Understanding Copyright through Real-World Scenarios

This session will explain the basics of copyright and fair use for distance education and face to face teaching through common real-world scenarios. Scenarios include: posting video in an LMS film screenings ownership of faculty created course materials using orphan works using student work copyright in new media A significant portion of the session will be devoted to discussion of scenarios and challenges that participants have encountered. Participants will leave the session informed and empowered to make fair use assessments to present innovative course material while minimizing legal liability

The Impact of Diabetes and Obesity in the African American Population

Within the 21st century, Type II diabetes has emerged as a public health crisis. African Americans and Hispanic Americans have the highest rates of Type II diabetes and obesity compared to European Americans. The purpose of this DNP project was to teach medical assistants (MA) to provide self-management of diabetes and obesity for the African American population in the local clinical setting. An educational tool kit for health providers was developed to guide the educational project. The chronic care model was used to guide the development of the educational toolkit. A pretest posttest design was incorporated into the educational program. The materials were found to be clear, accurate, and easy to read by the medical assistants. Four MAs, who worked at the clinical setting, participated in the educational program that taught them to use the toolkit developed for this project. To evaluate the effects of the educational program for the MAs, the results of the pre and posttests were scored and showed that MAs had significantly increased their knowledge of teaching diabetes and obesity self-management for African Americans (pretest mean score 80, posttest mean score 93). An implication of this scholarly project is that it will give clinicians the resources needed to create social change in health care by addressing education in diabetes and obesity. Positive social change may result as the African American patients who receive education from medical assistants at the clinical site improve their self-management skills to prevent diabetes and obesity or the complications of the disease

Challenges of transnational Palestinian terrorism to the era of détente: 1970-1973, The

2010 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.United States Diplomatic historians have understood Henry Kissinger as the twentieth century's grandest statesmen. His realism and free reign over U.S. foreign policy during two presidential administrations was drawn from his life experiences and historical understandings of the limits of state power in the postcolonial world. He is understood to be an intellectual who drew his realist worldview from the history of nineteenth century concert of Europe and the grand statesmen of the period. His ability to draw lessons from history allowed him to achieve some of the most important foreign policy victories of the twentieth century. His realism recognized the limits of U.S. power in the Vietnam era, but he fell back on the nineteenth century model of interstate diplomacy as the way forward. However, his realist worldview drew exactly the wrong lessons from history in terms of his ability to address the new problem of Palestinian terrorism. In the postcolonial world, and the Middle East in particular, non-state actors such as the PLO and its militant factions became some of the most important elements in Cold War era diplomacy. The transnational terrorism by Palestinian nationalist organizations in the early-1970s (beginning in September of 1970 and ending in March 1973) challenged the Nixon administration's, and most importantly, Henry Kissinger's pursuit of détente in the region, which was based on détente between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Détente was sought for three reasons: in order to maintain the U.S.-Soviet balance of power in the region, to restrict Soviet influence on radical Arab governments, and to ensure important U.S.-Soviet cooperation in a peace process as outlined in "the Rogers Plan." This thesis argues that President Nixon and Kissinger's response to the terrorism proved unsuccessful because it was rooted in Kissinger's realism of interstate diplomacy and the limits of state power. Understanding how the administration did not (and could not) understand the transnational nature of Palestinian terrorism provides a window into how Kissinger's life experiences and historical knowledge shaped his realist worldview during the era of détente

pH-dependent mechanism of nitric oxide release in nitrophorins 2 and 4

Nitrophorins are NO carrier proteins that transport and release NO through a pH-dependent conformational change. They bind NO tightly in a low pH environment and release it in a higher pH environment. Experimental evidence shows that the increase in the NO dissociation equilibrium constant, K d, is due mainly to an increase in the NO release rate. Structural and kinetic data strongly suggest that NPs control NO escape by modulating its migration from the active site to the solvent through a pH-dependent conformational change. NP2 and NP4 are two representative proteins of the family displaying a 39% overall sequence identity, and interestingly, NP2 releases NO slower than NP4. The proposal that NPs' NO release relies mainly on the NO escape rate makes NPs a very peculiar case among typical heme proteins. The connection between the pH-dependent conformational change and ligand release mechanism is not fully understood and the structural basis for the pH induced structural transition and the different NO release patterns in NPs are unresolved, yet interesting issues. In this work, we have used state of the art molecular dynamics simulations to study the NO escape process in NP2 and NP4 in both the low and high pH states. Our results show that both NPs modulate NO release by switching between a "closed" conformation in a low pH environment and an "open" conformation at higher pH. In both proteins, the change is caused by the differential protonation of a common residue Asp30 in NP4 and Asp29 in NP2, and the NO escape route is conserved. Finally, our results show that, in NP2, the conformational change to the "open" conformation is smaller than that for NP4 which results in a higher barrier for NO release.Fil: Swails, Jason M.. University of Florida; Estados UnidosFil: Meng, Yilin. University of Florida; Estados UnidosFil: Walker, F. Ann. University of Arizona; Estados UnidosFil: Marti, Marcelo Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Química Biológica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Química Biológica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; ArgentinaFil: Estrin, Dario Ariel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Química, Física de los Materiales, Medioambiente y Energía; ArgentinaFil: Roitberg, Adrián. University of Florida; Estados Unido

Conceptions of Emulation, Migration, and Related Concepts in Digital Preservation Literature

This study uses conceptual content analysis to examine and compare definitions of "emulation," "migration," and other key terms in the digital preservation literature. Eight terms were coded and analyzed including "digital object," "authenticity," and "significant properties." Particular attention is paid to definitions of emulation and migration, and arguments for and against each process are reviewed. Within the library science literature there is a significant consensus about the definitions of many of these key terms. However, there still exists some ambiguity and disagreement about how these fundamental concepts should be understood. Those undertaking digital projects must be deliberate about defining these foundational terms before they begin work

Using Gimlet to Improve Service at the Library

In 2011, Johnson County Community College’s Billington Library first piloted and then implemented a low-cost online reference statistics tool called Gimlet. The system replaced an outmoded and inaccurate pen-and-paper statistics system. This paper details the struggles and advantages of this change. Implementation and training programs are discussed, as well as strategies for generating staff buy-in. Both the expected and unexpected advantages of a Gimlet based online system are explored, and future directions for the system are described. Libraries looking for a very low cost, easy to implement electronic statistics solution should consider Gimlet. The experience of JCCC’s Billington Library can serve as an effective road map

Improved chemistry restraints for crystallographic refinement by integrating the Amber force field into Phenix.

The refinement of biomolecular crystallographic models relies on geometric restraints to help to address the paucity of experimental data typical in these experiments. Limitations in these restraints can degrade the quality of the resulting atomic models. Here, an integration of the full all-atom Amber molecular-dynamics force field into Phenix crystallographic refinement is presented, which enables more complete modeling of biomolecular chemistry. The advantages of the force field include a carefully derived set of torsion-angle potentials, an extensive and flexible set of atom types, Lennard-Jones treatment of nonbonded interactions and a full treatment of crystalline electrostatics. The new combined method was tested against conventional geometry restraints for over 22 000 protein structures. Structures refined with the new method show substantially improved model quality. On average, Ramachandran and rotamer scores are somewhat better, clashscores and MolProbity scores are significantly improved, and the modeling of electrostatics leads to structures that exhibit more, and more correct, hydrogen bonds than those refined using traditional geometry restraints. In general it is found that model improvements are greatest at lower resolutions, prompting plans to add the Amber target function to real-space refinement for use in electron cryo-microscopy. This work opens the door to the future development of more advanced applications such as Amber-based ensemble refinement, quantum-mechanical representation of active sites and improved geometric restraints for simulated annealing

Clouds of dirt and glass

There is a large goldmining colony near the top of the Peruvian Andes named La Rinconada. Over fifty-thousand people have made a home here, and my composite novel, Clouds of Dirt and Glass, follows the lives of a select few. Diana struggles with coming of age in a permanent place she thought would only be temporary; Antay battles his own and his sister’s demons; and fathers struggle earnestly to understand their children while working more hours than their kids spend awake. Every day is surrounded with a haze of ice and snow and low-flying clouds and mists—and the knowledge that one day, soon, the mines will run dry, and this town will be abandoned, and eventually forgotten outside stories and tellings of a place and a people.Each story exists in its own microcosm, but the setting is a static backdrop that threads each together. Protagonists of some stories appear as supporting or even background characters in others. Themes dealing with power struggle, class conflict, gender roles, and family echo through these stories not unlike the sledgehammers that reverberate out of mineshafts and into the streets of La Rinconada

Integrating Diverse Disciplines to Enhance Interprofessional Competency in Healthcare Delivery

Interprofessional education (IPE) typically involves clinical simulation exercises with students from medical and nursing schools. Yet, healthcare requires patient-centered teams that include diverse disciplines. Students from public health and informatics are rarely incorporated into IPE, signaling a gap in current educational practices. In this study, we integrated students from administrative and non-clinical disciplines into traditional clinical simulations and measured the effect on communication and teamwork. From July 2017-July 2018, 408 students from five schools (medicine, nursing, dentistry, public health, and informatics) participated in one of eight three-hour IPE clinical simulations with Standardized Patients and electronic health record technologies. Data were gathered using a pre-test-post-test interventional Interprofessional Collaborative Competency Attainment Survey (ICCAS) and through qualitative evaluations from Standardized Patients. Of the total 408 students, 386 (94.6%) had matched pre- and post-test results from the surveys. There was a 15.9% improvement in collaboration overall between the pre- and post-tests. ICCAS competencies showed improvements in teamwork, communication, collaboration, and conflict management, with an average change from 5.26 to 6.10

Response of Soil Respiration to Changes in Soil temperature and water table level in Drained and Restored Peatlands of the Southeastern United States

Background Extensive drainage of peatlands in the southeastern United States coastal plain for the purposes of agriculture and timber harvesting has led to large releases of soil carbon as carbon dioxide (CO2) due to enhanced peat decomposition. Growth in mechanisms that provide financial incentives for reducing emissions from land use and land-use change could increase funding for hydrological restoration that reduces peat CO2 emissions from these ecosystems. Measuring soil respiration and physical drivers across a range of site characteristics and land use histories is valuable for understanding how CO2 emissions from peat decomposition may respond to raising water table levels. We combined measurements of total soil respiration, depth to water table from soil surface, and soil temperature from drained and restored peatlands at three locations in eastern North Carolina and one location in southeastern Virginia to investigate relationships among total soil respiration and physical drivers, and to develop models relating total soil respiration to parameters that can be easily measured and monitored in the field. Results Total soil respiration increased with deeper water tables and warmer soil temperatures in both drained and hydrologically restored peatlands. Variation in soil respiration was more strongly linked to soil temperature at drained (R2 = 0.57, p \u3c 0.0001) than restored sites (R2 = 0.28, p \u3c 0.0001). Conclusions The results suggest that drainage amplifies the impact of warming temperatures on peat decomposition. Proxy measurements for estimation of CO2 emissions from peat decomposition represent a considerable cost reduction compared to direct soil flux measurements for land managers contemplating the potential climate impact of restoring drained peatland sites. Research can help to increase understanding of factors influencing variation in soil respiration in addition to physical variables such as depth to water table and soil temperature. Backgroun