Scholarly Commons at Miami University: Recent submissions
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Delivering Long-Term Services to Ohio Elders: Good Progress, but Challenges Await
(2013-05-07)This study describes the changes in Ohio's approach to delivering long-term services that have occurred in the last 20 years. -
Measuring heart rate variability: a comparison of devices
(2013-04-30)Conducted by the Dysphagia Research Lab, Department of Speech Language Pathology. Proposed research is required to provide a comparison on the accuracy and efficiency of heart rate measurement devices. Results will allow ... -
Implmentation of the 2012 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey: Research Brief
(2013-04-30)In 2012, the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the sixth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This research brief provides highlights from the survey ... -
Implementation of the 2012 Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey
(2013-04-30)In 2012 the Scripps Gerontology Center conducted the sixth biennial Ohio Nursing Home Family Satisfaction Survey under a contract to the Ohio Department of Aging. This year the survey had the largest number of participating ... -
Outdoor Educational Center for Talawanda High Shool
(2013-04-29)For my Tier 3 experience, I will be designing an outdoor educational center for Talawanda High School. The new high school site includes a natural area consisting of wetlands, forests, planes, and agriculture. The high ... -
Wertz Art + Architecture Library
(2013-04-26)The Wertz Art + Architecture Library needs more recognition from the Miami student population. The main objective of my thesis is an awareness campaign for the library, to not only help students find the library but also ... -
Keep the Change: Clusters of Faculty Opinion on Open Access
(2013-04-08)The authors discovered faculty opinions about open access by employing Q methodology, a research method combining qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze subjects' attitudes about a given topic. Q methodology, using ... -
Revolution Remixxx 2011: Protest Song Marocaine
(2013-04-04)In late 2010, those of us interested in the Middle East were surprised by persistent protests in Tunisia. My family and I were evacuated from Cairo on February 2, 2011. I returned to Egypt on February 13, and a week later, ... -
The “Crossing Borders” Program: Increasing Intercultural Competency Via Structured Social Interactions
(2013-04-04)Increasing diversity in American college classrooms and recent trends toward globalization require professors to teach more creatively in order to encourage students’ face-to-face intercultural interactions and resulting ... -
An Orthodox Social Gospel in Late-Imperial Russia
(2013-04-04)On Sunday morning, 9 January 1905, 150,000 workers and their families marched from various parts of St. Petersburg and converged upon the Winter Palace to present a “Most Loyal and Humble Address” to tsar Nicholas II asking ... -
Bridging the Aging Network and Medical Community Survey: Care Transitions from Hospital to home
(2013-03-27)This report describes findings from a survey of Area Agencies on Aging regarding activities between the aging network and the medical community. This report focuses on organizations engaged in care transitions of older ... -
Common Sense for Caring Organizations: Results from a Study of High-Performing Home Care Agencies and Nursing Homes--Research Brief
(2013-03-27)This research brief provides highlights from the full report on a study of high-performing home care agencies and nursing homes. -
Common Sense for Caring Organizations: Results from a Study of High-Performing Home Care Agencies and Nursing Homes
(2013-03-27)This study reports on results of a qualitative study of 21 high-performing Ohio nursing homes and home care agencies. The study focused on best practices for managing their direct care workforce to achieve high performance. ... -
Tell Me About Your Mother/s: A Genealogy of Contemporary Organizing in South Africa
(2013-02-14)The presentation examined the political and social strategies and the ethical percepts, which the African women had to go through. They survived migration and intervened in the shape and structure of the forces of involuntary ... -
What difference does "digital" make to the humanities?
(2012-12-14)In this presentation, the speaker talked about key differences that digital media make in the humanities and debates about those differences were presented and illustrated with specific examples of projects. -
The Victorian Women Writers Project
(2012-12-14)A talk on the collaboration and cooperation that happened between the English department and the library leading up to the impending Scholars' Commons at the University of Indiana. -
How OPEN SCHOLARSHIP is CHANGING RESEARCH
(2012-10-25)A talk about how new digital capabilities -including electronic publishing, social media, institutional repositories, and copyright legislation- are profoundly impacting traditional scholarly communication. -
The Library and the Campus Visit: Communicating Value to Prospective Students and Parents
(2012-10-12)Successful undergraduate admission and recruitment efforts are vital to every university. A strong student body improves the quality of academic programs and the prestige of the institution. Since most colleges depend ... -
Technical skills for new digital librarians
(2012-10-12)The purpose of this paper is to analyze the current technical skills being sought for digital librarian positions, as well as provide a basic exploration of the list of technical courses offered by major library school ... -
Mobile : place-making and community in mobile architecture
(2012-09-20)
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