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Creating Order from Chaos and Fostering Collaboration: Documentation, Cross-training, and Continuous Operations in Multi-service Point Libraries
In 2018, a library reorganization consolidated several previously separate units into a single department. The newly-created unit sought out a method for documenting and disseminating existing practices, with a goal of ... -
Creating, implementing, and sustaining an advanced optical spectroscopy laboratory course
An upper-division laboratory course in atomic and molecular spectroscopy is described. Examples of outcomes that also benefit second-year physics laboratories and demonstrations in introductory courses are presented. The ... -
Creative Deconstruction: Using Zines to Teach the ACRL Framework
Zines not only record the narratives of counter-cultural movements and preserve the voices of marginalized people, their creation and history can also be used to implicitly teach students elements of the ACRL Framework ... -
Criminal Offenders in Ohio Nursing Homes: Facility Practices, Prevalance and Problems
(2012-03-12)This brief report presents findings from the 2009 Ohio Biennial Survey of Nursing Facilities. Respondents answered a brief series of questions about practices related to prospective residents with criminal backgrounds and ... -
Critical Consumption: Empowering Students to Evaluate Sources in a One-Shot Session on Introductory Consumer Marketing Research
Instruction in library resources and research for the introductory marketing class is one of the most requested one-shot sessions from the business school at Miami University, a large public school in the Midwest, with ... -
Critical Gameplay: Software Studies in Computer Gameplay
(2010-10-12)The computer game software with which we interact on a daily basis not only entertains us, it trains us into specific patterns. Critical Gameplay is a design practice which endeavors to expose and redesign the patterns to ... -
A Critical Political Economy of Web Advertising History
Using the United States as a case study, this chapter outlines the history of web advertising from a critical political economy of media approach. As part of the broader privatization of the internet in the 1990s, U.S. ... -
Cross-Sector Collaboration to Support College and Career Readiness in an Urban School District
Background: School reforms requiring collaborations spanning multiple sectors are increasing in prevalence, but extant research has primarily focused only upon cross-sector partnerships involving education and social ... -
Cross-tolerance in larvae of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis: rapid desiccation increases organismal and cellular freeze-tolerance
(2012-04-24)A number of similarities exist that support the idea of cross-tolerance between low temperature and desiccation stress responses. Freeze-tolerant larvae of the goldenrod gall fly, Eurosta solidaginis, are exposed to extremely ... -
The “Crossing Borders” Program: Increasing Intercultural Competency Via Structured Social Interactions
(2013-04-04)Increasing diversity in American college classrooms and recent trends toward globalization require professors to teach more creatively in order to encourage students’ face-to-face intercultural interactions and resulting ... -
Crossing the digital divide : family caregivers' acceptance of technology
(2002-10-01)The purpose of this pilot project was to collect data on how electronic technology might be used to assist family members who are caring for a relative with dementia at home. In Phase 1, we conducted five focus groups with ... -
Cryobiology of the freeze-tolerant gall fly Eurosta solidaginis: Overwintering energetics and heat shock proteins.
The goldenrod gall fly Eurosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tehritidae) ranges from the southern U.S. northward into Canada. The larvae overwinters with a ball gall on the stem of goldenrod Solidago spa. The galls often extend ... -
Cryobiology of the freeze-tolerent gall fly Eurosta solidaginis: overwintering energetics and heat shock proteins
The goldenrod gall fly E urosta solidaginis (Diptera: Tephritidae) ranges from the southern us. northward into Canada. The larva overwinters within a ball gall on the stem of goldenrod Solidago spp. The galls often extend ... -
Cryoprotectants and Extreme Freeze Tolerance in a Subarctic Population of the Wood Frog
(2014-12-01)Two (2) Excel spreadsheets containing raw data supporting publication in PLOS ONE -
Cryoprotectants and extreme freeze tolerance in a subarctic population of the wood frog.
Wood frogs (Rana sylvatica) exhibit marked geographic variation in freeze tolerance, with subarctic populations tolerating experimental freezing to temperatures at least 10-13 degrees Celsius below the lethal limits for ... -
Cultivating Connection by Caring: Using Empathetic Marketing to Reach Distance Students and Ease Library Anxiety
“Feeling overwhelmed and stressed about your research papers? The librarian can help!” Empathetic marketing is the latest marketing trend—showing students how you can meet their core emotional needs. Meeting these needs ... -
Cultural sustainability in contemporary architecture
Globalization contests traditional and contextual architecture, and sustainable development has become one of the major challenges to cultural and regional development. Introducing technology and passive design strategies ... -
Culture, Social Life, and Customs of Civil War America
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Current Workforce and Quality Challenges in New York State Nursing Homes
This study provides background information about the current workforce and quality challenges faced by New York’s nursing homes. Findings show New York nursing homes saw an increase of 23% in operating expenditures, which ...