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Planning for Digital Preservation
This presentation will focus on the process Miami University Libraries used when researching and selecting digital preservation solutions. Digital Preservation can be an overwhelming undertaking for any institution. The ... -
Community-based organizations and health care contracting
In 2016, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) received a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation to develop a National Aging and Disability Business Institute. Through this initiative, n4a and their ... -
Participant Satisfaction and the Impact of Senior Center Services in Lucas County, Ohio
This study addressed satisfaction with services and impact of senior centers among center participants in Lucas County, Ohio. Specifically, it assessed satisfaction with four services: congregate meals, recreation, ... -
Between the Sheets: a Library-wide Inventory with Google
When it comes to taking an inventory of physical items, libraries often rely on their traditional integrated library system’s (ILS) à la carte add ons; outside vendors; or other possibly outdated, complex, and often expensive ... -
Knowledge Mobilization in Education: The Marshall Memo Case
The importance of intermediation between communities primarily engaged in research production and those primarily engaged in practice is increasingly acknowledged, yet our understanding of the nature and influence of ... -
An evaluation of the reconstructed coefficient of determination and potential adjustments
Previously, a method was proposed for calculating a reconstructed coefficient of determination in the case of right-censored regression using the expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm. This measure is assessed via ... -
Fouling-Release Performance of Silicone Oil-Modified SiloxanePolyurethane Coatings
The effect of incorporation of silicone oils into a siloxanepolyurethane fouling-release coatings system was explored. Incorporation of phenylmethyl silicone oil has been shown to improve the fouling-release performance ... -
Modeling loss data using mixtures of distributions
In this paper, we propose an alternative approach for flexible modeling of heavy tailed, skewed insurance loss data exhibiting multimodality, such as the well-known data set on Danish Fire losses. Our approach is based on ... -
Redefining standards for body mass index of the US population based on BRFSS data using mixtures
Using body mass index (BMI) data from 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we test a spectrum of single parametric skewed distributions as well as Gaussian mixture densities to determine best distributional ... -
UTILIZATION OF MODIFIED WHEAT AND TAPIOCA STARCHES AS FAT REPLACEMENTS IN BREAD FORMULATION
Using fat in bread production is expensive, and from the diet point of view, it counts as high caloric food. Since obesity is a significant problem in the USA and many other countries, food industries are turning to the ... -
Modeling veterans’ health benefit grants using the expectation maximization algorithm
A novel application of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is proposed for modeling rightcensored multiple regression. Parameter estimates, variability assessment, and model selection are summarized in a multiple ... -
Digitizing Vinegar Syndrome Film
Step-by-step equipment build procedure for digitizing damaged 16 mm film stock. -
Transitioning from Successful Aging: A Life Course Approach
Objectives: The life course perspective and representative U.S. data are used to test Rowe and Kahn’s Successful Aging (SA) conceptualization. Four sets of influences (childhood experiences; social structural factors; ... -
Report of the ALCTS Collection Management and E-Resources Interest Group meeting. American Library Association midwinter meeting, Atlanta, January 2017
The Collection Management and Electronic Resources Interest Group (CMERIG) held a one hour meeting at the 2017 ALA Midwinter Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday January 22, 2017, from 3-4 pm. Chair Sunshine Carter ... -
Implementation of the 2016 Ohio Nursing Home and Residential Care Facility Family Satisfaction Surveys
This report summarizes the implementation process and results from the 2016 Family Satisfaction Surveys conducted in Ohio nursing homes and residential care facilities. Psychometric properties of the instruments and survey ... -
The Probate Courts, Guardianship, and Guardians: Findings from a Survey of Adult Guardianship in Ohio
This brief report highlights findings from a 2014 statewide survey on adult guardianship practices (see Reece & Roberts, 2017 for the full report). Our focus is on the approaches used by counties to manage their guardianship ...