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Refereed Research - Religiosity And Sociality As Sources Of Resilience For Women Subsistence Entrepreneurs During The Pandemic, Rozina Akther

Subsistence Marketplaces

This study examines challenges faced by subsistence women entrepreneurs during COVID-19, the crisis of 2020, and their resilience in addressing the circumstances. The results of qualitative interviews with 13 subsistence marketplace women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh are presented in this article. In the current study, two themes are found to best capture the experiences and resilience of women business owners in the subsistence marketplaces. Furthermore, the study provides important insights from informant interviews, showing how women business owners navigate their operations during a pandemic. It highlights attributes such as relational strength and faith in a higher power that contribute to their …

Failure To Implement Decentralization In Haiti As A Constitution Mandate, Alann Fils-Aime

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

As of 2023, after 36 years, Haiti has yet to implement decentralization successfully per its 1987 Constitution mandate. The situation that prompted this research literature is to fill the literature gap to investigate the elites' responsibilities and their neglectfulness to implement decentralization as mandated by the Constitution. The generic qualitative methodology was the selected design to better understand the reasons for Haiti, as of 2023, and after 36 years, to remain unable to implement decentralization per its 1987 Constitution mandate successfully. Policy feedback theory served as the theoretical foundation for this study. Data were collected from semistructured Zoom or telephone …

Impact Of Return On Assets (Roa) And Return On Equity (Roe) On The Company’S Value: A Study On A Sample Of Banks Listed In The Iraq Stock Exchange, Hussein Jaleel Mohsin

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The current study aims to find out how Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Asset (ROA) affect a company’s worth in banks listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange between 2017 and 2020. The study uses a quantitative descriptive method. The purposive sampling technique uses secondary data from the four banks (International Development Bank, National Bank of Iraq, Iraqi Middle East Investment, and Ashur Bank. The researcher used standard deviations to analyze the data. Return on Equity (ROE) and Return on Assets (ROA), two profitability factors that affect the value of companies in banks listed on the Iraq Stock Exchange, …

Short-Term Neurologic Outcomes In Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Are Proportional To Bleeding Severity Graded By A Novel Bleeding Scale, Katherine Doane, Danielle Guffey, Laura L Loftis, Trung C Nguyen, Matthew A Musick, Amanda Ruth, Ryan D Coleman, Jun Teruya, Christine Allen, Melania M Bembea, Brian Boville, Jamie Furlong-Dillard, Santosh Kaipa, Mara Leimanis, Matthew P Malone, Lindsey K Rasmussen, Ahmed Said, Marie E Steiner, Deanna T Tzanetos, Heather Viamonte, Linda Wallenkamp, Arun Saini

Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy Staff Publications

Introduction: This study aimed to characterize the severity of bleeding and its association with short-term neurologic outcomes in pediatric ECMO.

Methods: Multicenter retrospective cohort study of pediatric ECMO patients at 10 centers utilizing the Pediatric ECMO Outcomes Registry (PEDECOR) database from December 2013-February 2019. Subjects excluded were post-cardiac surgery patients and those with neonatal pathologies. A novel ECMO bleeding scale was utilized to categorize daily bleeding events. Poor short-term neurologic outcome was defined as an unfavorable Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category (PCPC) or Pediatric Overall Performance Category (POPC) (score of >3) at hospital discharge.

Results: This study included 283 pediatric ECMO …

Ghg Inventory From Building Washington State Department Of Transportation Roadways, Milad Ashtiani

PSU Transportation Seminars

State departments of transportation (DOTs) are increasingly focusing on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially with new regulations like the Buy Clean Acts in California, Oregon, and Washington. This project, in collaboration with the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), aims to assess the agency's carbon emissions through a life cycle assessment of construction materials such as cement, concrete, steel, and asphalt, which are now under heightened scrutiny.

While WSDOT has already implemented strategies to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions (related to direct and energy-related activities), there has been limited focus on Scope 3 emissions—those generated upstream in …

Strategies To Empower At-Risk Males In Orange County Florida: A Community-Based Resource, Thressa Marie Fizer

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In Orange County, Florida, community-based programs provide resources for at-risk males who are impacted by social determinant challenges. This study focused on the client intake assessment process of Agency OCF to identify gaps that would benefit from enhanced assessment processes and early intervention efforts creating greater opportunity for program placement of at-risk males in this distressed community. Community-based participatory research served as the interpretive lens and generic qualitative inquiry provided the methodological approach to assess the client intake processes. Yielding no participant responses during recruitment efforts, the study pivoted to focus on an in-depth review of publicly released assessments and …

The Role Of Local Leadership In Enhancing Local Performance_ Dhi Qar Governorate As A Model, Haneen Qasim Hasan

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

This research aims to study and analyze the role of local leadership in enhancing local performance in the Thi-Qar Governorate, focusing on the administrative and organizational aspects that contribute to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of services provided to citizens. The research seeks to measure the role of local leadership in enhancing local performance. For this purpose, a set of hypotheses was formulated, the most important of which was to find the relationship between correlation and influence (local leadership with its dimensions in local performance). To achieve the hypothesis tests, this research was applied to a sample of executive departments …

Influence Of Incomplete And Unverified Vote-By-Mail Ballots On Mail-In Voting, Susanne Lynne Timmons

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Vote-by-mail (VBM) ballots that were returned inaccurately during past general elections contributed to votes that were not counted in Florida. Since 2016, more than 600,000 mail ballots were not counted in the state; 73,000 were not counted in Broward County, Florida. The problem was that VBM ballots were returned as incomplete due to missing or mismatched signatures and not counted during the election processes. However, it was not known if this issue impacted voter perceptions of VBM voting. The public choice theory was the theoretical framework. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of voter perceptions …

تكامل الاستدامة في التخطيط الاستراتيجي لتحسين جودة المعلومات المحاسبية: دراسة تحليلية لعينة من المصارف في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية, حليم اسماعيل شنتة

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث إلى تحليل تأثير تكامل الاستدامة في التخطيط الاستراتيجي على جودة المعلومات المحاسبية في القطاع المصرفي، حيث تم اختيار عينة من المصارف في سوق العراق للأوراق المالية، وذلك لأنها تعد تقارير الاستدامة بشكل دوري، حيث اعتمد البحث على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وجمعت البيانات باستخدام استبانة وزعت على 110 المحاسبين والمدققين والمديرين الماليين في تلك المصارف والمحللين الماليين ، حيث تم استرجاع 93 استبانة صالحة للتحليل، بنسبة استجابة بلغت 84.5%، وقد ركزت الاستبانة على قياس تأثير تطبيق استدامة التخطيط الاستراتيجي على تحسين جودة المعلومات المحاسبية، مثل الشفافية والدقة والموثوقية، وأظهرت النتائج أن دمج مبادئ الاستدامة في التخطيط الاستراتيجي يعزز …

Environmentalism And Antitrust, Albert H. Choi, Daniel A. Crane

Law & Economics Working Papers

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of interest concerning environmental issues and the application of the antitrust laws. Numerous commentators, for instance, have argued that the antitrust enforcement should adjust to reflect the environmental harm (or benefit) that is generated from a competitive condition. In this paper, we take a step back and argue that analysis of the intersection between antitrust and environmentalism should begin with more mundane questions of economics. More specifically, we argue that environmental regulations can inform antitrust analysis by considering (at least) three issues: (1) the impact of environmental regulation on the firms' production …

How Does The Reauthorization Of The Farm Bill Impact Snap?, Colleen Heflin, Camille Barbin

Center for Policy Research

From 2021 to 2023, food insecurity in the United States increased from 10.2% to 13.5%, and food inflation rose to nearly 20%. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - the largest food assistance program, in the U.S. is funded and governed by the Farm Bill – a multi-year federal omnibus bill that provides agriculture and nutrition program funding. The 2018 Farm Bill expired on September 30, 2024, and while funding for SNAP has been extended through a Continuing Resolution, program reauthorization is needed. Negotiations on a new Farm Bill have included SNAP proposals to limit state discretion on work requirements …

A Qualitative Study Of Federal Employee Whistleblowing And Reprisal For Whistleblowing, Bruce S. Mclean

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Federal employee whistleblowing is essential to holding government officials accountable. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) was established in 1979 to provide a secure channel for federal government employees to report wrongdoing while protecting them from reprisal. More statutory protections were enacted with the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) in 1989; however, deficiencies in the WPA led to the eventual passage of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act in 2012. The problem is that the literature on whistleblowing fails to distinguish the OSC as the Executive Branch whistleblower protection agency nor recognize its annual reports and surveys as the only known …

An Ethnically Balanced Male Perspective Towards Police Officers Seeking Mental Health Counseling: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study, Arturo Parra

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This phenomenological study will aim to understand an ethnically balanced male perspective toward police officers seeking mental health counseling. Police Officers are routinely exposed to stressful and traumatic events, leading to acute and chronic disorders, mental illnesses, suicide ideation, and suicide, as research has indicated. Mental health counseling can play an essential role in intervention into mental health illness, providing critical tools to police officers to handle stress and potential mental illness. However, reluctance among the police community to seek mental health counseling continues to be prevalent. Possible cause for this reluctance are suggested through research as a direct result …

Can Officers Confidently Query State Vanity Plates & Account For License Plate Reader Inaccuracies?, Matthew Adam Simon

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This research explored whether Massachusetts police officers in Hampden County struggle to query state vanity plates through their mobile data terminals. When officers fail to attain a valid query response from their electronic inquiries, they cannot positively identify any pertinent data relating to a target vehicle. Consequently, the obstacles tied to this potential problem could provide criminals with an insulative layer of anonymity that shelters them from detection. This study employed a cross-sectional quantitative approach that sampled 164 police officers with traffic enforcement duties across Hampden County, MA. The study asked officers to answer a scalable questionnaire concerning their confidence …

Because He Lives: Exploring The Resurrection Of Jesus As The Root Belief In Theologically Conservative Christians' Resistance To Climate Policy, Roger E. Prather

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the ongoing and constantly evolving investigation into Christian attitudes about environmental issues generally and skepticism about climate change and climate policy specifically. This purpose is achieved primarily in two ways. First, it seeks to distinguish and disambiguate between skepticism about climate change among theologically conservative American Christians and skepticism about climate change policy. The study contributes to the academic literature by synthesizing two bodies of literature: that dealing with American Christians’ beliefs and climate change and that dealing with the nature of climate skepticism. Using the insights of Niklas Luhmann’s Social …

Comparison Of Redevelopment Policies, Gentrification, And Disparate Impact In Tallahassee, Dallas, And San Diego, William Dorsey

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Previous studies found that the economics of poverty are closely tied to property values, education, and employment. Racial disparity in income also exists today. Part of this is attributed to mass gentrification through Urban Renewal Administration programs that legally displaced entire Black neighborhoods under the purview of the Housing Act of 1954 prior to the Fair Housing Act of 1968. For example, Harlem Park was vacated and redeveloped using eminent domain. Critical Race theorists claim that these programs continue today using colorblind policies and secondary discrimination. This dissertation sought to develop a theoretical understanding of the impact ideology has on …

Student Loan Policies And Payments During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Closing The Gap Or Widening Inequalities?, Jason Jabbari, Takeshi Terada, Haotian Zheng, Stephen Roll

Journal of Student Financial Aid

Student debt was specifically addressed in the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic through forbearance polices. However, not all individuals were eligible for forbearance, and it is possible that forbearance would leave some feeling further behind. Yet, little is known about student loan debt over the course of the pandemic, especially in relationship to forbearance policies, loan payments, and household financial stability. Leveraging a representative longitudinal survey of households during the pandemic, we use descriptive regression techniques to explore changes in loan balances throughout the pandemic, as well as the relationships among student loan policies, payments, and measures of …

توظيف تقنية التكلفة المرتكزة على المدة (Dbc) في تقويم الأداء وفق محاسبة المسؤولية في الوحدات الاقتصادية, رعد عبد مسلم

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف هذا البحث إلى استكشاف ماهية تقنية التكلفة على أساس المدة (Duration-Based Costing – (DBC ومتطلبات تطبيقها، وما هو ودورها في تقويم الأداء وفقاً لمبادئ محاسبة المسؤولية في الوحدات الاقتصادية، حيث ان تقنية (DBC) تعكس فهماً أعمق لكيفية توزيع التكاليف على الأنشطة بناءً على الوقت المستغرق لأدائها، مما يتيح للوحدات الاقتصادية تحديد الفاعلية والكفاءة في استغلال الموارد، كما يتناول البحث كيفية تطبيق هذه التقنية لدعم تقويم الأداء من خلال تقديم تقارير مالية أكثر دقة وشفافية تسهم في تحسين اتخاذ القرارات الإدارية، ولتحقيق اهداف هذا البحث تم تطبيقه في معمل الألبسة الرجالي فرع النجف الاشرف، وتم الاعتماد على بيانات سنة 2022، …

An Update To The October 2015 Working Draft On Drogheda – Ireland’S Emerging Sixth City, Using 2022 Census Data, Brian Hughes Dr, Brian Hughes Dr

Reports

This research update of author’s earlier Paper of October 2015 ‘Greater Drogheda: Emerging Demographic Evidence Base for Ireland’s Sixth City’ by reviewing and updating the growth of the Greater Drogheda Area (GDrA). It includes an examination of the fusion of its two largest settlements, Drogheda and fast-growing Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney (LBMD) towns. The scale of Drogheda’s growth is evidenced as a city and not that of the National Planning Framework’s Regional Growth Towns, as the evidence of this Paper will show. My 2015 paper and also my 2010 PhD are published in [email protected], under Brian Hughes.

دور مهارة التفكير الاستراتيجي في فاعلية إدارة الازمات: دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من المدراء العاملين في وزارة التربية, احمد محمود كتاب

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

هدف البحث الحالي الى تحديد دور مهارة التفكير الاستراتيجي متغير البحث المستقل والذي تم قياسه ب (التأمل، التفكير النظمي، واعادة الصياغة) في فاعلية إدارة الازمات التي تم قياسها ب (حشد الموارد، الاستجابة، الاتصالات)، حيث اعتمد البحث على المنهج الوصفي التحليلي في جمع وتحليل وتفسير بيانات ومعلومات البحث، كما وتم استخدام الاستبانة في جمع البيانات والمعلومات من عينة بلغ قوامها (56) مديراً عاملاً في وزارة التربية مجتمع البحث أذ تم تحليل البيانات والمعلومات التي تم الحصول عليها بواسطة البرنامج الاحصائيspss-v26))، توصل البحث الى عدد من النتائج اهمهما وجود علاقة ارتباط بين متغيري البحث فضلا عن وجود تأثير لمهارة التفكير الاستراتيجي في …

التوجه الاستراتيجي مدخلا لتفعيل التسويق الريادي للمنظمات الفندقية دراسة استطلاعية لآراء عينة من المدراء والموظفين في عدد من المنظمات الفندقية في العاصمة العراقية- بغداد, حسن عودة غضاب

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يهدف البحث إلى معرفة الدور الذي يلعبه التوجه الاستراتيجي والمتمثل بــــــــ(التوجه نحو الزبائن ، التوجه التكنولوجي ، التوجه نحو السوق ،التوجه نحو الخدمة) ، مدخلا لتفعيل التسويق الريادي للمنظمات الفندقية والمتمثلة بــــــــــــ(التركيز على الزبون ،التوجه الاستباقية، اقتناص الفرص)، لعدد من المنظمات العراقية في العاصمة العراقية- بغداد، وتمثلت عينة البحث بـــــــــ( مدراء الاقسام، ومدراء الشعب، والموظفين) في المنظمات الفندقية، من خلال فرضيات رئيسة أهتمت بمدى اسهام التوجه الاستراتيجي لتفعيل التسويق الريادي للمنظمات الفندقية، واعتمد الباحث على مخطط البحث تم بناءه على أساس المراجع والادبيات ذات العلاقة بموضوع البحث ، وتم اعتماد استمارة استبيان معدة لهذا الغرض وجرى تحليل البيانات باستخدام SPSS …

Public-Private Partnerships In Fema: Strengthening Communities Nationwide, Rachael A. Zerr

Publications and Research

This paper explores the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in strengthening communities through collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). It defines FEMA’s mission and outlines the concept of PPPs, emphasizing their importance in enhancing disaster response and recovery efforts. The paper provides framework for establishing a PPP with FEMA, including key steps and practices for successful collaboration. Additionally, it highlights several examples of effective PPPs, including a longstanding partnership with Verizon Wireless. Drawing from FEMA reports and private sector publications, the paper demonstrates how these partnerships contribute to resilience and preparedness, illustrating their potential to improve the efficiency …

Measuring And Analyzing The Effectiveness Of Monetary Policy Tools To Manage The Internal Public Debt Structure In Iraq, Ali Wahaib Abdallah, Alyaa Hussein Khalaf F Al-Zarkroushib

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The research aims to analyze the relationship between monetary policy tools and the structure of domestic debt in Iraq based on the multiple regression model after testing the stability of the series under study using approved tests based on monthly data (2016-2024). The research reached several conclusions confirming a relationship between the variables. Using the standard method, it became clear that the relationship between the independent variable Policy Price (PP), which expresses the policy rate, the cash reserve variable Monetary Reserves (R), and the dependent variable, remittances discounted from the Central Bank (CBC), is an inverse relationship, i.e. if the …

Improving Volunteers' Safety During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Dr. Laquetta Postell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The onset of COVID-19 presented multiple challenges to both governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The selected study site is a nonprofit organization located in a major Southern US City. This organization shelters homeless men. The organization depended on volunteers' assistance in offering short-term and long-term solutions to provide clothing, cleaning, and shelter for homeless men. The organization was facing new challenges due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, the complexities of the social, political, and economic challenges for volunteers during the pandemic were well explored. The nonprofit organization’s challenges were examined and recommendations to help the organization …

Imposing The Digital Tax On The Profits Of Electronic Companies And Its Impact On Increasing Revenues: A Survey Study Of The Opinions Of A Sample Of Managers And Estimators Working In The General Tax Authority In Iraq, Bushra Hassan Mohamed El-Toby

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The study aims to show the financial impact of the imposition of the digital tax on the profits of electronic companies in increasing the general revenues of the state and to identify the obstacles that tax authorities may face during its imposition. The study methodology relies on the inductive approach in observing the research problem represented by the weak contribution of traditional tax revenues in supporting general revenues, as well as the deductive approach to clarify the nature of the relationship between the independent and dependent study variables according to theoretical and applied frameworks. For this purpose, we designed a …

The Impacts Of A Multimodal Safety Project On North Lombard Street In Portland, Oregon, Jason Anderson

PSU Transportation Seminars

North Lombard Street/US-30 Bypass is a critical corridor in North Portland, serving both commercial and residential interests. This corridor is also ranked 11th in terms of fatal and serious injury crashes in Portland. The Oregon Department of Transportation and the Portland Bureau of Transportation undertook a reconfiguration to improve multimodal safety and accessibility for all users. The reconfiguration happened between North Fiske Ave and North Boston Ave. Improvements included additional curb ramps that meet ADA standards, safer crosswalks with fewer lanes to cross, buffered bike lanes, new pavement and center turn lanes, traffic signals, and RRFBs and median refuge islands. …

The Carbon Crater: Comparing Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Historical Planetary Events, Hal T. Nelson, Paul Reynolds, Brian W. Jewett

Public Administration Faculty Publications and Presentations

Equilibrium climate sensitivity modeling relies heavily on paleoclimate records that were affected by meteorite impacts and volcanic explosions. This paper conducts a thought experiment by re-assembling known data and theories to shed new light on anthropogenic carbon waste. Anthropogenic activity, meteorite impacts and volcanic explosions all extract material from the Earth’s crust and deposit it in the atmosphere. This thought experiment tests if the mass of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions from 1851 to 2021 is comparable to the mass of atmospheric emissions from historical planetary events. Approximately 3.60 trillion tons of anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalents are converted into volume and …

2024 Homecoming Flyer, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Communications and Marketing Publications Archive

The 2024 Homecoming Flyer.

Racial Residential Segregation And Covid-19 Health Outcomes: Evidence From The State Of Georgia, Palak Patel, Simon Medcalfe, Catherine P. Slade

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

ABSTRACT

Background:

According to the Georgia Department of Public Health (GDPH), the state of Georgia reported 563,658 cumulative COVID-19 cases and 9,845 total deaths in 2020. Decades of research on racial disparities in health outcomes suggest we should not be surprised with the disproportionate number of cases, hospital visits, and deaths of non-white and Black Georgia residents. Racial disparities in health are often defined by a Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) model. One understudied SDOH is racial residential segregation. In this study we explore the relationship between racial residential segregation and COVID-19 health outcomes. Our paper addresses critical challenges for …

Dual Effect Of Exchange Rate Policies And Export Promotion On China’S Economic Growth (1990-2023), Ihab Abbas Mohammed Al-Faisal, Zahid Qasim Al-Saadib

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

The study aims to identify the Chinese economy’s economic variables by studying and analyzing exchange rate and export promotion policies as they directly relate to the country and its external environment. Studying the relationship between currency exchange rates and exports, on the one hand, and exports and economic growth in China, on the other hand, is essential in knowing when devaluing the Yuan exchange rate leads to higher export growth, which helped raise economic growth rates in China. Therefore, the study relied on the hypothesis that “if China comes up with financial policies to reduce the exchange rate of its …