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The National Aging Network Survey: 2013 Results
(2014-03-14)The 2013 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging builds on previous surveys to assess the evolving role of AAAs in the new health care delivery system. Findings from this survey highlight the changing population served ... -
National Association of Area Agencies on Aging AAA Workforce Survey
(2010-03-05)The National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) contracted with the Scripps Gerontology Center to conduct a brief survey. The goals were to describe the capacity of the current AAA workforce and the workforce ... -
The National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging: 2022 Results
This report presents the findings from the 2022 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging. This report provides key findings from the survey related to the following topics: service provision and populations served, social ... -
Native Hawai'ian and French Polynesian Participation in Organic Agriculture
I began research on the Big Island of Hawaii in May of 2016 and completed this ethnography in December of 2016 by examining the overarching aspects of food sovereignty, including the accessibility of organic agriculture ... -
Navigation through space: designing a recreational center with the principle of neuroscience
Neuroscience is a field that explores the nervous system, while NeuroArchitecture is a relatively new branch that examines how environments and places impact our physiological responses. Our neural responses to our ... -
Neighborhood Assistants Pilot:A Program Evaluation of Person-Centered Staffing
The purpose of this study was to pilot test and evaluate an innovative staffing approach called the Neighborhood Assistant (NA) at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home. The goal of the program was to support the certified ... -
Neighborhood Engagement, Dogs, and Life Satisfaction in Older Adulthood
Objectives: This study examined the relationships between dog ownership, dog walking, and the emotional bond with a dog to neighborhood engagement and life satisfaction among those over age 50. Methods: Using data from ... -
Neighborhood rebuilding centers: imagining a more cooperative future for urban rust belt neighborhoods
Cohousing and coliving are two housing forms that aim to address loneliness and encourage better social connection through shared common spaces and intentional community design. These housing concepts have not yet taken ... -
Neurophysiological Assessment of Rapid Cold-hardening-induced Resistance to the Disruption of Resting Neuronal Membrane Potential
This study highlights a novel approach to the study of rapid cold-hardening. Examination at the neuronal level allows for further understanding of the physiological mechanisms underlying this acclimatory response to ... -
#NeverAgainMSD Student Activism: Lessons for agonist political education in an age of democratic crisis
In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dan Mamlok consider the arguments for agonist political education in light of a case study based in the events of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, ... -
A new analysis of VIX using mixture of regressions: Examination and short-term forecasting for the S & P 500 market
A novel approach to the analysis of S & P 500 market fluctuations is proposed using a K‐component mixture of regressions model. The Barndorff‐Nielsen and Shephard stochastic model is employed where the estimates of jumps ... -
The New Architectural Trend in China: The Heritage and Deelopment of Traditional Culture
After the failed Anglo-Chinese War of the 1840s, China was forced to open to international trade. China is still borrowing developing experiments from the West in the distinctive Chinese cultural context. By doing so, a ... -
A new computational approach for estimation of the Gini index based on grouped data
Many government agencies still rely on the grouped data as the main source of infor- mation for calculation of the Gini index. Previous research showed that the Gini index based on the grouped data suffers the first and ... -
The New Face of Textbooks: Guiding Faculty Toward Alternatives
Are students at your institution complaining about the high costs of textbooks? Do they continually ask if your library has copies of textbooks that can be checked out? Is it even possible for faculty to require course ... -
News Literacy Concepts for First-Year Students
Since first-year students are more likely to engage with mainstream news rather than fake news and disinformation, presenters in this session will introduce news literacy concepts and activities designed to help students ... -
News Media Reporting of United States Senate Campaigns: The Role of Gender in Local Television Coverage of Elections from 2006 to 2014
One explanation for the lack of women in elective office concerns the role of media in both shaping and reinforcing gender stereotyping through coverage of elections. Studies have identified gender stereotypes in nationwide ...