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Airborne Systems and Underwater Monitoring
Elizabeth Basha, Jason To-Tran, Davis Young, Sean Thalken, and Christopher Uramoto
Wetlands monitoring requires accurate topographic and bathymetric maps. Regular creation of these with minimal cost and reduced environmental impact, can be achieved using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This chapter introduces a set of systems needed to create this automation starting with an automatic image labeling system, an online classification system for differentiating land and water, offline bathymetric map creation, and online bathymetric map creation. All systems have been implemented, simulated, and field tested where possible.
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“True enough”
Michael T. Colatrella
Of the many contributions that Professor Leonard Riskin introduced in his landmark article Understanding Mediators’ Orientations, none is more profound than the educational value of the original Riskin Grid (the “Grid”) as a mental model to aid in understanding the mediation process. Describing a phenomenon through use of a simple model so that it can be systematically studied is a well-established and valuable scientific method. To be effective, however, good models must be calibrated to an appropriate level of sophistication for the student. The Grid is an effective model to help students new to mediation to conceptualize what mediators do and how they do it. Indeed, Riskin states that clarifying the mediation process is the Grid’s primary purpose. Along these lines, Riskin emphasizes one of the article’s primary aims is “to facilitate discussions and help to clarify arguments by providing a system for categorizing and understanding approaches to mediation.” Although some have criticized the Grid as being too simple, incomplete, and even misleading, it is the Grid’s simplicity that enables Riskin to illuminate the mediation process so brightly. Riskin himself, in a later article, attempted to address the Grid’s so-called weaknesses and limitations by suggesting a more dynamic Grid system (Riskin). The Grid persists magnificently as a fundamental model of understanding of what mediators do. It remains a central feature of mediation education because it is a clear and simple conceptual framework of the mediation process that a mediation novice, whether a law student, an attorney, or a professional interested in mediation from any number of other disciplines, can understand. The Grid endures, in other words, not because it is perfect, but because it is “true enough.”….
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Upstream Influences
Andra DeVoght and Todd E. Davenport
Integrative rehabilitation practice (IRP) aims to improve clinicians' ability to connect the dots between body-mind-environment (BME). Patients present as individuals with rich and often complicated life histories, conditions, experiences, and stories -- all of which hold valuable context around contributing or complicating factors that both shape health and affect rehabilitation/health-care outcomes.
In this chapter, we zoom out and investigate the effect that social determinants of health (SDOH) have on health over the course of one's lifetime and across generations. SDOH include interdependent social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental factors. For simplicity in this chapter, these factors are collectively referred to as SDOG or "social conditions" and are seen as a vital part of the "E" in the BME framework. We will investigate the relationships between SDOH, behavior, and biology to illuminate new approaches to health care.
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US-litigated government-funded patents in Europe and Japan: A first look
Teo Firpo and Michael S. Mireles
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University of the Pacific
Nicole Grady Mountjoy, Michael J. Wurtz, and Lisa K. Marietta
Located in the Central Valley in the city of Stockton, California, the University of the Pacific has thrived. Founded in Santa Clara in 1851, the university moved to College Park in 1871 and then Stockton in 1924, and it now has campuses in Sacramento and San Francisco. Pacific is considered to hold many firsts in California, including being the first chartered university, the first music conservatory, and the first university to open its doors to women. University of the Pacific’s mission is to provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
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Pharmacotherapy for Musculoskeletal and Rheumatologic Conditions
Rahnea Sunseri and Erica Barr
Musculoskeletal (MSK) and rheumatologic disorders were second only to maintenance healthcare needs as the primary reason for ambulatory care visits in the United States in 2015. The diagnosis of the majority of MSK and rheumatologic disorders is usually apparent, permitting empirical therapy. These disorders affect all ages, sexes, and races so patient characteristics and comorbidities should also be considered when choosing treatments. This chapter provides an overview of musculoskeletal and rheumatologic conditions, including epidemiological impact. It discusses the pathophysiology of musculoskeletal and rheumatologic disease states. The chapter presents an overview of medications used to treat musculoskeletal and rheumatologic conditions. It compares and contrasts the pharmacotherapy for these conditions to provide an understanding of the benefits and limitations of each drug. The chapter presents guidelines to select the most appropriate pharmacotherapeutic regimen to treat patients with musculoskeletal and rheumatologic conditions who may or may not have preexisting comorbidities and contraindications.
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Which Evidence-Based Practice Should I Use?: A Social Worker's Handbook for Decision Making
Rose Wong
Which Evidence-Based Practice Should I Use? A Social Worker's Handbook for Decision Making provides readers with a step-by-step guide for applying the original evidence-based practice (EBP) model to carefully select interventions from the research base for individual clients.
Readers learn how to obtain and integrate information from three key components-the best available evidence; clinical expertise; and the client's characteristics, values, and preferences-to support their choice of an effective intervention for the client.
The text employs problem-based learning and case method approaches to teach readers how to access intervention literature; how to evaluate what is "best evidence"; what the research endeavor represents and who it excludes; how to rely on the expertise of the practitioner community; and how to consider the client's view of the problem. Ultimately, readers are guided to select an EBP for a client and write a case paper that articulates the steps they took and the reasoning for their selection.
Filled with brief lectures, reflection questions, activities, and case examples, Which Evidence-Based Practice Should I Use? is an ideal text for social work practice and research courses and for mental health practitioners who wish to sharpen their skills for using the evidence base.
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Using Writing in Science Class to Understand and Activate Student Engagement and Self-Efficacy
Eileen K. Camfield, Laura Beaster-Jones, Alex D. Miller, and Kirkwood M. Land
Writing is an active learning strategy strongly linked to student engagement. Student-authored learning narratives can reveal powerful self-beliefs that can either activate or inhibit success. In this targeted study of the aspect of student engagement most associated with self-beliefs (i.e., self-efficacy), students in separate sections of an introductory college biology course taught by the same professor were divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group participated in an additional 1-unit required study skills component featuring writing-to-learn and self-efficacy development strategies. One hundred forty “pre” and “post” student self-efficacy narratives written in both cohorts were scored and also thematically coded. Scoring revealed a Cohen’s effect size d = 0.63 for the experimental group, but only d = 0.28 for control. Thus, writing appears to activate student self-efficacy most if it is part of a deliberate and sustained campaign. Gains seemed particularly impactful for struggling students, as the experimental group also saw significantly fewer students, with unmet fundamental skills, earning Ds and Fs in the course than those in the control group. Subsequent student interviews were also analyzed and informed recommendations for future research and pedagogical practice.
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Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections: Latin American Influence in Asia
Martín Camps and Jie Lu
This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions.
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Case 28: Dizziness and Difficulty Hearing, Adult Male
Mark P. Christiansen
Real-life primary care case studies* from more than 50 primary care providers, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians!
101 Primary Care Case Studies offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to help you work through a patient’s chief complaint. Through narrative case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage your patient based on the history of present illness, review of systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings. This workbook will ask probing questions to help you determine differential and most likely diagnoses, diagnostic tests to order, and appropriate patient management strategies using relevant and timely references to support your decisions. The organization of each case study simulates the patient care journey from chief complaint to outcome.
Serving as a virtual clinical preceptor, this workbook can be used independently or in a classroom setting. It is accompanied by a robust online student supplement that provides answers to all questions, real outcomes of the cases, and valuable personal insights from the authors on how the patient was successfully managed. Not only will this workbook help you work through patient cases clinically, it will also share important, but often overlooked, bedside manner skills needed to successfully communicate with and care for your patients.
Covering conditions across all organ systems and across the lifespan, this workbook is organized by chief complaint, providing an authentic perspective on what to expect in the patient care environment. It even includes information on pathophysiology and how to use ICD-10 and CPT (E/M) codes in your documentation. The book uniquely weaves together both the science and art of medicine by including personal insights into quality and compassionate care.
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Case 32: Frequent Diarrhea, Adolescent Female
Mark P. Christiansen
Real-life primary care case studies* from more than 50 primary care providers, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians!
101 Primary Care Case Studies offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to help you work through a patient’s chief complaint. Through narrative case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage your patient based on the history of present illness, review of systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings. This workbook will ask probing questions to help you determine differential and most likely diagnoses, diagnostic tests to order, and appropriate patient management strategies using relevant and timely references to support your decisions. The organization of each case study simulates the patient care journey from chief complaint to outcome.
Serving as a virtual clinical preceptor, this workbook can be used independently or in a classroom setting. It is accompanied by a robust online student supplement that provides answers to all questions, real outcomes of the cases, and valuable personal insights from the authors on how the patient was successfully managed. Not only will this workbook help you work through patient cases clinically, it will also share important, but often overlooked, bedside manner skills needed to successfully communicate with and care for your patients.
Covering conditions across all organ systems and across the lifespan, this workbook is organized by chief complaint, providing an authentic perspective on what to expect in the patient care environment. It even includes information on pathophysiology and how to use ICD-10 and CPT (E/M) codes in your documentation. The book uniquely weaves together both the science and art of medicine by including personal insights into quality and compassionate care.
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The Cost of Losing Team Bias in Water Polo
James Graham and John Mayberry
Parallel game simulations are utilized to determine whether or not bias in foul calling can impact the outcomes of games. The authors find that referees, not team performance, may be the source of losing team bias.
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Primary Care
Nancy Hamler
Real-life primary care case studies* from more than 50 primary care providers, including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians!
101 Primary Care Case Studies offers real-life patient scenarios and critical thinking exercises to help you work through a patient’s chief complaint. Through narrative case studies, you will determine how best to diagnose, treat, and manage your patient based on the history of present illness, review of systems, relevant history, and physical examination findings. This workbook will ask probing questions to help you determine differential and most likely diagnoses, diagnostic tests to order, and appropriate patient management strategies using relevant and timely references to support your decisions. The organization of each case study simulates the patient care journey from chief complaint to outcome.
Serving as a virtual clinical preceptor, this workbook can be used independently or in a classroom setting. It is accompanied by a robust online student supplement that provides answers to all questions, real outcomes of the cases, and valuable personal insights from the authors on how the patient was successfully managed. Not only will this workbook help you work through patient cases clinically, it will also share important, but often overlooked, bedside manner skills needed to successfully communicate with and care for your patients.
Covering conditions across all organ systems and across the lifespan, this workbook is organized by chief complaint, providing an authentic perspective on what to expect in the patient care environment. It even includes information on pathophysiology and how to use ICD-10 and CPT (E/M) codes in your documentation. The book uniquely weaves together both the science and art of medicine by including personal insights into quality and compassionate care.
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Materials for Civil Engineering: Properties and Applications in Infrastructure
Luke S. Lee and Hector Estrada
This comprehensive textbook offers detailed coverage of the properties of the construction materials that civil engineers use in the field. Students will learn about material characteristics and find out how to analyze material properties and select appropriate materials for civil engineering projects of all types and sizes. Materials for Civil Engineering : Properties and Applications in Infrastructure begins with an introduction to basic materials science and selection, and contains subsequent chapters devoted to steel, concrete, masonry, wood, asphalt, aggregates, and FRP composites. Key characteristics, manufacturing processes, and sustainability issues associated with each type of material are included. Data analysis of materials is emphasized throughout, with references to ASTM standards for material testing.
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Addressing Social Determinants of Health Outcomes and the Patient Experience: A Toolkit for Home Health Physical Therapist.
Alicia Rabena-Amen
The Home Health Toolbox II, for use by physical therapy practitioners and researchers, is an impressive and comprehensive aggregation of assessments across multiple domains, ranging widely from physical capacity to cognitive functioning to social factors impacting health and functioning. A selection of these assessments can give a full picture of a patient’s status in the home setting and should play an important role in characterizing a patient’s problems and challenges, developing a treatment plan and following progress over time.
The value of this Toolbox is that its developers have carefully screened for instruments that will work in the home setting and describe their strengths, weaknesses, technical requirements and interpretation.
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Layperson’s Guide to Water Rights
Water Education Foundation, Tom Hicks, and Jennifer L. Harder
The 28-page Layperson’s Guide to Water Rights Law, recognized as the most thorough explanation of California water rights law available to non-lawyers, traces the authority for water flowing in a stream or reservoir, from a faucet or into an irrigation ditch through the complex web of California water rights.
It includes historical information on the development of water rights law, sections on surface water rights and groundwater rights, a description of the different agencies involve in water rights, and a section on the issues not only shaped by water rights decisions but that are also driving changes in water rights. Includes chronology of landmark cases and legislation and an extensive glossary. Added for 2020 is an extensive section on the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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John Muir's Grand Yosemite
Michael J. Wurtz
Curation and Commentary by Mike Wurtz
This unique guide takes Yosemite visitors on their own Muir-inspired adventure. With easy-to-follow directions plus a basic map for planning an itinerary, visitors can delight in the stunning mountains, waterfalls, and giant sequoias that Muir himself enjoyed, often from the same enduring spot. Each of the twenty-five scenic locations includes a sketch and brief passage by Muir and engaging commentary by curator Mike Wurtz that enlivens the tour. A sample of the locations feature:
Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, Glacier Point, Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Hetch Hetchy Valley, Cathedral Peak, Lembert Dome, and more.
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The Commemoration of Women in the United States: Remembering Women in Public Space
Teresa Bergman
The Commemoration of Women in the United States examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first. The analysis centers on six case examples of memorialization, and explores broad themes of cultural representation.
Bergman argues that the construction, or relocation, of a series of prominent national memorials together form a significant moment of change in the ways in which women are commemorated in the US. The historic and present-day challenges facing such commemoration are examined, with reference to broader political debates. The case examples explored are the Women in the Military Service for America Memorial; the Women’s Rights National Historic Park; the Vietnam Veterans Women’s Memorial; the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park; the Eleanor Roosevelt Statue in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and the Portrait Monument of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Providing insightful and grounded analysis of the history and practice of the commemoration of women in the US, this book makes useful reading for a range of scholars and students in subjects including heritage studies, communication studies, and history.
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Rethinking Oslo: How Europe can Promote Peace between Israel and Palestine
Omar M. Dajani and Hugh Lovatt
A selection of books and book chapters written or edited by faculty at the University of the Pacific.
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