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At The Nexus of Social Care: Successful Contracting Between CBOs and Health Care Entities.
This research brief explores how the integration of social care and health care is evolving through contracting partnerships between community-based organizations (CBOs) and health care entities. Findings from the fifth ... -
Attitudes and Advocacy: Understanding Faculty Views on Racial/Ethnic Diversity
(2009-10-08)Diversity has been a hot-button issue in higher education for the past several decades (Chang, Witt, Jones & Hakuta, 2003). A significant portion of research has been dedicated to how students experience the campus ... -
The Austrian Myth: Victimization and Nationalism in the Post-War Period
(2012-04-23)The words of the Moscow Declaration of 1943 allowed Austria to claim itself as a victim of Hitler, rather than a contributor to the Nazis in WWII. In the years following the war, this distinction would define the attitude ... -
Automated Bulk Uploading of Images and Metadata to Flickr
(2014-03-26)The Digital Initiatives department at Miami University, like most Digital Initiatives and Special Collections, has a large amount of rich digital image collections, stored primarily in a third-party database. ... -
Automated Livestock Barn System
The objective of this project is to provide monitoring of livestock, automated animal care, and user safety. It has several systems to meet these objectives: fire detection, watering system, feeding system, temperature ... -
Automated Metadata Generation and the Critical Role of Catalogers and Indexers in Technical Services of the Future
(2012-05-11)Academic and research libraries have an important role in collecting, organizing, and facilitating access to the world’s scholarly information. Technical services librarians build the foundation upon which scholarly ... -
Automated Wire Stripper
For our groups ENT 498 Senior Design Project we decided to design and build an automated wire cutter and stripping machine. Our final machine can automatically feed, cut and strip wires to a given length and quantity. ... -
Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University
INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have launched a number of strategies to promote the adoption of affordable and open educational resources (AOER). Although a few models ... -
Battlebot
Battlebots are machines that have been popular to niche crowds over the past two decades. The show Battlebots first aired in the year 2000 and is still creating new episodes today. There are other similar robot fighting ... -
Be a Force For Affordable Learning!
In this session the presenters will provide an overview of Affordable Learning (AL) initiatives that can help address student textbook costs, including the use of Open Educational Resources (OER), also known as Freely ... -
Because You Can, You Should: A Beauvoirian Ethics of Food
The freedom to act in humans and the inability to act in nature imposes the moral responsibility on humans to return to nature that which they have used or ruined and improve upon it for future generations and the preservation ... -
Before the Numbers Disappeared: Media and Perception of the 1937 Soviet Census
This thesis surveys the 1936 All-Soviet Census and its importance to national image under Stalin as an explanation for its suppression shortly after completion. The census served as a vital data collection tool for the ... -
“Begin with a Moment:” A Pilot Study of a Method for Supporting Information Creativity in First Year Writing Instruction
This presentation describes a pilot study conduced at the University of Illinois during the fall of 2017, which tested the effectiveness of a low-pressure early-semester information creativity session that encouraged ... -
Behind the Man, the Kneel, and the Protest
Pictures are apparently worth a thousand words, and for the picture Michael Zargaris captured during the 2016 football season of a sole player kneeling justly before an NFL game, one could say that this photo is not only ... -
Between the Sheets: a Library-wide Inventory with Google
When it comes to taking an inventory of physical items, libraries often rely on their traditional integrated library system’s (ILS) à la carte add ons; outside vendors; or other possibly outdated, complex, and often expensive ... -
Beyond Mechanical Limits: Cohousing and Permaculture
This research aims to achieve two objectives. The first objective is to minimize and eliminate building contributions to climate change starting from a domestic prototype. The second is to increase the role of architecture ... -
Beyond the Damsel in Distress: Gender Differences and Similarities in Enacting Prosocial Behavior
We examine gender differences and similarities in prosocial behavior from the vantage point of social role theory. According to this perspective, the gendered division of labor leads to gender roles, which are elaborated ... -
Beyond the Land Acknowledgement: Indigenous Language Revitalization, Student Activism, and Critical Theory in STEM Librarianship
Throughout their history, libraries have participated in white supremacist power structures that privilege white knowledge over that of other cultures. While humanities and social science librarians are becoming more ...