bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Emotional Support for Diabetes Management
Authors: Kowitt Sarah D. , Urlaub Diana , Guzman-Corrales Laura , Mayer Melissa , Ballesteros Juana , Graffy Jonathan , Simmons David , Cummings Doyle M. , Fisher Edwin B.
Published: February 2015

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to explore how emotional support emerged in interactions between peer supporters (PSs) and adults living with type 2 diabetes.

Methods

Qualitative data were analyzed from 22 semistructured interviews with PSs in 3 settings: low-income Latinos in Chicago, middle-class Caucasians in the United Kingdom, and low-income African American women in North Carolina. Emotional support was defined as expressions of empathy, trust, and caring.

Results

Across all sites, emotional support gradually emerged over time, was often combined with informational support, and was conveyed both implicitly (through nonverbal actions connoting emotional acceptance; eg, a walk together without discussion of problems) and explicitly (eg, by reassurance or discussion of stressors). Cross-site differences did appear regarding the strategies to address barriers to diabetes management (eg, PSs in North Carolina and Chicago reported providing support for social stressors) and the role of PSs (eg, PSs in Chicago reported providing directive support).

Conclusions

Across different settings and populations, emotional support for diabetes management evolved over time, was often integrated with informational support, and emerged through both implicit and explicit strategies that addressed varied context-specific stressors.
Two pictures of Nowhere
Authors: Ypi Lea
Published: February 2015

This article critically engages with Rainer Forst’s recent book Justification and Critique: Towards a Critical Theory of Politics, focusing in particular on his account of utopia in the last part of it.
Advanced learners’ comprehension of discourse connectives: The role of L1 transfer across on-line and off-line tasks
Authors: Zufferey Sandrine , Mak Willem , Degand Liesbeth , Sanders Ted
Published: February 2015

Discourse connectives are important indicators of textual coherence, and mastering them is an essential part of acquiring a language. In this article, we compare advanced learners’ sensitivity to the meaning conveyed by connectives in an off-line grammaticality judgment task and an on-line reading experiment using eye-tracking. We also assess the influence of first language (L1) transfer by comparing learners’ comprehension of two non-native-like semantic uses of connectives in English, often produced by learners due to transfer from French and Dutch. Our results indicate that in an off-line task transfer is an important factor accounting for French- and Dutch-speaking learners’ non-native-like comprehension of connectives. During on-line processing, however, learners are as sensitive as native speakers to the meaning conveyed by connectives. These results raise intriguing questions regarding explicit vs. implicit knowledge in language learners.
Treatment of hemicrania continua with radiofrequency ablation and long-term follow-up
Authors: Beams Jennifer L , Kline Matthew T , Rozen Todd D
Published: February 2015

Objective

The objective of this research is to describe novel procedural treatments for hemicrania continua that allow patients to remain off indomethacin.

Methods

Case reports are presented.

Results

We describe four distinct patients with indomethacin-responsive hemicrania continua who were unable to discontinue the use of indomethacin without headache recurrence. No other medications were effective for their syndrome. Secondary causes of headache were ruled out in each case. Each patient underwent diagnostic blockade of either the atlanto-axial joint, C2 dorsal root ganglion or sphenopalantine ganglion depending on their clinical examination and presence of cranial autonomic symptoms. A positive response led to a radiofrequency ablation of the C2 ventral ramus, C2 dorsal root ganglion or sphenopalantine ganglion, which provided headache relief in all case patients as complete as indomethacin. Long-term follow-up of these patients has shown that all have remained essentially headache free without the need for indomethacin. One patient has needed repeat radiofrequency procedures with consistent response.

Conclusion

Hemicrania continua is defined by its sensitivity to indomethacin but very few patients are able to discontinue the medication without headache recurrence. As the risks of chronic indomethacin use are substantial, alternative treatments are necessary to protect patient health. We are now able to suggest several radiofrequency ablation procedures as effective as indomethacin with long-term follow-up.
What is world-systems analysis? Distinguishing theory from perspective
Authors: Babones Salvatore
Published: February 2015

World-systems analysis is a well-established but poorly-defined critical research tradition in the social sciences. Its undisputed progenitor, Immanuel Wallerstein, steadfastly maintains that world-systems analysis is not a theory, yet it is widely referred to as such by commentators, critics, and practitioners alike. The resolution to this conundrum is to identify the defining elements of world-systems analysis as a perspective for understanding human society, then to evaluate propositions based on these defining elements as theories that have been conceptualized from a world-systems perspective. In this paper five defining elements of world-systems analysis are identified that together support a central theorem that the core-periphery hierarchy of the modern world-system can best be understood in terms of state strength and cultural integration. A further conjecture is made that the successor world-system to the current capitalist world-economy is more likely to be an American world-empire than the socialist world-government craved by many world-systems analysts.
Overview of the Commentaries on “The Changing Landscape of Employee Rewards: Observations and Prescriptions”
Authors: Ledford Gerald E.
Published: February 2015

This article first summarizes key themes from a recent article by Gerald Ledford that was published in Organizational Dynamics. That article reviewed changes in employee reward systems during the past 35 years, looked at factors explaining the changes and recommended a set of five changes in the future. Five distinguished corporate HR leaders then comment on the article, exploring a number of important topics in contemporary employee rewards. Finally, Ledford summarizes and responds to the commentaries.
Industry Clusters and Employment Outcomes in Washington State
Authors: Chrisinger Colleen K. , Fowler Christopher S. , Kleit Rachel Garshick
Published: February 2015

A widely used practice in state and local economic and workforce development is to identify and explicitly invest in strategic industry clusters. Economic theory suggests that industry clusters, defined as geographically concentrated groups of firms and supporting institutions in related industries, enhance industry productivity and regional prosperity, relative to nonclustered industries. This concept, although widely used, has been insufficiently evaluated. In particular, questions remain about the extent to which cluster strategies are associated with beneficial outcomes for employees in clustered industries. Using a population-wide panel of individual-level quarterly wage and industry data covering the period 2003-2010 for the state of Washington, this research measures the association of industry cluster membership with the employment status, wage levels, and wage growth rates of individual employees in counties in the state. The mixed results carry implications for strategic investments and job creation efforts by states and local governments across the United States.
Tax Incentives and Business Climate
Authors: Jolley G. Jason , Lancaster Mandee Foushee , Gao Jiang
Published: February 2015

Executive surveys ranking business climate factors have become commonplace in site selection publications. However, these rankings rarely examine if the surveyed firms are receiving economic development incentives and whether or not these incentives influence business climate perceptions. This research note examines the differences in business climate perceptions in North Carolina between executives in companies receiving tax credits for business investment and job creation activities and executives in companies not receiving tax credits. Both groups rank the availability of skilled labor as the primary factor influencing business climate. In addition, executives in both groups prefer overall tax reductions rather than select tax incentives to improve the state’s economy. Contrary to the belief among many economic development practitioners that tax credits are a motivating factor for firms to engage in economic development, only 30% of executives in incented companies were aware that their company had received a state economic development tax credit.
The Modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status is More Predictive of Memory Abilities Than the Mini-Mental State Examination
Authors: Duff Kevin , Tometich Danielle , Dennett Kathryn
Published: February 2015

Although not as popular as the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), the modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (mTICS) has some distinct advantages when screening cognitive functioning in older adults. The current study compared these 2 cognitive screening measures in their ability to predict performance on a memory composite (ie, delayed recall of verbal and visual information) in a cohort of 121 community-dwelling older adults, both at baseline and after 1 year. Both the MMSE and the mTICS significantly correlated with the memory composite at baseline ( r’s of .41 and .62, respectively) and at 1 year ( r’s of .36 and .50, respectively). At baseline, stepwise linear regression indicated that the mTICS and gender best predicted the memory composite score ( R2 = .45, P < .001), and the MMSE and other demographic variables did not significantly improve the prediction. At 1 year, the results were very similar. Despite its lesser popularity, the mTICS may be a more attractive option when screening for cognitive abilities in this age range.
Managing potential drug-drug interactions between gastric acid-reducing agents and antiretroviral therapy: experience from a large HIV-positive cohort
Authors: Lewis JM , Stott KE , Monnery D , Seden K , Beeching NJ , Chaponda M , Khoo S , Beadsworth MBJ
Published: February 2015

Drug-drug interactions between antiretroviral therapy and other drugs are well described. Gastric acid-reducing agents are one such class. However, few data exist regarding the frequency of and indications for prescription, nor risk assessment in the setting of an HIV cohort receiving antiretroviral therapy. To assess prevalence of prescription of gastric acid-reducing agents and drug-drug interaction within a UK HIV cohort, we reviewed patient records for the whole cohort, assessing demographic data, frequency and reason for prescription of gastric acid-reducing therapy. Furthermore, we noted potential drug-drug interaction and whether risk had been documented and mitigated. Of 701 patients on antiretroviral therapy, 67 (9.6%) were prescribed gastric acid-reducing therapy. Of these, the majority (59/67 [88.1%]) were prescribed proton pump inhibitors. We identified four potential drug-drug interactions, which were appropriately managed by temporally separating the administration of gastric acid-reducing agent and antiretroviral therapy, and all four of these patients remained virally suppressed. Gastric acid-reducing therapy, in particular proton pump inhibitor therapy, appears common in patients prescribed antiretroviral therapy. Whilst there remains a paucity of published data, our findings are comparable to those in other European cohorts. Pharmacovigilance of drug-drug interactions in HIV-positive patients is vital. Education of patients and staff, and accurate data-gathering tools, will enhance patient safety.
Drivers and barriers to the development of local food networks in rural Denmark
Authors: Eriksen Safania Normann , Sundbo Jon
Published: February 2015

This article examines the growing interest in local food by focusing on local food networks. The objective is to explore what factors drive or hinder the development of local food networks in rural Denmark. For this purpose, we have combined three bodies of theory: local food networks; entrepreneur networks; and the experience economy. This provides a valuable contribution to the current discourse on local food networks, as it introduces a novel framework to investigate the localisation of food dynamics. The article presents an explorative, case-based investigation of three Danish local food networks. The findings demonstrate that the main drivers of the development of local food networks are the pursuance of transparency and knowledge of origin, the existence of entrepreneurship potential, the coordination of networks by means of joint strategies, and the overcoming of conflict patterns. However, these factors can also be barriers to further development of local food networks. Hence, strategies for developing local food networks must be sensitive to their individual needs and conditions.
Imposed Socially Responsible Pricing on HIV/AIDS Drugs in Developing Areas
Authors: Amusan Lere
Published: February 2015

The issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in their host community remains an unsettled academic debate. In developing states where multinational corporations (MNCs) are dominant actors, the issue is even more contested. Most importantly, MNCs’ profit motive, their support in their home country and the inability to hold them accountable to their host community/state’s aspirations present a direct clash with their innocent appearance and pretence of CSR. But why do MNCs need to be overloaded with the host community’s problems in the form of CSR when they are paying royalties, taxes, rents and other levies to their host states? Despite the fact that recent research in this field has shown how this correlates with the profit motive of these firms, contestation by state-corporations over public goods is not decided in favour of the bottom billion. This article observes attempts by the South African government to provide HIV/AIDS drugs at an affordable price based on recommendations by the World Trade Organization-Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO-TRIPS) between 1997 and 2014. By January 2014, MPCs, in their bids to effectively control the production of ARV as against generic licensing accommodated in the TRIPS agreement, started a campaign of calumny against South African government. This was aimed indirectly to influence the Proposed Draft National IP Policy of September 2013 that will make ARV cheaper in the country. The campaign was described by the South African Department of Health as a genocide attempt against South Africans.
Forced Migration of the Tamils
Authors: Guha Maitrayee
Published: February 2015

International relations and domestic politics are interlinked. States do not exist in a vacuum. States are unable to make policies without keeping in mind the intricacies of the environment in which they exist. The influence of domestic policy on international relations and vice versa has become even more crucial in the twenty-first century. Relations between neighbouring states have become so complicated with increasing political and economic globalisation that each state regards international influences to be having a lot of significance for its domestic policies. It is in this context that the present article aims to understand the impact of forced migration of a certain population within South Asia on Indian geopolitics. Providing a historical perspective as well as primary observation of residents in a refugee camp, this article will show how a state on the southern border of the country (Tamil Nadu), which shares ethnic commonality with a neighbour (Sri Lanka), has made it clear that neglect of its population in the former will only make relations between the two South Asian countries sour. This forces the Indian federation to rethink about the definition of a semi-federal and semi-unitary system that exists in the country.
Book Review: Jha, Prashant, Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal
Authors: Verma Raj Kumar
Published: February 2015

Jha, Prashant, Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal (New Delhi: Aleph Book Publication, 2014). Pp. 358, Price ₹ 395.
What Is So New About Mixed Methods?
Authors: Pelto Pertti J.
Published: February 2015

In this article, I dispute claims that mixed methods research emerged only recently in the social sciences. I argue that some anthropologists and sociologists (and others) have used mixed methods in fieldwork for at least 80 years, and there are studies from early in the 20th century that clearly fall within the definition of “mixed methods.” I explore some of the history of the mixing of qualitative and quantitative data in earlier ethnographic works and show that in some sectors of social science research, the “emergence” and proliferation of mixed methods were particularly notable around the middle of the 20th century. Furthermore, concerning issues about “paradigms of research” in the social sciences, I identify some of the types of research in which the mixing of QUAL and QUAN approaches was more likely to occur. I suggest that some of the literature about research paradigms has involved a certain amount of “myth-making” in connection with descriptions of qualitative and quantitative research assumptions and styles.
Preliminary Development of the Parent Involvement in Early Learning Scale for Low-Income Families Enrolled in a Child-Development-Focused Home Visiting Program
Authors: Manz Patricia H. , Gernhart Amanda L. , Bracaliello Catherine B. , Pressimone Vanessa J. , Eisenberg Rachel A.
Published: February 2015

Salient early intervention approaches for children below the age of 3 years, such as home visiting, seek to strengthen the pivotal role that parents play in fostering their young children’s early learning. Yet, measures that identify and monitor the ways in which low-income parents support toddlers’ learning experiences are lacking. Without parent involvement measures for toddlers, evidence-based advancement of home visiting with regard to this key outcome is restricted. This study undertook a mixed-method approach to obtain perceptions of involvement behaviors from ethnic minority home visitors who were associated with a national home visiting program and to translate these perceptions into a meaningful, preliminary measure for children aged 2 and 3 years. Named the Parent Involvement in Early Learning scale, a statistical approach combining classical test and item response theories produced preliminary single dimensions of home-based involvement for the English and Spanish translations. This study is presented as a first step in raising awareness of parent involvement for this age group and directing future research.
Harnessing an Ergonomic Solution for Prolonged Sitting in Flight
Authors: Sadai Eri P. , Gilad Issachar
Published: February 2015

Low-back pain is one of the consequences of sitting. Muscular fatigue leads to shifting from a straight posture into a slumped one. We believe that corrective supports to the pelvis and lumbar spine must be complemented with restraining shoulder straps to bypass muscle fatigue. This ergonomic design “formula” could potentially improve prolonged passive sitting conditions, such as on long-haul flights, in which most passengers sit in cramped surroundings. Our study’s results confirm this hypothesis. Further studies are required concerning cardiac and circulatory responses to the use of this device.
The Future of Robotic Design
Authors: Schaefer Kristin E. , Adams Jeffrey K. , Cook Jacquelyn G. , Bardwell-Owens Angela , Hancock Peter A.
Published: February 2015

The perception of what constitutes a robot depends on both technological advances and evolving social perceptions. Here, we explore how the fictional media affect those societal perceptions and the subsequent influence on robot design to date. We then examine how these design trends can be applied to present circumstances to suggest future design directions.
Ergonomic Redesign of a Traditional Jewelry-Polishing Workstation
Authors: Mauro Charles L. , Fisher Emily , Korpan David , Medrano P. Adrian
Published: February 2015

Jewelry production is one of the largest employment sectors in the global economy. This case study focuses on the design of a jewelry-polishing workstation with the objectives of mitigating repetitive-motion injuries, improving worker productivity and efficiency, increasing polisher career longevity, and reducing the training time required for new polishers to reach the professional criterion level of production performance. The result is a new polishing workstation that meets the ergonomics and production requirements of jewelry polishers while improving their quality of life and extending the duration of their careers. The polishing station is based on the application of detailed ergonomic and user-centric methodologies.
Late Hepatic Metastasis From a Duodenal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (29 Years After Surgery)
Authors: Ginori Alessandro , Scaramuzzino Francesco , Marsili Stefania , Tripodi Sergio
Published: February 2015

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) metastases are found most commonly in the liver, on average 16 to 38 months after resection of the primary tumor, even if some delayed hepatic metastases from GISTs have been described. We report a case of a man with a giant liver mass at computed tomography scan. In September 1984, the patient had undergone resection of a duodenal tumor, diagnosed as schwannoma. A liver biopsy revealed a neoplasm composed of epithelioid and spindled cells, immunohistochemically positive to c-kit and Dog-1. Reexamining the duodenal tumor resected in 1984, it was reclassified as GIST. Sequencing revealed the same mutation of the c-kit gene in both duodenal and hepatic lesions. To the best of our knowledge, this case represents the longest disease-free interval between a primary GIST and its metastasis. A brief review of the literature and an analysis of the potential prognostic role of particular c-kit mutations are also provided.
The Color of Reform
Authors: Dixson Adrienne D. , Buras Kristen L. , Jeffers Elizabeth K.
Published: February 2015

This article will focus on both the racial implications of the charter school “movement” in New Orleans after Katrina and the resistance to it by local citizens. We argue that it is difficult to ignore the manner in which White supremacist ideology has been normalized in the reform as it has historically in U.S. public education. Drawing on separate but complementary research by the authors, this article will be multi-vocal and reflect our positionalities as researchers who are “insiders.”
Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, and the Primacy of Racism
Authors: Gillborn David
Published: February 2015

The article explores the utility of intersectionality as an aspect of critical race theory (CRT) in education. Drawing on research with Black middle-class parents in England, the article explores the intersecting roles of race, class, and gender in the construction and deployment of dis/ability in education. The author concludes that intersectionality is a vital aspect of understanding race inequity but that racism retains a primacy for critical race scholars in three key ways: namely, empirical primacy (as a central axis of oppression in the everyday reality of schools), personal/autobiographical primacy (as a vital component in how critical race scholars view themselves and their experience of the world), and political primacy (as a point of group coherence and activism).
Using a Critical Race Praxis to Examine and Resist the Discursive Practices That Reproduce Racism, Misogyny, and Homophobia
Authors: García J. Roberto
Published: February 2015

In this article, I discuss the use of a critical race praxis (CRP) and how I applied it in an English Language Arts high school class. I am guided by Yamamoto’s definition of CRP: a critical pragmatic analysis of racial realities and their intersections with other forms of oppression combined with educating for democracy, and organizing for social justice and change. My goal was to heighten students’ racial literacy and their agency to resist other forms of oppression. I conclude the article with an analysis of my practice using CRP and the tenets of critical theory in education.
Performative and political: Corporate constructions of climate change risk
Authors: Nyberg Daniel , Wright Christopher
Published: February 2015

Climate change poses a significant threat to future social and economic activities. This article seeks to understand how corporations respond to climate uncertainties and threats through the performance of different ‘risks’, including market, reputational, regulatory and physical risks. In doing this, we demonstrate how these risks are performative and political. Based on interviews and document analysis, we show how climate change risks are naturalized within market conventions through processes of reiterating climate change as risk, codifying the risk in monetary value, entangling the risk in market conventions and cementing the frame through political activities. We also show how these risk frames have political effects in that they fail to fully account for, or represent, the complexities of climate change. Indeed, the social and natural consequences of climate change undermine the risk models that seek to explain and predict these events. The consequences of these ‘misfires’ highlight the political nature of risk frames in that their effects are unequally distributed among less powerful actors. Importantly, however, these misfires also have the potential to provide space for new interventions in responding to climate change.
Behavioral reactivity to acute stress among Black and White women with type 2 diabetes: The roles of income and racial discrimination
Authors: Bermudez-Millan Angela , Schumann Kristina P , Feinn Richard , Tennen Howard , Wagner Julie
Published: February 2015

This study investigated relationships of income and self-reported racial discrimination to diabetes health behaviors following an acute stressor. A total of 77 diabetic women (51% Black, 49% White) completed a laboratory public speaking stressor. That evening, participants reported same-day eating, alcohol consumption, and medication adherence; physical activity was measured with actigraphy, and the next morning participants reported sleep quality. Measures were repeated on a counterbalanced control day. There was no mean level difference in health behaviors between stressor and control days. On stressor day, lower income predicted lower physical activity, sleep quality, and medication adherence, and higher racial discrimination predicted more eating and alcohol consumed, even after accounting confounders including race and control day behaviors.
Preschool teachers’ use of ICTs: Towards a typology of practice
Authors: Masoumi Davoud
Published: February 2015

This study aimed to identify the ways in which information and communication technologies (ICT) are integrated in three preschools in south-western Sweden. The case study involved observations of and interviews with preschool teachers. The findings support claims that ICT can enhance preschool practices by providing a variety of complementary opportunities to enrich and transform existing curricula. The study shows that in the studied preschools ICTs have been appropriated in distinctive ways: as an object to enrich existing practices; as a cultural mediator; as a way to entertain young children; and as a communication and documentation tool. In addition, by addressing the teachers’ values and attitudes to the role of ICT in early childhood, the paper also unpacks the stances of teachers who consider ICT to be unsuitable for early childhood education. The findings of this study may bring some clarity to the complexities that surround engagement with any innovation in preschool settings, and the adoption of new technologies in particular.
An uneasy assemblage: Prisoners, animals, asylum-seeking children and posthuman packaging
Authors: Bone Jane , Blaise Mindy
Published: February 2015

Events in Australia have acted as provocations to thinking about the consequences of becoming a ‘package’ and then being processed. The image of the human, as prisoner, together with narratives about the child and the nonhuman animal as package, are used here in order to understand the world we share with others. These disparate elements are gathered together to form an uneasy assemblage. Thinking through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, a posthuman performative methodology is used to create this assemblage with its flows, images and stories. Posthumanism presents a challenge that recognizes the possibility of being in the world in a connected/entangled/knotted way. The work of Donna Haraway, Cary Wolfe and Karen Barad underpins the theoretical and methodological perspective. Drawing on evidence from the media, the internet, human and animal rights work and visual representations, this work considers what it means to be packaged, commodified and de-humanized/de-animalized. Once packaged certain experiences become normalized and the (re)packaging of people and animals proliferates and emerges in new iterations. This article argues that by following the flows that circulate around the packaged animal or human everything changes, and becoming part of the assemblage invites active engagement with the unease that emerges. In this process our response-ability is called into question along with aspects of a relational ethics.
Gooey stuff, intra-activity, and differential obesities: Foregrounding agential adiposity within childhood obesity stories
Authors: Land Nicole
Published: February 2015

In Canada, forces such as the media, medical discourse, and public policy work to position childhood obesity as increased body fat content or excess adiposity due to various personal, social, and economic factors. Drawing on Barad’s ‘agential realist ontology’, this article aims to inhabit-with obesity in an effort to disrupt dominant understandings of childhood obesity, as illustrated in images from three children’s picture books. By troubling the positivity inherent in dominant understandings of obesity, in which obesity is a knowable entity that refers to an anatomical body with excess adiposity, we might instead foreground the matterings of the human body at play amid the dynamic intra-actions of agential matter. This article will imagine how novel orientations toward childhood obesity might be made possible if we populate the adiposity of obese bodies such that we might engage with the intra-activity of agential adiposity.
Knock, knock, may I come in? An integrative perspective on professional development concerns for home visits conducted by teachers
Authors: Jiles Tywanda
Published: February 2015

This article address home visits and the professional development needs of teachers who perform visits. The author writes from a practitioner’s point of view, focusing on training needs for providers. The author argues that training and preparation for conducting home visits is needed to equip professionals with the skills needed to execute this growing requirement among teachers.
Adding action to the interview: Conceptualizing an interview approach inspired by action research elements
Authors: Nielsen Helle , Lyhne Ivar
Published: February 2015

Inspired by action research traditions, this article argues for a need to strengthen the role of interviews as an arena for generating action through mutual reflection. The aim is to point out and conceptualize the unarticulated action-oriented elements that appear in action researchers’ interview practice. The article traces the development of the interview from hermeneutic toward critical utopian action research in order to identify core action-oriented elements of the interview. These elements are empirically studied in two cases of interview practices in research projects. Based on the findings, we outline elements of the action-oriented approach for doing interviews. The related ethical and practical implications are discussed and further research is outlined.
Applying Generalizability Theory for Making Quantitative RTI Progress-Monitoring Decisions
Authors: Fan Chung-Hau , Hansmann Paul R.
Published: February 2015

Language in the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) allows the use of response-to-intervention (RTI) methodology in the identification of specific learning disabilities. However, there is no consensus on decision rules using curriculum-based measurement of oral reading fluency (CBM-R) for defining responsiveness. The purpose of this article is to describe how to apply generalizability (G) theory for making quantitative high-stakes RTI decisions. A sample of 68 first-grade students (36 females and 32 males) was randomly administered the first-grade Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills oral reading fluency probes and correct words per minute (CWPM) were calculated for conducting both a generalizability (G) study and a decision (D) study using G theory. The results showed that the average raw scores (CWPM) across 20 probes encompassed a wide range from a low of 69 CWPM to a high of 88 CWPM. In addition, 90.2% of the variance was due to student reading skill, 7.0% was due to unaccounted sources of error, and only 2.8% was due to passage or probe variability. Also, the increasing number of probes administered (from 1 to 9) considerably reduced the values of standard error of measurement and increased the reliability coefficients. An example is provided to demonstrate how to apply G theory in using CBM-R data to guide psychometrically valid RTI decisions at the individual student level.
Immigrant Cities as Reservations for Low Wage Labor
Authors: Katz Michael B. , Ginsburg Kenneth
Published: February 2015

Exploring the mid-sized cities of the Northeast United States, where immigrants make their homes but export their labor.
Same Trailer, Different Park
Authors: Sullivan Esther , Ledesma Edna
Published: February 2015

The transience of community in a mobile home park.
Mixed Messages about Teen Sex
Authors: Mollborn Stefanie
Published: February 2015

In the U.S., young people are having less sex than the generations that came before, while the advice they get from peers, teachers, and parents becomes ever more scattered.
Commodifying Conservation
Authors: Rea Christopher M.
Published: February 2015

Christopher M. Rea on conservation banks that price the priceless and change how we protect natural resources.
Navigating the territories of Indigenous leadership: Exploring the experiences and practices of Australian Indigenous arts leaders
Authors: Evans Michelle M , Sinclair Amanda
Published: February 2015

This article explores the leadership of Australian Indigenous artists and arts leaders. We advance the idea of ‘territories’ to convey the overlapping contexts in which Indigenous artistic leaders work, and through this framework seek to highlight the embodied ways individuals enact leadership across country and community. Thematic, narrative and discursive analysis of 29 in-depth interviews with diverse Indigenous artists identify four territories and multiple practices of leadership in which our participants engage. The four territories are: authorisation in a bi-cultural world (cultural authorisation and self-authorising); identity and belonging (both fearless and connected); artistic practice (innovative and custodian of cultural values); and history, colonisation and trauma (expressing and containing trauma, empowering and generating hope). The article builds on emerging research on Indigenous leadership to argue that the experiences of Indigenous artists and a framework designed to reflect their embodied and spatially anchored practices, has broader applicability – revealing new insights about leadership.
Informal, moralistic health education in Kenyan teacher education and how it influences the professional identity of student-teachers
Authors: Dahl Kari K. B.
Published: February 2015

This study explores informal health education with a moralistic content in three Kenyan teacher training colleges and what it means for the development of a professional identity in health education student-teachers on a continent affected by far the largest number of health problems. Informal health education with a moralistic content is a kind of non-curricular health education which exists parallel to formal health education lessons, but which influences student-teachers’ professional identity formation in complex ways by provoking resistance but also strengthening the community of student-teachers. The study used ethnographic methods and drew on a body of interrelated works in the field of sociocultural and critical educational theory and theory about professionalism to understand informal health education learning and processes of acquisition of professional identity. The findings document that in spite of institutional discipline and student-teachers’ resistance to informal moralistic health education, informal health education also initiates peer learning and identity work as student-teachers negotiate what they consider an appropriate teacher identity in the complex structures of teacher training colleges. The study concludes that these processes strengthen student-teachers’ sense of belonging to the teaching profession and thereby positively influence their professional identity.
Internationalization of higher education and the impacts on academic faculty members
Authors: Bedenlier Svenja , Zawacki-Richter Olaf
Published: February 2015

Research on internationalization processes in higher education has steadily increased over the past decades. However, there is still a lack of analysis of how these developments have affected higher education and, specifically, the group of academic faculty members. To close this gap, this study explores the effects of internationalization on this stakeholder group. A two-round mixed-methods approach was applied in order to identify impacts on this group and rate their importance. From the internationally composed expert panel’s responses, 25 impacts on the individual, institutional, and global level were derived, constituting a preliminary foundation for further research on this topic. Findings from the study indicate a need for further investigation of the nature of individual impacts, as well as discussion on the separation of globalization and internationalization in higher education. Furthermore, they demonstrate the necessity of conducting research differentiated according to higher education systems and the faculty members within.
Hemostatic powder spray: a new method for managing gastrointestinal bleeding
Authors: Changela Kinesh , Papafragkakis Haris , Ofori Emmanuel , Ona Mel A. , Krishnaiah Mahesh , Duddempudi Sushil , Anand Sury
Published: February 2015

Gastrointestinal bleeding is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. The management of gastrointestinal bleeding is often challenging, depending on its location and severity. To date, widely accepted hemostatic treatment options include injection of epinephrine and tissue adhesives such as cyanoacrylate, ablative therapy with contact modalities such as thermal coagulation with heater probe and bipolar hemostatic forceps, noncontact modalities such as photodynamic therapy and argon plasma coagulation, and mechanical hemostasis with band ligation, endoscopic hemoclips, and over-the-scope clips. These approaches, albeit effective in achieving hemostasis, are associated with a 5–10% rebleeding risk. New simple, effective, universal, and safe methods are needed to address some of the challenges posed by the current endoscopic hemostatic techniques. The use of a novel hemostatic powder spray appears to be effective and safe in controlling upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Although initial reports of hemostatic powder spray as an innovative approach to manage gastrointestinal bleeding are promising, further studies are needed to support and confirm its efficacy and safety.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the technical feasibility, clinical efficacy, and safety of hemostatic powder spray (Hemospray, Cook Medical, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA) as a new method for managing gastrointestinal bleeding.

In this review article, we performed an extensive literature search summarizing case reports and case series of Hemospray for the management of gastrointestinal bleeding. Indications, features, technique, deployment, success rate, complications, and limitations are discussed.

The combined technical and clinical success rate of Hemospray was 88.5% (207/234) among the human subjects and 81.8% (9/11) among the porcine models studied. Rebleeding occurred within 72 hours post-treatment in 38 patients (38/234; 16.2%) and in three porcine models (3/11; 27.3%). No procedure-related adverse events were associated with the use of Hemospray.

Hemospray appears to be a safe and effective approach in the management of gastrointestinal bleeding.
Not just about gadgets: Habit, innovation and change in the design of learning technologies
Authors: Carmichael Patrick
Published: February 2015

While elements of Deleuze’s theory, notably the ‘geophilosophical’ concepts of ‘rhizomes’, ‘smoothness’ and ‘striation’ have been applied to educational technologies, his work on time has, to date, been comparatively neglected by educational theorists. This article explores practices and outcomes of educational technology design in terms of Deleuze’s dimensions of time in which habitual practices, trajectories of change and concerns about identities in flux are synthesised into a ‘present-becoming’. The article draws on empirical work carried out during a large, funded research project during which teachers, students, technologists and researchers were able to work together for extended periods in order to explore the potential of emerging ‘semantic web’ and ‘linked data’ technologies and approaches in higher educational settings ( Ensemble: Semantic Technologies for the Enhancement of Case Based Learning). Doing learning technology design and development in a way informed by ‘Deleuzian’ syntheses of time involves conversations not just about creating a technology-rich educational utopia or constantly specifying new ‘gadgets’, but the troubling of existing pedagogical practices and the multiplication of perspectives and subjectivities. By going beyond notions of ‘feature sets’, ‘use cases’ and ‘affordances’ it provides a richer conceptual framework that helps us understand why some educational technologies are adopted and abandoned, some are creatively appropriated and used in unexpected ways, and others sink without trace. The article concludes with suggestions as to how current conditions in higher education, rather than constraining the development of educational technologies, might provide opportunities for these broader explorations to be initiated.
The Sum of Its Parts
Authors: Glisson Susan M.
Published: February 2015

Over 30 countries have created truth commissions to investigate human rights abuses and to make recommendations about addressing those abuses. Most of them have been in countries transitioning from authoritarian governments to democracies. Only one truth commission has been successfully implemented in the United States, in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it faced great hurdles. This article will address attempts to create a truth and reconciliation commission in the state of Mississippi and the lessons learned for establishing a truth commission within a democratic context. It will argue that, for the particular historical context of the United States, truth commissions must be deconstructed to their component parts and implemented as simultaneous tools in a truth process tool kit. In short, I argue that truth processes must be defined for each country’s sociopolitical context and may include “rituals of atonement,” changing the geography of memory with historical tours and markers, the creation and implementation of school curriculum and community development, changing the narratives of communities known for violence, and creating partnerships of advocacy and policy groups to seek new institutional reforms that undo the structures of oppression and replace them with equitable ones.
Combination of inverted pyramidal nanovoid with silver nanoparticles to obtain further enhancement and its detection for ricin
Authors: Wang Meng , Wang Bin , Wu Shixuan , Guo Tingke , Li Haoyu , Guo Zhaoqing , Wu Junhua , Jia Peiyuan , Wang Yuxia , Xu Xiaoxuan , Wang Yufang , Zhang Cunzhou
Published: February 2015

We have obtained the surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate by depositing silver nanoparticles on the surface of the inverted pyramidal nanovoid in order to improve the enhance effects. Experimental results showed that the combined substrate exhibited greater enhancement than the nanovoid substrate or nanoparticles. In order to test the SERS activity of the combined substrates, Rh6G and ricin toxin were used as Raman probes. Finite element method was employed to simulate electric field and induced charge distribution of the substrates, which have been used to explore the interaction between nanoparticles and nanovoid as well as mechanism of the great enhancement.
Long-term follow-up of herpetic non-necrotizing retinopathy with occlusive retinal vasculitis and neovascularization
Authors: Albert Kim , Masset Maureen , Bonnet Sabine , Willermain François , Caspers Laure
Published: February 2015

Background

Herpetic necrotizing retinitis is a well-recognized entity. A few cases of herpetic non-necrotizing retinitis were previously reported.

Findings

We retrospectively report two cases of herpetic non-necrotizing retinopathy with a long follow-up. A 19-year-old woman presented with a bilateral diffuse occlusive retinal vasculitis, peripheral neovascularization, and no signs of retinal necrosis. Long-lasting immunosuppressive treatment failed to control the vasculitis until herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1) was demonstrated by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in the aqueous. Acyclovir was then added and immunosuppressive tapered and eventually stopped resulting in a resolution of vasculitis. Only two relapses occurred during the next 6 years and responded rapidly to oral acyclovir.

An 11-year-old boy presented with unilateral scar of stromal keratitis, severe vitritis, and optic disc neovascularization, followed 6 weeks later by peripheral occlusive retinal vasculitis. Therapeutic and diagnostic vitrectomy was performed, and PCR was found to be positive for varicella zoster virus (VZV) in a vitreous specimen. The inflammation responded to oral acyclovir therapy. Recurrence of anterior uveitis with iris depigmentation occurred 4 months after treatment was arrested. After 4 years, he presented again with a recurrence of anterior inflammation and cystoid macular edema (CME). No sign of inflammation was seen for the next 10 years.

Conclusions

These rare cases support the possible role of herpes viruses (HSV or VZV) in occlusive vasculitis without retinal necrosis. PCR was useful to raise the diagnosis and to adapt the treatment. A good response was obtained on oral antiviral therapy.