The frequency of muscle protein polymorphism in Menidia menidia (Atherinidae) along the Atlantic coast

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Characteristics Associated With The Effectiveness Of Resource Development Programs At Florida Community Colleges

As educational funding from traditional sources decreases and the cost of operating educational programs increases, community colleges are seeking ways to diversify funding streams and increase revenue. For many 2-year colleges, resource development, particularly the procurement of government grants and contracts, represents a viable source of revenue. The purpose of this research was (a) to establish a profile of grant development programs in Florida community colleges and (b) to identify factors associated with successful grant development. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect information about grant development programs at the 28 publicly-supported community colleges in the state of Florida. Twenty-six colleges completed the survey. The grant success rate, return on investment, and organizational and operational integration of institutional advancement functions of the respondent colleges were incorporated into linear mathematical models to predict grant development success. Although no statistically significant predictive relationships were determined, organizational and operational integration of institutional advancement functions can not be considered to be without some influence on a college\u27s ability to generate grant revenue. The potential for community college efforts to yield increasing grant funding will continue to transform higher education. The study of the components and characteristics that allow for predicting successful grant acquisition is of continuing research interest and mounting practical importance to community college presidents, administrators, trustees, and resource development professionals

CLIENTS AS TEACHERS: THE 7 QUALITIES MOST DESIRED IN A THERAPIST

Little previous research has directly asked clients to identify the qualities they most desire in a therapist. The current study took place over the summer of 2016 utilizing a questionnaire format that asked over 120 individuals receiving out-patient and residential clinical therapeutic services, to identify the top seven qualities they most desired in a therapist. Participants chose from a list of 33 client-generated adjectives derived from an original focus group of partial-hospitalization and intensive outpatient therapy clients. This study’s participants had the opportunity to also identify and add qualities that were not listed among the original 33 options provided. The study found that clients most valued qualities that can be developed through Mindfulness practices, shedding light on an under-emphasized, but potentially rich area of development in the conception of graduate psychology training curricula. The research outcomes identified domains that, from a client-centered perspective, enhance clients’ engagement in therapy, decrease and repair therapeutic ruptures, and advance the field’s understanding of how therapeutic interventions are most effectively delivered

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Assessing Our Judgement: Comparing Librarian and Allied Health Professionals’ Evaluation of Relevance of Search Results

Objectives: Information needs, literature searching, librarian’s and requestor’s perception

University Consolidations and Multi-Campus Institutions: Prevailing when Cultures Collide

University consolidations have escalated since 2007. We will share our experiences of working through departmental consolidation and multi-campus challenges from our perspective as administrators located on different campuses. Following this, we will facilitate a discussion of best practices for multi-campus problem-solving and distance communication

Viewpoint: Undergraduates look at professional education

Kansas State University has proven historically to produce some of the finest teachers in the state

Podcasting practices: Mediators of archival work, ELA teacher education curricula, and digital identities

This paper investigates how a semester-long online course in a language and literacy teacher education department coupled a podcast project with archival pedagogy and restorying to explore how ELA (English Language Arts) teachers (preservice, inservice teachers, and those seeking re-entry) worked collaboratively to enrich understandings of instruction embedded in a high-tech environment. The course was taught in the southeastern United States at the height of a global pandemic. After the semester ended, three graduate students (from a class of 21) joined the instructor to qualitatively analyze data collected during the previous 14 weeks. Data sources included digitally stored videos, archived library objects, class emails, rubrics, asynchronous discussion boards, synchronous Zoom discussions, and student-generated podcast projects. Findings point to the merit of providing agentic-learning opportunities through podcasting practices that mediated students’ archival work, ELA teacher education curricula, and digital identity formation. Implications are drawn for ELA classroom teachers and teacher educators

Binary Properties from Cepheid Radial Velocities (CRaV)

We have examined high accuracy radial velocities of Cepheids to determine the binary frequency. The data are largely from the CORAVEL spectrophotometer and the Moscow version, with a typical uncertainty of $\leq1$~km~s$^{-1}$, and a time span from 1 to 20 years. A systemic velocity was obtained by removing the pulsation component using a high order Fourier series. From this data we have developed a list of stars showing no orbital velocity larger than $\pm1$~km~s$^{-1}$. The binary fraction was analyzed as a function of magnitude, and yields an apparent decrease in this fraction for fainter stars. We interpret this as incompleteness at fainter magnitudes, and derive the preferred binary fraction of $29\pm8$\% ( $20\pm6$\% per decade of orbital period) from the brightest 40 stars. Comparison of this fraction in this period range (1-20 years) implies a large fraction for the full period range. This is reasonable in that the high accuracy velocities are sensitive to the longer periods and smaller orbital velocity amplitudes in the period range sampled here. Thus the Cepheid velocity sample provides a sensitive detection in the period range between short period spectroscopic binaries and resolved companions. The recent identification of $\delta$ Cep as a binary with very low amplitude and high eccentricity underscores the fact that the binary fractions we derive are lower limits, to which other low amplitude systems will probably be added. The mass ratio (q) distribution derived from ultraviolet observations of the secondary is consistent with a flat distribution for the applicable period range (1 to 20 years).Comment: accepted for publication in A