School Zone Flashers in Indianapolis, Indiana

Starting in 2013, the City of Indianapolis embarked on a phased effort to install school zone flashing beacons throughout the city. Through three phases of design and construction, nearly 600 flashers were installed, including 516 speed zone flashers and 76 rectangular rapid-flashing beacons. As part of the third phase, upgraded hardware was installed in the speed zone flashers to facilitate calendar updates and maintenance tracking. Construction cost $4.2 million utilizing HSIP funds. Join us to learn about this project

MUTCD Revisions and Sign Upgrades

Jill Palmer, PE has managed over a dozen sign inventories in response to new MUTCD requirements for retroreflectivity. This presentation shares lessons gleaned from that experience and a practical approach to satisfying the MUTCD criteria

Unforeseen Covid Impacts on Indianapolis Traffic

COVID has impacted traffic volumes, travel patterns, and even trip generation across our country. This session will explore COVID’s impact on Indianapolis traffic and how to address it. We’ll demonstrate how impacts differ in urban areas and depend on adjacent land use, adjusted work schedules, socio-economic forces, and transit access. We’ll compare Indianapolis to national trends and conclude with open discussions regarding future TIAs and the potential permanency of adjusted travel patterns

Using Reality Therapy in Schools: Its Potential Impact on the Effectiveness of the ASCA National Model

The primary purpose of this manuscript is to examine the application of Reality Therapy in schools. The basic components of the American School Counseling Association\u27s National Model and also the core tenets of Reality Therapy are reviewed in terms of pertinent literature. This is followed by a focus on the delivery system national model. Lastly, specific emphasis will be placedon the potential impact Reality Therapy can have on student academic achievement, personal/social development, and career decision-making skills when applied to each program component

Finding Our Way to Food Democracy: Lessons from US Food Policy Council Governance

Food policy councils (FPCs) are an embodiment of food democracy, providing a space for community members, professionals, and government to learn together, deliberate, and collectively devise place-based strategies to address complex food systems issues. These collaborative governance networks can be considered a transitional stage in the democratic process, an intermediary institution that coordinates interests not typically present in food policymaking. In practice, FPCs are complex and varied. Due to this variety, it is not entirely clear how the structure, membership, and relationship to government of an FPC influence its policy priorities. This article will examine the relationship between an FPC’s organizational structure, relationship to government, and membership and its policy priorities. Using data from a 2018 survey of FPCs in the United States by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future paired with illustrative cases, we find that an FPC’s relationship to government and membership have more bearing on its policy priorities than the organizational structure. Further, the cases illustrate how membership is determined and deliberation occurs, highlighting the difficulty of including underrepresented voices in the process

Peel, Pare, Plate, Post: Repository Mise en Place for Collecting Faculty Articles

Mise en place (pronounced “meez ahn plahs”) is a term used in professional kitchens to describe the organizing and arranging of the workspace, ingredients, and equipment before beginning to cook. It translates directly from French as “to put in place” (“Mise en Place,” n.d.). A carefully constructed mise en place is the key to this recipe for adding faculty articles to an institutional repository (IR). Step by step, this recipe details one proven way for a head chef to prepare a scholarly communication kitchen for this project: (1) identifying sous-chefs to assist in the project, (2) gathering ingredients from multiple sources, (3) peeling and chopping the ingredients into morsels of essential information, (4) collecting and arranging these morsels so they are all within easy reach, and (5) combining them into small, easily digestible outreach emails to faculty

Newborn Hearing Screenings for Babies Born at Home: Report from an Initiative in Michigan

Objective: Babies born in an out-of-hospital setting (e.g., homebirth) often do not receive a universal newborn hearing screening (UNHS). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of providing training and equipment for newborn hearing screening to midwives who attend homebirths. Study Design: Midwives from around the state of Michigan were invited to participate in a two-part UNHS training. Hearing screening data from all midwives who attended homebirths (N=112) during the 2015 and 2016 calendar years were analyzed using a two-level multilevel model. Estimated odds of babies being screened were calculated based on midwife group. Results: Having a midwife who hosted an AABR machine at her practice increased the likelihood of receiving a screening by 39.37 times. Having a midwife who had access to an AABR machine increased the likelihood of receiving a screening by 8.57 times. Having a midwife who received focused education about the importance of newborn hearing screening increased the likelihood of receiving a screening by 10.82 times. Conclusion: Providing UNHS equipment to midwives significantly increases the likelihood that babies born at home will receive a hearing screening at birth. This is evidence for the continued outreach and inclusion of midwives in UNHS programs

Amplifying CUNY Voices with CUNY Academic Works

While most conversations about open access literature center on journal articles and books, research takes many other forms. CUNY Academic Works provides a platform for, and public access to, a wide range of CUNY-created scholarship. In this presentation, we discuss the importance of including Women\u27s Studies Newsletter (the predecessor of Women\u27s Studies Quarterly), Latino Data Project Reports, and theses and dissertations in Academic Works, and report on a recent census of journals published by the CUNY community

Antigen-Specific T Cells: Analyses of the Needles in the Haystack

Antigen binding to T cell receptors is a critical step in an immune response. Detection and characterization of rare populations of T cells enhances our ability to understand and treat diseas