prevention strategy: A systematic review to inform future research and practice

Childhood obesity remains a significant public health concern in the United States. Contributing factors to the development of obesity include poor quality diets and inadequate physical activity. Rates of obesity continue to soar among all age groups but have recently reached an all time high among preschool-aged children. Inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables (FV) has been identified as a potential risk factor for childhood obesity. Current intake of FV is lower than current recommendations for this age group. Acquisition of food preferences develops during early childhood and is enhanced through repeated exposures to new foods. Previous research has shown that vegetables are a least favored food among children. During this developmental period, a majority of preschool-aged children spend significant amounts of time in non-parental care settings providing a valuable opportunity to positively impact child health. A growing interest in community gardens or “learning laboratories” in school settings has emerged over the past several years. Numerous unanswered questions exist regarding the overall impact and sustainability of community gardens and healthy child development. The purpose of this systematic review is to summarize the scientific literature pertaining to the use of community gardens as a vehicle for increasing FV intake in preschool-aged children enrolled in childcare settings and to identify gaps that would provide opportunities for future research. Electronic literature databases were used to identify papers using the search terms community gardens, obesity prevention, preschool children (aged 2-5 years), and fruit and vegetable intake either singularly or in combination. Studies were limited to those published in peer reviewed journals in the United States within the past five years. Data analysis is ongoing. Future research needs to address the many unanswered questions related to the benefits and effectiveness of community gardens, issues of sustainability, and impacts on policy development and practice. Funding was provided by the Academic Professional Development Committee (APDC) Research & Scholarly Grants & Awards at St. Catherine University

Prospectus, September 27, 1978

LOOKING AT CAR REPAIRS; letters to the editor: Student disagrees with Henze\u27s letter; College Cuisine; Corrections; Stugo revises election rules, sweats new members in; Sept. 27-Oct. 3: PC activities for the week; Parkland to have fall play; WPCD plans programs; Spring Student Art Show to be in early May; WPCD new fall program; WPCD\u27s Top 15 For The Week Of September 25; Cholesterol -- Is it more superstition than fact?; Health program coming soon for animals; Parkland seeking truck; PC board member appointed to state; PC transfer is awarded SIU scholarship; Seven-day no smoking program comes to PC; Student nurses to meet tomorrow; Med. technicians can earn ten education units; Learning Lab beneficial to Parkland students; Long living programs now being offered; Car repairs: Pay me now or pay me later; Women\u27s Fashions for Fall -- 1978; Philosophical instructor brings ideas and art; Don\u27t beat me -- dear; Father of PC dies; Classified; $100 increase for state\u27s max. scholarship grant; Santana to be Assembly Hall Oct. 3; Track team expects big year; Three days left for Styx refund; Poetry and fiction at Parkland: Weiss and Curley to give reading; Krannert events this week; WIU rep. here Friday; Kister works in art gallery; Track team expects...; Track team places 12th; Men\u27s Intramural Football; Fast Freddy Contest; Sharp Fast Freddy fans still on winning streak; Fast Freddy Contesthttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1978/1010/thumbnail.jp

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill marine mammal injury assessment

The studies described here were conducted as part of the DWH NRDA and included scientists funded through NOAA, other federal and state Trustees, and BP PLC. The John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program and the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program provided funding for this work in addition to the funding from the DWH NRDA.From 2010 to 2015, a team of scientists studied how the BP Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill affected marine mammals inhabiting the northern Gulf of Mexico, as part of the DWH Natural Resource Damage Assessment process. The scientists conducted the assessment on behalf of the DWH co-Trustees, with the purpose of investigating whether marine mammals were exposed to DWH oil and what types of injuries they suffered as a result of the DWH oil exposure, and then quantifying those injuries to determine the appropriate amount of restoration required to offset the injuries. Photographs, aerial surveys, spatial analyses of the co-occurrence between surface slick and cetacean populations, and chemical fingerprinting of oiled and stranded carcasses all confirm that at least 15 cetacean species were exposed to the DWH surface slick. Cetaceans that encountered the slick likely inhaled, aspirated, ingested, and/or adsorbed oil. In this Theme Section, marine mammal biologists, statisticians, veterinarians, toxicologists, and epidemiologists describe and quantify the adverse effects of this oil exposure. Taken together, this combination of oil spill dynamics, veterinary assessments, pathological, spatial, and temporal analyses of stranded animals, stock identification techniques, population dynamics, and a broad set of coordinated modeling efforts is an unprecedented assessment of how a major oil spill impacted a large and complex marine mammal community and their connected habitats.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Prospectus, October 11, 1978

FOREIGN STUDENTS-- ALONE IN A NEW LAND; letters to the editor: Student says best discos are gay, States jump on CBE bandwagon, Ticket, nit-picking; Correction; Legal clinic for PC women; Electronics club plans field trips; Art dept. plans Pompeii trip; Blood bank rep. to speak Oct. 17; \u27Plan your escape\u27 is the theme this year; Lung diseases to be discussed; EIU hosts visitation day; Bake sale in college center starts Parkland\u27s activities for the week; Seminar to be Oct. 14-15; Real estate review workshop held; Lottery winners drawn; Politics, school and job mix for Scott Trail; Oktoberfest is Oct. 25; Music dept. still seeking players; Disco mania hits Champaign-Urbana: Disco dance lessons--what to expect, Popular disco songs in C-U, Local discos bring C-U \u27Saturday Night Fever\u27, Disco dj\u27s help people get on the floor and boogie, Basic disco dance steps; PC has new business instructor; Foreign students face changes; Santana performs; Free Classifieds; Do health foods possess power to cure disease?; WPCD\u27s Top 15 For The Week Of Oct. 9; Coach Dutton aims to win; Competency testing concerns PTA; Woodroofe exhibit to run till Oct. 15 at Buell; EIU places 4 in PC invitational; Gerhardt assistant basketball coach; 5 winners in Fast Freddy contest; Fast Freddy contesthttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1978/1008/thumbnail.jp

Prospectus, October 18, 1978

PARKLAND\u27S BOOKSTORE-- IS IT RIPPING YOU OFF?; letters to the editor One student does not want gay bars to turn into \u27freak shows\u27; Give blood today; College Cuisine; Dec. 31 is EC fellowship application deadline; Advertising Policy; Instructors attend meeting next week; Electronics \u27bugs\u27 invited to Parkland; Gammon elected charter member; Riding club has contest; Raffle winners have last day to claim prizes; Language clubs will have dinner; Nov. 5 poetry review deadline; PC defines typical student; Taiwan students to give performance at U of I; SNAP to host guest speakers; Parkland is getting ready for hard winter; PC math contest to be Saturday, April 28; Mimes visit campus; Legal clinic is Oct. 19; Farm emergency workshop to be held on Nov. 4; Women\u27s creativity honored; Parkland\u27s nursing program is Gogol\u27s first full-time job; High cost of books is common problem; DeShong attacking PC apathy; PC health service sponsors lectures; WPCD\u27s Top 15 For The Week Of Oct. 9; Final Christmas bazaar meeting; \u27I Quit Smoking\u27 draws fifteen; PC events for the week; Battered women series part 2: Battered women face struggles; Craft media in art exhibit; Free Classifieds; Informants can profit; Family Service conducts workshop; Golf team places 20th; PC still looking for wrestlers; Paxton still undefeated; \u27Spikers\u27 ready for tourney; Intramural basketball team organizing now; B-ball meeting for girls to be tuesday; Fast Freddy Contest; Fast Freddy has a winner with three wrong answershttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1978/1007/thumbnail.jp

CENP-A binding domains and recombination patterns in horse spermatocytes

Centromeres exert an inhibitory effect on meiotic recombination, but the possible contribution of satellite DNA to this "centromere effect" is under debate. In the horse, satellite DNA is present at all centromeres with the exception of the one from chromosome 11. This organization of centromeres allowed us to investigate the role of satellite DNA on recombination suppression in horse spermatocytes at the stage of pachytene. To this aim we analysed the distribution of the MLH1 protein, marker of recombination foci, relative to CENP-A, marker of centromeric function. We demonstrated that the satellite-less centromere of chromosome 11 causes crossover suppression, similarly to satellite-based centromeres. These results suggest that the centromere effect does not depend on satellite DNA. During this analysis, we observed a peculiar phenomenon: while, as expected, the centromere of the majority of meiotic bivalent chromosomes was labelled with a single immunofluorescence centromeric signal, double-spotted or extended signals were also detected. Their number varied from 0 to 7 in different cells. This observation can be explained by positional variation of the centromeric domain on the two homologs and/or misalignment of pericentromeric satellite DNA arrays during homolog pairing confirming the great plasticity of equine centromeres

Changing practice in dementia care in the community: developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life (EVIDEM)

Background Dementia has an enormous impact on the lives of individuals and families, and on health and social services, and this will increase as the population ages. The needs of people with dementia and their carers for information and support are inadequately addressed at all key points in the illness trajectory. Methods The Unit is working specifically on an evaluation of the impact of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and will develop practice guidance to enhance concordance with the Act. Phase One of the study has involved baseline interviews with practitioners across a wide range of services to establish knowledge and expectations of the Act, and to consider change processes when new policy and legislation are implemented. Findings Phase 1, involving baseline interviews with 115 practitioners, identified variable knowledge and understanding about the principles of the Act. Phase 2 is exploring everyday decision-making by people with memory problems and their carers

Measuring collective action intention toward gender equality across cultures

Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective efforts. Various instruments to measure collective action intentions have been developed, but to our knowledge none of the published measures were subject to invariance testing. We introduce the gender equality collective action intention (GECAI) scale and examine its psychometric isomorphism and measurement invariance, using data from 60 countries (N = 31,686). Our findings indicate that partial scalar measurement invariance of the GECAI scale permits conditional comparisons of latent mean GECAI scores across countries. Moreover, this metric psychometric isomorphism of the GECAI means we can interpret scores at the country-level (i.e., as a group attribute) conceptually similar to individual attributes. Therefore, our findings add to the growing body of literature on gender based collective action by introducing a methodologically sound tool to measure collective action intentions towards gender equality across cultures