Michael Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Conway School of Landscape Design |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8054-1346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A tale of two pandemics
Purpose This study aims to use culturally responsive pedagogy as a model to examine teachers’ views of the equity implications found within virtual instruction. Design/methodology/approach The researchers used a descriptive methods design based on survey research employing both fixed (quantitative) and open response (qualitative) options to curate teachers’ perceptions of their students’ abilities to engage in online learning. Findings Teachers a…
Breaking Free
The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (Cesm2)
An overview of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) is provided, including a discussion of the challenges encountered during its development and how they were addressed. In addition, an evaluation of a pair of CESM2 long preindustrial control and historical ensemble simulations is presented. These simulations were performed using the nominal 1° horizontal resolution configuration of the coupled model with both the “low‐top” (40 km, …
Assessing terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in a strategically geoengineered climate
Geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) into the lower stratosphere has been suggested to reduce anthropogenically induced warming. While impacts of such geoengineering on climate have been investigated in recent decades, few modeling studies have considered biogeochemical feedbacks resulting from such intervention. This study comprehensively characterizes responses and feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems, from an ensemble of coupled h…
Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War
Of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, six are located in Asia and another, the United States, borders the Pacific Ocean. Russia and China were the first Asian nations with nuclear weapons, followed by Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Most of the world's nuclear powers are reducing their arsenals or maintaining them at historic levels, but several of those in Asia-India, Pakistan, and North Korea-continue to pursue relentle…
A Case for Authoring Multi-Touch Interactive Open Educational Resources
Revisiting the Cost-Effectiveness of the Combine Study for Alcohol Dependent Patients
OBJECTIVE: Most cost and cost-effectiveness studies of substance abuse treatments focus on the costs to the provider/payer. Although this perspective is important, the costs incurred by patients should also be considered when evaluating treatment. This article presents estimates of patients' costs associated with the Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions (COMBINE) alcohol treatments and evaluates the treatments' cost-effectivene…
The Effect of Alcohol Treatment on Social Costs of Alcohol Dependence
BACKGROUND: The COMBINE (combined pharmacotherapies and behavioral intervention) clinical trial recently evaluated the efficacy of pharmacotherapies, behavioral therapies, and their combinations for the treatment of alcohol dependence. Previously, the cost and cost-effectiveness of COMBINE have been studied. Policy makers, patients, and nonalcohol-dependent individuals may be concerned not only with alcohol treatment costs but also with the effec…
A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care - a randomised controlled trial
The objective of this randomised controlled trial was to compare the effects and expense of three approaches to care (1) proactive cardiovascular risk reduction (CaRR) clinic; (2) nurse telephone calls; or (3) usual care for people with cardiovascular risk factors in a Primary Care, Health Service Organisation (HSO) in Ontario, Canada. Subjects included consenting patients with an identified cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor identified fro…
Using a Tetradic Network Technique and a Transaction Cost Economic Analysis to illustrate an economic model for an open access medical journal
There is a crisis in scholarly publishing. The value of the scholarly information is frequently much less than the cost of providing that information. Consequently, libraries are suffering and scholars do not have access to information that they need. However, certain for-profit publishers and scientific societies are benefiting substantially from the current system. The Internet has demonstrated the potential to change this structure. The Budape…
The Motivation Analysis Test
This is an historical review and contemporary empirical evaluation of the Motivation Analysis Test (MAT), one of the first tests to take a psychometric approach to the assessment of motivation. Reviews were quite positive, but the test is now over 50 years old. Nevertheless, it employs innovations in measurement not widely used in objective measurement then or now: (1) subtests with different formats, (2) disguised items, (3) speeded administrati…
From Coordinating Board to Campus
Remediation of students' deficiencies in preparation, basic skills, and foundational knowledge has been an enduring, but largely ignored, component of curricula in colleges and universities in the United States. In recent years, however, policy makers have become more aware and less accepting of this state of affairs. While analysts document the extent of remediation - one regional study found that roughly one-third of freshmen students took reme…
ΦΘONOΣ and its related ΠAΘH in Plato and Aristotle
The Discussions of 'ANLΔPeia in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
Prisoners as laboratory animals
From Coordinating Board to Campus
Remediation of students' deficiencies in preparation, basic skills, and foundational knowledge has been an enduring, but largely ignored, component of curricula in colleges and universities in the United States. In recent years, however, policy makers have become more aware and less accepting of this state of affairs. While analysts document the extent of remediation - one regional study found that roughly one-third of freshmen students took reme…
Prisoners as laboratory animals
The Discussions of 'ANLΔPeia in the Eudemian and Nicomachean Ethics
ΦΘONOΣ and its related ΠAΘH in Plato and Aristotle
From Coordinating Board to Campus
Remediation of students' deficiencies in preparation, basic skills, and foundational knowledge has been an enduring, but largely ignored, component of curricula in colleges and universities in the United States. In recent years, however, policy makers have become more aware and less accepting of this state of affairs. While analysts document the extent of remediation - one regional study found that roughly one-third of freshmen students took reme…
The Motivation Analysis Test
This is an historical review and contemporary empirical evaluation of the Motivation Analysis Test (MAT), one of the first tests to take a psychometric approach to the assessment of motivation. Reviews were quite positive, but the test is now over 50 years old. Nevertheless, it employs innovations in measurement not widely used in objective measurement then or now: (1) subtests with different formats, (2) disguised items, (3) speeded administrati…
Using a Tetradic Network Technique and a Transaction Cost Economic Analysis to illustrate an economic model for an open access medical journal
There is a crisis in scholarly publishing. The value of the scholarly information is frequently much less than the cost of providing that information. Consequently, libraries are suffering and scholars do not have access to information that they need. However, certain for-profit publishers and scientific societies are benefiting substantially from the current system. The Internet has demonstrated the potential to change this structure. The Budape…
A primary care cardiovascular risk reduction clinic in Canada was more effective and no more expensive than usual on-demand primary care - a randomised controlled trial
The objective of this randomised controlled trial was to compare the effects and expense of three approaches to care (1) proactive cardiovascular risk reduction (CaRR) clinic; (2) nurse telephone calls; or (3) usual care for people with cardiovascular risk factors in a Primary Care, Health Service Organisation (HSO) in Ontario, Canada. Subjects included consenting patients with an identified cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor identified fro…
Revisiting the Cost-Effectiveness of the Combine Study for Alcohol Dependent Patients
OBJECTIVE: Most cost and cost-effectiveness studies of substance abuse treatments focus on the costs to the provider/payer. Although this perspective is important, the costs incurred by patients should also be considered when evaluating treatment. This article presents estimates of patients' costs associated with the Combined Pharmacotherapies and Behavioral Interventions (COMBINE) alcohol treatments and evaluates the treatments' cost-effectivene…
The Effect of Alcohol Treatment on Social Costs of Alcohol Dependence
BACKGROUND: The COMBINE (combined pharmacotherapies and behavioral intervention) clinical trial recently evaluated the efficacy of pharmacotherapies, behavioral therapies, and their combinations for the treatment of alcohol dependence. Previously, the cost and cost-effectiveness of COMBINE have been studied. Policy makers, patients, and nonalcohol-dependent individuals may be concerned not only with alcohol treatment costs but also with the effec…
A Case for Authoring Multi-Touch Interactive Open Educational Resources
Asia Treads the Nuclear Path, Unaware That Self-Assured Destruction Would Result from Nuclear War
Of the nine countries known to have nuclear weapons, six are located in Asia and another, the United States, borders the Pacific Ocean. Russia and China were the first Asian nations with nuclear weapons, followed by Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea. Most of the world's nuclear powers are reducing their arsenals or maintaining them at historic levels, but several of those in Asia-India, Pakistan, and North Korea-continue to pursue relentle…
The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (Cesm2)
An overview of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) is provided, including a discussion of the challenges encountered during its development and how they were addressed. In addition, an evaluation of a pair of CESM2 long preindustrial control and historical ensemble simulations is presented. These simulations were performed using the nominal 1° horizontal resolution configuration of the coupled model with both the “low‐top” (40 km, …
Assessing terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in a strategically geoengineered climate
Geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) into the lower stratosphere has been suggested to reduce anthropogenically induced warming. While impacts of such geoengineering on climate have been investigated in recent decades, few modeling studies have considered biogeochemical feedbacks resulting from such intervention. This study comprehensively characterizes responses and feedbacks of terrestrial ecosystems, from an ensemble of coupled h…
Breaking Free
A tale of two pandemics
Purpose This study aims to use culturally responsive pedagogy as a model to examine teachers’ views of the equity implications found within virtual instruction. Design/methodology/approach The researchers used a descriptive methods design based on survey research employing both fixed (quantitative) and open response (qualitative) options to curate teachers’ perceptions of their students’ abilities to engage in online learning. Findings Teachers a…
Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Ancient philosophy (2 works) · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (2 works)