Senior Recital:Anna Melissa Reed, Trumpet

Kemp Recital Hall Tuesday Evening April 17, 2001 7:30 p.m

Place-Based Education: People, Places, and Spaces for Interdisciplinary Literacy Learning

Abstract Place-based education (PBE) encourages teachers to create authentic learning communities of real-world experts outside of the regular classroom setting. Literacy strategies were used to support understanding of content. This article will explore the results of teacher action research in creating interdisciplinary literacy opportunities in the real world using a PBE model. What impact does PBE have on motivation and interest of learning in this interdisciplinary setting? The advantages and challenges are examined through the use of interviews, exit slips, and antidotal records during a summer camp experience with students in grades 4-6. The findings from a research project involving interdisciplinary literacy in various place-based settings will be explored, along with the places and lesson ideas used with children. Keywords: place-based education (PBE), interdisciplinary literacy, inquiry learning, action researc

Doctoral Study Effects of Mandatory Staffing Requirements on Quality Indicators in Long-Term Care

Long term care facilities continue to struggle to improve the quality of care, which affects publicly reported data and reimbursement. The purpose of this study was to evaluate if state-mandated staffing ratios affected Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) survey ratings for CMS Region 7, which consisted of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. The theoretical framework was grounded by Donabedian’s quality theory, which described quality is made up of the elements of structure, process, and outcomes. This study included two research questions evaluating if there was a correlation between minimum staffing ratios and quality of care in long-term care facilities among the four states in CMS Region 7 and if quality of care scores were higher in long-term care facilities due to state minimum staffing requirements among the four states in CMS Region 7. A quantitative correlation research design was used with non-probability sampling to include all nursing homes in the identified states using secondary data from CMS. Spearman’s ρ determined that a correlation existed between staffing ratios and quality of care rating. A Mann-Whitney U test concluded that there wasnot a significant difference between the groups with no minimum staffing requirements and states with minimum staffing requirements. The potential impact of this study onpositive social change is at the individual, organizational, and policy levels. Individual patients and nursing home facilities can benefit from the recognition of providers regarding association of minimum staffing ratios impacting quality of care that is delivered in long term care facilities

Impacts of culverts and dams on aquatic macroinvertebrates in Oklahoma wadable streams

Anthropogenic activities alter flowing water in many ways resulting in streams being among the most modified ecosystems worldwide. Humans cause the greatest effects to aquatic ecosystems by creating artificial structures to impede natural stream flow. The purpose of this research was to examine the impact artificial structures such as dams and culverts have on aquatic invertebrates and to test the effectiveness of homemade artificial substrate sampling devices. Dams alter discharge, temperature regimes, and disconnect upstream and downstream reaches causing changes in biological communities. Existing literature demonstrates that dams impact aquatic biota, including macroinvertebrates, but less is known about how far these impacts persist downstream of dams and whether the impact of multiple dams is cumulative. In addition, the release of hypolimnetic water from reservoirs alters downstream water quality, especially water temperatures and flow regimes, which often disrupts the natural stream community. Our first objective was to assess the effects of hypolimnetic releases and multiple dams on macroinvertebrates in a 19-km reach of the lower Mountain Fork River, a cold tailwater river, fragmented by three dams in southeastern Oklahoma. Culverts impact streams by narrowing the stream channel, preventing the movement of substrate and large woody debris, and causing erosion near the road crossing leading to subsequent sedimentation further downstream. Existing literature shows that culverts pose a threat to habitat connectivity and limit fish movement in lower order streams, but less is known about the impacts of culverts on aquatic macroinvertebrates. Therefore, our second objective was to investigate the effects of road culverts on the aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in two stream systems (Tallgrass prairie and Ozark Highlands) in eastern and northeastern Oklahoma. Finally, collecting aquatic invertebrates is an important part of monitoring ecosystem health in aquatic habitats. Artificial substrate sampling devices are constructed to attract aquatic organisms that attach to hard surfaces to hide from predators and are an established sampling method for aquatic invertebrates. Hester-Dendy devices are widely used in standard water quality monitoring programs and research; however, the devices are expensive ($22-38 each). Our third objective was to test homemade artificial substrate devices created from empty 500-milliliter plastic soda bottles

Small-molecule inhibitors of proteins involved in base excision repair potentiate the anti-tumorigenic effect of existing chemotherapeutics and irradiation

There has been a recent upsurge in the development of small-molecule inhibitors specific to DNA repair proteins or proteins peripherally involved in base excision repair and the DNA damage response. These specific, nominally toxic inhibitors are able to potentiate the effect of existing cancer cell treatments in a wide array of cancers. One of the largest obstacles to overcome in the treatment of cancer is incomplete killing with initial cancer treatments, leading to resistant cancer. The progression of our understanding of cancer and normal cell responses to DNA damage has allowed us to develop biomarkers that we can use to help us predict responses of cancers, more specifically target cancer cells and overcome resistance. Initial successes using these small-molecule DNA repair inhibitors in target-validation experiments and in the early stages of clinical trials indicate an important role for these inhibitors, and allow for the possibility of a future in which cancers are potentially treated in a highly specific, individual manner

Trauma Pause

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Senior Recital:Denise Lynn Yonker,Clarinet Anna Melissa Reed, Trumpet

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Afternoon November 17, 2001 1:30p.m