Korematsu and Beyond: Japanese Americans and the Origins of Strict Scrutiny

The authors examine the role that the Japanese American Citizens League played in the development of the strict scrutiny doctrine partly responsible for the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. The plight of Japanese Americans during their WWII internment gave them experience in implementing this doctrine, which they passed on to the NAACP

Transcript for Episode 16: Paving the Way: The Path to Calling Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention

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Outlooks and Opinions of Practicing Physical Therapists Regarding Direct Access in Indiana

poster abstractIntroduction: Indiana is one of the remaining states that requires by state law a referral to initiate treatment by a licensed physical therapist (PT) and therefore does not allow consumers direct access to physical therapy services. In 2009, the Indiana Chapter of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) and Indiana University jointly funded a study to investigate the opinions of licensed physical therapists on direct access to physical therapy services. Purpose: The study investigated physical therapists opinions residing in the state of Indiana on four main issues: Direct access—desire for and willingness to achieve Scope of care—differential diagnosis and clinical skills Liability—perceived impact of direct access Manipulation practices—competence and confidence Methods: The researchers used an online program, SurveyMonkey©, to design an 18-question survey. The sample was recruited via a mailing list from the Indiana State Board of Health which included all the licensed physical therapists within the state of Indiana. A letter explaining the purpose of the study including a hyperlink to the survey and a hard copy of the survey was mailed to 3,350 physical therapists. The survey respondents could either choose to complete the survey online via the hyperlink or on the hard copy provided and return via a provided selfaddressed stamped envelope for survey return. Results: There were 1,379 respondents which accounted for a 42% return rate. APTA membership was analyzed with 39.5% of the respondents being APTA members and the remaining 60.5% being non-members. The collective responses to specific questions were reported by a five-level Likert response scale. The majority of respondents want direct access in the state of Indiana, with the average response being 4.13/5.00. However, proportionately the willingness of respondents to be actively involved is much lower, with the average response being 3.23/5.00. The majority (61%) believed their liability would increase with direct access. The terminal degrees for the respondents surveyed were varied with the majority, 48.6%, holding a Bachelor’s degree. The responses of participants were significantly influenced by their degree/level of training with higher levels of training being consistently associated with more favorable attitudes to direct access issues. Discussion /Clinical Relevance: The high return rate and passionate responses confirm these issues are important to PT’s practicing in Indiana and the majority of those surveyed are in favor of direct access to physical therapy services without compromise of the current scope of care. The results of this study may have implications for health policy regarding direct access to physical therapy services within the state of Indiana. In particular to help redirect efforts toward dispelling myths, promoting grassroots efforts and encouraging teamwork in our peers

Planning and scheduling lessons learned study, executive summary

The study was performed to document the lessons on planning and scheduling activities for a number of missions and institutional facilities in such a way that they can be applied to future missions; to provide recommendations to both projects and Code 500 that will improve the end-to-end planning and scheduling process; and to identify what, if any, mission characteristics might be related to certain lessons learned. The results are a series of recommendations of both a managerial and technical nature related to the underlying lessons learned

Big data and other challenges in the quest for orthologs

Given the rapid increase of species with a sequenced genome, the need to identify orthologous genes between them has emerged as a central bioinformatics task. Many different methods exist for orthology detection, which makes it difficult to decide which one to choose for a particular application. Here, we review the latest developments and issues in the orthology field, and summarize the most recent results reported at the third ‘Quest for Orthologs' meeting. We focus on community efforts such as the adoption of reference proteomes, standard file formats and benchmarking. Progress in these areas is good, and they are already beneficial to both orthology consumers and providers. However, a major current issue is that the massive increase in complete proteomes poses computational challenges to many of the ortholog database providers, as most orthology inference algorithms scale at least quadratically with the number of proteomes. The Quest for Orthologs consortium is an open community with a number of working groups that join efforts to enhance various aspects of orthology analysis, such as defining standard formats and datasets, documenting community resources and benchmarking. Availability and implementation: All such materials are available at http://questfororthologs.org. Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]

Scoping studies to establish the capability and utility of a real-time bioaerosol sensor to characterise emissions from environmental sources

A novel dual excitation wavelength based bioaerosol sensor with multiple fluorescence bands called Spectral Intensity Bioaerosol Sensor (SIBS) has been assessed across five contrasting outdoor environments. The mean concentrations of total and fluorescent particles across the sites were highly variable being the highest at the agricultural farm (2.6 cm−3 and 0.48 cm−3, respectively) and the composting site (2.32 cm−3 and 0.46 cm−3, respectively) and the lowest at the dairy farm (1.03 cm−3 and 0.24 cm−3, respectively) and the sewage treatment works (1.03 cm−3 and 0.25 cm−3, respectively). In contrast, the number-weighted fluorescent fraction was lowest at the agricultural site (0.18) in comparison to the other sites indicating high variability in nature and magnitude of emissions from environmental sources. The fluorescence emissions data demonstrated that the spectra at different sites were multimodal with intensity differences largely at wavelengths located in secondary emission peaks for λex 280 and λex 370. This finding suggests differences in the molecular composition of emissions at these sites which can help to identify distinct fluorescence signature of different environmental sources. Overall this study demonstrated that SIBS provides additional spectral information compared to existing instruments and capability to resolve spectrally integrated signals from relevant biological fluorophores could improve selectivity and thus enhance discrimination and classification strategies for real-time characterisation of bioaerosols from environmental sources. However, detailed lab-based measurements in conjunction with real-world studies and improved numerical methods are required to optimise and validate these highly resolved spectral signatures with respect to the diverse atmospherically relevant biological fluorophores

Big data and other challenges in the quest for orthologs.

Given the rapid increase of species with a sequenced genome, the need to identify orthologous genes between them has emerged as a central bioinformatics task. Many different methods exist for orthology detection, which makes it difficult to decide which one to choose for a particular application. Here, we review the latest developments and issues in the orthology field, and summarize the most recent results reported at the third 'Quest for Orthologs' meeting. We focus on community efforts such as the adoption of reference proteomes, standard file formats and benchmarking. Progress in these areas is good, and they are already beneficial to both orthology consumers and providers. However, a major current issue is that the massive increase in complete proteomes poses computational challenges to many of the ortholog database providers, as most orthology inference algorithms scale at least quadratically with the number of proteomes. The Quest for Orthologs consortium is an open community with a number of working groups that join efforts to enhance various aspects of orthology analysis, such as defining standard formats and datasets, documenting community resources and benchmarking. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: All such materials are available at http://questfororthologs.org. CONTACT: [email protected] or [email protected]

Analysing the professional development of teaching and learning from a political ethics of care perspective

This paper uses Tronto’s political ethics of care as a normative framework to evaluate a model of teaching and learning professional development. This framework identifies five integrated moral elements of care – attentiveness, responsibility, competence, responsiveness and trust. This paper explicates on each of these elements to evaluate the piloting and implementation of a teaching and learning professional development model at a South African higher education institution. The political ethics of care was found to be a useful normative framework for a group of higher educators to reflect on the process of engaging in teaching and learning professional development in that it revealed the importance of differential power relations, the importance of working collaboratively and being attentive to the needs of both caregivers and care receivers.Web of Scienc