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Many initiatives have focused on attracting girls and young women (K-12 or college) to computer science education. However, professional women who never learned to program have been largely ignored, despite the fact that such individuals may have many opportunities to benefit from enhanced skills and attitudes about computer programming. To provide a convenient learning space for this population, we created and evaluated the impacts of a nine-week web development workshop that was carefully designed to be both comfortable and engaging for this population. In this article, we report how the professionals' attitudes and skills grew over the course of the workshop and how they now expect to integrate these skills and attitudes into their everyday lives.

In March 2020, many academic librarians were abruptly forced into an online service environment due to the global COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Although some librarians had been providing synchronous video reference consultations prior to the pandemic, evidence of the practice in Library Science literature is scant. This paper presents scenarios sourced from anonymized student responses to a digital badge on the library's chat reference service to illustrate when a video consultation may be the appropriate modality to address an information need.

We may incorrectly assume that because many of our students were "born digital," and have never known a time without computers in their schools or classrooms, they are innately digitally literate. However, interactions with students at all levels in a variety of settings such as introductory undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, and technology-focused workshops have demonstrated that some students struggle with or are unaware of basic computing and digital literacy concepts like file management and information organization. This article details three unique case studies and explores how librarians liaising with different subject areas have worked to incorporate digital literacy objectives into their instruction and outreach initiatives. Inclusive learning opportunities for librarians and instructors to enhance students' digital literacy skills are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, the authors examined the value of research consultations, an important component of reference services. Previous research explored the sustainability and scalability of a large-scale research consultation project [...]

Cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) are circulating adrenal hormones whose concentration in the blood varies in the face of infectious and non-infectious stressors. Their incorporation into hair makes their concentration in hair a robust retrospective assessment of HPA-axis activity as a measure of the stress response of an animal over the period of hair growth. Our objective was to estimate the genetic parameters of hormone concentrations in the hair of healthy pigs and their genetic correlation with responses to the standard back-test. Hair shaved from the rump area of 871 Large White X Landrace barrows (~40 d of age) from 6 breeding companies, maintained in a high-health nursery, was analyzed for cortisol and DHEA concentrations. Behavioral responses to a 60 s standard back-test were obtained at ~26 d of age, including the number of vocalizations (VN) and struggles (SN) and the intensity of the vocalizations (VI) and struggles (SI). All pigs were genotyped with a 50K SNP panel and imputed up to 650K. Estimates of heritability of log-transformed levels of cortisol and DHEA using univariate animal models were 0.26 ± 0.08 and 0.00, respectively, while litter effects explained 0.19 ± 0.05 and 0.09 ± 0.04 of the phenotypic variance, respectively. Back-test responses were more heritable, ranging from 0.34 ± 0.08 (VI) to 0.58 ± 0.08 (VN), with small litter effects (0.00 to 0.06). Estimates of genetic correlations using bivariate animal models were high among the back-test responses, ranging from 0.58 ± 0.16 for SN-VN to 0.96 ± 0.04 for VN-VI and 0.99 ± 0.10 for SN-SI. Estimates of genetic correlations of cortisol with back-test responses ranged from low (0.08 ± 0.23 with SI) to moderate (0.66 ± 0.27 with SN). We conclude that the concentration of cortisol in the hair of healthy nursery pigs is a heritable molecular phenotype and is genetically correlated with responses to the back-test. In subsequent research, their potential as indicator traits to select for disease resilience will be investigated. This study was funded by Genome Canada, PigGen Canada, and USDA-NIFA grant # 2021-67015-34562. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]