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Assessing Stakeholders’ Perceptions Of Organizational Effectiveness Through A Multidimensional Theoretical Model: An Interpretive Phenomenological Qualitative Case Study, Andrea M. Paul

School of Public Service Theses & Dissertations

Nonprofit organizations play a fundamental role in meeting community needs when government resources are limited or nonexistent. For decades, scholars and practitioners have recognized the importance of nonprofit-government partnerships for effective public service delivery. This study examines faith-based organizations as a specific type of hybrid nonprofit organization. As social, economic, and environmental challenges intensify, the need for community-based programs led by faith-based organizations also increases. These organizations are working to combat several of society's wicked problems, including but not limited to homelessness, food insecurity, drug addiction, youth and family services, and climate change. Nonprofit sector performance measurement is often recognized …

Bioengineering The Future Of The Human Species: H+’S Ideological Iterations Of Trans-/Posthumanity As Exemplified By Futurist Literary Texts = (Bio)Technological Solutions For (And/Or) Reification Of Systemic Inequities?, Marjorie E. Bomhower

English Theses & Dissertations

While humanity has, throughout our species’ history, endeavored to dream and create astonishing, and ever-evolving, (bio)technologies with the utopian ideals of bettering our day-to day lives and achieving greater longevity, our endeavors have (thus far) not only produced remarkable, beneficial advances in longevity and quality of life, but have also yielded devastating and dire outcomes; often at the cost and victimization of marginalized communities. This dissertation focuses on select (bio)technologies – particularly, those promoted by H+ (the most current and popular technoutopianist non-profit, “educational,” organization) – with an investigation of current and nascent (bio)technological evolutions, futurist literary texts, and critical/digital …

Measuring Market Risk Through Entropic Var, Dragomir Nedeltchev, Tsvetelin Zaevski

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation with Applications

The article aims to measure the market risk beyond the basic risk measures like the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the Expected Shortfall (ES). The Entropic Value-at-Risk is selected among the available measures based on its advantages -- it is the coherent upper bound of the VaR and ES. This risk measure is applied to the classical Black-Scholes model as well as to some more realistic ones, such as the exponential tempered stable model (the log-returns are presented by a tempered stable L\'evy process), the stochastic volatility model of Heston, its jump extension of Bates, and another stochastic volatility model but with …

ทำไมในความรับผิดของปัญญาประดิษฐ์ถึงควรเปลี่ยนจากทฤษฎีความผิดเป็นทฤษฎีความรับผิดขององค์กร (Why Ai Liability Should Shift From Fault-Based Theory To Enterprise Liability), Laddawan Yaimanee

Chulalongkorn University Law Journal

ปัญญาประดิษฐ์เข้ามามีบทบาทต่อการดำเนินชีวิตของบุคคลอย่างมาก ทำให้เกิดปัญหาความรับผิดจากความบกพร่องของปัญญาประดิษฐ์ จากคุณสมบัติเฉพาะที่มีความซับซ้อนและความเป็นอิสระจากการควบคุมของมนุษย์ ทำให้การใช้ทฤษฎีความผิดที่มุ่งหาตัวผู้กระทำผิดมารับผิดชอบต่อความบกพร่องของปัญญาประดิษฐ์นั้นไม่เหมาะสมอีกต่อไป เนื่องจากทฤษฎีความผิดมุ่งหาผู้กระทำความผิดโดยเจตนาหรือประมาท โดยมุ่งเน้นที่ตัวบุคคลผู้กระทำผิด ทำให้ผู้เสียหายไม่ได้รับความเป็นธรรม ต้องพิสูจน์ต่อศาลว่ามีการกระทำผิดโดยเจตนาหรือประมาทเกิดขึ้น ทั้งที่โดยคุณสมบัติของปัญญาประดิษฐ์นั้นมีความซับซ้อนทางเทคโนโลยี ผู้เสียหายไม่อาจพิสูจน์ความผิดหรือความเกี่ยวข้องระหว่างเหตุและผลของการกระทำและการตัดสินใจของปัญญาประดิษฐ์ได้โดยง่าย ด้วยเหตุนี้จึงจำเป็นต้องนำทฤษฎีความรับผิดขององค์กรมาใช้ เพื่อให้ผู้ผลิตปัญญาประดิษฐ์รับผิดต่อความบกพร่องของปัญญาประดิษฐ์แม้ไม่มีความผิดเกิดขึ้นก็ตาม โดยเป็นการรับผิดในความบกพร่องชำรุดของปัญญาประดิษฐ์โดยตรง ทั้งนี้ผู้เสียหายจะมีภาระการพิสูจน์เพียงว่าปัญญาประดิษฐ์นั้นมีความชำรุดบกพร่องและก่อให้เกิดความเสียหายต่อผู้เสียหายเท่านั้น ซึ่งหลักทฤษฎีความรับผิดขององค์กรมุ่งเน้นที่การกระจายความเสี่ยงและการคิดต้นทุนการผลิตภายในองค์กร หลักการนี้จะทำให้ผู้ผลิตสามารถคำนวณต้นทุนความเสียหายได้ล่วงหน้าและสามารถกระจายความเสี่ยงไปยังผู้มีส่วนได้เสียหรือผู้บริโภคในตลาด ไม่จำต้องแบกรับภาระของต้นทุนสินค้าและความเสียหายแต่เพียงผู้เดียว ความรับผิดขององค์กรจึงเป็นความรับผิดเด็ดขาดของผู้ผลิต ซึ่งมีความเหมาะสมกับปัญญาประดิษฐ์มากกว่าการใช้ทฤษฎีความผิดแบบดั้งเดิม

Ramachandra Guha, ‘Speaking With Nature: The Origins Of Indian Environmentalism’, Neeraj Vedwan

Department of Anthropology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Ramachandra Guha, Speaking with Nature: The Origins of Indian Environmentalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024), 407 pp., $ 17.32, ISBN: 9780300278538.

Volume 66-2, November 2025, Nancy Hoalst Pullen, Mark W. Patterson

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 66-2, November 2025: Complete

Prairie, Nature, Innovation: Midwest Identity Represented In State Quarters, Kady Nolte, Gillian Acheson

The Geographical Bulletin

The US Commemorative Quarter Program, begun in 1999, was wildly popular with millions of people collecting the coins. Fifty new designs were introduced for the quarter’s reverse that intended to represent each state’s unique history and identity. These coins are a piece of material culture that can be studied to understand how they represent place identity, specifically state and regional identity in the US Midwest. In this study, quarters were examined using content analysis to understand how each design represented its state. Coins were studied individually and then wholistically to identify commonalities shared within the Midwest. Three themes were identified …

Super Soapbox

Emerging Writers

American superhero comics have always had some sort of political/socio-political spin to them. During the Golden Age of the 1930's to 50's, characters such as Superman and Captain America appeared in World War II propaganda fighting the Axis Powers. The following Silver Age from the 50's to 70's became infamous for its self-censorship under The Comics Code Authority, which in practice banned LGBTQ+ representation. However, the gradual retirement of the CCA's regulations allowed titles such as Uncanny X-Men and The Dark Knight Returns to cover heavier topics such as racism and political corruption during the Bronze Age of the 70's …

The Relationship Of Concussion And Alcohol Use: An Investigation Into Intervening Cognitive Mechanisms, Alexi Cranford

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and alcohol use are common and pervasive issues in society today. Alcohol use is frequently linked with brain injury even in its mildest form, concussion, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). The brain’s reward system has been shown to be involved in alcohol and substance use behaviors, and a neural basis has been demonstrated to underlie reactivity to alcohol cues. Learning theories such as classical and operant conditioning can also help conceptualize how these relationships develop. Reward sensitivity and executive functioning (particularly decision-making skills) are cognitive processes that may moderate the relationship between brain …

Retrieval Interference In The Processing Of Relative Clauses: Evidence From The Visual-World Paradigm, Matthew W. Lowder, Gwynna Ryan

Psychology Faculty Publications

Although object-extracted relative clauses (ORCs) are more difficult to process than subject-extracted relative clauses (SRCs), there is still substantial disagreement regarding the cognitive mechanisms underlying these effects. The current visual-world eyetracking experiment took a novel approach to this problem by examining whether ORC-SRC differences would emerge at the matrix verb during the processing of spoken sentences containing these structures. Fixation patterns at the onset of the matrix verb revealed a tendency for participants to fixate the picture representing the subject of the sentence in both ORCs and SRCs. Crucially, participants considered the picture corresponding to a competing noun more while …

The Evolution Of Self-Awareness In Conscious Organisms, Robert A. Dielenberg

Journal of Conscious Evolution

Self-awareness in conscious organisms remains an enduring puzzle for philosophers and neuroscientists. This paper proposes a tripartite evolutionary model tracing its emergence through three sequential types: the sensory self (primitive egocentric, valence-tagged awareness of sensory states), the bodily self (external objectification of the body as a distinct entity, evidenced by mirror self-recognition in select species), and the cognitive self (internal objectification of the mind enabling recursive self-transformation). Adopting a monist framework, the model treats consciousness as the biological substrate of delayed neural apperception (the “Delayed Present”), within which selves emerge as increasingly sophisticated models. It distinguishes non-human metacognition—implicit, online regulation—from …

A Grounded Theory Study Of Parent Social Support For Peer-Victimized Children, Madeline Glawe

Dissertations (1934 -)

Peer-victimization/bullying (PVB) is a common adverse childhood experience associated with significant psychosocial consequences including mental health concerns (e.g., internalizing problems, anxiety, depression), behavioral problems, and poorer academic outcomes. Although existing research has established that parental social support serves as a protective factor for victimized children, little research has explored how parents provide support over time, how their internal experiences shape their provision of support, and how parents make decisions about the support they are delivering. This dissertation used Constructivist Grounded Theory to explore the process through which parents provided social support to children experiencing PVB. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with …

Tik Tok, Francisco Vallejo

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.

The Town I Live In, Henry D. Juarez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.

Moving To The Outskirts, Jose Perez

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.

Mi Pasado No Lo Vences, Jorge Rico

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.

Tortillas, Miles Banda Davila

CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives

No abstract provided.

Drowning Prevention In The West: Who Did It Better?, Arran Hedley

University Honors Theses

This paper aims to communicate the differences on how the US, UK and Australia have approached drowning prevention in each of their nations. This paper addresses drowning statistics within each nation, national, state and local policies, access to public facilities, and the preventative strategies, swim lessons and Lifeguarding. These are the criteria each nation is being graded upon, because each criteria is a factor that can help mitigate drowning deaths.

For literature around this subject, there are many papers on each individual nation's approach to drowning but in researching there does not appear to be a comparison of the nations' …

How British Toy Company Jellycat Should Manage Demand And Supply-Chain Volatility In An Uncertain Economic Landscape, Ava Heckmann

SPARK Symposium Presentations

Jellycat is a London-based toy company established in 1999 that gained traction during the pandemic as a result of a viral social media craze driven by nostalgia and renewed focus on mental well-being among adults and Generation Z in particular. Jellycat toys became an international sensation–sold in 77 countries worldwide with majority of sales from the United States, China, EU, and the UK (Jellycat, n.d.). Their plush toys are produced primarily in China and Vietnam (Jellycat, n.d.). This unanticipated social media trend caused a spike in demand that the company struggled to match as supply was constrained due to recent …

Federal Prosecution In The Shadows Of Constitutional Immunity, J. Richard Broughton

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Executive Immunity, Corruption, And The Rule Of Law: Death By A Thousand Cuts, Kimberly Breedon

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Removal Responsibility, Kevin Frazier

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Consideration Of Food In A Diversity Society, Masayo Morofushi

Japanese Society and Culture

In recent years, the number of foreign visitors such as tourists and businesspeople, and the number of foreign residents such as workers and international students, have been steadily increasing in Japan. However, the decrease in the number of foreign residents in Japan is relatively small compared to the number of foreign visitors to Japan, due to travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regarding restaurants, Japan has experienced diversity, progress, and cross-cultural understanding; however, these changes have been stagnant due to a decrease in the number of foreign visitors to Japan during the pandemic. Many natural disasters have recently occurred, and …

Research Progress On Economic Impact Of Animal Diseases, Zhen Xu, Haizhao Zhang, Zizhong Shi, Hui Zhou, Xiangdong Hu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Animal diseases not only pose significant challenges to the stable development of related industries such as livestock farming but also adversely affect the broader economic and social landscape. This paper presents the reviews on the current state of research both domestically and internationally, systematically presenting the advancements of the economic impacts of animal diseases. The findings reveal that, (1) the economic impacts of animal diseases can be categorized into direct and indirect effects; however, a unified analytical framework has yet to be established. The “Epidemiology-Economics” approach is the primary analytical method for assessing the economic impacts of animal diseases. (2) …

Voice And Pain: Representations Of Disability In Adaptations Of “The Little Mermaid”, Ace Molloy

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 story, “The Little Mermaid,” is a popular fairy tale that has been adapted several times by writers, filmmakers, and game developers. It is one of the few fairy tales with explicit portrayals of disability; the mermaid in the tale is nonspeaking and experiences chronic pain, as well as being a mermaid—a nonnormative figure who is aligned with disability. This paper looks at the ways that the mermaid is portrayed in literary, film, and new media adaptations from a disability-justice perspective. Examining multiple representations of the character, I argue that while feminist adaptations erase her disability and …

Of Epistemes And Insects: How Drosophila And Butterflies Shape Our Understanding Of Radiation Risk, Donna M. Goldstein, Magdalena E. Stawkoski

Faculty Publications

This paper explores the complexities of extrapolating insect data to understand nuclear exposure effects on humans. Within radiation research, animal studies are invaluable tools for understanding biological effects of radiation exposure. However, data are often employed selectively, exposing unsettled science in extrapolating animal data to human radiation effects. Here we focus on our understanding of the genetic effects of radiation exposure, and how the debates about the long-term effects on humans were molded by research carried out on the model organism known as Drosophila; disagreements among scientists occurred within the constraints of research on this model organism, creating what …

Audubon Society Minutes, W.A. Ginham

Documents

Minutes of the Audubon Society--October 7, 1931, in Wesleyan Hall. The second part of the meeting was noted on November 4, 1931.

The Cowl - V. 89 N. 16 - March 19, 2026

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 89 No. 16 - March 19, 2026. 16 pages.

Geopolitical Transformation In The Post-October 7 Middle East (2023–2025): Power Shifts Vs. Structural Shifts, Nael Shama

The Journal of Social Encounters

This essay investigates the geopolitical shifts that unfolded in the Middle East from October 2023 to the end of 2025, stimulated by the surprise attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent events it triggered. These included military confrontations between Israel and each of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran, the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, and Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. The essay demonstrates that these developments have reshaped power positions and alliances in the Middle East, leading to a more complex and unpredictable geopolitical landscape. It sketches out the new regional balance of …

Bio-Based Textiles: From Waste To Runway, Leah L. Mella Mrs., Laziza S. Shamansurova, Kory Lynn Abramowitz Ms

SPARK Symposium Presentations

Have you ever wondered what it’s like wearing fabric made from orange peels? What about mushrooms? Sustainable bio textiles are defined as “a broad category of fabrics made from renewable, natural biomass—including plants, animals, algae, or bacteria.” The purpose of this study is to explore various bio based textiles such as orange peel fabric, algae fabric, and bacterial cellulose fabric. Given that the world is currently experiencing a severe climate crisis driven by pollution and carbon emissions, we need sustainable solutions now more than ever. To prevent further damage to our planet, we need to adopt more sustainable practices, and …