The Global Pharmaceutical Industry, 2004

This teaching case looks at the development of the ethical pharmaceutical industry. The various forces affecting the discovery, development, production, distribution and marketing of prescription drugs are discussed in terms of their origins and recent developments. Readers are then invited to consider trends for the future.Ethical pharmaceuticals, industry analysis, five forces

Designing Place-sensitive Professional Development: A Critical Ethnography of Teaching and Learning Argumentative Writing

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the experiences of teachers participating in a two-year professional development program designed by the National Writing Project and funded by a U.S. Department of Education Investing in Innovation (i3) grant. Informed by New Literacy Studies’ ideological model of literacy as a Social practice and rural literacies’ notion of pedagogies of sustainability, this study employs critical ethnography and discourse analysis to analyze the discourse of teachers participating in the College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP) in order to understand how professional development might be adjusted to re-empower teachers. Data sources included field notes, interviews, lesson plans, student writing samples, and reflective vignettes, collected between March of 2013 and January of 2016. Data were analyzed in order to examine how teachers’ identities and epistemologies of literacy influenced their resistance or appropriation of the argumentative writing practices targeted by the CRWP professional development series. Analysis resulted in the identification of three essential themes in the discourse: (1) participating teachers who identified as writers and believed in their own instructional efficacy were more likely to successfully integrate argumentative writing into their curricula than teachers who did not identify readily as writers or had a generally low sense of instructional efficacy; (2) teachers who identified themselves as agents of change articulated and acted on beliefs in the expectancy-value theory, resulting in higher goals and higher expectations for students’ writing; and (3) for English language arts teachers working from epistemologies of literacy shaped by the understanding of literacy as a state of grace, the argumentative writing focus of the CRWP was outside of their disciplinary content area, a positioning that made integration challenging. These findings provide supporting evidence for the argument that professional development should invest in teachers’ empowerment through the exploration of their identities and epistemologies as a foundational step in the professional learning process

Creating and Maintaining a Community Literacy Project in Northwest Arkansas

The purpose of this research is to examine both logistical and curricular strategies employed by students and staff working with the Razorback Writers project as well as student productions in order to determine which of these strategies lead to the highest level of student participation in literacy-based activities, improvement in reading comprehension and writing abilities, and enjoyment of diverse texts

On the classical limit of Bohmian mechanics for Hagedorn wave packets

We consider the classical limit of quantum mechanics in terms of Bohmian trajectories. For wave packets as defined by Hagedorn we show that the Bohmian trajectories converge to Newtonian trajectories in probability.Comment: some minor changes; published versio

A Model for Hospital Discharge Preparation: From Case Management to Care Transition

There has been a proliferation of initiatives to improve discharge processes and outcomes for the transition from hospital to home and community-based care. Operationalization of these processes has varied widely as hospitals have customized discharge care into innovative roles and functions. This article presents a model for conceptualizing the components of hospital discharge preparation to ensure attention to the full range of processes needed for a comprehensive strategy for hospital discharge

A triangulation study of young Women’s motivations for sending nudes to men

Women frequently send sexualized nude images to men (i.e., nudes), but women’s motivations for sending nudes are unclear because there are methodological limitations in the ways that cyber sexual activity has been defined and measured. To address these gaps in the literature, we employed a mixed method triangulation design to assess young women’s motivations for sending nudes to men, and how motivations compare when measured qualitatively and quantitatively. Across our qualitative and quantitative data, we found that women endorsed a plethora of motivations for sending nudes to men—far more than any one approach captured. The open-ended responses revealed positive sexual motives otherwise missing from the quantitative scales, which tended to overrepresent negative motivations. We also identified several critical discrepancies between endorsement of similar motivations in the qualitative versus quantitative responses, especially when it came to the idea of sending nudes for fun. Based on these findings, we suggest future researchers consider using more specific, and less stigmatizing language when assessing women’s motivations for sending nudes

Reporting Crime to the Police: Does What the Police Do Make a Difference?

The purpose of this study was to closely examine the reasons victims call the police. Few studies have explored both satisfaction and crime reporting in the same model with police interactions. Understanding whether legitimacy or the cost-benefit analysis approach is more influential on reporting crime will help inform police policy. The study used a cross-sectional victimization sample (N=4,598) from the 1997 Law Enforcement and Administrative Statistics Survey and the 1998 Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety Survey. Findings supported the hypothesis that having direct experiences with police were associated with increased reporting of crimes. Contrary to hypotheses, satisfaction with police had no significant relationship with reporting crime and community policing tactics were negatively related with reporting crime to the police, although this relationship may not be causal. Crime seriousness had the greatest significant association with reporting. Limitations and recommendations for future research are discussed

Elementary School Teachers’ Attitudes toward Classroom Accommodations: The Effects of Disability and School Type

The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of elementary school teachers toward the inclusion of a student with either a moderate intellectual, physical, or behavioral disability. Participants were from eight different elementary schools; two magnet schools, one charter school, and five public schools from one school district. Participants were provided with a vignette describing one of three disability types and then rated 25 accommodations made for that student. Teachers’ attitudes toward these accommodations were measured by the three adapted subscales of the Adaptation Evaluation Instrument (AEI; Schumm & Vaughn, 1991), which addressed how desirable teachers believe each accommodation to be for the student with a disability, how feasible it is to make each accommodation, and how beneficial each accommodation is for students without disabilities in the classroom. Results indicated that disability type did not affect teachers’ attitudes toward accommodations; however access to additional resources and general attitudes toward inclusion had moderate effects on teachers’ attitudes toward accommodations. Findings also revealed that teachers employed at the magnet or charter schools saw accommodations as significantly more beneficial for students without disabilities than did teachers employed at the traditional public schools