Background/Introduction: A mentoring program was designed to provide faculty the skills to increase confidence when leading Doctor of Nursing Practice projects. The program included an assessment of confidence of six key skills. The intervention included didactic and individual experiential learning that coincided with student progression through project courses.Purpose: The purpose of this project was to provide an intervention to promote faculty confidence when leading DNP projects. The objectives were to: assess faculty participants' self-perceived confidence regarding needed leading DNP projects, create and implement a faculty development program based on the responses, and evaluate the faculty perception of confidence post-intervention. Methods OR Process/Procedures: Participants completed a questionnaire to evaluate perception of confidence regarding leading student DNP projects. The intervention included didactic and individual mentoring, synchronous educational and guidance sessions, along with individual mentoring sessions. The sessions were provided at intervals over 10 months. Mentoring corresponded to DNP course progression. Key skills included project identification, evidence evaluation, frameworks, evidence critiques, methods, implementation, data analysis, and dissemination. Three to four months after the mentoring ended, participants were asked to rate their confidence on the same questionnaire.Results: Participants' self-identified areas of need included understanding application of translation science, methods, statistical choices, and all phases of analysis. Four of the six elements were improved from baseline, with two statistically significant, Project Analysis and Project Dissemination.Limitations: Limitations included, small sample size, questionnaire only tested for face validity, and drop-out rate over time.Conclusions: Mentoring while actively working with student projects is vital to apply concepts in real-time. Pairing junior faculty with senior faculty enhances experiential learning needed to effectively lead DNP projects. Sharing real-time feedback for each component of students' proposals and manuscripts allowed participants to observe mentors providing student guidance.

Master of Science / Food Science Institute / Randall K. Phebus / The USDA declared seven STEC serotypes to be adulterants in raw, non-intact beef products due to their severe health implications. STEC contamination of carcasses is most likely to occur during hide removal. This study evaluated the efficiency of a mixed STEC-7 inoculum to attach to raw beef carcasses (predominantly lean muscle and adipose tissue), and compared the efficacy of 4.5% lactic acid (LA) to a water (W) spray to reduce STEC populations. Four carcass contamination scenarios, representing potential points whereby STEC could come into contact with raw beef surfaces during slaughter operations, were evaluated: (A) pre-rigor surface STEC inoculated (ca. 7 log cfu/cm[superscript]2), 30-min ambient temperature attachment, spray with LA or W; (B) pre-rigor inoculated, 24-h chilled attachment, spray; (C) tissue chilled 24 h, inoculated, 30-min attachment, spray; and (D) tissue chilled 24 h, rewarmed to 30°C, inoculated, 30-min attachment, spray. Predominantly lean muscle and adipose tissue were collected from four fed cattle immediately after harvest and assigned to the four scenarios for STEC inoculation, followed by a post-inoculation water (control) or LA spray. Tissue excision samples were collected pre- and post-treatment and analyzed to enumerate STEC-7 populations. Data were collected in a completely randomized design and analyzed using a mixed-model ANOVA. Pairwise comparisons of treatment means were made at α = 0.05 with p-values adjusted using Tukey-Kramer. Initial STEC attachment levels to predominantly lean muscle and adipose tissues were not significantly different across all scenarios. Scenarios C and D showed greater STEC attachment compared to scenarios B and A. The LA spray reduced STEC levels more effectively than water across all scenarios. A significant treatment by tissue type interaction was observed for STEC reductions. A greater STEC reduction was observed for adipose tissue than for predominantly lean muscle when lactic acid spray was applied. A significant treatment by scenario interaction was observed for STEC reductions. Scenarios A and B presented greater log reductions (1.77 ± 0.27 and 1.85 ± 0.25 log CFU/cm[superscript]2, respectively) than scenario C (1.04 ± 0.10 Log CFU/cm[superscript]2). LA spray presented the same level of effectiveness when applied to pre-rigor warm tissues and chilled tissues for reducing STEC. Greater post-LA spray reductions were observed when STECs were inoculated onto pre-rigor meat surfaces and submitted to a 24 h chill cycle, suggesting that cold storage temperatures (~2 °C) may stress or injure the STEC cells prior to subsequent antimicrobial spray applications to chilled surfaces. For laboratory studies, consideration must be given to when inocula are applied to tissue surfaces to accurately determine and/or compare the effectiveness of antimicrobial treatments. These findings provide insight to beef processors and researchers regarding inoculation protocols for comparative validation studies, and potential impacts on microbiological results from application of antimicrobial interventions at different points during raw beef processing.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gissela Mate.pdf: 517584 bytes, checksum: e1b28ba8f7466aa94905c8df5863be45 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-04-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aims to make a link between the poetry of Paulo Leminski and discourse about the passion in its different manifestations. With the help that came from the reading of the book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, from Roland Barthes, we recognize several faces of the passion in the poetry of Paulo Leminski. Based on this experience of reading, we propose two basic subjects: the passion for the language and the language of the passion. This research develops through the analysis of eighteen poems by Paulo Leminski and it also indicates evidences of the working with passion‟s feeling: in a thematic way, addressing the speech directly to be loved, or showing the poet's fascination with language and the movement of poetic creation itself. Throughout the development of this work, we highlight the presence of passion for language in the analyzed texts, which motivated us to incorporate the loving affection in the way of looking at the subject matter and, therefore, of writting about it. This work expresses the encounter between the work of Leminski, an organic and intense writer, with a critical text that emphasizes the play value of the author, bringing some of the nuances of the poetic to academic discourse / Este trabalho tem o objetivo de realizar uma articulação entre a poesia de Paulo Leminski e o discurso sobre a paixão em suas diversas manifestações. Com a ajuda da leitura da obra Fragmentos de um discurso amoroso, de Roland Barthes, reconhecemos várias faces da paixão na poética leminskiana. A partir dessa experiência de leitura, propomos dois temas fundamentais: o da paixão pela linguagem e o da linguagem da paixão. Esta pesquisa se desenvolve com a análise de dezoito poemas de Paulo Leminski e aponta indícios do trabalho com o sentimento da paixão, sejam eles temáticos, dirigindo-se ao ser amado diretamente, sejam do fascínio do poeta pela linguagem e pelo movimento de criação poética em si. Ao longo do desenvolvimento desta dissertação, destacamos a presença da paixão pela linguagem nos textos analisados, o que nos motivou a incorporação da afetividade amorosa na forma de olhar o objeto de estudo e, consequentemente, de escrever sobre ele. Assim, este trabalho expressa o encontro entre a obra de Leminski, um autor orgânico e intenso, com uma escrita crítica que destaca o valor lúdico do autor, trazendo algumas nuanças do fazer poético ao discurso acadêmico

The purpose of this study was to compare the relationship between the mathematics portion of the EXPLORE test with students successes in advanced and Advanced Placement(AP) mathematics courses in high school. The data was collected from a rural Tennessee school system consisting of five years of data among graduated seniors. Analysis was completed to determine the difference between the two county high schools in advanced coursework. The findings of this study concluded a positive correlation between EXPLORE scores and the frequency of students who took advanced mathematics courses. Positive correlation between EXPLORE scores and student successes in advanced courses was also concluded. Two-sample t-test showed the school with the less frequency had a higher mean of successes in advanced mathematics. This school system consistently scored above the national average in the mathematics portion of the EXPLORE test. Ultimately, standardized test results can prove to be a means for guiding students toward challenging mathematics courses.

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of charter schools on African-American students, this study sought to determine if the practice of connectedness, alignment, rigor, and engagement (C.A.R.E.) influenced academic outcomes. The research methodology employed a meta-analysis in conjunction with a systematic review as a cross-reference and to address variables not covered in the meta-analysis. Utilizing a meta-analysis allowed for a synthesis of the existing quantitative published data to consolidate the results. This produced a specific report of achievement data for African-American students. The results revealed that regardless of region, subject, type of assessment, or school focus charter school do positively influence African-American students' academic outcomes. This study also found the practices connectedness, alignment, rigor, and engagement, the C.A.R.E. model when employed in schools improve academic outcomes, especially when combined and implemented with best practices.