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In response to the ever evolving technology landscape, libraries have developed extensive partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders, including intermediaries and community groups. This article explores Cook Library's collaboration with the IT department during the recent Alma migration, highlighting the IT staff's key contributions to integrating SSO, SIS, and the bursar system into Alma. It also shares valuable insights, including lessons learned and practical strategies for fostering strong and effective collaborations between libraries and IT teams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the design and implementation of an experimental undergraduate course, team-taught by a cognitive scientist and a scholar of Italian studies and focused on the history, science, and technology of 3D vision, from the Renaissance invention of linear perspective to contemporary concepts of 'virtual reality'. Analysing such devices as the panorama and the stereoscope and the immersive experiences they enable, we ask: What is the information in a 2D image that enables us to see, and interact with, a three-dimensional environment? What are the goals and the cultural implications of the immersive experiences produced by our optical devices? By reviewing project-oriented pedagogical strategies aimed to combine experimental and critical methods, the article suggests a possible way of crossing the divide between scientific and humanistic curricula, toward a holistic understanding of 3D vision and 'virtual reality'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the methods and outcomes of "The Archaeology of College Hill" (AoCH), a hands-on fieldwork course at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. The first half of this paper recounts the results of a three-year research program (2012–2014) on the Quiet Green of the university's campus. This work identified a material assemblage associated with the school's first official President's House and uncovered evidence for over two centuries of student life. The second half of this article addresses our pedagogical methods, including elements of replicable course design and feedback from a qualitative survey on students' impressions of the class. By situating this project within wider dialogues on the role of fieldwork in undergraduate teaching, we demonstrate the ways in which practical, on-campus projects like AoCH can reach a more diverse body of students, increase enrollments in other archaeology courses, and develop a more engaged, de-centered pedagogy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the midst of a curricular debate at Brown University during the Second World War, the faculty's humanists seized the opportunity to pen their views on the nature and purpose of higher education. This investigation reveals humanism as a fragmented force, at once principal and peripheral to the American academy. The central argument of this study is that humanists united when they stood against mainstream academe and fragmented when they tried to acculturate their ideas to prevailing currents of thought. This article further contends that humanists endured as a major if subsidiary constituency within academe because they offered the American university an elevated rationale for its existence without issuing a substantive challenge to its prevailing power structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1974, Brown University’s Department of Anthropology denied tenure to assistant professor Louise Lamphere. Convinced that her dismissal was the product of sex discrimination, Lamphere filed suit against Brown. Lamphere and three other female scholars who joined her suit successfully pressed Brown into an out-of-court settlement in 1977. Significantly, the settlement required Brown not only to provide redress to the plaintiffs but also to take sweeping action in rectifying its faculty’s inequitable gender ratio. While Lamphere’s case marked a rare victory for academic women in the male preserve of the Ivy League, this study concerns the bearing of the lawsuit on academic freedom. It argues that academic freedom entails two interlocking principles: freedom of inquiry and departmental autonomy. Lamphere emphasised the former while Brown advocated the latter. Ultimately, the Lamphere case illustrates how academic freedom loses its efficacy when freedom of inquiry and departmental autonomy are decoupled. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The book "Diminishing Returns: The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation" by Mark Blyth, Jonas Pontusson, and Lucio Baccaro aims to transform the study of the organization of advanced industrial capitalist economies. The book focuses on the drivers of economic growth and explores different growth models in countries such as the UK, USA, Germany, China, and Latin American countries. The authors emphasize the importance of demand-side dynamics and distributional conflicts in shaping growth models. They also integrate insights from International Political Economy (IPE) to transcend methodological nationalism in Comparative Political Economy (CPE) studies. The book's theoretical advances have sparked discussions in the academic community and bring greater dynamism to the field of CPE. [Extracted from the article]

Participants who are enrolled in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) may be more motivated to change their behaviors after being enrolled in a study and that motivation may vary by treatment status. The objectives of this secondary analysis were to investigate if changes in alcohol-related behaviors/characteristics from the baseline to the randomization session differed overall and to assess those differences between non-treatment and treatment seeking individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Our sample included participants from eight RCTs conducted at Brown University (N = 281, 34% female). To assess differences across alcohol-related behaviors/characteristics, we investigated changes in craving (obsessive compulsive drinking scale) and alcohol drinking (percent abstinent days, drinks per week (DPW) and percent heavy drinking days (HDD)) overall and between treatment status. Results showed that there were baseline differences, such as increased AUD severity and craving for alcohol in treatment seeking participants (p's <.05) in the overall sample. Next, we showed that craving, DPW and HDD decreased and percent abstinent days increased from baseline to randomization (p's <.05). When controlling for treatment status and sociodemographic characteristics, treatment seeking, compared to non-treatment seeking participants, had a greater reduction in alcohol craving (p <.001) and a greater increase in percentage of drinking days (p <.01). These findings demonstrated that alcohol-related behaviors and characteristics changed after enrollment. Severity, craving and drinking behaviors also differed between treatment-seeking status, which can potentially impact medication development stages for AUD such as clinical trial eligibility, enrollment and study outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this author shares his experience of doing library-related, customer service jobs. Topics discussed include information on the deciding to apply a customer service-based approach to electronic resources as the Electronic Resources Manager at the University of Denver Libraries; discussions on the conducting a training on Electronic Resources; and the information on the use of basic troubleshooting for all aspects of e-resource access.

Objective: To assess the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Gout Impact Scale (GIS), a gout-specific HRQoL measure.Methods: This was a single-center, cross-sectional, observational survey of patients with gout recruited from the Taipei Medical University Hospital from November 2017 to April 2018. The respondents were recruited by convenience sampling. The reliability of the Chinese GIS was tested by Cronbach's α coefficient and adjusted using the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula. Content validity was assessed and confirmed by rheumatologists and pharmacists before the administration of the survey. Convergent validity was tested by Spearman correlation analysis to examine the association of the EQ-5D-5L with GIS total and subscale scores. Construct validity of the Chinese GIS was assessed by hypothesis testing.Results: A total of 311 patients were included in the analysis. The majority of these respondents were male (93.2%) with no comorbidities (69.5%) and they had a mean age of 52.9 (±14.2) years. The internal consistency of the Chinese GIS subscales was acceptable to excellent (Cronbach's α = 0.73-0.98) after adjusting to a 10 item scale with the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula. The GIS total and subscale scores were significantly associated with lower EQ-5D-5L scores ([-0.14] - [-0.27], p < .05). In addition, the GIS total and all subscale scores had a significant positive correlation with gout attack severity (rs = 0.13-0.57, p < .05) and gout attack pain (rs = 0.17-0.54, p < .01). Moreover, respondents' most recent sUA concentration was associated with both the GIS gout concern overall subscale (rs = 0.13, p < .05) and the unmet gout treatment need subscale (rs = 0.18, p < .01).Conclusions: The present study demonstrates that the Chinese version of the GIS shows good internal consistency and association with gout-related characteristics. Future studies may consider using this gout-specific instrument to assess the HRQoL of gout patients in Taiwan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is not much debate regarding the Brown decision and the significance of the foundation it provided for access to equal educational opportunity and the school funding litigation movement; however, it is important to recognize that the inception of Brown can be traced back to a small rural town in South Carolina. Three years before the Supreme Court heard Brown v. Board, the legal strategy to attack separate but equal was formed in Summerton, South Carolina, with Briggs v. Elliott. Briggs was the first school funding lawsuit in South Carolina. More than 65 years after the first school funding lawsuit was filed in the state of South Carolina, rural school districts are still waiting for the state to provide adequate educational opportunity for poor, rural, mostly Black students. The schools in these districts are arguably still segregated, still unequal, and still inadequate. The purpose of this article is to examine the history and legacy of Briggs v. Elliot. The article begins with exploring the historical legal background of education finance litigation in South Carolina. This is followed by a snapshot of the prevalence of school segregation and educational inadequacies of the rural school districts represented in Briggs and recent lawsuits. Furthermore, the article discusses the role and function of the courts regarding South Carolina education, in addition to enacted legislation and the role of race. The article concludes with implications regarding policy and potential future legal strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional, and the process of school desegregation fell mostly to Black children. For over 35 years, Black families in St. Louis City have been using school transfers to cross boundaries in order to send their children to higher performing, predominately White schools in suburban St. Louis County in search of "a better education." Relying on turbulence theory and Critical Race Theory (CRT), this study uses a media framing analysis to examine how newspaper articles described school transfers to the broader public between 2007 and 2017. Findings indicate that the articles described Black and White school districts as being affected by varying levels of turbulence and conflict. Findings also outline examples of opportunity hoarding by White schools and districts. The original focus of the Brown case was the lack of equitable resources in Black schools, and this study reignites questions about exclusion, privilege, and the choices made by Black families to receive educational equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sixty-five years after the Brown v. Board decision, American schools are re-segregated and re-segregating. The mechanisms of this re-segregation are legal action, voluntary moves towards unitary status, unintended consequences of integration-oriented strategies, and an increasing trend towards the fracturing, or splintering of school districts. Both economic and political theory would indicate that splintering districts would work to pull racial and economic advantage out of the remaining district and into their own. To test this theory, we created a dataset that captures the fiscal and demographic status of U.S. school districts between 2000 and 2014 and analyzed the effect of district separation on the remaining districts in terms of student body composition, overall integration and local, state, and federal resources. Our findings indicate that separating districts are less diverse than the districts left behind. We further find that separating districts gain resources from local revenue and that remaining districts gain federal revenue in insufficient amounts to account for the loss of local funds. We find that these relative disadvantages for left behind districts and relative advantages for seceding districts persist when compared to the general population of school districts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brood parasitism of Hooded Warblers (Setophaga citrina) by Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) has been well documented, but brood parasitism of this host by other bird species has not been recorded. Hooded Warblers are known to abandon nests with parasitic eggs early in the egg-laying phase, but are not known to remove parasitic eggs from their nests or to replace these foreign eggs with their own. In June 2017, a Hooded Warbler nest in northeastern Pennsylvania was observed to contain a cuckoo (Coccyzus sp.) egg. Within a span of 6 days, the cuckoo egg was gone and a third Hooded Warbler egg was observed in its place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contains a brief report on the conference on 'Pius XI and America' that was held at Brown University (29-30 October 2010) and organized jointly with the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, Giovanni XXIII in Bologna. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a list of participants to the 1993 North American Serials Interest Group Conference at Brown University. Conference registrants; Institutions where the registrants belong to.

Information about the 2013 Ivies + Access Services Symposium which was held at the Brown University on June 6-7, 2013, is presented. David Banush, associate university librarian for Access Services and Collection Management at the Brown university, discussed access services of libraries and the use of nontraditional materials like laptops. It also focused on the use of digital technology and how libraries can manage with staff constraints.

The article presents information about scholar Philip Taft, member of the faculty at Brown University. Taft was one of the most distinguished members of the Brown faculty and one of the best known labor historians of the time. He had a remarkable life. He ran away from home in his teens, wandered through the U.S. working at a wide variety of jobs, was in part self-educated and went to night-school and did not begin formal university education until he was well into his twenties. In this early wandering there was a common thread of experience with labor organizations and the American socialist movement. When Taft became chairman in 1949, he was one of four tenured members in the economics department, all of whom had been appointed prior to the war. As chairman, Taft recruited younger faculty without regard to their religious affiliation or ethnic background. He was an equal opportunity employer in the true sense of that phrase, and he outdistanced and discomforted those in University Hall who were stronger at preaching than practice. The change in the religious and ethnic composition of the Brown faculty in the next two decades was an important element in its transformation from a parochial to a national institution.

On the other hand, the Ukraine war illustrates a rare positive outcome that Meier and Vieluf suggest, that "nationalist-populist challenges from the outside can increase alliance cohesion" (p. 19). Yet, the day after Trump's successful summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on June 12, 2018, in Singapore, Trump made an eyebrow-raising declaration that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat" to the United States: Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. This article by Oliver Meier and Maren Vieluf offers a compelling and highly useful set of arguments about how nationalist populism increases nuclear dangers. [Extracted from the article]

Describes the supportive educational programs instituted at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UKMC) and Brown University in Rhode Island. Physical plant; Student partnership system; Role of the docent; Evaluations of the docent system; Brown Medical School affinity group program; Implications for other medical schools.

This article presents a case study in user-centered design that explores the needs and preferences of undergraduate users. An analysis of LibQual+ and other user surveys, interviews with public service staff, and a formal American with Disabilities Act accessibility review served as the basis for planning a redesign of the Brown University Library's Web site. Three testing phases were conducted: individual usability testing of the existing site and baseline data collection on Web use preferences; focus groups to respond to a functional prototype and search prototypes; and individual usability testing and interviews on revised functional prototypes. The delicate task of obtaining staff buy-in without letting their opinion drive the redesign was accomplished by keeping the project team small and nonrepresentational, submitting all conflicts to user testing, and promising an intranet that would meet the specialized needs of staff. A commitment to experimentation and a willingness to jettison design and functional elements which did not meet user approval kept the design process agile and flexible. Prototype testing of a variety of search options clearly demonstrated that the lack of integration in a library's information system makes it difficult to rationalize and optimize the user's search experience. Difficulties enlisting staff to edit existingWeb content were solved by outsourcing content review and editing for Web-appropriate length and format. Except for this content review, the Web site redesign and usability testing were all conducted in-house with limited resources and a nine-month time-frame. The study's focus on user expectations and nomenclature largely confirmed the results of previous studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on management of electronic services purchasing using Brown University Library experience in Providence, Rhode Island. Participants in the development of Acquisition Budget; Barriers to and means for tracking precise electronic product prices; Pros and cons of improving electronic resources; Importance of planning in budgeting for electronic services.

The article presents up-to-date information collected by the Brown University in regard to Slavic literature. In addition to language and literature, materials are collected in Russian history, cultural history, politics, international relations, and social and economic conditions, as well as film and theater studies, art and architecture, music history, ethnomusicology, and folklore. Works by and about individual authors from the medieval period to the early twentieth century, selected works and collected editions of contemporary authors can be accessed. Russian émigré literature is selectively acquired. Works of literary criticism, literary history, biographies, memoirs, and literary theory are collected. The library subscribes to a number of general subject databases which are useful for Slavic studies. Faculty and graduate students of other institutions may apply for access privileges for one two-week period per academic year. Undergraduates are allowed short-term access with a letter of referral from the home institution library.

No abstract available for this article. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses the play, 'The Providence Garden Blues' (1975), written by the article author and Dr. George Bass, head of the Rites and Reason theater group that is part of the Afro-American Studies program at Brown University, which was an attempt at developing dialogues between black community members and university-educated professionals.

School choice policies and the movement to privatize education have become the currently preferred school reform methods on both the state and federal levels under the guise they will provide equal educational opportunities and access for all students. The 1954 school desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education arguably paved the way for equal educational opportunities, including school choice; however, we contend that the present-day school choice and privatization movements may be a part of a larger social, political, and legal cycle of inequality that has established residence in the American educational system for more than a century. We conduct a critical race theory policy analysis using a framework that has been effective in previous work with examining cyclical inequalities, the convergence-divergence-reclamation cycle (or C-D-R cycle). In this article, we are focusing our analysis on the state of North Carolina due to its complex legal and political history with school desegregation and its recent support for various school choice options and privatizing public education. We assert that the push for school choice and privatizing public education in North Carolina demonstrates a broader, recurring problem in American public schools-–creating progressive education laws and policies appearing to promote educational equity and opportunity and then regressing to policies supporting White privilege while maintaining the status quo of inequitable educational opportunities for historically underserved and minoritized students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides an overview of the research conducted at Brown University of Wisconsin, highlighting the university's commitment to diversity and inclusivity. The research covers various fields, including education, healthcare, and social justice, and aims to address societal issues through interdisciplinary collaboration. The article emphasizes the university's contribution to the advancement of knowledge and understanding in a wide range of subjects. [Extracted from the article]

An interview with medical doctor Rami Kantor of the Division of Infectious Diseases of Brown University Alpert Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island. When asked where he performed his internship/residency and the field of specialization he chose, he says that he attended the Sackler Medical School of Tel Aviv University in Israel.

In response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Project HOPE®, an international humanitarian organization, partnered with Brown University to develop and deploy a virtual training-of-trainers (TOT) program to provide practical knowledge to healthcare stakeholders. This study is designed to evaluate this TOT program. The goal of this study is to assess the effectiveness of this educational intervention in enhancing knowledge on COVID-19 concepts and to present relative change in score of each competency domains of the training. The training was created by interdisciplinary faculty from Brown University and delivered virtually. Training included eight COVID-19 specific modules on infection prevention and control, screening and triage, diagnosis and management, stabilization and resuscitation, surge capacity, surveillance, and risk communication and community education. The assessment of knowledge attainment in each of the course competency domain was conducted using 10 question pre-and post-test evaluations. Paired t-test were used to compare interval knowledge scores in the overall cohort and stratified by WHO regions. TOT dissemination data was collected from in-country partners by Project Hope. Over the period of 7 months, 4,291 personnel completed the TOT training in 55 countries, including all WHO regions. Pre-test and post-test were completed by 1,198 and 706 primary training participants, respectively. The mean scores on the pre-test and post-test were 68.45% and 81.4%, respectively. The mean change in score was 11.72%, with P value <0.0005. All WHO regions had a statistically significant improvement in their score in post-test. The training was disseminated to 97,809 health workers through local secondary training. Innovative educational tools resulted in improvement in knowledge related to the COVID-19 pandemic, significantly increasing the average score on knowledge assessment testing. Academic – humanitarian partnerships can serve to implement and disseminate effective education rapidly across the globe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features the life and achievements of publisher and critic Paik Nak-chung. It states that Paik was born in Taegu, Korea on January 10, 1938 and had attended his Junior and Senior high school years from 1951-1953. It also says that he graduated with the Highest Honors from Brown University and acquired his Masters of Arts (MA) degree in 1960. Moreover, it tells that in 1972, he resumed his editorship for the journal "The Changbi Quarterly."

In the last years of his life, eccentric art collector and New York politician Rush Hawkins laboured over the creation of a memorial museum to honour his late wife, a descendant of the Brown family of Rhode Island, and house the collection of art and incunabula that he spent a lifetime acquiring. Hawkins created an eclectic museum organised according to his personal collecting, with the graves of his wife and himself intended to anchor the collection in perpetuity. After his death, the Memorial became an out-dated relic of the past, poorly funded and without effective leadership. Absorbed by Brown University in the 1940s, parts of the Memorial’s collections have been dispersed to other university units and the building adapted for other uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The document titled "Acknowledgments" from the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology lists the colleagues who reviewed manuscripts for the journal in 2023. The document expresses gratitude for their contributions to maintaining the quality of the journal. The list includes a diverse group of professionals from various universities and research institutions, showcasing a wide range of expertise in the field of child and adolescent psychology. [Extracted from the article]

The document titled "Acknowledgements" lists a wide range of individuals from various institutions who have contributed to child and adolescent mental health research. The list includes researchers, clinicians, and professionals from institutions such as Nationwide Children's Hospital, Rutgers University, and the University of California. This comprehensive list showcases the collaborative efforts of experts in the field, highlighting the diverse perspectives and expertise that contribute to evidence-based practice in mental health for children and adolescents. [Extracted from the article]

The CNI-ARL Digital Scholarship Planning Workshop at Brown University, November 8-10, 2017, was an intensive, focused workshop for institutions at all stages of the digital scholarship planning process. This report, based on one participant's experience, touches on some of the highlights and takeaways from the sessions, which focused on campus needs and partnerships; staffing; governance and funding models; the applications of library and other content collections in teaching, learning, and research; student roles in digital scholarship; space and place; and the institutionalization of digital scholarship. A fundamental concept of the workshop was the acknowledgement of the wide variety of models and services digital scholarship can encompass and the critical need for each institution to pursue digital scholarship services that are in line with its strengths and the needs of its particular constituencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brown Medical School developed a comprehensive curriculum in which enriched aging content increased from 22 to 80 hours in preclerkship courses and was also added for clerkships, residencies, and nongeriatrician physicians. Innovative evaluation strategies are also described. Highlights include “treasure hunts” in the anatomy laboratory, a Scholarly Concentration in Aging, Schwartz Communication Sessions, a Website of aging-related materials, and a monthly column in the state medical journal. Evaluation includes “tracking” to compute the “dose” of aging content, and “journaling” and focus groups to evaluate students' responses. Integrating geriatrics across a broad range of courses and clinical experiences is feasible. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Following prolonged swimming, Caenorhabditis elegans cycle between active swimming bouts and inactive quiescent bouts. Swimming is exercise for C. elegans and here we suggest that inactive bouts are a recovery state akin to fatigue. It is known that cGMP-dependent kinase (PKG) activity plays a conserved role in sleep, rest, and arousal. Using C. elegans EGL-4 PKG, we first validate a novel learning-based computer vision approach to automatically analyze C. elegans locomotory behavior and an edge detection program that is able to distinguish between activity and inactivity during swimming for long periods of time. We find that C. elegans EGL-4 PKG function impacts timing of exercise-induced quiescent (EIQ) bout onset, fractional quiescence, bout number, and bout duration, suggesting that previously described pathways are engaged during EIQ bouts. However, EIQ bouts are likely not sleep as animals are feeding during the majority of EIQ bouts. We find that genetic perturbation of neurons required for other C. elegans sleep states also does not alter EIQ dynamics. Additionally, we find that EIQ onset is sensitive to age and DAF-16 FOXO function. In summary, we have validated behavioral analysis software that enables a quantitative and detailed assessment of swimming behavior, including EIQ. We found novel EIQ defects in aged animals and animals with mutations in a gene involved in stress tolerance. We anticipate that further use of this software will facilitate the analysis of genes and pathways critical for fatigue and other C. elegans behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A good curriculum vitae (CV) highlights medical educators' academic achievements and supports their professional goals. Many faculty struggle with timely updates and strategic formatting. These twelve tips will help medical educators optimize their CV to best showcase their strengths and accomplishments. The first three tips outline a process: identify a system to collect potential entries and schedule regular time for updates. Tips four and five detail how to tailor traditional CV formatting to best describe the work of medical educators. The next few tips offer concrete strategies and examples of CV entries to consider for inclusion. The remaining tips remind faculty to ask for help from colleagues, who can share a sample CV and identify overlooked activities. Our intention is to transform a task that can be burdensome into a process that seamlessly captures the breadth of our work as medical educators and allows for introspection and growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many U.S. medical schools have developed curricula in geriatric medicine to address the growing older adult population. At our university, the authors have integrated an assisted living facility (ALF) program into a required first-year clinical skills course. During the 2011 to 2012 academic year, an electronic survey was distributed to 109 first-year medical students prior to and after the program. Eighty-eight percent and 85% of students completed the pre- and postintervention survey, respectively. Students reported a positive attitude toward caring for older adults (92.5% post- vs. 80.2% preintervention), an understanding of the medical and social needs of older adults (89.2% post- vs. 38.5% preintervention), an acquisition of the skills to assess the health of older adults (71% post- vs. 14.5% preintervention), and an understanding of ALFs as nonmedical supportive housing (92.5% post- vs. 70.8% preintervention). The authors’ curriculum offers an innovative method to integrate geriatrics education early in medical education and to involve medical students in their community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Incarcerated women, in comparison to nonincarcerated women, are at high risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and many have experienced interpersonal violence. The psychological construct of emotional dysregulation—which includes heightened intensity of emotions, poor understanding of emotions, negative reactivity to emotion state, inability to control behaviors when experiencing emotional distress, and maladaptive emotion management responses—is a possible pathway to explain the link between interpersonal violence exposure and STI risk. The present study examined maladaptive emotion management responses for emotional dysregulation (i.e., avoidance and numbing, and dissociation) occurring in the context of risky sexual behavior. We collected qualitative data from 4 focus groups with a sample of n = 21 incarcerated women (aged 18+ years) from urban facilities in New England. Qualitative data were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Findings indicated that incarcerated women reported engaging in a variety of maladaptive responses for emotion management during sexual encounters. These maladaptive responses for emotion management appear to increase sexual risk behaviors and alter women’s ability to implement STI protective behaviors, such as sexual negotiation and condom use. Preventive interventions to reduce sexual risk behaviors should incorporate strategies to promote emotional regulation among incarcerated women with histories of interpersonal violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article details the origins and methods of the Mashapaug Project, a community arts and oral history project focused on a pond in Providence, Rhode Island. The Mashapaug Project connects Brown University’s Center for Public Humanities with the Urban Pond Procession, an arts organization focused on addressing environmental conditions at the pond and building relationships between residents of the neighborhoods that surround it. Describing how the project used digital tools, along with oral history, exhibit methods, and multimedia storytelling, the article demonstrates how digital archives and installations can extend the community-building and information-sharing power of community arts and oral history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Background: Prior studies of adult entertainment club employees have been qualitative and lacked information regarding a range of important health factors. Methods: Sixty-nine female club employees completed a computer-assisted survey on healthcare access and health behaviors. An age-matched comparison sample was obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Researchers calculated descriptive characteristics and developed multivariable logistic regression models to provide the adjusted odds of health factors. Results: In the combined study sample, the mean age was 28.5 years; 75% were white, 20% Hispanic/Latino; 58% were single; 46% had at least one child. Compared to the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System sample, significantly fewer club employees had health insurance or a primary care provider, and more reported not seeing a physician due to cost. Club employees had significantly higher adjusted odds of smoking (aOR 4.38, 95% CI 1.13–16.88), high-risk drinking (aOR 5.68, 95% CI 1.73–18.67), HIV risk factors (aOR 4.91, 95% CI 1.26–28.2), and lower odds of HIV testing (aOR 0.10, 95% CI 0.04–0.27) than the comparison group. Conclusions: Compared to a national sample of women, more club employees reported high-risk drinking and HIV risk behaviors, and fewer reported HIV testing and access to healthcare. Adult club employees may benefit from interventions to reduce harmful behaviors and increase healthcare access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: One-fifth of pregnancies with pre-gestational diabetes mellitus (pre-DM) yield placentas <10th percentile small for gestational age (SGA), compared to a non-diabetic population. We hypothesized that SGA placentas of women with pre-DM, whether type I (T1DM) or type II (T2DM), exhibit distinct histopathological changes and pregnancy outcomes compared to pre-DM pregnancies with an AGA placenta.Methods: We conducted a retrospective, cohort study of placentas from pregnant women enrolled in the Diabetes in Pregnancy Program at Brown University between 2003 and 2011, by comparing pre-DM patients with SGA placentas to pre-DM patients with AGA placental weights.Results: The SGA placenta groups were associated with an increased risk for adverse clinical outcomes, compared to AGA placentas in pregnancies complicated by either T1DM or T2DM. Compared to their AGA pre-DM counterparts, T1DM, SGA placentas show increased peri-villous fibrin/fibrinoid deposition, thrombosis in fetal blood vessels, and meconium staining. Moreover, the histopathology of SGA placentas from T2DM is characterized by decidual vasculopathy, accelerated villous maturity, and erythroblastosis, compared to T2DM AGA placentas. The contrasting placental pathologies between the two pre-DM SGA phenotypes evolved independent of patient demographics and were unrelated to indicators of the glycemic control present at early gestational ages.Discussion: A sub-population of pre-DM women with either T1DM or T2DM diabetes that have an SGA placenta are at increased risk for adverse clinical outcomes in pregnancy, compared to pre-DM women with AGA placental weights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the spring of 1999, the Brown University Library became a participant in the CORC project. The reference department had two goals that had been difficult to achieve due to time constraints and workloads. One was the creation of subject pathfinders by reference librarians; the other goal was developing a mechanism for alerting our end users to quality Web sites and print sources. In addition, the catalog department had the goal of exposing more staff, both professional and paraprofessional, to cataloging Internet resources. The ease of creating bibliographic records and the ability to develop pathfinders in the CORC Project has helped break down the reluctance of reference librarians to “catalog” records and has fostered collaboration between cataloging and reference staff. A plan of implementation and training was put into place. The plan involved the establishment of a small team of volunteers from cataloging and reference who developed procedures and guidelines for the project Workshops were set up to teach reference staff Dublin Core cataloging basics and pathfinder creation. The reference staff met regularly to create CORC records with guidance and review by cataloging staff. Reference staff is using their subject expertise to create pathfinders in this new medium without needing to learn the intricacies of HTML. Efforts are now underway to export CORC records and pathfinders onto the Library's local Webpac and library Web. It is anticipated that this project will result in a greater number of subject pathfinders available for the end user, increased access to Web resources, and improved collaborative functionality between cataloging and reference staff. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This essay provides an overview of how four MA students in Public Humanities centered the use of local stakeholder interviews to design a collecting plan for the LGBTQ collections at Brown University's special collections library, the John Hay Library. The authors discuss both the stakeholder interview process and the pedagogical benefits of using a methodology that asks institutions to reflect on how they orient their holdings to various publics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]