Competition, Comparison, Collaboration – Mapping a Pathway through Project Management Standards

AbstractFor over a decade the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) has been providing an independent benchmark and a basis for transportability and mutual recognition of project management standards and qualifications. This presentation will provide background and current status of this volunteer driven initiative that provides a platform for global collaboration in advancing project management

INTRODUCING CLASSROOM LABELING AS AN INNOVATIVE METHOD TO INFORM EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

In-service seminars and one-shot workshops are the primary methods used for the on-going professional development of instructors, but these methods have been shown to be ineffective and an inadequate way to provide teacher training (Winton & McCollum, 2008). Classroom labeling is proposed as a way of providing knowledge utilization and an alternative to in-service education for preschool teachers by intentionally applying layers of information directly to the learning environment through visual displays, usually in the form of posters. Instructional exhibits typically have only been used to enhance the learning experience of the children. Through the use of classroom labeling, adult educators can become aware of new research as well as textbook knowledge through words and pictures attractively displayed around the classroom where they are working every day. Participating teachers were asked to complete a pre-assessment before their early childhood classrooms were labeled with posters, which are educational signs, placed strategically around the room in places where they would be seen by adults, read and directly applied. After the classrooms were labeled for two weeks, the teachers completed a post-assessment to ascertain whether this method increased their knowledge base as evidenced by their ability to retain and recall the information from the classroom labeling. Results showed that classroom labeling was effective in disseminating knowledge to the teachers in the classroom and that some prefer this method of professional development

Working with Natural Helpers: a Handbook for Social Workers

The practicum consists of a study of methods of identifying and working with natural caregivers, based on previous descriptions in the literature of natural caregivers and their networks, presented in handbook format, and addressed to social service delivery people. Most of the natural helping literature describes natural helpers and natural helping networks, Little is available about the worker - helper relationship itself, about how to find natural helpers, and about how to develop and maintain relationships with them. It is this relationship between the worker and the natural helper that we studied and about which we have written

Cord blood hemopoietic progenitor cell toll like receptor expression and function: a mechanism underlying allergic inflammation in early life?

RATIONALE: Neonatal immune responses to environmental stimuli, mediated via TLR, may determine the development of atopy in childhood. Since hemopoietic mechanisms are involved in development and maintenance of allergic inflammation, we investigated alterations in progenitor expression and differentiation profiles after stimulation with TLR agonists.<p></p> METHODS: Freshly isolated, CD34-enriched human CB cells were stimulated with 10μg/mL lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or 5μM CpG ODN overnight. Flow cytometric analyses were used to evaluate surface and intracellular expression of TLR-2, TLR-4, TLR-9, as well as the hemopoietic cytokine receptors (HCR) IL-5R, IL-3R and GM-CSFR; methylcellulose cultures were performed to assess CD34+ cell differentiation capacity into Eo/B CFU.<p></p> RESULTS: After TLR agonist stimulation, CD34+ cell TLR-2, -4 and TLR-9 percentage expression increased significantly (p=0.005), whereas HCR expression decreased (p=0.01); however, mean fluorescence intensity of all receptors was found to be increased. Stimulation with a combination of TLR agonists and hemopoietic cytokines induced increased IL-5- and IL-3-responsive Eo/B CFU (p=0.02), when compared to hemopoietic cytokine stimulation alone.<p></p> CONCLUSIONS: CB CD34+ progenitor cells significantly express TLR, and TLR ligation directly affects both TLR and HCR expression. These receptor alterations allow modulation of progenitor cell differentiation capacity into eosinophils and basophils, key cells involved in allergic inflammation. These findings may highlight an alternate innate immune pathway of microbial influence on the development of allergic inflammation in early life.<p></p&gt

The Ursinus Weekly, January 16, 1903

Philosophical and psychological associations • American economic and historical associations • Meeting of the Modern Language Association • Meeting of scientists • Groups organize • Monday Night Club • Societies • Among the colleges • YMCA • Philadelphia letter • Personals • L. C. Royer, A. B., deadhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3070/thumbnail.jp