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Consulting Office for Research and Evaluation (CORE)
The primary mission of the Consulting Office for Research and Evaluation (CORE) is to assist others with the design and analyses associated with research or evaluation project. CORE is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking help with their: research design, evaluation design, statistical analysis, instrument/survey development, psychometric analyses, data processing and database design, statistical and analytical software training
Research Design
Using the optimal design to answer your research question will ensure that the results of your research are meaningful and useful in helping you to answer your questions. CORE can support your endeavors by making certain that you have considered all of the sources of variability that exist in your design and are using the most advantageous sampling schema and analytic approach.
Evaluation Design
Conducting a high quality evaluation of the utmost relevance to stakeholders is a complex endeavor. CORE can help by guiding you in your choice of an appropriate evaluation model, assisting you with the design of data collection tools that focus on the primary objectives of the program you are evaluating, and aiding you in your choice of appropriate analytical methodologies.
Statistical Analysis
Obtaining quality results in any research project is dependent on using the most suitable statistical methodologies. In addition to helping you decide what statistical approach would best help you to answer your research question, CORE can analyze your data and provide an interpretation of the results.
Instrument/Survey Development
In addition to using the most appropriate analytical approach, it is also important to use high quality instruments or surveys to measure your variables. CORE can help you to ensure that your variables have been thoughtfully defined and to design valid and reliable instruments that are based on your specifications.
Psychometric Analyses
Upon using or piloting instruments, it is essential to analyze their properties to determine if they are of the highest quality. CORE can help you design validity studies for your instruments so that you can be sure that you are truly measuring the variables that you have defined. In addition, CORE can analyze your surveys with respect to their reliability and validity and provide an interpretation of the results. CORE can also conduct psychometric scaling studies, designed to scale both people and items on a common metric, using item response theory.
Data Processing and Database Design
Setting up a complex database is not always easy. CORE can help you determine the optimal way to set up your database, as well as teach you how to create new variables and recode existing variables. CORE can also assist you with data processing and data management tasks associated with large databases.
Statistical and Analytical Software Training
Trying to learn how to use an analytical software package? CORE can teach you how to use both major analytical software packages, such as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, or SAS and specialty analytical software packages, such as LISREL, HLM, EQS, or BILOG.
Representative Consulting Projects
• Evaluating the Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership, in which we worked to demonstrate the impact of this NSF funded project on increasing student achievement in mathematics in the Milwaukee Public School District
• Developing the Numerical Understanding of Medicine Instrument (NUMi), a project funded by NIH and the American Cancer Society to design a measure of health numeracy in the adult population which can be used to facilitate communication between physicians and their patients
• Collaborating with the Center for Self-Sufficiency on the external evaluation of multiple projects across the country that are designed to help improve relationship skills of teenagers and adults.
• Collaborating with the College of Engineering (CEAS) at UWM to explore the impact of instructional interventions on improving the retention and graduation rates of underrepresented students in CEAS.
• Working with the WI Department of Instruction to investigate how schools in the state of WI plan to implement the new federal mandate, Response to Intervention (RtI)
• Sample Evaluation Reports
>> Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership Final Evaluation
>> Y6 Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership Evaluation
>> Y7 Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership Evaluation
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Free Research Consultation Form
Services are provided free of charge to faculty members in the UWM School of Education. For all others, an initial consultation is provided free of charge. Fees for each project are determined by the scope and complexity of the project. You will be provided with an estimate after a free initial consultation
CORE Faculty Profiles
CORE is currently staffed by doctoral candidates who work in close consultation with the following faculty members.
Cindy Walker, Ph.D
Razia Azen, Ph.D
Barbara Daley, Ph.D
Wen Lou, Ph.D.
Raji Swaminathan, Ph.D.
Bo Zhang, Ph.D
Curtis Jones
Rachel Lander
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Consulting Office for Research & Evaluation
School of Education
238 Enderis Hall
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413
Telephone: 414-229-4165
Fax: 414-229-4939
Cindy M. Walker, PhD
Phone: (414) 229-5053
Fax: (414) 229-4043
Free Research Consultation Form
Services are provided free of charge to faculty members in the UWM School of Education. For all others, an initial consultation is provided free of charge. Fees for each project are determined by the scope and complexity of the project. You will be provided with an estimate after a free initial consultation.


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He said adding a new casino in Prince George's County would cause more Maryland residents to spend gambling dollars at home.
"Moreover, the addition of table games would allow Maryland's facilities a chance to finally compete with Charles Town on a level playing field," Basu said.
He said Maryland's lack of table games has severely limited its ability to fully compete with Charles Town.
Charles Town has faced increased competition from Maryland this year. The Maryland Live! Casino, which has more than 3,000 slot machines but no table games, opened in Anne Arundel County in June.
But Basu said Charles Town's revenues have declined by only 6 percent since that casino opened. The decline was due to losses in slot machine revenues; Charles Town's table game revenue hasn't changed since Maryland Live opened.
"The implication is that it is possible to compete with Charles Town, but Maryland's lack of table games has severely limited its ability to fully compete to date," Basu said.
West Virginia Lottery spokesman Randy Burnside on Wednesday declined to comment on the Sage report.
"I cannot speak to numbers that were gathered by an outside source and not collected by our lottery," Burnside said.
West Virginia Lottery officials have said they are closely monitoring the situation in Maryland and preparing for potential impacts on this state's gambling industry.
While out-of-state competition has hurt the state's Northern Panhandle casinos, officials have said the Baltimore-Washington D.C. metro area is a much larger market and could possibly support more casinos.
However, Lottery officials are being cautious. Revenue officials have lowered forecasts for table game revenue in coming years to account for out-of-state competition.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Contact writer Jared Hunt at jared.h...@dailymail.com or 304-348-5148.

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All active members will now be required to obtain a minimum of 2.0 ethics credits annually. The new rule is effective beginning with the current reporting year, which runs from April 1, 2013, through March 31, 2014. The 3-year ethics reporting cycle has been eliminated.
All active Montana attorneys will begin the 2013-2014 reporting year with a clean slate in terms of ethics credits. No one will carry ethics credits from the previous year. Any ethics credits earned prior to this year were applied to the attorney's previous 3-year ethics cycle.
In addition, the requirement for substance abuse/mental impairment (SAMI) education has been eliminated. While SAMI credits will no longer be mandatory, they will continue to qualify as ethics credits in fulfillment of the yearly ethics requirement. Ethics credits may be earned by live or self-study methods.
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Hilton Head Regional Medical Center will provide flu shots for the community in December from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday – Friday at its Occupational Health Office located at 22 Bethea Drive on the hospital's South Campus.There is no cost for the flu shot for individuals with Medicare. Medicare recipients must bring a photo ID, such as a driver's license or state issued identification card, and their Medicare Card (Part B). The immunization is $20 for persons who do not have Medicare. Call 682-7341 for an appointment and walk-ins are welcome.
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The University of Dayton announced Friday it has sold out the 2013 NCAA First Four. That's about 12,700 tickets for the two-day event.
Now it turns its attention to making sure the the opening night of the men's basketball tournament stays at UD Arena for years to come. The NCAA has always requested a two-year bid, and UD submitted that, hoping to at least secure the the First Four for 2014 and 2015. A month ago, it also delivered a 10-year proposal.
UD Vice President and Director of Athletics Tim Wabler said he has heard other schools are interested in hosting the First Four, so there's no guarantee UD will continue to host the event. For now, Dayton is only assured of hosting the four games March 19-20, 2013.
"I don't know if anybody can put their foot forward like this," Wabler said. "I would be surprised. We're not taking anything for granted. Because the NCAA tournament has become such a big deal, we know we just have to keep earning it every year, year in and year out. We certainly do that operationally. When teams come here, when communities come here, they feel great about how welcome they are. We also feel part of the deal is selling out the arena, and the community came through."
J.P. Nauseef, chairman of the First Four Local Organizing Committee, spearheaded the effort to sell out the games. The first goal was to sell the 3,200 seats in the upper level. There was a discount for those tickets. The price dropped from $40 to $20 if you bought 25 or more tickets.
"That's a heck of a deal. That's $5 per game," said UD Arena director Tim O'Connell. "Those things went like wildfire. J.P., who has been a tremendous chairman, said, 'Let's keep on going. Let's see how far we can get. Let's hopefully sell out.'"
In 10 days, from Oct. 8-17, they got it done.
"Our season-ticket holders covered the lower arena," Wabler said. "They've been great as far as coming out to events here at the university. The local organizing committee took care of the rest."
The games drew just over 10,000 in 2011, the first year the event became known as the First Four. Last year, with President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron in attendance, the first night of games drew 8,510. The attendance on the second night was 7,219.
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Research Contributions
Developed and tested effective therapies for tuberculosis following World War II. Multi-center clinical trials led to development of the Cooperative Studies Program, which has since produced effective treatments for diseases and conditions including schizophrenia, diabetes, depression, heart disease and stroke. (1946)Established the standard for developing better-fitting, lighter artificial limbs through studies of human locomotion, enhanced surgical techniques and modernized design and manufacturing methods. (1946)Introduced the first mobility and orientation rehabilitation-training program for blindpersons. (1947)Invented the implantable cardiac pacemaker, helping many patients prevent potentially life-threatening complications from irregular heartbeats. (1958)Pioneered the concepts that led to development of computerized axial tomography (CAT scan). (1960)Conducted groundbreaking work with radioisotopes that led to development of modern radioimmunoassay diagnostic techniques. (1961)Performed the first successful liver transplants and developed techniques for suppressing the bodys natural attempt to reject transplanted tissue. (1968)Expanded understanding of how brain hormones interact with the endocrine system. (1970)Developed the nicotine patch and other therapies to help smokers give up thehabit. (1984)Invented a computer system that provides patients on ventilators with more accurate respirator settings, fewer medical complications, and better patient outcomes. (1989)Contributed to development of the first standards for wheelchair prescriptions. (1990)Development of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) systems that allow patients to move paralyzed limbs. (1991)Demonstrated that early treatment with corticosteroids reduces damage from spinal cord injury. (1993)Developed and tested a new device that has lead to improved wheelchair designs by enhancing assessments of upper extremity pain in manual wheelchair users. (1993)Demonstrated that one aspirin tablet a day reduced by half the rate of death and nonfatal heart attacks in patients with unstable angina. (1994)Conducted the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, which is instrumental in identifying ways to improve surgical care. (1995)Identified the gene that causes Werners syndrome, a disease marked by prematureaging. (1996)Developed clinical practice guidelines on cholesterol screening for the American College of Physicians. (1996)Found that an implantable insulin pump offers better blood sugar control, weight control and quality of life for adult-onset diabetes than multiple daily injections. (1996)Identified a gene associated with a major risk for schizophrenia. (1997)Identified a gene that causes a rare form of dementia, providing a potential target for treatment of Alzheimers disease. (1998)Found that less expensive, more conservative treatment of a common type of heart attack is superior to the standard heart catheterization and balloon angioplasty. (1998)Demonstrated that administering erythropoetin under the skin is as effective and less expensive than intravenous administration for treatment of severe anemia in hemodialysis patients. (1998)Started the Quality Enhancement Research Initiative that is rapidly translating research results into clinical practice for conditions prevalent among veterans. (1998)Found that a chemical messenger and a neurotoxin can shut down neurons associated with chronic pain while leaving intact those needed for a normal pain response. (1999) Conducted the first treatment trials for Gulf War Veterans Illnesses. One study is testing an antibiotic, and another is testing exercise and behavioral therapy for effectiveness in treating unexplained symptoms reported by veterans. (1999)Showed that colonoscopy is superior to the more widely used sigmoidoscopy as a primary screening mechanism for colon cancer. (2000)Conducted the first large clinical trial of hearing aids, showing that the devices can help the hearing-impaired in both quiet and noisy environments. (2000)Began the first clinical trial under the new Tri-National Research Initiative. Researchers from the VA are collaborating with colleagues from Canada and the United Kingdom to determine the optimal antiretroviral therapy AIDS and HIV infection. (2001)Initiated a landmark clinical trial that will assess the effectiveness of implanting deep brain stimulators as a treatment for Parkinsons disease. The study will be conducted at the VAs six new Parkinsons Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers. (2001)Found that patients with osteoarthritis of the knee who underwent mock surgery were just as likely to report pain relief as those who received the real procedure. These results challenge the usefulness of a common procedure on which Americans spend more than $3 billion each year. (2002)Developed the first oral drug to halt the deadly action of smallpox and related viruses in cell cultures and in cowpox-infected mice. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases is evaluating the drug for human use. (2002)Determined that the Medicare system could save up to $142 million annually by changing the way doctors administer the drug epoetin, used to boost the red blood count of patients with advanced kidney disease. VA researchers found that delivering the expensive drug under the skin rather than intravenously produced the same result at lower doses. (2002)For additional information, you may visit the VA Research and Development Web site.


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The Classicist: Grahame Fowler Brings Authentic British Style to NYC
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Designer Grahame Fowler has opened a cool new boutique in New York's West Village, bringing British style with an original, eclectic twist to the Big Apple. He's not one of your twentysomething hipster types, but rather a seasoned multi-disciplinary creative whiz incorporating colorful experiences abroad and a healthy dose of the '60s Mod sensibility from his youth in the UK into an array of stylish designs. The small, crowded West 10th Street store, or "creative lab and retail space" as Fowler calls it, features a wealth of clothing and accessories ranging from outerwear, suits, sweaters, shirts, ties, scarves, belts and boots to chess sets, vintage Rolex watches and restored Vespa scooters. Many items display a British military and nautical influence as well, emphasized by Fowler's anchor logo adapted from his father's naval tattoo and liberal use of the Union Jack.
Barney's Creative Director Simon Doonan has become a big fan. "On the total indie front I'm loving Grahame Fowler, this incredibly hip, gorgeous microstore next to the fire station on 10th street," he declared recently. "He has the best shirts, and he's an English dude with a great mod sensibility - and I'm stuck in 1966, so I can relate." All of Fowler's unique, handmade, pieces are sourced and crafted in New York. His tailored items are characterized by relaxed silhouettes, fine fabrics and the luxury of comfort. His attention to detail is apparent in button holes varying in size and color, pastel hued elbow pads on crisp white button downs, and hidden straps inside jackets designed to hold one's newspaper. He also offers select women's pieces such as button down shirts crafted from vintage fabrics with cotton poplin details.


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President Hotel is a 3-star hotel, ensuring a high quality of service and amenities. This is a perfect place for those who prefer to stay in large accommodations. Miami Beach Golf Club is an excellent attraction that is easily accessible from here. A possible inclusion in your itinerary, Española Way is a short distance from this location, as are Old City Hall and Casa Casuarina. Flamingo Park is one of several nearby options awaiting your visit. From this location you can easily reach Columbus Monument for a visit.
A restaurant, a bar/lounge and a terrace all belong to President Hotel. A concierge service is part of the list of services that you can benefit from here. Book into one of the 64 rooms that are present here. Parking in Miami Beach can be a hassle, but at least a paid valet parking service is available.
The rooms of President Hotel have air-conditioning. Free calls within the area are available to guests. A wake-up service, in conjunction with a daily housekeeping service, can be a convenient part of your stay. A convenient way to stay in touch, wireless high-speed Internet access (surcharge) is part of the room facilities here. If you usually spend a lot of time in the bathroom, you needn't deviate from your daily routine here, as there are many extra facilities offered, for example a rainfall showerhead. This hotel's rooms feature a refrigerator.
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good value, vegetarian
I've been taking this product for a couple of years and I like it because most flax oils are expensive. this one is reasonably priced and contains other stuff as well. great for vegetarians or people who don't like fish!
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