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A Recursive Approach to Mixed Methods Research in a Longitudinal Study of Postsecondary Education Disability Support Services

Mixed methods research has increased in popularity over the past 20 years. Literature reveals that exploratory qualitative analysis followed by confirmatory survey research is common and concurrent studies outnumber longitudinal design. Longitudinal studies using quantitative and qualitative methods in sequence for exploratory purposes are rare, and no studies were found that combine exploratory quantitative analysis followed by both an exploratory cross-case analysis, and an exploratory longitudinal analysis. This design was used in the present study of postsecondary disability support services, and it is being presented to highlight how recursive analysis at each stage can be used to refine subsequent research questions.
Providers do not verify patient identity during computer order entry.

INTRODUCTION Improving patient identification (ID), by using two identifiers, is a Joint Commission safety goal. Appropriate identifiers include name, date of birth (DOB), or medical record number (MRN). OBJECTIVES The objectives were to determine the frequency of verifying patient ID during computerized provider order entry (CPOE). METHODS This was a prospective study using simulated scenarios with an eye-tracking device. Medical providers were asked to review 10 charts (scenarios), select the patient from a computer alphabetical list, and order tests. Two scenarios had embedded ID errors compared to the computer (incorrect DOB or misspelled last name), and a third had a potential error (second patient on alphabetical list with same last name). Providers were not aware the focus was patient ID. Verifying patient ID was defined as looking at name and either DOB or MRN on the computer. RESULTS Twenty-five of 25 providers (100%; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 86% to 100%) selected the correct patient when there was a second patient with the same last name. Two of 25 (8%; 95% CI = 1% to 26%) noted the DOB error; the remaining 23 ordered tests on an incorrect patient. One of 25 (4%, 95% CI = 0% to 20%) noted the last name error; 12 ordered tests on an incorrect patient. No participant (0%, 0/107; 95% CI = 0% to 3%) verified patient ID by looking at MRN prior to selecting a patient from the alphabetical list. Twenty-three percent (45/200; 95% CI = 17% to 29%) verified patient ID prior to ordering tests. CONCLUSIONS Medical providers often miss ID errors and infrequently verify patient ID with two identifiers during CPOE.
Performance of Dynamic and Static TDD in Self-Backhauled Millimeter Wave Cellular Networks

Initial deployments of millimeter wave (mm-wave) cellular networks are likely to be enabled with self-backhauling. In this paper, we propose a random spatial model to analyze uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) signal to interference plus noise ratio distribution and mean rates corresponding to different access-backhaul and UL–DL resource allocation schemes in a self-backhauled mm-wave cellular network with Poisson point process (PPP) deployment of users and base stations (BSs). In particular, we focus on heuristic implementations of static and dynamic time division duplexing (TDD) for access links with synchronized or unsynchronized access-backhaul (SAB or UAB) time splits. We propose PPP approximations to characterize the distribution of the new types of interference encountered with dynamic TDD and UAB. These schemes offer better resource utilization than static TDD and SAB, however, potentially higher interference makes their choice non-trivial and the offered gains sensitive to different network parameters, including UL/DL traffic asymmetry, user load per BS or number of slave BSs per master BS. One can harness notable gains from UAB and/or dynamic TDD only if backhaul links are designed to have much larger throughput than the access links.
Rethinking battered woman syndrome evidence: The impact of alternative forms of expert testimony on mock jurors' decisions.

Participants (N = 172) were presented with a criminal homicide trial involving a battered woman who had killed her abuser. Within the trial stimulus, the imminence of the batterer’s threat was systematically manipulated such that participants were presented with either a case in which the woman killed her abuser during a direct confrontation or while he lay sleeping. Within these two conditions, the presence of expert testimony pertaining to battered women (battered woman syndrome, social/agency, none) was systematically varied. Results indicated that the imminence of the batterer’s threat influenced the participants’ judgments, but the impact of this variable on judgments interacted with the presence of the expert testimony. The implications of these findings are discussed.
Aortic Counterpulsation Therapy in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: Analysis of the TBRIDGE Registry

Background The use of aortic counterpulsation therapy in advanced heart failure is controversial. Objectives To evaluate the hemodynamic and metabolic effects of intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) and its impact on 30-day mortality in patients with heart failure. Methods Historical prospective, unicentric study to evaluate all patients treated with IABP betwen August/2008 and July/2013, included in an institutional registry named TBRIDGE (The Brazilian Registry of Intra-aortic balloon pump in Decompensated heart failure - Global Evaluation). We analyzed changes in oxygen central venous saturation (ScvO2), arterial lactate, and use of vasoactive drugs at 48 hours after IABP insertion. The 30-day mortality was estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method and diferences in subgroups were evaluated by the Log-rank test. Results A total of 223 patients (mean age 49 ± 14 years) were included. Mean left ventricle ejection fraction was 24 ± 10%, and 30% of patients had Chagas disease. Compared with pre-IABP insertion, we observed an increase in ScvO2 (50.5% vs. 65.5%, p < 0.001) and use of nitroprusside (33.6% vs. 47.5%, p < 0.001), and a decrease in lactate levels (31.4 vs. 16.7 mg/dL, p < 0.001) and use of vasopressors (36.3% vs. 25.6%, p = 0.003) after IABP insertion. Thirty-day survival was 69%, with lower mortality in Chagas disease patients compared without the disease (p = 0.008). Conclusion After 48 hours of use, IABP promoted changes in the use of vasoactive drugs, improved tissue perfusion. Chagas etiology was associated with lower 30-day mortality. Aortic counterpulsation therapy is an effective method of circulatory support for patients waiting for heart transplantation.
Proximal and Distal Demonstratives

In this article, we examine claims made about the conditions under which proximal (this, these) and distal (that, those) demonstratives are chosen in English. In doing so, we will be exploiting corpus data that have been annotated to show anaphoric relationships in texts (Fligelstone 1992; Botley and McEnery 2001). 1 In choosing to focus on proximal/distal demonstratives, we were aware that a number of claims had been made about the behavior of these words in English. Our goal was to take some of these claims and reevaluate them in light of a large amount of corpus evidence. The claims we investigate in this article arise from the work of Ariel (1988, 1990). Ariel proposed an influential model of the relationship between the choice of anaphoric expressions and the cognitive statuses of different discourse entities referred to by such expressions. This model is known as the accessibility scale and is described in the next section.
Inhibitory Effects of Cytomegalovirus Proteins US2 and US11 Point to Contributions from Direct Priming and Cross-Priming in Induction of Vaccinia Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cells

The extent to which naive CD8+ CTLs (TCD8+) are primed by APCs presenting endogenous Ags (direct priming) or Ags acquired from other infected cells (cross-priming) is a critical topic in basic and applied immunology. To examine the contribution of direct priming in the induction of VV-specific TCD8+, we generated recombinant vaccinia viruses that express human CMV proteins (US2 and US11) that induce the destruction of newly synthesized MHC class I molecules. Expression of US2 or US11 was associated with a 24–63% decrease in numbers of primary or secondary VV-specific TCD8+ responding to i.p. infection. Using HPLC-isolated peptides from VV-infected cells, we show that US2 and US11 selectively inhibit TCD8+ responses to a subset of immunogenic VV determinants. Moreover, VV-US2 and lysates from VV-infected histoincompatible cells elicit TCD8+ specific for a similar subset of VV determinants. These findings indicate that US2 and US11 can function in vivo to interfere with the activation of virus-specific TCD8+. Furthermore, they suggest that 1) both cross-priming and direct priming contribute significantly to the generation of VV-specific TCD8+, 2) the sets of immunogenic vaccinia virus determinants generated by cross-priming and direct priming are not completely overlapping, and 3) cross-priming overrides the effects of cis-acting viral interference with the class I Ag presentation pathway.
The nature and development of hypothetico‐predictive argumentation with implications for science teaching

This paper explicates a pattern of scientific argumentation in which scientists respond to causal questions with the generation and test of alternative hypotheses through cycles of hypothetico‐predictive argumentation. Hypothetico‐predictive arguments are employed to test causal claims that exist on at least two levels (designated stage 4 in which the causal claims are perceptible, and stage 5 in which the causal claims are imperceptible). Origins of the ability to construct and comprehend hypothetico‐predictive arguments at the highest level can be traced to pre‐verbal reasoning of the sensory‐motor child and the gradual internalization of verbally mediated arguments involving nominal, categorical, causal and, finally, theoretical propositions. Presumably, the ability to construct and comprehend hypothetico‐predictive arguments (an aspect of procedural knowledge) is necessary for the construction of conceptual knowledge (an aspect of declarative knowledge) because such arguments are used during concept construction and conceptual change. Science instruction that focuses on the generation and debate of hypothetico‐predictive arguments should improve students' conceptual understanding and their argumentative/reasoning skills.
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People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual’s set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a subjective question on Life Satisfaction, and three different sets of non-cognitive skills indicators, we find significant and robust differences across skills groups. People who are more neurotic, extravert and have low external locus of control and low negative reciprocity are more sensitive to their individual position in the economic ladder. By contrast, the Life Satisfaction reaction to changes in economic status is significantly lower among individuals who score high (low) in negative (positive) reciprocity, and are at the bottom of the distribution of neuroticism, extraversion. The heterogeneity on the importance of income comparisons needs to be taken into account when, for example, introducing them into economic models, predicting individuals’ behaviour, or making welfare judgments.
An Agentic Psychology Model Based on the Paradigmatic Repositioning of the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Despite the existence of strong empirical support for the theories of reasoned action and planned behaviour (TRAJTPB), an analysis of the concept of intention and its operational definition indicates the need for a paradigmatic adjustment. An Agentic Psychology Model (APM) has been developed which incorporates the essence of the TRA equation whilst reconstruing it as a rule governing the intelligibility of clusters of accounts or statements that might be made about a particular intention or action. Aternative methods based on account cluster test-frames and semantic mapping techniques are presented, together with results from previous research, to indicate how the APM might be deployed in empirical investigations operating at the interstices of the positivist and critical paradigms in social psychology.
High Satisfaction and Return to Sports After Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in Patients Aged 55 Years and Younger

Background: Young, active candidates for total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) are a unique group of patients. Not only do they demand longevity and improved function, but they also desire a return to physical activities. Purpose: To determine the rate of return to sports in patients aged ≤55 years undergoing TSA. Study Design: Case series; Level of evidence, 4. Methods: This was a retrospective review of consecutive patients who underwent anatomic TSA at a single institution. Exclusion criteria included age at the time of surgery >55 years and <2 years of follow-up. All patients had end-stage osteoarthritis with significant glenohumeral joint space narrowing. The final follow-up consisted of a patient-reported sports questionnaire, American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) score, and visual analog scale (VAS) score. Results: From 70 eligible patients, 59 patients (61 shoulders) were included with an average follow-up of 61.0 months (range, 25-103 months) and average age at the time of surgery of 48.9 years (range, 25-55 years). The average VAS score improved from 5.6 to 0.9 (P < .001), and the average ASES score improved from 39.3 to 88.4 (P < .001). Forty-nine procedures (80.3%) were performed for a primary diagnosis of osteoarthritis. Four shoulders returned to the operating room; none were for glenoid loosening. There was a 93.2% satisfaction rate, and 67.7% of patients (n = 40) stated that they underwent their surgery to return to sports. Moreover, patients in 96.4% of shoulders (55/57) restarted at least 1 sport at an average of 6.7 months. Direct rates of return were as follows: fitness sports (97.2%), golf (93.3%), singles tennis (87.5%), swimming (77.7%), basketball (75.0%), and flag football (66.7%). Patients in 47 shoulders (82.4%) returned to a similar or higher level of sports; 90.3% returned to high-demand sports, and 83.8% returned to high upper extremity sports. There was no significant difference in rates of return to sports by body mass index, sex, age, preoperative diagnosis, revision status, and dominant extremity. Conclusion: In patients aged ≤55 years undergoing TSA, there was a 96.4% rate of return to ≥1 previous sports at an average of 6.7 months. Furthermore, at an average follow-up of 61.0 months, no patients needed revision of their glenoid component, despite an 83.8% rate of return to high upper extremity sports. While caution should still be advised in young, active patients undergoing TSA, these results demonstrate a high satisfaction rate and improved ability to return to most sports after surgery.
Information and communication technologies and challenges for the management of education: new managerial perspectives

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) provide a wide range of solutions for several critical issues related with the management of education. Additionally the management of education is a domain with very different research issues. In this position article we apply a knowledge management approach in the discussion for the critical role of ICTs towards more effective management in education. This knowledge management-based approach is exploited and the main propositions are anchored in a four-level approach: Artefact? Team? Organisation? Network.
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Demand- and Supply-Side Education Interventions: The Case of Progresa in Mexico

The paper is concerned with the issue of the most cost-effective way of improving access to education for poor households in developing countries. The authors consider two alternatives: extensive expansion of the school system (i.e., bringing education to the poor), and subsidizing investment in education by the poor (i.e., bringing the poor to the education system). To this end, the authors evaluate PROGRESA, a large poverty-alleviation program recently introduced in Mexico, which subsidizes education. Using double-difference regression estimators on data collected before and after the program for randomly selected "control" and "treatment" households, the relative impacts of the demand- and supply-side program components are estimated. Combining these estimates with cost information, it is found that the demand-side subsidies are substantially more cost-effective than supply-side expansions. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2004.
The more, the better? Intensity of involvement in private tuition and examination performance

Private tuition, or “shadow education”, has become a prominent feature in many countries internationally. A number of studies have found that such tuition is associated with improved examination performance and enhanced access to tertiary education. However, these studies have generally not taken into account important attitudinal differences between tuition participants and nonparticipants or explored variation in the intensity of young people's involvement in paid tuition. This paper uses a large-scale survey of upper secondary students in the Republic of Ireland to explore the impact of different levels of involvement in private tuition on student performance. Multilevel regression and propensity score matching techniques indicate no significant performance advantage accruing to involvement in private tuition when adequate account is taken of key differences between participants and nonparticipants. All else being equal, even relatively high levels of involvement in private tuition do not enhance academic performance.
Impact of a Centralized Inpatient Hospice Unit in an Academic Medical Center

Objective: Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) and Horizon Hospice opened the first centralized inpatient hospice unit (CIPU) in a Chicago academic medical center in 2012. This study examined if there was a difference in cost or length of stay (LOS) in a CIPU compared to hospice care in scattered beds throughout RUMC. Study Design and Methods: This retrospective, cross-sectional study compared cost and LOS for patients admitted to the CIPU (n = 141) and those admitted to hospice scattered beds (SBM) throughout RUMC (n = 56). Results: The CIPU patients had a median LOS of 6.0 days versus 2.0 days for SBM patients. Conclusions: The CIPU patients had longer hospice LOS but lower hospital costs. Academic medical centers may benefit from aggregating hospice beds.
Quiet Dogs Can Bite: Which Booters Should We Go After, and What Are Our Mitigation Options?

Large network security companies often report websites, called Booters, that offer DDoS attacks as a paid service as the primary reason for the increase in occurrence and power of attacks. Although hundreds of active Booters exist today, only a handful of those that promoted massive attacks faced mitigation and prosecution actions. In this tutorial article we focus our attention on Booters that are "under the radar" of security initiatives, by advertising high attack power and being very popular on the Internet. We discuss and provide grounds for critical thinking on what should be further done toward Booter mitigation.
Behavior during Examinations: A Comparison of “A,” “C,” and “F” Students

evidenced by the lack of a significant difference in the overall mean of our majors as compared to the normative group. Clearly, such information is valuable to a psychology department, not only in terms of student data, but particularly in terms of future curriculum decisions. For example, our department recently decided (based primarily on the results described) to require a second experimental content course for all of our majors. It seems very unfortunate that ETS found it necessary to discontinue the UAP effective June 1982. There are additional questions regarding our psychology major which could be addressed using future subgroup data. It is unlikely that such information will now be available because assessment indicator information (and subgrouping) is not an option with regular administration of the Advanced GRE. A recent search for a suitable substitute which would yield similar information has proven fruitless. Apparently, such studies will not be possible in the Suture unless some alternative measure is developed.
Coeditors’ Introduction: Closing Literacy Gaps: Understanding the Interrelationships Between Bilingualism and Biliteracy Development

This issue of the Bilingual Research Journal (Volume 37, Number 2) is dedicated to our friend and colleague, Janette Kettman Klingner (November 14, 1953–March 20, 2014). A professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in the Department of Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity, Dr. Klingner was a nationally recognized expert on the education of emergent bilinguals, including those with special education needs. Her research and scholarly works have been invaluable contributions to the bilingual education and special education fields and to our understanding of second-language and literacy development, and reading difficulties and learning disabilities, among second-language learners. We are particularly indebted to Dr. Klingner’s service to the Bilingual Research Journal as a member of our editorial board. To honor her legacy, we commit ourselves to pursuing answers to the types of questions that guided so much of her work:
Ethnic Differences in Adaptation: Sino- Vietnamese Refugees in the United States 1

This article examines the differences in adaptive behavior manifested by Sino-Vietnamese and ethnic Vietnamese refugees resettled in two major areas of the United States. Contingency analyses of a survey of 602 refugees interviewed in Illinois and California confirm the disadvantage of the Chinese group with respect to both acculturation and economic self-sufficiency variables. Although the two groups differ statistically in their pre-arrival characteristics and encountered somewhat different socioeconomic circumstances in the course of resettlement, adaptive differences remain after pre-arrival characteristics and resettlement context have been controlled. The adverse effect of Chinese ethnicity on adaptation is especially noticeable for the refugee expected to be most adaptable by virtue of their more favorable socioeconomic backgrounds and of the more facilitative circumstances of their resettlement.