What are Students Learning?: Assessing Service Learning and the Curriculum

Service learning, a method of learning and teaching, has the potential to move our educational system into the 21st century by providing a vehicle for integrating the needs of schools and communities while reflecting current reform agendas and providing meaningful learning experiences for students. In order for service learning to play a role in the transformation of our schools, however, educators must become successful at linking service to learning- making connections between service experiences and academic learning explicit. This paper explores the meaning of learning in service learning by explicating: a) how service learning links to current standards based reform agendas and; b) how the academic learning associated with service learning can be assessed by teachers, professors, and community agency personnel

Analysing Properties of Asphalt Concrete Modified with Crumb Rubber Compare to Other Mixture

Several  researchers have been undertake in finding alternative materials in order to be used as a modifier in asphalt mixture for the purpose of improving its properties. This research presents a study of laboratory evaluation on the performance of hot-mixed asphalt (HMA) using crumb rubber as an additive. It is noted that crumb rubber was identified to have potency as a modifier in HMA due to the elastic behavior exposed by the rubber particles, especially in reducing the rutting potential. This study fine crumb rubber Shred (2.36-0.85 mm) obtained by ambient-temperature grinding process from discarded truck tires, was used to modify asphalt concert. The fine crumb rubber with different contents, i.e. 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% and 10%, was incorporated into the mixture by using dry and wet process method in differentent temperatures. The Marshal properties, Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS), Indirect Tensile Strength test (ITS) and Indirect Tensile Strength Modulus (ITSM), Permeability   were conducted. The result showed that marshal stability, Marshal Quotient, Voids in Mix (VIM) and Voids in mineral aggregate (VMA) decreased with the increasing crumb rubber modifier. However, Marshal Flow and Void filled with asphalt (VFWA) increased when crumb rubber modifier was increased. The crumb rubber asphalt mixture result indicated has increased amount of crumb rubber in asphalt concrete mixture will decrease the Marshall Stability and permeability test shows that asphalt concrete without crumb rubber lower than AC with crumb rubber strength compare to other mixture

Data for: There’s Got to Be a Better Way! Introducing Faculty to Small Group Instructional Diagnosis for Helpful Student Feedback and Useful Formative Peer Reviews

Data for: There’s Got to Be a Better Way! Introducing Faculty to Small Group Instructional Diagnosis for Helpful Student Feedback and Useful Formative Peer Review

Data for: There’s Got to Be a Better Way! Introducing Faculty to Small Group Instructional Diagnosis for Helpful Student Feedback and Useful Formative Peer Reviews

Data for: There’s Got to Be a Better Way! Introducing Faculty to Small Group Instructional Diagnosis for Helpful Student Feedback and Useful Formative Peer ReviewsTHIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV

New Roles for Medical Assistants in Innovative Primary Care Practices

OBJECTIVE: To identify and describe new roles for medical assistants (MAs) in innovative care models that improve care while providing training and career advancement opportunities for MAs. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Primary data collected at 15 case study sites; 173 key informant interviews and de‐identified secondary data on staffing, wages, patient satisfaction, and health outcomes. STUDY DESIGN: Researchers used snowball sampling and screening calls to identify 15 organizations using MAs in new roles. Conducted site visits from 2010 to 2012 and updated information in 2014. DATA COLLECTION/EXTRACTION METHODS: Thematic analysis explored key topics: factors driving MA role innovation, role description, training required, and wage gains. Categorized outcome data in patient and staff satisfaction, quality of care, and efficiency. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: New MA roles included health coach, medical scribe, dual role translator, health navigator, panel manager, cross‐trained flexible role, and supervisor. Implementation of new roles required extensive training. MA incentives and enhanced compensation varied by role type. CONCLUSIONS: New MA roles are part of a larger attempt to reform workflow and relieve primary care providers. Despite some evidence of success, spread has been limited. Key challenges to adoption included leadership and provider resistance to change, cost of additional MA training, and lack of reimbursement for nonbillable services

Induction of parturition in a large number of pregnant dairy goats and its benefits as a management tool in a commercial scale goat operation

At LFB USA, Inc., transgenic goats are utilized for the production of recombinant human protein therapeutics in their milk through the rPRO Technology platform. This retrospective analysis and report describes the results of induced parturition and its use as a management tool in this large herd of dairy goats. Over a three-year period, 342 does received pronuclear microinjected (MI) embryos transferred into the oviductal lumen via midline laparotomy (day 1). To initiate the induction process, does were given intramuscular injections (IM) of 10 mg each of prostaglandin (Lutalyse(R)) and dexamethasone to induce parturition on days 144-148 of pregnancy. Mean and Standard Deviation (+/-SD) time to parturition was 36.7 (+/-6.5) hours. Does were given these injections at 4pm on Sundays with an expected kidding time of late Monday into Tuesday morning. Of the 342 does, 333 or 97% had kidded by 3pm the following Tuesday, and 313 or 91% kidded in the 18 h between 9pm Monday and 3pm on Tuesday or between 29 and 47 h post induction. By the end of Tuesday, most kids had received colostrum and were transferred to the nursery. The incidences of kid mortality and retained placenta were 2.5% and 1.5%, respectively, clearly achieving a priority at this commercial operation for generating a high percentage of live kids (97.5%) of marked value being produced. The use of induced parturition allowed this large dairy operation to designate two 9-h time blocks in which to concentrate parturition times within the herd. This facilitated strategic scheduling to optimize availability of staff, in order to assist with parturition, separate kids from the dam at birth, and ensure adequate and prompt feeding of colostrum. Predicting the time of kidding in this way can serve as an effective management tool, especially to help reduce kid mortality and prevent disease spread by restricting suckling of colostrum

Performance of Unreinforced Masonry Walls in Compression: A Review of Design Provisions, Experimental Research, and Future Needs

Unreinforced masonry (URM) is a construction of brick or concrete block unit that is joined together using mortar, without steel reinforcement. Because of the heterogeneous nature and difference in mechanical properties of the masonry elements, analyzing and capturing the structural behaviour of URM walls under various loading conditions is therefore complex. In recent decades, research efforts have been focused on addressing and understanding the compressive behaviour of URM walls from the experimental viewpoint. However, from the existing experimental literature, there is a significant degree of variation in the mechanical and geometric properties of URM walls, especially the comprehensive comparison of apparently equivalent test parameters, which has yet to be examined. It is therefore necessary to highlight and critically examine major results derived from the experimental literature to better understand the performance of URM walls under compressive loads. This review paper presents the assessment performance with regard to axial compressive tests on URM walls, along with comprehensive comparisons among the experimental literature findings on the basis of masonry construction methods and various influencing parameters. Emphasis in the literature has been placed chiefly on the masonry elements, design provisions, axial load, slenderness ratio, openings, and stress–strain response. Based on observations from the study, experimental development trends have been highlighted to identify and outline potential directions for future studies