scholarly journals Stakeholder Perceptions of Campus Sustainability Efforts: Lessons from Vermont

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3849 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Conner ◽  
Amanda Falkner ◽  
Nathan Lantieri ◽  
Betsy McGavisk ◽  
Bridgette McShea
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Energy Reduction ◽  
Marketing Effort ◽  
Stakeholder Perceptions ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Vermont

Universities have begun to officially recognize advancing sustainability as an institutional goal. This paper reports on research on students’ awareness, attitudes, and behaviors at the University of Vermont as a means of understanding cultural acceptance of sustainability. We report on the results of a survey administered by an applied research methods class working in partnership with the University’s Office of Sustainability. Survey respondents report strong understanding of sustainability and believe it is important. They perceive the University’s performance as strongest along environmental efforts and weakest along economic lines. Respondents were most likely to engage in sustainability behaviors, like waste and energy reduction, and least likely to attend campus events regarding sustainability. Responses to open-ended questions suggest skepticism of the University’s commitment to sustainability, seeing it as more of a marketing effort, and express a desire for more concrete initiatives to foster sustainable behaviors and culture on campus. Our implications focus on ways to promote a more holistic and nuanced understanding of sustainability.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the EURO Working group on Operational Research (OR) in Agriculture and Forest Management

2006 ◽  
Vol 144 (5) ◽  
pp. 467-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. PLÀ
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Working Group ◽  
European Association ◽  
Operational Research ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Or In Agriculture ◽  
The University ◽  
Broad Meaning ◽  
Research Institute

This working group, which is concerned with operational research methods and applications to agricultural science in its broad meaning (i.e. including Forest Management and Fisheries), was formed in 2003 within the European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO). The first meeting of the group was held at the former Silsoe Research Institute two years ago. The next meeting will be held in 2007 within the XXII EURO Conference in Prague. The group intends to start regular meetings at approximately yearly intervals in association with the EURO Conferences. The second meeting of the working group, chaired by Dr. L. M. Plà of the University of Lleida and organized as a stream within the XXI EURO Conference, was held at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík from 3rd–5th July 2006 where the following papers were read.

"Small for Dates" Infants have Lower Average Serum Bilirubin Concentrations than Normal Low Birth Weight Infants of Similar Weight

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1062-1062
Author(s):  
JEROLD F. LUCEY ◽  
JEAN HEWITT ◽  
MARIO FERREIRO
Keyword(s):  
Birth Weight ◽  
Low Birth Weight ◽  
Serum Bilirubin ◽  
Low Birth Weight Infants ◽  
Uterine Growth ◽  
Similar Weight ◽  
Intra Uterine Growth Retardation ◽  
Average Serum ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Vermont

Many factors are known to influence physiologic jaundice in premature infants. However no studies have been reported of the effect intra-uterine growth retardation or malnutrition has upon the average serum bilirubin concentrations in "small for dates" infants. It has been a policy in the nurseries of the University of Vermont Hospitals to do serum bilirubins on all low birth weight infants (2,500 gm or less) on the fourth to sixth day of life. Any infant with a positive Coomb's test or clinical evidence of A.B.O. incompatibility was excluded from this review.

Generalizing Benfordʼs Law

Benford's Law ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lee ◽  
Wendy K. Tam Cho ◽  
George Judge
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Misconduct ◽  
Adaptive Methods ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Federal Grants ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Data Adaptive ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Vermont ◽  
Case Data ◽  
Information Theoretic Methods

This chapter examines and searches for evidence of fraud in two clinical data sets from a highly publicized case of scientific misconduct. In this case, data were falsified by Eric Poehlman, a faculty member at the University of Vermont, who pleaded guilty to fabricating more than a decade of data, some connected to federal grants from the National Institutes of Health. Poehlman had authored influential studies on many topics; including obesity, menopause, lipids, and aging. The chapter's classical Benford analysis along with a presentation of a more general class of Benford-like distributions highlights interesting insights into this and similar cases. In addition, this chapter demonstrates how information-theoretic methods and other data-adaptive methods are promising tools for generating benchmark distributions of first significant digits (FSDs) and examining data sets for departures from expectations.

Report of the Northeast Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-534
Author(s):  
Ernest H. Hofer
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Spring Issue ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Vermont

The Northeast Modern Language Association had a very productive year. Membership now numbers 1,000 (roughly), and although the strike caused obvious difficulties for members located in Canada, even that “blank” seems now to have regained constituency. Modern Language Studies, the periodical sponsored by the Association and published at the University of Rhode Island, appeared with predictable regularity—a fall issue, a spring issue—under the editorship of Edna Steeves (for English manuscripts) and Armand Chartier (for modern language manuscripts). Happily, the arrangement will continue an additional two years, at least, for the agreement between the University of Rhode Island and NEMLA has been extended through 1978, including a partial subsidy by that University. A faculty member of NEMLA, for $6.00 ($3.00 for graduate students), has received two issues of MLS and the chance to attend the conference, scheduled this year at the University of Vermont, Burlington. (Membership dues will rise to $10.00 for faculty and $5.00 for students this September.)

Research Methodology

2019 ◽  
pp. 564-578
Author(s):  
Swati C. Jagdale ◽  
Rahul U. Hude ◽  
Aniruddha R. Chabukswar
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Process Research ◽  
Basic Principles

Research is a logical and systematic approach to investigate or find solutions to scientific and social problems. The research is primarily carried out to discover new facts, to verify and test important facts, and to analyze an event or process. Research is carried out with the help of study, experiment, observation, analysis, comparison, and reasoning. Research is important both in scientific and nonscientific fields. There are two types of research: basic and applied. Basic research is an investigation on basic principles and reasons for occurrence of a particular event or process or phenomenon. Applied research solves certain problems employing well-known and accepted theories and principles. The research process is carried out through series of steps. Research methods are the various procedures, schemes, and algorithms used in research. The research methodology is a systematic way to solve a problem. It is a science of studying how research is to be carried out.

scholarly journals Assessment of knowledge and awareness of “sustainability” initiatives among college students

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Israel Msengi ◽  
Raymond Doe ◽  
Twana Wilson ◽  
Danny Fowler ◽  
Chelsey Wigginton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Southeastern Part ◽  
Campus Sustainability ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Alternative Power ◽  
Sustainability Initiatives ◽  
The University

Campus sustainability is essential for any university. Campus sustainability denotes the potential of the university to develop new ideas regarding sustainability through research, teaching, and practices. It necessitates improved academic infrastructures, setting right faculty priorities and practices that ensure that the university community is aware of sustainable practices, and that its practices reflect sustainability. This study assesses college students' knowledge and awareness of sustainability issues. After IRB approval, data were collected using the campus sustainability questionnaire. Students from a university in the southeastern part of Texas in the United States were selected and asked to participate in the study voluntarily by answering a self-report questionnaire. Findings indicate that only a minority of the students knew what sustainability was, but 95.8% indicated it was important. Although the university has committed to climate and sustainability agreements, majority of the students were not aware of it and only about 17% knew that the University's Strategic Plan has a sustainability component. Nearly 36% of the students reported receiving information about sustainability during their campus orientation. In terms of recycling, majority of the students indicated unawareness of e-waste recycling on campus; however, more than 70% reported that the library limited free printing in computer labs. More than half of the students also indicated that sustainability issues were not infused into curriculum courses or programs, and they had no knowledge of any alternative power source for the university. We concluded that a majority of the students were not conversant with sustainability issues and were largely unaware of campus sustainability initiatives. We recommended more effort to increase sustainability initiatives on campus by involving faculty, staff, and students in such endeavors. Educational programs should incorporate sustainability into their curriculum to increase students' knowledge and consciousness regarding these issues.

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