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{"title":"Interactive Science-Based and Narrative Read-Alouds: A Descriptive Case Study of Teacher Enactment and Student Responses","authors":"B. Wheatley","doi":"10.18130/v3g44hq1n","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3g44hq1n","url":null,"abstract":"Reading aloud in schools is universal, but the use of interactive read-alouds fluctuates within and between schools. Interactive read-alouds are an effective way to target and strengthen children’s early literacy skills. An interactive read-aloud is a reading experience where both the adult and child are active participants in constructing and engaging in dialogue about the book. Interactive read-alouds with children in preschool through third grade can have positive effects on reading development in the areas of children’s language, phonological awareness, print concepts, comprehension, and vocabulary development. Science is an excellent mode to not only help develop language and literacy skills, but also to increase knowledge of the world we live in. The inclusion of science content in read-alouds can encourage students’ confidence in learning, increase background knowledge, and provide motivation. This study explored teacher enactment of science-based and narrative text interactive read-alouds. Additionally, student responses to these interactive read-alouds were also considered. This descriptive case study used classroom observations, teacher interviews, and informal interviews to collect the data that informed this study. Findings suggest that teacher interactive read-aloud training should include modeling, practice, and continuous feedback. In addition, strategies for inferential interactive read-alouds should be placed in context of what teachers already use and know about read-alouds. Teachers should practice questioning and purposeful follow-up strategies with possible self-evaluation. Each of these recommendations would benefit students, ensuring that interactive read-alouds encourage discussion and conversations, increase reading skills, and help students relate text to their background knowledge and experiences.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147912335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Utilizes SIRT6 to Initiate Tumorigenesis and Overcome Cellular Senescence","authors":"Jaclyn D'Innocenzi","doi":"10.18130/v37q13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v37q13","url":null,"abstract":"Lung cancer is one of the three most common cancers among men and women and causes more cancer-related deaths than any other type of carcinoma. Of the two subtypes, Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common. These tumors are characteristically high grade, PET-positive, indicating heightened glucose uptake and altered cancer metabolism. Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) is a member of the sirtuin family of histone deacetylases and has previously been shown to be a key regulator of glucose metabolism, DNA damage repair, and aging. SIRT6 has been demonstrated to act as a tumor suppressor in colon, pancreatic and liver cancer. However, its role in NSCLC remains elusive. Here, we have developed a mouse model to study the role of SIRT6 in NSCLC, utilizing a KRASG12D driver mutation and p53flox/flox to drive lung tumorigenesis in response to intranasal deliver of adenovirus expressing Cre recombinase. Work described here indicates that SIRT6 expression is necessary for lung tumor initiation and progression. Loss of SIRT6 expression resulted in a delay of tumor growth leading to decreased tumor burden and prolonged survival compared to animals expressing both wild-type alleles of SIRT6. Utilizing NSCLC developed mouse cell lines, we were able to show that cells lacking SIRT6 exhibited decreased proliferation, decreased formation of colonies of soft agar and increased senescence, providing a possible mechanism for the delay in tumor initiation and formation in vivo. Since NSCLC maintain SIRT6 mRNA expression in primary tumors, we sought to identify a potential mechanism by which cancer cells post-translationally regulate SIRT6 activity. In this study, we propose a mechanism where by SIRT6 can be lost in response to the metabolic state of the cell. Data presented here shows that SIRT6 undergoes a glucose-responsive N-terminal cleavage that is predicted to result in loss of its chromatin-localization sequence (CLS), causing it to dissociate from chromatin. More specifically, we found that SIRT6 is directly O-GlcNAcylated and that the O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) is necessary for this cleavage to occur. Our lab has previously shown that OGT also O-GlcNAcylates the NF-κB subunit, p65, to allow for its full transcriptional activation. As SIRT6 and NF-κB have been previously shown to physically interact and antagonize one another in transcription of key metabolic genes, loss of the CLS of SIRT6 and transcriptional activation of p65 in response to O-GlcNAcylation may serve as a mechanism for p65-induced transcription of metabolic target genes. Work described in this thesis underscores the importance of SIRT6 as an essential enzyme required for NSCLC development, yet once carcinoma is established it becomes dynamically misregulated by altered metabolic flux of the cancer cell.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147881668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Effects of a Fundamental Motor Skills Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder","authors":"Andrew M. Colombo-Dougovito","doi":"10.18130/v3hw66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3hw66","url":null,"abstract":"Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and pervasive repetitive behaviors (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013). Further, ASD is one of the fastest rising childhood developmental disorders, affecting 1 in 68 children (Christensen et al., 2016). In addition to the hallmark charactizations of this condition is a growing body of research (Lloyd, MacDonald, & Lord, 2013; Liu, Hamilton, Davis, ElGarhy, 2014; Staples & Reid, 2010) that suggests that individuals with ASD also demonstrate delays in the development of gross motor skills. Despite mounting evidence of delay, few interventions have targeted gross motor skills as an outcome (Staples, MacDonald, Zimmer, 2012). Three recent studies (Bremer, Crozier, & Lloyd, 2016; Bremer & Lloyd, 2014; Ketcheson, Hauck, & Ulrich, 2016), amoung others, demonstrate the increasing awareness to this issue; however, continued theory-based research is needed to builded an effective motor intervention for children with ASD. The purpose of this parallel, convergent mixed methods design study was to test the validity and effectiveness of a fundamental motor skill (FMS) intervention for children with ASD that uses dynamic systems theory (DST; Newell, 1986). The intervention was based on intentional manipulations of task constraints, hereafter referred to as task modifications, to build FMS. This study incorporated both quantitative and qualitative data to understand not only how the task modifications work to influence the motor performance of children with and without ASD, but how potential changes in motor performance, or the perception of, was understood by parents. Furthermore, this study sought to understand how the intervention effected the daily lives of the individual and their family. Results revealed that a motor intervention based on dynamic systems theory may: (a) significantly improve gross motor performance of children; (b) provide an effective means to build motor skills in children with ASD; and (c) allow for a high level of engagement and successful practice. Furthermore, parent interviews suggest that there are number of barriers to physical activity, as well as many benefits. Futher, results suggest that the home environment may play a role in the gain made during a school based intervention; acting as an environmental constraint. Lastly, when looking at changes in motor performance compared to themes discussed by parents, data suggest that motor skills may play a role as a mediating factor in a child’s physical activity level. Additionally, the results suggest that direct changes from increases in motor performance may have delayed indirect changes in other developmental skill and in the child’s life. While data suggest significant improvements, a small sample size and the heterogeneity of ASD limit the overall generalizability of the intervention. Further research is necessary to fully understand the potential","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147917074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How to Do Things with Norms: A Speech Act Approach to Metanormative Theory","authors":"Andrew Morgan","doi":"10.18130/v34m0r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v34m0r","url":null,"abstract":"When we use normative language terms like ‘good,’ ‘vicious,’ or ‘beautiful,’ what exactly are we up to? On the one hand, it feels as though we are trying to express our beliefs to one another. On the other hand, it also feels as though we are trying to express other attitudes like praise, condemnation, or awe. This creates a puzzle for philosophers: how do we adequately capture both aspects of our normative language? In this dissertation I argue, first, that existing strategies for resolving this puzzle fail, either because they tie the expression in question too closely to the semantics of normative terms or because they tie it too loosely to the features of a speaker’s context. I then present my own positive view, the hybrid speech act theory. The central insight of my view is that when we make normative claims, we are making use of distinct (and hitherto unrecognized) types of speech acts. What sets normative speech acts apart is that their constitutive sincerity conditions require speakers to possess both cognitive and motivationally efficacious states. My dissertation concludes with a discussion of what we are up to when we have normative thoughts. By taking a closer look at the phenomenon of inner speech, I demonstrate how my normative speech act theory may be used to explain normative thoughts as well.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147891724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborative Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Zhiheng Xie","doi":"10.18130/v3057p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3057p","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are now widely used in many applications. Knowing each sensor node's position is always a critical issue for these applications. Without the position information, the sensory data become meaningless, and a number of location based routing protocols would not work. In the WSN research field, the existing localization solutions can be divided into range-based solutions and range-free solutions. Despite which method is used, the existing solutions suffer from one or more of the following drawbacks: 1) only including homogeneous positioning information; 2) only suitable for static WSNs, but not mobile WSNs; 3) requiring pre-set infrastructures; 4) non-deterministic uncertainty. Another category of mobile node localization methods are from the robotics field. The representatives are simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)and the collaborative localization (CL). However, SLAM solution is not suitable for resource constrained WSN because of its iterative dynamic model, high computational complexity and not taking advantage the collaboration between nodes. The existing CL solutions suffer from either inefficiency or the over confidence problem. This dissertation proposes a unified range-based localization mathematical model, which can be applied to a large scale static WSN, to a large scale WSN with dynamic topology changes, or to a mobile WSN. When designing such a model, the following purposes are addressed: 1) unified representation of various measurement types; 2) suitable for both mobile and static networks; 4) both centralized and decentralized architecture support; 5) providing not only position estimation, but also the quantitative uncertainty (the covariance matrix) of the estimation; 6) efficiency and scalability. The effectiveness and the efficiency of this model are demonstrated by a decentralized and fully self-contained indoor pedestrian localization system. We first propose the incremental node-voltage analysis (INOVA) localization algorithm, which is used to localize a stationary WSN in a centralized way. INOVA analogizes a WSN to a generalized electrical network, and borrows the node-voltage analysis from the electrical engineering field to reduce the computational complexity by 70 times (comparing with the optimization technique based solution--Best Linear Unbiased Estimator). Since INOVA is fast on updating, it is suitable to localize a large scale static WSN with frequently dynamic changes or a mobile network. By using the same idea, an overlapping subgraph estimator of covariance (OSE-COV) algorithm is proposed. Together with the original overlapping subgraph estimator (OSE) algorithm, it is able to estimate both the positions and the covariance matrices of sensor nodes in a decentralized way. In order to localize mobile nodes in even a more efficient way, the elastic decentralized collaborative localization (EDCL) algorithm is proposed. Different form the above two algorithms, which are theoretica","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147897835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alveolar Macrophages Protect Against Lethal Influenza A Virus Pneumonia","authors":"Amber Cardani","doi":"10.18130/v33s1j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v33s1j","url":null,"abstract":"The Influenza A Virus is a prominent human pathogen with the potential to cause pandemics outbreaks and high mortality rates. A primary feature of lethal influenza infection is viral pneumonia. Viral pneumonia results from the direct infection of alveolar epithelial cells by the Influenza A Virus subsequently causing extensive alveolar inflammation and injury. During clinical influenza infection alveolar epithelial cell infection manifests as diffuse alveolar damage leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome. Alveolar macrophages, the lung-resident macrophage, reside in the alveolar airspaces. This location strategically positions them on the frontline of defense against pathogens that are invading the alveoli and causing pneumonia. However, their pathophysiological role during influenza infection remains to be elucidated. To explore the contribution of alveolar macrophages to the outcome of influenza infection, we generated a novel mouse model with a selective deficiency in alveolar macrophages. While their wild type counterparts survived experimental influenza infection, the alveolar macrophage deficient mice developed severe diffuse alveolar damage and lethal respiratory compromise. Their lethal injury was a result of increased infection of their type 1 alveolar epithelial cells, and the subsequent elimination of these infected cells by the adaptive immune T cell response. Further analysis revealed that in order to render type 1 alveolar epithelial cells resistant to IAV infection, alveolar macrophages suppress leukotriene D4 production and autocrine signaling in type 1 alveolar epithelial cells. These results suggest that alveolar macrophages play a previously unappreciated role in protecting type 1 alveolar epithelial cells against IAV infection, and thereby regulating the severity of infection, through suppression of cysteinyl leukotriene metabolite production in type 1 alveolar epithelial cells.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147893852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Regional and Local Controls on Dissolved Mercury and Dissolved Organic Carbon in Streams","authors":"Olivia Stoken","doi":"10.18130/v3x962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3x962","url":null,"abstract":"In streams, dissolved mercury (HgD) is often strongly associated with dissolved organic carbon (DOC), but due to spatial and temporal variability the ratio of HgD:DOC can vary between watersheds and even within an individual watershed. This thesis examines soil organic carbon (SOC) and stream pH as regional and local controls, respectively on HgD:DOC. A meta-analysis of published studies and geospatial datasets was conducted to test the regional importance of SOC, while stream pH was evaluated during a field-based study in a small, first-order stream. At the regional scale, HgD:DOC from 19 watersheds across the U.S. was related to mean watershed SOC derived from a soil geospatial database. DOC quality measured by specific ultraviolet absorbance at 254nm and Hg wet deposition from the Mercury Deposition Network were also considered as possible controls. SOC was a strong primary control on HgD:DOC, while DOC quality and Hg wet deposition were secondary in comparison. Results from this study show that SOC data may be utilized to predict stream HgD:DOC ratios on a more geographically widespread basis. For streams with DOC data, HgD could also be predicted without expensive, time consuming field work. At the local scale, pH was lowered in a small, first-order stream to analyze the impacts on HgD and DOC. Two stream acidification experiments revealed that at acidic pH levels HgD and DOC concentrations are reduced in the water column. High-quality (i.e. aromatic) DOC was preferentially adsorbed, which caused the HgD:DOC ratio to decrease with decreasing pH. The likely mechanism is adsorption to stream sediments and suspended particulates which is enhanced by hyporheic mixing and exchange. Results from this study suggest that changes in stream and soil solution pH may influence the export of HgD and DOC. This work shows that regional and local watershed characteristics can help explain variance in the ratio of HgD:DOC. Identifying and understanding controls on the association of HgD and DOC in streams can help better predict HgD export to streams under changing environmental conditions. Future regulations on Hg emissions need to consider watershed processes that influence Hg and DOC concentrations to accurately predict water quality impacts.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147879017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative Systems Analysis of Opportunistic Gram-Negative Pathogens","authors":"Jennifer Bartell","doi":"10.18130/v3726f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3726f","url":null,"abstract":"Persistent bacterial infections are a rapidly growing concern worldwide; combatting these drug-resistant infections is hampered by a limited understanding of multifactorial pathogen evolution. Pathogens must adapt to novel nutrient restrictions, stresses induced by the host environment, competition with other microbes, and therapeutic interventions such as antibiotic treatment. The lung infections of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients are an excellent model of long-term pathogen evolution. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and species of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are considered the most problematic CF pathogens, known for their dominance over other pathogens, ability to induce infections lasting decades, and resistance to antibiotics (factors which also contribute to their role in serious hospital-acquired infections). With the goal of providing novel insights into potential new therapeutic targets to combat rising drug resistance, I investigate the metabolic flexibility, virulence capability, and adaptive metabolic rewiring of these pathogens using comparative systems analyses via the framework of genome-scale metabolic models. I have built two new genome-scale metabolic reconstructions of Bcc species, updated and reconciled an existing model of P. aeruginosa PAO1 and also created a new model of P. aeruginosa PA14. I couple these models with constraint-based analysis techniques and experimental phenotype screening to validate predictions and pursue model-generated hypotheses. My work has resulted in the prediction of specific mechanistic causes for differential antibiotic resistance and capacity for virulence between B. cenocepacia and B. multivorans via quantitative examinations of genetic redundancy and predicted activity of secondary metabolite production pathways. I extended my comparative analysis approaches to the study of decades-long evolution in P. aeruginosa clinical isolates from chronic CF infections, using a novel integration of single nucleotide polymorphism- and expression-based constraints to create isolate-specific metabolic models representing early and late stage adaptation. I identified network rewiring of redox metabolism as a potentially important contributor to the successful persistence of the late stage strains. The P. aeruginosa models have also been used to evaluate genes and enzymes essential to the production of known virulence factors and tradeoffs between virulence factor production and bacterial growth, providing a parallel avenue of treatment to enhance current antibiotic approaches. My analysis of these predictions identifies novel therapeutic targets for inhibiting virulence factor production alone or in addition to growth, of which a subset are experimentally evaluated using in vitro gene knockouts. In summary, I use an integrated computational and experimental framework to conduct a comparative systems analysis of important drug-resistant pathogens, contributing novel insights into their adaptive metabolic capab","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147915814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Provider Adherence to National Guidelines for Managing Hypertension in African Americans","authors":"Jeanette Sessoms","doi":"10.18130/v3zv91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3zv91","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose. The purpose of this retrospective chart review is to evaluate health care provider adherence to national guidelines for the treatment of hypertension in African Americans. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7) guidelines were used as the basis for comparison to documented care. Design. This pilot exploratory study used a descriptive, pre-experimental, quantitative method to conduct a retrospective chart review for African American patients aged 20 to 80 years old who had been diagnosed with hypertension to examine the degree of provider adherence to national hypertension management guidelines. Methods. The electronic medical records (EMR) in a rural clinic were reviewed from July 1, 2014 through August 31, 2014 to identify patients who were African Americans aged 20 to 80 years diagnosed with hypertension and were taking antihypertensive medications. Demographic data collected included age, gender, marital status and health insurance. Clinical data collected included blood pressure, medications prescribed, laboratory studies including urine micro-albumin levels (if diabetic), lifestyle modification recommendations, referral to specialized professionals and frequency of follow-up. Clinical data were compared to the JNC recommendations. Findings. Overall provider adherence averaged 75%. Provider adherence was present on 87% of participants on combination therapy and 0% in patients on monotherapy. Weight loss, sodium restriction and physical activity recommendations were documented on 82.3% of patients. DASH diet and alcohol consumption was only documented in 6.5% of the participants. Provider follow-up was documented in 96.6% of the patients with controlled blood pressure and 9.1% in patients with uncontrolled blood pressure. Adherence in prescribing ACEIs in patients with a comorbidity of DM was documented in 70% of the patients. Only 15.2% of diabetics were ordered micro albumin levels. Laboratory adherence prior to beginning pharmacologic regimens was documented in 0% of the patients and biannual routine labs were documented prior to beginning treatment 65% of the time. Conclusion. Provider adherence is moderately high in prescribing TDs or CCBs as combination therapy. Provider adherence is poor in prescribing TDs or CCBs in monotherapy. However, there appears to be no relationship to provider adherence and blood pressure outcomes. These findings may be due to the short time period of the study and documentation being available in the EMR for only the last five years. These findings warrant further research.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147883799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Closer Look at Coaching: What do Coaches and Teachers do in the MyTeachingPartner Coaching Model?","authors":"Manuela Jimenez Herrera","doi":"10.18130/v3382r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18130/v3382r","url":null,"abstract":"The present dissertation takes a multi-study approach to explore coaches’ and teachers’ behaviors in the implementation of a coaching intervention, MyTeachingPartner (Pianta et al., 2008), and their association with positive changes in teachers’ practice. Study 1 assesses coaches’ ability to provide objective and valid ratings of teacher-child interactions. Study 1 finds that coaches do provide valid ratings of teacher-child interactions that correspond well with observers’ ratings of teacher-child interactions. However, coaches also show a tendency to rate teachers with whom they have higher-quality relationships as showing higher-quality teacher-student interactions. Study 2 examines the variation in coaches’ implementation of MyTeachingPartner by looking at specific features of the model, the association between this variation and changes in teachers’ ability to analyze their interactions with children, their self-efficacy and their observed teaching practice, and the ways in which these associations outcomes vary as a function of teachers’ years of education and their level of observed practice at the beginning of the intervention. Findings indicate that although variation in coaches’ implementation is minimal, it was significantly associated with changes in teachers’ outcomes. Study 3 looks to the teacher’s side of the coaching dyad by examining how teachers analyze their practice during coaching conferences, as well as the degree of change in teachers’ analysis and its associations with teacher and classroom characteristics, and changes in practice during the process. Study 3 finds that although teachers engage in certain features of analysis, most teachers did not assess the effectiveness of their practice during the coaching conference, and teachers’ display of analysis remained stable across the coaching conferences. Teachers that analyze their practice more were also found to have less years of experience and to be teaching more challenging classrooms.","PeriodicalId":33824,"journal":{"name":"Radzynski Rocznik Humanistyczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147901975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}