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Camels, Contests, and Coffee: Getting First Year Students Through the Doors
Find where we hid the “Hump Daaaaaay!” camel. Stop in for free coffee and donuts. Submit an original haiku for our annual haiku contest. These are just a few of the ways staff at Miami University Hamilton’s Rentschler ... -
Campus Sexual Assault Prevention: Not Just Our Issue
This project further explores the idea of male-focused educational rape prevention from a campus sexual assault perspective. By switching the prevention focus, she hopes campus sexual assault rates will decrease. -
Campus-wide partnerships to improve students’ academic integrity iQ
Miami University’s iQ (short for integrity Quickstart) is a newly created online tutorial that guides students through different scenarios about academic integrity and research issues. Each scenario introduces the student ... -
Can We Make a Building From Waste: Reinventing Materials
One of the biggest challenges facing today’s architecture is the waste that comes from building materials. It is estimated that the construction process currently results in as much as 40% of wasted materials. This ... -
"Can't you just say Yes?" Answering Copyright Questions About Fair Use for Faculty Colleagues
More frequently academic librarians are being sought-out by faculty for assistance in answering copyright questions, and many of these questions are about how the fair use exception found in Section 107 of US copyright law ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Capitalizing on University Resources for Easy and Economical Information Literacy Assessment
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University (Oxford, OH) recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system ... -
Capturing Appalachia: Building a Collection of Photographers' Work
The article offers information on the collection of books of Appalachian photography in the Appalachian region. The collected works of Appalachian photographers were published in book form by university presses and publishers ... -
Capturing the Age-Dependent Properties of Human Skin Using Variable Stiffness “Smart” Skins
Throughout history, medical advancements have progressed in multiple areas. One of the more impactful areas is that of artificial skin. Whether it will be used for burn victims, prosthetic limbs, or medical training devices, ... -
Cardiac Hypertrophy in the Mouse Heart: Cold and Exercise Exposure
Cardiac hypertrophy is a condition in which enlargement of the heart that can be physiological or pathological. Physiological hypertrophy is thought to have a positive effect from having a well-conditioned body and heart ... -
Care Managing Together: A Review of the Aetna and Area Agency on Aging MyCare Partnership in Ohio
There is a growing interest in Medicaid managed long-term services and recent expansion legislation now allows Medicare Advantage plans to incorporate an array of community-based services into their benefit packages. This ... -
The Caregiver Toolbox: Evaluation of a Workshop for Informal Caregivers
This report is an evaluation of a face-to-face group workshop designed for informal caregivers of older adults provided by the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging. Changes in caregiver knowledge, reported behaviors, and ... -
Caregiving paths, patterns, and perspectives
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Carrion - It's what's for dinner: Wolves reduce the impact of climate change.
Humans have viewed wolves as competitors, threats to personal safety, and symbols of evil throughout history. By the early part of the 20th century, grey wolves (Canis lupus) had been eradicated from 42% of their historic ... -
The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion
Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of ... -
A case study of professional change: The impact of the National Gerontological Social Work Competencies Survey
Our society is aging and this demographic change necessitates that all social workers have basic competency in gerontology. This article describes the results of a competency survey conducted in 2000, and how these results ... -
Case Tool for Developing Process Control Specifications in Dairy Manufacturing
(1994-12-01)A computer aided software engineering (CASE) tool designed to assist the task of developing the specification of control software for programmable logic controllers for dairy process manufacturing is described. The CASE ... -
Cataloging Remote Access Multimedia: An Open Access Virtual Guide
(2012-05-18)The following lightning talk session introduces a freely accessible, peer-reviewed guide that effectively explains how to catalog remote access multimedia, including podcasts, streaming video, streaming audio, e-books, and ...