Scholarly Commons @ MU
Scholarly Commons at Miami University: Recent submissions
Now showing items 81-100 of 1636
-
Uncovering the protest paradigm through visual framing: A media literacy lesson for college students
Much is made of the proliferation of fake news in media literacy education. With good reason, we worry about unreliable news reporting and its effect on political participation. However, instruction that focuses on the ... -
Learning Apprenticeships in the Media and Information Literacy Classroom
Inspired by the apprenticeship model of teaching and learning, two academic librarians report on their efforts to place current events at the center of a semester-long media and information literacy course. Join them as ... -
News Literacy Concepts for First-Year Students
Since first-year students are more likely to engage with mainstream news rather than fake news and disinformation, presenters in this session will introduce news literacy concepts and activities designed to help students ... -
Fast, Free, and Functional: An Overview of Freely Available Online Citation Tools
Freely-available citation tools are popular with students because of their speed and convenience. Some offer the ability to copy and paste a URL and some only allow for manual entry of citation elements. This article offers ... -
Enabling New Interactions with a Library's Digital Collections: Automatic Gender Recognition in Historical Postcards via Deep Learning
The Walter Havighurst Special Collections from University Archives & Preservation at Miami University’s King Library has a growing collection of over 600,000 historical postcards, with approximately 30,000 digitized, ... -
Researching Lead Exposure Effects on Substance Use Disorders: My Passions in Environmental Health Equity
With underlying neurological effects of lead (Pb) on learning and neuron firing, which is seen in consequential developments of learning disabilities, could the comorbidity of ADHD and SUDs be determined, in part, by Pb ... -
Mineral identification numbers for librarians, explained through a short history of Dana's classification scheme
Many chemistry librarians are likely familiar with chemical identifiers, such as CAS Registry Numbers or InChI strings, that serve as unique IDs for chemicals, which attempts to overcome the challenges in searching the ... -
How finding your question and following your curiosity can naturally craft your research identity
This talk will emphasize how developing a research identity can begin with a single question. The speaker will share the backstory to a current research project, they didn’t set out to do, that started this way. It involves ... -
The National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging: 2022 Results
This report presents the findings from the 2022 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging. This report provides key findings from the survey related to the following topics: service provision and populations served, social ... -
The Federal Proposed Standard for Nursing Home Staffing: How Does It Impact Ohio's Nursing Homes?
In response to concerns about direct care staffing challenges in nursing homes across the nation, on September 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new federal rules to establish minimum ... -
Success on the Small-Scale: Non-Traditional Tours Targeting Students in Transition
A Student Success Librarian outlines an unconventional approach to an academic library tour. In this newly adopted student-focused model, small-scale tours serve as a setting to share study tips for every style and space, ... -
Designing A Student-Centered Diversity Audit
A Student Success Librarian outlines the steps of a small-scale diversity audit designed to be completed independently in part by a student employee. Resources detailing each phase of the process will be provided to attendees ... -
Integrating Librarians into Campus Systems for Student Success
A student success librarian discusses the value of a move to integrate librarians into campus-wide systems for student success, including the University’s Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (IPASS) system. ... -
Raw Data for "Spontaneous Gradients by ATRP and RAFT: Interchangeable Polymerization Methods?"
Raw data for the manuscript: "Spontaneous Gradients by ATRP and RAFT: Interchangeable Polymerization Methods?" -
Raw Data for "Network Polymer Properties Engineered through Polymer Backbone Dispersity and Structure"
Raw data for the manuscript "Network Polymer Properties Engineered through Polymer Backbone Dispersity and Structure" -
Data archive for "Carbodiimide-driven toughening of interpenetrated polymer networks"
Recent work has demonstrated that temporary crosslinks in polymer networks generated by chemical “fuels” afford materials with large, transient changes in their mechanical properties. This can be accomplished in ... -
Raw data for "Controlled Photodegradation of Phenyl Vinyl Ketone Polymers by Reinforcement with Softer Networks"
Raw data for "Controlled Photodegradation of Phenyl Vinyl Ketone Polymers by Reinforcement with Softer Networks" -
Raw Data for "3D printable adhesive elastomers with dynamic covalent bond rearrangement"
Raw Data for "3D printable adhesive elastomers with dynamic covalent bond rearrangement" -
Writing and Artificial Intelligence in College Education: A Brief Case Study
This case study details recommendations for building instructors' and students' artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, offers recommendations for designing writing assignments in the age of AI, and includes an example of ...