Deaf children of hearing parents (DOH) are at risk for early language delays (ELD) due to environmental and etiological factors, compounding the previously reported higher incidence of ELD in deaf children of deaf par...
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Deaf children of hearing parents (DOH) are at risk for early language delays (ELD) due to environmental and etiological factors, compounding the previously reported higher incidence of ELD in deaf children of deaf parents (DOD) compared to the general population. Archival data from the online database of the Visual Communication and Sign Language Checklist yielded 147 ratings of DOH 3- to 5-year-old children whose parents reported American sign language (ASL) being used in the home at least equally to spoken language. Research goals included (1) examining the incidence of ELD in this cohort, (2) investigating differences in outcomes based on the scaling method used, (3) exploring patterns among the ratings of DOH children identified with ELD, (4) comparing the DOH outcomes to published DOD data, and (5) investigating differences between ratings and individual children. The DOH outcomes suggested an incidence of ELD twice that of the previous DOD sample, with a higher percentage of more severe delays. Even DOH children not identified with ELD demonstrated less well-developed ASL skills than their DOD peers. This emphasizes the need for ongoing monitoring of early ASL skills to allow for early identification of needs and adjustment of interventions to address ASL development.
Educators at religious preK-12 schools attempt to integrate their faith into their teaching. Yet there is limited empirical study about how faith integration self-efficacy may develop. This study examines the relation...
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Educators at religious preK-12 schools attempt to integrate their faith into their teaching. Yet there is limited empirical study about how faith integration self-efficacy may develop. This study examines the relationships between the faith integration self-efficacy of educators at Mennonite preK-12 schools and their past educational experiences and initial teacher education. Regression analysis of survey responses indicates that the quality of initial teacher education is associated with educators' faith integration self-efficacy. However, having attended a Mennonite preK-12 school or a Christian undergraduate institution were not predictive of faith integration self-efficacy. Discussion of results highlights implications for educators and future research.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine ways high school educators new to invention education (IvE) pedagogy can develop confidence in their ability to facilitate high school students’ work as part of this ...
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Women working in masculine organizational contexts face a challenge of balancing (1) access to power by co-opting masculine discourse in ways that risk reinforcing it, with (2) challenging and resisting practices that...
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Women working in masculine organizational contexts face a challenge of balancing (1) access to power by co-opting masculine discourse in ways that risk reinforcing it, with (2) challenging and resisting practices that privilege masculinity. In this manuscript, we address one communication strategy for navigating that challenge: The denial/acknowledgment paradox in which women explicitly deny that gender affected their experience, but also describe the many ways it affected their experience. To do so, we examined transcripts of interviews with 11 women candidates who ran in the 2017 Virginia House of Delegates election in the United States and demonstrated this paradoxical communication strategy. Our analysis offers five different structures of the denial/acknowledgment paradox and shows how four of those structures engage what we call an "enthymematic narrative" of victimhood. Ultimately, we argue that (sur)facing the enthymematic narrative amplifies the generative potential of the denial/acknowledgment paradox and suggest that (sur)facing enthymematic narratives should be taken up more broadly as a strategy for organizational and social change.
This study explored how pre-K children process an e-book with narration through eye movements, and also the effects of visual cues on preschoolers' visual attention to text, word recognition, and comprehension. Da...
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This study explored how pre-K children process an e-book with narration through eye movements, and also the effects of visual cues on preschoolers' visual attention to text, word recognition, and comprehension. Data were collected from eight children attending a university-associated daycare center. Eye tracker was used to record the participants' eye movements while interacting with the e-book. Although the participants understood the story, only two of them showed an increase in the word recognition test. The obtained eye movement data demonstrated that the children focused more on the pictures (82.31%) than on the text (15.56%), which is a result that is higher than found in previous studies (e.g., Evans & Saint-Aubin, 2005;Justice et al., 2005;Takacs & Bus, 2018). Overall, 51.71% of their fixations on text matched with the visual cues synchronized with the narration. This study was limited to a single reading session of a short storybook, and employed a small sample size.
Information problem solving (IPS) is an important twenty-first century skill, but it is lacking at all age levels. One type of information problem, those of an ill-structured nature that require multiple iterations of...
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Information problem solving (IPS) is an important twenty-first century skill, but it is lacking at all age levels. One type of information problem, those of an ill-structured nature that require multiple iterations of (re)defining problems and formulating emerging solutions, can be particularly challenging but have received less attention in the IPS literature. Further, the process of solving such problems often reveals, while simultaneously being impacted by, problem solvers' epistemic beliefs. Using a self-regulated problem-solving model as an analytic framework and taking advantage of multiple data sources, this study examined college students' self-regulatory patterns in performing an ill-structured IPS task, and compared the patterns displayed by two groups of students with more and less adaptive epistemic beliefs. Sequential analysis of behavioral data revealed different patterns between the two groups. Think-aloud data, interviews, and students' IPS products showed three key differences between the two groups: difference in the roles of IPS task instructions, difference in the numbers and triggers of queries, and qualitative difference in iterations between page viewing and writing. The findings yielded important insights into the self-regulatory processes of IPS and the role of epistemic beliefs at different problem-solving stages. Implications are drawn for educators and learning designers for developing IPS in higher education.
Lower division chemistry and chemical engineering courses commonly emphasize efficient acquisition of core content. While experts perceive the organization of the discipline, students perceive their courses as fragmen...
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Lower division chemistry and chemical engineering courses commonly emphasize efficient acquisition of core content. While experts perceive the organization of the discipline, students perceive their courses as fragmented. This has a more severe impact on students from groups historically excluded from STEM fields, who may not have a deep understanding of the opportunities that lie on the horizon. In order to make progress on this issue, we first sought to better understand our diverse students' chemical engineering funds of *** is, the everyday and cultural experiences salient for chemistry and chemical engineering. We found that minoritized students expressed more funds of knowledge: women expressed STEM interest and past success more than men;students from minoritized racial and ethnic groups and/or who spoke a language other than English at home expressed more community funds of knowledge. We developed design challenges for core chemical engineering courses to build on these varied funds of knowledge. We found no differences between minoritized students and their more privileged peers in terms of their intent to persist. We share implications for both chemistry and chemical engineering courses seeking to support diverse student success.
BackgroundNeighborhood disadvantage has been associated with potentially preventable acute care utilization among Medicare beneficiaries, but this association has not been studied in a Medicaid population, which is im...
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BackgroundNeighborhood disadvantage has been associated with potentially preventable acute care utilization among Medicare beneficiaries, but this association has not been studied in a Medicaid population, which is important for informing more equitable care and policies for this *** describe the association between Area Deprivation Index (ADI) and acute care utilization (including potentially preventable utilization) among Medicaid beneficiaries in Washington *** cohort study of 100% Medicaid claims. Mixed effects logistic regression was applied to estimate the association between state-level ADI decile and acute care utilization, adjusting for age, sex, self-identified race and ethnicity, Charlson Comorbidity Index, primary spoken language, individual Federal Poverty Level, homelessness, and rurality. Standard errors were clustered at the Census block group ***1.5 million unique adult Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled for at least 11 months of a calendar year during the period *** MeasuresBinary measures denoting receipt of ED visits, low-acuity ED visits, hospitalizations in a calendar *** ResultsIncreasing levels of neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage (by ADI decile) were associated with greater odds of any ED visits (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.06-1.07), low-acuity ED visits (aOR 1.08, CI 1.08-1.08), and any hospitalizations (aOR 1.02, CI 1.02-1.02).ConclusionsAmong Medicaid beneficiaries, greater neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage was associated with increased acute care utilization, including potentially preventable utilization. These findings signal potential barriers to outpatient care access that could be amenable to future intervention by health systems and payers.
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Chen, HengweiBajorath, JurgenUniv Bonn
Dept Life Sci Informat & Data Sci LIMES Program Unit Chem Biol & Med Chem B IT D-53115 Bonn Germany Univ Bonn
Lamarr Inst Machine Learning & Artificial Intellig D-53115 Bonn Germany
In medicinal chemistry, compound optimization relies on the generation of analogue series (AS) for exploring structure-activity relationships (SARs). Potency progression is a critical criterion for advancing AS. Durin...
In medicinal chemistry, compound optimization relies on the generation of analogue series (AS) for exploring structure-activity relationships (SARs). Potency progression is a critical criterion for advancing AS. During optimization, a key question is which analogues to synthesize next. We introduce a new computational methodology for the extension of AS with potent compounds containing both core structure and substituent modifications at multiple sites, which has been reported for the first time. The approach combines a transformer chemical language model (CLM) with a SAR matrix (SARM) methodology that identifies and organizes structurally related AS. Therefore, the SARM approach was expanded to cover multisite AS. Consensus series extracted from SARMs representing a potency gradient served as input for CLM training to extend test AS with potent analogues. Different model variants were derived and investigated. Both general and fine-tuned models correctly predicted known potent analogues at high positions in probability-based compound rankings and chemically diversified AS through core structure modifications of the generated candidate compounds and substituent replacements at multiple sites.
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