Faculty Research Research Articles

Looks Matter: Are U.S. Schools of Social Work Representing Diversity on Their Websites?

Abstract Public administration researchers have found that passive diversity leads to active diversity. However, whether this relationship holds in schools of social work is uncertain. Understanding this relationship in schools of social work can inform methods used by schools of social work to foster diversity and inclusion. Authors examined the relationship between passive and active diversity representation among 31 randomly selected school of social work websites. Quantitative content analysis revealed that the three most common passive diversity characteristics were (1) having tenure-track faculty of color, (2) images of diverse persons, and (3) faculty with diversity-focused research. The top three active diversity characteristics were (1) no GRE admissions requirement, (2) a woman dean/director, and (3) scholarship/fellowships opportunities. Least represented were student demographics and pronouns in faculty profiles. Most notable bivariate findings were the positive associations between a dean/director of color and tenured faculty of color and the relationship between faculty with diversity-focused research and tenured faculty of color. Greater representation of deans/directors of color in schools of social work is critical for the career advancement of faculty of color. To attract more faculty of color, schools of social work should use their websites to promote hiring opportunities for scholars conducting diversity-focused research. Future research exploring additional diversity characteristics on schools of social work websites and whether these characteristics translate to more inclusive environments is needed.

Structure and Functions of Metasearch Engines

The present study systematically examines the structure and functions of metasearch engines (MSEs) viz. Dogpile, Metacrawler, DuckDuckGo and Startpage. Further, it identifies the features and services of four metasearch engines and compares them. A checklist method was used to evaluate the four metasearch engines.These check spots are prepared regarding features and services of metasearch engines. The data were collected between April 1 to June 14, 2021, spending two hours daily. Initially, the data was recorded after accessing each MSE, and later,the data was transferred to MS Excel. The study ascertained that out of 101 check spots, Dogpile scored (66) points, Metacrawler (63), DuckDuckGo (71), and Startpage (59). DuckDuckGo is ranked first among all the four metasearch engines with 70.3 %, followed by Dogpile, Metacrawler, and Startpage respectively. A checklist used in the study contains only 101 check spots to compare the metasearch engines. Further, users’ perception regarding the four metasearch engines is also not covered in the present study. The present study is the first of its kind, which compares four popular metasearch engines using a checklist method. The outcomes of the study shall help research scholars, librarians, information scientists, faculty members, and common masses choose the appropriate metasearch engine. Further, the study shall also help the developers of e-resources in incorporating more features so that users can benefit.

The NYU Data Catalog: a modular, flexible infrastructure for data discovery.

Researchers at New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine contacted the Health Sciences Library for help with locating large datasets for reuse. In response, the library developed and maintained the NYU Data Catalog, a public-facing data catalog that has supported not only faculty acquisition of data but also the dissemination of the products of their research in various ways. The current NYU Data Catalog is built upon the Symfony framework with a tailored metadata schema reflecting the scope of faculty research areas. The project team curates new resources, including datasets and supporting software code, and conducts quarterly and annual evaluations to assess user interactions with the NYU Data Catalog and opportunities for growth. Since its launch in 2015, the NYU Data Catalog underwent a number of changes prompted by an increase in the disciplines represented by faculty contributors. The catalog has also utilized faculty feedback to enhance support of data reuse and researcher collaboration through alterations to its schema, layout, and visibility of records. These findings demonstrate the flexibility of data catalogs as a platform for enabling the discovery of disparate sources of data. While not a repository, the NYU Data Catalog is well-positioned to support mandates for data sharing from study sponsors and publishers. The NYU Data Catalog makes the most of the data that researchers share and can be harnessed as a modular and adaptable platform to promote data sharing as a cultural practice.

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Comparing Apples With Apples: Women Faculty Research Productivity in Vietnamese Higher Education

For decades, abundant studies have illustrated the vast scholarly publication disparity between male and women academics. Exhaustingly, in 21st-century higher education, women’s academic research participation is below the world average, except in a few countries that comprehensively studied their faculties and personal and institutional agencies to restore parity. Higher education is widely discussed in Vietnam as incompetent academics with a shred of scholarly publications and venerable gender disparities. Hence, the current study sought to contribute robust policy and practical implications for stakeholders by inspecting women’s faculties solely to shed light on the root hindrances of their scholarly share. Remarkably, the findings of the study demonstrate that women faculty members have promising scholarly contributions in disciplines where women scientists are marginalized, that having children becomes a notable motivator for mothers in academia, and that there is genuine support from a husband who understands the worth of his wife’s research contribution to the institution and family.

Farklı Sulama Suyu Düzeylerinin Yem Pancarının Verim ve Kalite Parametrelerine Etkisi

The study was carried out at the Agricultural Research and Application Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Isparta University of Applied Sciencesin 2021, with the aim of determining the effect of different irrigation water levels on the yield and quality parameters of fodder beet by the experiment of randomized complete block design with three replications. The study used Rota fodder beet variety. Applied irrigation water amounts were determined according to Penman-Montheith method by considering the total reference evapotranspiration (ETo) of ten days for five different ratios (S1: ETo×1.20, S2: ETo×0.90, S3: ETo×0.60, S4: ETo×0.30; S5: ETo×0.00). Drip irrigation method was used for irrigation. Applied irrigation water amounts ranged between 131.9 mm – 643.6 mm. Crop water consumption (ET) ranged between 337.1 mm – 782 mm. At the end of the treatments, it was observed that fresh leaf yield varied between 570 and 1788.1 kg da-1 while these values were from 1865.7 to 7838.8 kg da-1 for fresh root yield, from 2435.8 to 9626.9 kg da-1 for total fresh yield, from 134.1 to 255.5 kg da-1 for leaf dry matter yield, from 469.9 to 1247.6 kg da-1 for root dry mater , from 12.2 cm to 25.4 cm for tuber length, and from 6.5 to 12.4 cm for tuber diameter. The yield response factor (ky) was 1.04. The water use efficiency was 72.3 – 145.0 kg ha-1 mm-1, the irrigation water use efficiency was ranged from 111.7 to 157.5 kg ha-1 mm-1. The S2 irrigation treatment was the most appropriate irrigation program under adequate irrigation water conditions. In terms of irrigation deficit conditions, results indicated that there may apply irrigation water at 60% or 30% of reference evapotranspiration from S3 or S4 irrigation program.

Building the Science of Physical Therapy: Conundrums and a Wicked Problem.

Producing science that supports the physical therapist profession in all its endeavors is critical to ensure that the best evidence is used in practice and education. In this Perspective, numerous conundrums are discussed that can constrain efforts to be productive in research in the academic institutions that serve as the intellectual centers of the discipline. Taken together, these conundrums and the conditions that create them collectively contribute to the wicked problem of how to generate sufficient evidence to support the practice of physical therapy. In response, this Perspective recommends changes in the Standards and Elements of the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education to support the importance of faculty research, reconfigure the rules for faculty composition, and introduce a new metric of productivity that reinforces the need of all programs to produce evidence for the profession, while still allowing flexibility and institutional prerogative to govern how this need is expressed.

Scopus indexed scholarly publications of academics at the University of Agricultural Sciences,Dharwad: A Bibliometric analysis

The paper gives a thorough review of faculty research output from the University of Agricultural Sciences,Dharwad, as tracked by Scopus from 2002 to 2021.The Scopus database was used to retrieve the data for the study. Toanalyse the data, bibliometric techniques were used such as yearly distribution of publications, to calculate relative growthrate and doubling time of articles, authorship pattern, most prolific authors, most preferred journals etc. are studied. Theanalysis showed that, UAS, Dharwad had its most prolific year in 2014 with 116 publications (8.45%), totaling 658citations, with the average article receiving at least 5.67 citations. The number of publications increased from 24 in 2002 to1372 in 2021. The highest Doubling Time was found to be in the year 2019, with a value of 16.754. The author, SalimathP M of Genetics and Plant Breeding department was the most publishing author with 60 publications. The faculty preferredthe journal “International Journal of Agricultural and Statistical Sciences,” with a current impact factor of 0.278 as mostpopular journal to publish their papers. According to the study, UAS, Dharwad have made significant contributions toresearch publications in the fields of genetics, biochemistry, agricultural and biological sciences, and molecular biology

Scottish Fold ırkı bir kedide, pectus excavatumun u şekilli eksternal bir splint ile açık operatif sağaltımı

A 4 month-old, 1.9 kg, female, Scottish fold cat was brought to Kırıkkale University Veterinary Faculty Research and Practice Hospital with complaints of progressive dyspnea and exercise intolerance. Dorsal deformation in the caudal part of the sternum and displacement of the heart into the left hemithorax were determined in the clinical and radiographic examinations. In the measurements made on the radiographic images taken before the operation, the frontosagittal index (FSI) and vertebral index (VI) values were measured as 3.5 and 5.1, respectively. An external splint made of PVC material is fixed to the thorax with suture material passed around the sternebrae, in order to correct the sternal malposition in intraoperative treatment. The patient was followed for 8 weeks after the operation. The external splint was removed five weeks after the operation, and the FSI and VI values were measured as 1.4 and 11.3 on the radiographs, respectively. In the postoperative period, it was observed that the patient’s problems such as dyspnea and exercise intolerance disappeared. In animals with bone development yet to be completed, it has been determined that external splint application gives successful results.

Assessment of diversity-based approaches used by American Universities to increase recruitment and retention of biomedical sciences research faculty members: A scoping review protocol.

Diversity enriches the educational experience by improving intellectual engagement, self-motivation, citizenship, cultural engagement, and academic skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and writing for students of all races. Faculty role models from similar backgrounds are essential for students from traditionally underrepresented groups as it sends a powerful message of support, belonging, and the confidence to pursue higher education. However, in the biomedical sciences, the percentage of historically underrepresented tenure-track faculty is far lower than that of their white colleagues. For this to change, a strong strategic plan and commitment from the university are imperative. This scoping review will assess the size and scope of available peer-reviewed research literature on diversity programs that aim to increase the recruitment and retention of biomedical sciences research faculty and are implemented and evaluated at American Universities. The information provided in this scoping review will help universities identify novel, successful diversity-based approaches for recruiting and retaining biomedical science faculty that might suit their own unique academic and geographic needs and be incorporated into their diversity initiatives and policies. The review follows the Population-Concept-Context methodology for Joanna Briggs Institution Scoping Reviews. Relevant peer-reviewed studies published in English between June 1, 2012, to June 1, 2022, will be identified from the following electronic databases; MEDLINE (PubMed), Scopus (Elsevier), EMBASE (Elsevier), CINAHL (EBSCO), and ERIC (EBSCO). The search strings using the key variables "biomedical research faculty," "recruitment/retention," "diversity/ minority/ underrepresented, and "mentoring" will be conducted using Boolean logic. Two independent reviewers will conduct all title and abstract screening, followed by a full article screening and data extraction. Due to the possible heterogeneity of the studies, we hope to use either a narrative analysis and/or descriptive figures/tables to depict the results.

451-P: Perivascular Adipose Tissue Remodeling Modulates Vascular Mitochondrial Metabolism

Diabetes increases cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Diabetes-mediated vascular pathology proceeds differently in men and women. We reported that housing rats at thermoneutral (30°C, TN) conditions alters perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) phenotype. We also observed related abnormalities in vasoreactivity and mitochondrial function with sex-differences. We hypothesized that TN-mediated PVAT phenotypic transformation alters brown adipose tissue (BAT) regulator PRDM16, fatty acid composition, fatty acid (FA) transporter FATP1, and mitochondrial lipid oxidation in a sex-dependent manner. Male and female Wistar rats were housed at room temperature (24°C, RT) or TN for 16 weeks. Endpoints included PVAT phenotypic characterization, RNA seq analysis, and PVAT mitochondrial respiration. PVAT phenotype was morphologically different between TN and RT rats, with rats housed at TN having 19.7% less BAT phenotype overall (p<0.05). UCP-1 expression was lower in animals housed at TN (p=0.06). PRDM16 was significantly dampened in all animals at TN (p<0.05), and notably decreased in males at TN (80.6%, p<0.05). Loss of BAT markers was associated with changes in FA regulation. Genomic expression of FATP1 was lower in all animals at TN, more prominently in females. Palmitoleic and arachidonic acids were significantly lower in TN females (48.5% and 15.5%, respectively, p<0.05) and males (63.0% and 40.1%, respectively, p<0.05). PVAT of all animals housed at TN showed mitochondrial respiration significantly diminished in lipid substrate experiments for state 3, 4, and uncoupled (p<0.05 for all), aligning with our previous reports in aorta. These data support a model wherein altered PVAT phenotype and FA composition impacts lipid transport and utilization. These changes are associated with differential impact on vascular impairment between females and males. These results provide insights into sex differences in PVAT contributions to vascular disease progression and vascular crosstalk. Disclosure A.C.Keller: None. M.M.Henckel: None. L.Knaub: None. G.Pott: None. G.James: None. L.A.Walker: None. J.E.B.Reusch: Advisory Panel; Medtronic. Funding National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR025780); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (BX002046 to J.E.B.R.), (BX003185 to A.C.K.); National Institutes of Health (R01 DK124344-01A1 to J.E.B.R.); Denver Research Institute; Ludeman Family Center for Women’s Health Research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Junior Faculty Research Development Grant (to A.C.K.)

Information literacy skills among faculty members and research scholars of Central Sanskrit University, Vedavyas Campus, Balahar: A pilot study

The present study attempts to examine an Information Literacy Skills of faculty members and research scholars of Central Sanskrit University, Vedavyas Campus, Balahar, Kangra.The questionnaire survey of study was utilized to obtain data for the study. A structured questionnaire was constructed in Google Form and distributed to 28 academic staff and 27 academic researchers at Central Sanskrit University's Vedavyas campus in order to get the information required to assess their information literacy skills. Out of which 44 (80.0 percent) questionnaire was received for data analysis. This study examines several aspects of library use, including method of document searching, orientation and information literacy programme, various e-resources and ICT literacy skills. Copyright act, search engines etc.The data indicated that faculty and research scholars possessed sufficient information handling skills to meet their basic needs.

Libraries and Digital Humanities

Advancements in digital technologies have altered the way knowledge is captured, catalogued, indexed, accessed, and consumed in institutions across the world. Digital humanities have not only empowered the faculty members and researchers in the humanities departments, it has also entrusted with the librarians’ additional responsibilities of curating and cataloguing knowledge in their libraries and enabling humanistic researches in the field. Such curating, indexing, and consumption poses significant intellectual property right (IPR) issues that librarians have to manage. This article explores the IPR issues associated with the digital humanities that librarians should specifically address as part of their activities.

A Student-Centered, Expanded Approach to the Undergraduate Research Experience

ABSTRACTStudent involvement in faculty research is on the rise because it serves at least three sets of interests: (1) students’ desire to build their résumés and develop close relationships with faculty members; (2) faculty members’ hope of getting research support from bright, attentive assistants; and (3) universities’ wish to publicize these opportunities to incoming student and faculty cohorts. At times, faculty members may come to see their undergraduate researchers as a source of inexpensive but high-quality labor, forgetting that they are students who are at the university to learn critical skills. In this article, I make the case for a student-centered approach to the undergraduate research experience (URE), which combines a traditional apprenticeship with a curriculum in the “what,” “why,” and “how” of research and expands the program over multiple semesters, supporting a team of student apprentices. I argue that this approach meets more of students’ goals while also supporting faculty and university interests. I describe the multi-semester URE that I have developed and provide tools to faculty members who want to adapt this program to their home institution.

The interdependent networked community resilience modeling environment (IN-CORE)

In 2015, the U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), a fourteen university-based consortium of almost 100 collaborators, including faculty, students, post-doctoral scholars, and NIST researchers. This paper highlights the scientific theory behind the state-of-the-art cloud platform being developed by the CoE - the Interdisciplinary Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE). IN-CORE enables communities, consultants, and researchers to set up complex interdependent models of an entire community consisting of people, businesses, social institutions, buildings, transportation networks, water networks, and electric power networks and to predict their performance and recovery to hazard scenario events, including uncertainty propagation through the chained models. The modeling environment includes a detailed building inventory, hazard scenario models, building and infrastructure damage (fragility) and recovery functions, social science data-driven household and business models, and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models of local economies. An important aspect of IN-CORE is the characterization of uncertainty and its propagation throughout the chained models of the platform.Three illustrative examples of community testbeds are presented that look at hazard impacts and recovery on population, economics, physical services, and social services. An overview of the IN-CORE technology and scientific implementation is described with a focus on four key community stability areas (CSA) that encompass an array of community resilience metrics (CRM) and support community resilience informed decision-making. Each testbed within IN-CORE has been developed by a team of engineers, social scientists, urban planners, and economists. Community models, begin with a community description, i.e., people, businesses, buildings, infrastructure, and progresses to the damage and loss of functions caused by a hazard scenario, i.e., a flood, tornado, hurricane, or earthquake. This process is accomplished through chaining of modular algorithms, as described. The baseline community characteristics and the hazard-induced damage sets are the initial conditions for the recovery models, which have been the least studied area of community resilience but arguably one of the most important. Communities can then test the effect of mitigation and/or policies and compare the effects of “what if” scenarios on physical, social, and economic metrics with the only requirement being that the change much be able to be numerically modeled in IN-CORE.

Publication outlets for school psychology faculty: 2016–2020

AbstractThis study investigated the peer‐reviewed journal publication outlets and impact of school psychology faculty research from the years 2016 through 2020. The National Association of School Psychologists website was used to identify 972 faculty from 195 doctoral and nondoctoral school psychology programs. Faculty publications were identified through a Google Scholar search and using published faculty curriculum vitaes. Journal h‐index impact factors and 2‐year citation rates were collected through SCImago. There were a total of 4354 articles published across 1125 journals during the 5‐year span. The journals Psychology in the Schools, Contemporary School Psychology, and School Psychology were where school psychology faculty published the most and accounted for 13% of the total publications. The average 2‐year citation rate for all journals was 2.83 and the average h‐index for all journals was 69.62. Discussion focuses on the historical and recent trend of school psychology faculty publications and the expanding range of nonschool psychology journals in which faculty publish.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OPTIMISM AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF YOUNG ADULTS IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The goal of this study is to test the relationship between optimism and subjective well-being of young adults in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous studies showed that people’s subjective well-being level have reduced, especially in young adults. This study took one of the factors affecting subjective well-being, optimism as a predictor of people’s subjective well-being throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Subjective well-being is an individual’s cognitive and affective evaluation of their lives. Optimism is an individual’s positive attitude of their lives and their future. This study involved 338 young adults. The measuring instruments used in this study are: 1) The Revised Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) adapted from Fadjri; 2) The Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) are both adapted from the Research and Measurement Department Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Tarumanagara. The analysis result using Pearson correlation technique, with r (338) = 0.251, p = 0.00 (< 0.05) showed that there was a significant and positive correlation between optimism and subjective well-being. This study also found that between the components of optimism and subjective well-being had a significant relationship between the two variables.

Association for Academic Surgery/Society of University Surgeons research awards are highly successful in fostering future surgeon–scientists

BackgroundThe surgeon–scientist brings a unique perspective to surgical research. The Association of Academic Surgeons and Society of University Surgeons foster the development of surgeon–scientists through foundation awards to residents and junior faculty. We sought to evaluate the academic success of surgeons who received an Association for Academic Surgery/Society of University Surgeons award. MethodsInformation was collected for individuals who received a resident or junior faculty research award from the Association for Academic Surgery or Society of University Surgeons. Google Scholar, Scopus, and the National Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools: Expenditures and Results were used to assess scholarly achievements. ResultsEighty-two resident awardees were included, 31 (38%) of whom were female. Thirteen (24%) are now professors, 12 (22%) are division chiefs, and 4 (7%) are department chairs. Resident awardees have a median of 886 citations (interquartile range 237–2,111) and an H-index of 14 (interquartile range 7–23). Seven (13%) went on to receive K08/K23 awards, and 7 (13%) received R01s, with a total of about $200 million in National Institutes of Health funding (79-fold return on investment). Thirty-four junior faculty awardees were included, 10 (29%) of whom were female. Thirteen (38%) are now professors, 12 (35%) are division chiefs, and 7 (21%) are department chairs. Faculty awardees have a median of 2,617 citations (interquartile range 1,343–7,857) and an H-index of 25 (interquartile range 18–49). Four (12%) received K08 or K23 awards, and 10 (29%) received R01s, with about $139 million in National Institutes of Health funding (98-fold return on investment). ConclusionAssociation for Academic Surgery/Society of University Surgeons research awardees experience high degrees of success in academic surgery. Most resident awardees pursue fellowship training and remain in academic surgery. A high percentage of both faculty and resident awardees hold leadership positions and successfully achieve National Institutes of Health funding.

Research Hesitancy in the Academe: A Multi-University Study in the Philippines


 ABSTRACT
 
 Cultivating a culture of research in the academe is one of the goals of every institution of higher education in the Philippines. Despite of this, there exists a hesitation among faculty and non-teaching staff in engaging in research and publication. This study explored the reasons behind the decrease of research productivity in the academe in different higher education institutions in the Philippines. Sixteen faculty members from different disciplines were included in the study and were interviewed from November to December 2022. Employing a descriptive phenomenological research design, results showed that the causes of research hesitancy were summarized into four domains, namely: individual, institutional, scientific and professional domains. Under the individual domain, the themes of lack of confidence, lack of motivation, lack of time and lack of interest were identified. The institutional domain enumerated lack of research training, equipment, lack of research programs and funding deficiency. The scientific domain contained themes like lack of knowledge, skill and expertise in conduct of research and writing publishable papers. The professional domain identified themes that revolve around lack of access, lack mentors and lack of collaboration between faculty members. Based on the results of the study, all of the participants expressed the lack of funding support, which included tedious methods of acquiring such funding from the institution and other stakeholders as the primary cause of their hesitancy. Furthermore, participants expressed that individual factors that cause research hesitancy are most difficult to overcome as it pertains to past negative experiences, which led to the reluctance to be trained or to engage in research. The lack of a research culture within the institution was also linked to the absence of a clear research agenda and program, and capacity-building programs geared towards faculty researcher development.

The effects of decreased ovarian reserve on in vitro fertilization outcome

Objective: In this study, we aimed to compare the effects of microdose and antagonist regimens on IVF-ICSI outcome. 
 Material and Methods: The study was conducted at the XXXX University Medical Faculty Training and Research Hospital IVF Clinic during the period of 2018 and 2022. The files of the patients were reviewed retrospectively and age, duration of infertility, basal FSH level, body mass index, antral follicle number (AFC), antimullerian hormon (AMH) level, retrieved oocyte number, metaphase 2 oocyte number, fertilization and pregnancy rates were evaluated. The patients in Group 1 (n=124) were treated by using gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) microdose protocol and in Group 2 (n=136) were treated by using antagonist protocol. 
 Results: There was no significant difference between the groups in terms of the characteristics of the patients such as age, infertility duration, basal FSH level body mass index, AFC and AMH level. The retrieved oocyte number, metaphase 2 oocyte number, fertilization rates and pregnancy rates were also similar.
 Conclusion: Our results demonstrated that microdose and antagonist regimens have similar effect in poor reponder women on IVF-ICSI outcome.