Values of school and post-school training programs in a vocational setting for the educable mentally retarded

This paper dealt with only one such question with the hope that many answers would evolve from it. That question was What can the community and education do to promote a happier, more profitable social, and healthful adulthood for the mentally retarded junior and senior citizens of our country

Hyperintense vessel sign on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MR imaging is reduced by gadolinium

The HVS on FLAIR imaging is a useful marker of acute ischemic stroke. We investigated whether prior administration of gadolinium-based contrast hindered detection of this sign on images from subjects with acute nonlacunar ischemic stroke <4.5 hours after onset. Both blinded and comparative unblinded analyses showed significantly reduced HVS detection on postcontrast images. We suggest that assessment for this sign should be performed on images acquired prior to contrast administration

Information Literacy Curriculum Mapping for Graduate Students

This presentation describes the process used to develop and implement an information literacy curriculum for graduate programs at Emory & Henry College. When the library director was hired, she noted that students were graduating without having contact with the library and without building necessary information literacy skills. She began searching the literature for solutions and approaches. She synthesized the literature and, after identifying barriers, created a plan. Her team of librarians began by developing a curriculum map for information literacy skills at the undergraduate level. They envisioned Emory & Henry graduates, and the information literacy skills they should have. Based on this brainstorming, they developed student learning outcomes which were grouped into lessons and broken down by student learning year. In 2020, Emory & Henry hired a Health Sciences Librarian for our School of Health Sciences and to assist with the graduate curriculum. She has followed the same process for developing a graduate information literacy course map. Each lesson was mapped to the ACRL Framework. The librarian developed lesson plans along with online modules for the information literacy lessons. Each lesson includes a skills assessment. The curriculum map was presented to faculty and administration with the idea that these were baseline skills students should have upon graduation, and these lessons would allow us to reach the goal of graduating information literate professionals. We presented the lessons as a time-saving and effort-reducing tool. Faculty were given the option to choose online or in-person instruction from a librarian, or to specify a course that they would provide the instruction within. Course directors and instructors signed off on the curriculum map. We have begun implementing this curriculum map among our undergraduate and graduate classes. Initial data indicates that Student Learning Outcomes are being met. One lesson that we learned is that creating engaging outcomes-based lessons is difficult. There were many iterations of each lesson before the final lessons were approved. We believe that this program will standardize the information literacy skills our students develop, eliminating gaps and redundancies. We also believe that standardizing the lessons will decrease the amount of instruction development librarians will have to do. If a librarian happens to be unavailable for a scheduled instruction session, another can easily step in and fill the void. Our intention is to integrate the librarians into the curriculum more fully and provide more interaction between the librarians and our students. Finally, we believe this program is generalizable to other colleges and universities, both large and small, with and without a liaison structure for integrating librarians into instruction and developing consistent information literacy skills

Preadolescents with Attachment Disorders: An Explanatory Study in a Residential Treatment Center

An increasing number of children are failing to develop secure attachments to caregivers. Many are involved with the child welfare system and display an overwhelming number of problems--emotional, cognitive, developmental, physical, moral, behavioral, and social. This exploratory study using qualitative and quantitative methods addresses how one residential treatment center has worked with this population. Case records, selected through a purposive sampling, of 14 discharged preadolescents and information from key informants support findings of this research. Themes discovered assist this treatment center, and possibly others, in understanding the relationship between the behavioral and therapeutic needs of these children and the practice interventions for those children discharged from this unit to a similar residential facility or more restricted environment

Interview of Francis Tri Nguyen, F.S.C., Ph.D.

Francis of Assisi Nguyen von Tri, was born in Shanghai, China in 1938. When the Communists took over China, his family left the country for Hanoi, North Vietnam. In 1954, when the French were defeated, they fled the Communists again, and settled in South Vietnam. He was raised a Catholic, and enrolled in the Christian Brothers order at a young age. While completing his formation for the Christian Brotherhood, Brother Francis began teaching students at various age levels. He entered into higher education, completed a Bachelors degree, and went on to pursue a Masters degree in Sociology after receiving a scholarship to attend the Asian Social Institute in Manila, Philippines. He taught at schools in Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1960s and 70s, during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1975, he was a member of the large group of refugees who fled South Vietnam when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. Brother Francis arrived in the United States in the summer of 1975. Once he arrived in the U.S., he sustained his role as a Christian Brother by joining the American community, and pursued degrees at several major universities. Brother Francis has conducted research on La Sallian identity around the world, the plight and successes of Vietnamese refugees, and the aging process. He has been a faculty member at La Salle University since 1985, and at the time of the interview served as head of the University’s Sociology Department. His office is located in 361 Olney Hall

Insured? Good! Designing a Blockchain-based Credit Default Insurance System for DeFi Lending Protocols

The rising popularity of blockchain has cleared the path for developing numerous decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. However, insurance solutions for DeFi applications are still missing. Therefore, this article presents a smart contract-based P2P credit default insurance solution using the Design Science Research Method. The design presents an approach to decentralize insurance systems by reducing the number of intermediaries. The evaluation of the artifact shows that blockchain and smart contracts can provide financial inclusion, reduce costs and automate processes in insurance processes

Statistical analysis of the primary outcome in acute stroke trials

Common outcome scales in acute stroke trials are ordered categorical or pseudocontinuous in structure but most have been analyzed as binary measures. The use of fixed dichotomous analysis of ordered categorical outcomes after stroke (such as the modified Rankin Scale) is rarely the most statistically efficient approach and usually requires a larger sample size to demonstrate efficacy than other approaches. Preferred statistical approaches include sliding dichotomous, ordinal, or continuous analyses. Because there is no best approach that will work for all acute stroke trials, it is vital that studies are designed with a full understanding of the type of patients to be enrolled (in particular their case mix, which will be critically dependent on their age and severity), the potential mechanism by which the intervention works (ie, will it tend to move all patients somewhat, or some patients a lot, and is a common hazard present), a realistic assessment of the likely effect size, and therefore the necessary sample size, and an understanding of what the intervention will cost if implemented in clinical practice. If these approaches are followed, then the risk of missing useful treatment effects for acute stroke will diminish

Interview of Francis Tri Nguyen, F.S.C., Ph.D. Part 2

Francis of Assisi Nguyen von Tri, was born in Shanghai, China in 1938. When the Communists took over China, his family left the country for Hanoi, North Vietnam. In 1954, when the French were defeated, they fled the Communists again, and settled in South Vietnam. He was raised a Catholic, and enrolled in the Christian Brothers order at a young age. While completing his formation for the Christian Brotherhood, Brother Francis began teaching students at various age levels. He entered into higher education, completed a Bachelors degree, and went on to pursue a Masters degree in Sociology after receiving a scholarship to attend the Asian Social Institute in Manila, Philippines. He taught at schools in Vietnam and Cambodia in the 1960s and 70s, during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1975, he was a member of the large group of refugees who fled South Vietnam when Saigon fell to the North Vietnamese. Brother Francis arrived in the United States in the summer of 1975. Once he arrived in the U.S., he sustained his role as a Christian Brother by joining the American community, and pursued degrees at several major universities. Brother Francis has conducted research on La Sallian identity around the world, the plight and successes of Vietnamese refugees, and the aging process. He has been a faculty member at La Salle University since 1985, and currently serves as head of the University’s Sociology Department. His office is located in 361 Olney Hall