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Title: Analyzing Historical Impacts of Alsace, France.
Creator: Young, Shelby
Abstract/Description: This project explores the national identity of people of the Alsace region of France, which lies on the northeast border with Germany. This region alone contains six dialects that intertwine French and German. Germany defeated France and annexed Alsace in 1871, but the region returned to France following Germany’s defeat in World War I. The territory was then occupied by Germany and was officially part of the Greater German Reich, yet Alsace was never officially annexed back to Germany. The...
Show moreThis project explores the national identity of people of the Alsace region of France, which lies on the northeast border with Germany. This region alone contains six dialects that intertwine French and German. Germany defeated France and annexed Alsace in 1871, but the region returned to France following Germany’s defeat in World War I. The territory was then occupied by Germany and was officially part of the Greater German Reich, yet Alsace was never officially annexed back to Germany. The culture of this region is not only a mix of the two nationalities due to shifting national borders, but due to the land historically being a territory that is traded in treaties out of many wars, specifically World War I and II. By interviewing three generations of Alsatians, I sought to discover what national identity they maintain, as well as their perspectives on their regional history. This project is important because it is rooted it in an international debate of identity crisis, specifically national identity.
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Date Issued: 2017-10-02
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1534431707_8a7c2bb9
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Title: Racial & Socioeconomic Variation in Caregiver Knowledge of Safe Infant Sleep Spaces.
Creator: Nelson, Scott, Brownstein, Naomi, Middlemiss, Wendy, Leddy, Miranda
Date Issued: 2017-10-12
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1507300280_3dc69429
Format: Citation

Title: Wikipedia: Facts, Bias, and Critical Thinking.
Creator: Stoltzfus, Nathan, Sieman, Michela, Young, Shelby
Abstract/Description: As a part of Florida State’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), students Michela Sieman and Shelby Young were two among a group of research assistants who worked with Dr. Nathan Stoltzfus in fulfilling what he deemed as a project on current-day historical representations in digital media. The project explores the representations of the Nazi regime in digital media today. By analyzing English Wikipedia pages related to Nazi Germany, this project aims to examine this...
Show moreAs a part of Florida State’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), students Michela Sieman and Shelby Young were two among a group of research assistants who worked with Dr. Nathan Stoltzfus in fulfilling what he deemed as a project on current-day historical representations in digital media. The project explores the representations of the Nazi regime in digital media today. By analyzing English Wikipedia pages related to Nazi Germany, this project aims to examine this relationship in terms of discovering biases behind editors and editing trends. With the prevalence of digital media and technology in today’s society and information now at everyone’s fingertips, it is important that this information is represented truthfully and with no hint of personal bias or unsupported claims. Despite the inability to produce conclusive results, the project has already identified trends of Wikipedia editing, the types of editors on the Nazi Germany pages, and some reasons that pages are being changed. This work is holding Wikipedia to its own fair standards in hopes to further present reliable information about the Nazi regime. Through a year of communication and working in various settings, this research group was able to explore a research area as well as open up pathways of research for all parties involved.
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Date Issued: 2017-11-09
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1534432089_a0e040b4
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Title: Universal Scientific Equipment Discovery Tool (USEDiT): If You Used It...You Should Cite It.
Creator: Ruhs, Nicholas, Mondoma, Claudius, Julian, Renaine, Glerum, Annie, Lopez, Mark, Meth, Michael
Abstract/Description: According to the NIH, “two of the cornerstones of science advancement are rigor in designing and performing scientific research and the ability to reproduce biomedical research findings. ”Dissemination of knowledge underpins scientific progress and discovery. It is critical that sufficient, detailed and transparent reporting is done to allow the researchers, funding agencies and policy makers to assess the veracity of the previous findings. Currently, the scientific community lacks a...
Show moreAccording to the NIH, “two of the cornerstones of science advancement are rigor in designing and performing scientific research and the ability to reproduce biomedical research findings. ”Dissemination of knowledge underpins scientific progress and discovery. It is critical that sufficient, detailed and transparent reporting is done to allow the researchers, funding agencies and policy makers to assess the veracity of the previous findings. Currently, the scientific community lacks a structured citation style or method for tracking what types of scientific lab equipment are being utilized to conduct research on grant funded projects or peer reviewed publications. This in turn presents a significant challenge to other researchers who are trying to reproduce the results published by other researchers. Not being able to systematically reference what equipment is being used to conduct experiments also contributes to the crisis in reproducibility that the scientific community is currently facing. This presentation introduces the Universal Scientific Equipment Discovery Tool (USEDiT). USEDiT assigns a universal unique identifier and a standardized set of information for each piece of equipment. Scientists can now easily cite any equipment they use. The goal of USEDiT is to create a tool that enables scientific discovery by making it easier for researchers to cite equipment in peer reviewed publications and in research grant applications. When equipment used in research is properly and consistently cited, the productivity of pieces of equipment can be unambiguously quantified.
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Date Issued: 2018-03-25
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1540926633_9b1fba26
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Title: "Poverty Porn": The Narratives of INGO Media Campaigns.
Creator: Costner, Monique, Kohli, Tanu
Abstract/Description: International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have different strategies of raising awareness and funds for their causes. Sometimes however, these strategies can rely on the use of stereotypical or dehumanizing depictions of people from the developing world. We have all seen the images of hungry children with bloated stomachs, presumably from some African or Asian country. To what extent do these narratives present a grossly simplified version of the struggles people in poverty face?...
Show moreInternational non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have different strategies of raising awareness and funds for their causes. Sometimes however, these strategies can rely on the use of stereotypical or dehumanizing depictions of people from the developing world. We have all seen the images of hungry children with bloated stomachs, presumably from some African or Asian country. To what extent do these narratives present a grossly simplified version of the struggles people in poverty face? The term “poverty porn” has been coined to describe these kinds of shock-based images which reduce people to their vulnerability and helplessness. Narratives within INGO media campaigns can either contribute to, or combat stereotypical images of developing regions. The first section of this research will discuss representations of people from developing regions. Second, the research will examine strategies employed in several digital-based INGO media campaigns through their use of visual and verbal tools. Third, the research will analyze the ethical nature of media campaigns which contribute to or combat stereotypes. It is important for international non-governmental organizations and those within the field of international development to consider how communication strategies impact the understanding we have of developing regions. This research aims to look critically at INGO communications and provide best practices for organizations constructing their own media campaigns.
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Date Issued: 2018-05-04
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1525459187_d84adacc
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Title: Medical College Librarians Advance Active Learning Initiatives: Instruction Yields Positive Results.
Creator: Heasley, Erica, Epstein, Susan, Rosasco, Robyn
Abstract/Description: IntroductionSince 2011, medical librarians in our College have developed resources and services to facilitate active student learning of the scholarly research process. The College’s promotion of active learning instruction and new academic programs have provided opportunities for greatly increased library participation in the curriculum, and in 2017, the librarians began to formally evaluate their active-learning initiatives. ObjectiveEvaluating library instructional sessions provides...
Show moreIntroductionSince 2011, medical librarians in our College have developed resources and services to facilitate active student learning of the scholarly research process. The College’s promotion of active learning instruction and new academic programs have provided opportunities for greatly increased library participation in the curriculum, and in 2017, the librarians began to formally evaluate their active-learning initiatives. ObjectiveEvaluating library instructional sessions provides feedback for program improvement and evidence of the medical library’s contribution to the curriculum goals of the College. We hope to answer the question “Will using an interactive teaching approach to library instruction lead to high levels of participant self-efficacy for initiating and conducting their own clinical and scholarly research?“ MethodsThe medical librarians began our formal evaluation process with undergraduate Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences (IMS) students in selected spring 2018 classes, and have continued with IMS and physician assistant students. Class learning objectives, such as formulating a research question, choosing appropriate databases, and using citation management tools, were correlated to class activities, which were designated as either passive or active. After library instructional sessions, students have had the opportunity to complete a brief online questionnaire. Each 10-point survey item states “Based on what you learned or recalled in this session, please rate your degree of confidence in doing the following.” ResultsPreliminary data review indicates a moderate to high level of student confidence in conducting various aspects of the research process after the library session. An in-depth analysis may also provide insight into active versus passive learning strategy effectiveness.
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Date Issued: 2019-06-01
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1564585328_0507c259
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Title: The Brontës in the World: Creating a Digital Bibliography to Expand Access to Single-Language Sources.
Creator: Pascoe, Judith, Hunter, Matthew Eric
Abstract/Description: This poster outlines our experience with using Zotero, a free and open-source citation management tool, to make Japanese translations and adaptations of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights more accessible to scholars and fans who do not have command of Japanese. Leading this project are Professor Judith Pascoe, the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU), and Matthew Hunter, the Digital Scholarship Technologist at FSU Libraries. Prof. Pascoe’s...
Show moreThis poster outlines our experience with using Zotero, a free and open-source citation management tool, to make Japanese translations and adaptations of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights more accessible to scholars and fans who do not have command of Japanese. Leading this project are Professor Judith Pascoe, the George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU), and Matthew Hunter, the Digital Scholarship Technologist at FSU Libraries. Prof. Pascoe’s research interests include Romantic-era literature and cross-cultural adaptation. Mr. Hunter’s work centers on applications of emerging technology in humanities scholarship and pedagogy. “The Brontës in the World” is the first iteration of a collaborative, multidisciplinary project carried out by undergraduate researchers at Florida State University under the direction of Pascoe and Hunter. The work is enabled by a partnership with the FSU Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), which encourages undergraduate students to discover and explore their own research interests with mentorship from university faculty. We designed this project to build on Pascoe’s Brontë research, but also allow undergraduate researchers to track the Brontës’ legacy in a variety of cultural contexts. Although we have focused on the Brontës in Japan for this first iteration, the project will develop in keeping with the foreign language strengths and particular research interests of subsequent generations of student researchers. We chose Zotero as the vehicle for this project because of its ability to gather, organize, and augment bibliographic metadata. Especially as compared to other citation management platforms, Zotero allows users to freely draw on and reconfigure open source bibliographic data. We set out to compile and enrich open data culled from library catalogs and catalog aggregator sources, such as OCLC’s WorldCat and the National Diet Library Search. We do so in order to create a new contact point for enriched bibliographic data which illuminates how Western literature has been transformed through translation and adaptation in non-Western contexts, and which makes information about these adaptations more broadly accessible. Our poster also outlines how Zotero functions as a pedagogical tool useful for interrogating digital scholarship methodologies. In producing this bibliography, we have been forced to grapple with how bibliographic structures fail to accommodate non-Western cultural markers. For example, our students have noticed that some adaptations’ multiple creator roles (artists, editors, directors, storyline adapters, inkers, etc.) are not reflected in “standard” bibliographic categories, and that non-Western naming conventions are often not easily represented. Together with our students, we are also engaging with Zotero as a hermeneutic device that helps us think about the organizational structures imposed by current cataloguing systems. As our research team adds bespoke tagged and relational data to our library, we see how connections among our sources enable some forms of relationship-building but delimit others. In other words, tagging is meaning-making. As we have interacted with this tool, we and our students have, by necessity, questioned the ways in which we access and compartmentalize knowledge. Our poster then summarizes our experience using a Zotero bibliography as a teaching tool, a research activity, and a mode of scholarly humanistic inquiry into digital hermeneutics. “The Brontës in the World” stands as an effort to illuminate the transmission of the Brontës’ work, but also as a meditation on data organization that, we hope, will fuel conversations in the international DH community about the affordances and limitations of current resource management infrastructure. We are happy to share how Zotero, nominally a citation management tool, has served as the foundation for both our research and pedagogy. It has allowed us to build a database that will serve researchers interested in translation and adaptation studies, and to establish a hub for ongoing student explorations of data collection and citation practice. To supplement the poster presentation, we provide an illustrated two-language (English and Japanese) handout that highlights our discoveries and future plans.
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Date Issued: 2018-09-09
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1537802286_cca1b799
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Title: Any Shape or Form: An Online Module for Teaching Medical Students Citation Managment in Residency Settings.
Creator: Heasley, Erica, Rosasco, Robyn
Abstract/Description: This poster was presented at the 2019 Southern Chapter of the Medical Library Association's Annual Meeting in Savannah, GA.
Date Issued: 2019-10-9
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1571166278_2a7998cb
Format: Citation

Title: Medical Library Impact on Active Learning in the College of Medicine Curriculum.
Creator: Epstein, Susan, Rosasco, Robyn, Heasley, Erica
Date Issued: 2018/06
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1544649405_e93487d3
Format: Citation

Title: Anemia at Discharge and Risk of Readmission in Elderly Patients.
Creator: Teklie, MD, Yeshanew, Patel, MD, Niraj, Campdesuner, DO, Victoria, Marini, DO, Kayla, Rodriguez, DO, Yorlenis, Hamad, MD, FAAP, FACP, Karen, Geary, PhD, RN, Mary E, Wiese...
Show moreTeklie, MD, Yeshanew, Patel, MD, Niraj, Campdesuner, DO, Victoria, Marini, DO, Kayla, Rodriguez, DO, Yorlenis, Hamad, MD, FAAP, FACP, Karen, Geary, PhD, RN, Mary E, Wiese-Rometsch, MD, FACP, Wilhelmine
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Abstract/Description: Title: Anemia at Discharge and Risk of Readmission in Elderly Patients Authors: Yeshanew Teklie MD, Niraj Patel MD; Victoria Campdesuner DO; Kayla Marini DO; Yorlenis Rodriguez DO; Karen M. Hamad MD, FAAP, FACP; Mary E. Geary PhD, RN; and Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch MD, FACPAffiliation: Florida State University Internal Medicine Residency Program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, 1700 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota FL 34239, 941-917-7799Type of Project: Practice-based Quality...
Show moreTitle: Anemia at Discharge and Risk of Readmission in Elderly Patients Authors: Yeshanew Teklie MD, Niraj Patel MD; Victoria Campdesuner DO; Kayla Marini DO; Yorlenis Rodriguez DO; Karen M. Hamad MD, FAAP, FACP; Mary E. Geary PhD, RN; and Wilhelmine Wiese-Rometsch MD, FACPAffiliation: Florida State University Internal Medicine Residency Program at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, 1700 South Tamiami Trail, Sarasota FL 34239, 941-917-7799Type of Project: Practice-based Quality ImprovementIntroduction: Anemia is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a hemoglobin (Hb) concentration less than 12.0 g/dL for females and less than 13.0 g/dL for males. Objective of this quality improvement initiative was to test if anemia independently is associated with readmission in elderly patients discharged from the medicine service of a community teaching hospital. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study declared exempt by our Institutional Review Board involving electronic medical record data from patients at least 65 years old hospitalized between September 2009 and June 2019 discharged not to hospice care. Severity of anemia classified by the WHO was applied for Hb concentrations obtained at hospital discharge for females as mild (11.0 – 11.9 g/dL), moderate (8.0 – 10.9 g/dL), severe (<8.0 g/dL); and males as mild (11.0 - 12.9 g/dL), moderate (8.0 - 10.9 g/dL), severe (<8.0 g/dL). Time to readmission after index hospitalization within 30d, 90d, and 180d with mild, moderate, severe, or no anemia was compared using Kaplan Meier survival curves with covariates (age; sex; multiple chronic conditions; length of stay; APR-DRG Severity of Illness and Risk of Mortality; and discharge destination) controlled using Cox Proportional Hazard modeling with relative impact assessed using Random Forest modeling. Readmission after 180d was considered a new index hospitalization. Continuous variables summarized as mean (SD) or median (interquartile range) were contrasted using Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA. Categorical variables summarized as proportions were compared using chi square or Fisher exact test. Statistical tests were two-tailed with p<.05 considered significant.Findings: Among 13,526 inpatients with 18,793 discharges median age of 78 (14) years was statistically similar by sex (49% females, 51% males) exhibiting an anemia distribution of no (31.0%), mild (20.5%), moderate (47.1%) and severe (1.4%). Race distributed as 89.9% white; 5.9% African American or Black; and 4.2% Other. Females differentiated distribution across anemia spectrum at no (95.7%) (p<0.001), mild (26.4%) (p<0.001), moderate (51.0%) and severe (43.5%). No, mild, moderate and severe anemia corrected for putative confounders impacted (p<0.001) respectively cumulative risk of readmission at 30 d (7.0%, 7.9%, 17.2%, 21.3%), 90 d (12.0%, 15.3%, 28.1%, 34.8%) and 180 d (16.4%, 20.7%, 34.4%, 42.6%).Conclusion: An essential patient-centric question is whether anemia in elderly inpatients affects poor outcomes and/or whether anemia is a surrogate marker for underlying overt and/or subclinical disease(s). Although present quality improvement initiative was not designed to unravel mechanisms of anemia, we controlled for putative severity of illness confounders while demonstrating readmission risk escalating with severity of anemia. Implications for Practice: Findings herald readmission risk associated with “no anemia” as defined by the World Health Organization. Tailored anemia care could offer clinical advantages to mitigate risk for readmission.Reference: WHO. Hemoglobin concentrations for the diagnosis of anemia. Accessed May 16, 2020 at https://www.who.int/vmnis/indicators/haemoglobin.pdf
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Date Issued: 2020-06-01
Identifier: FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1590113078_481e3993
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