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The Effects Of Diversity Training On Mental Healthcare Professionals, Andrea Elizabeth Theye

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Previous research has indicated that the United States is experiencing a rapid growth in its racial and ethnic diversity. Although diversity trainings are common place, many of these trainings do not include outcome measurements to ensure that training goals are met and reactions are favorable. The current study expands the research by evaluating the change in attitude, selfreported culturally competent behavior, and knowledge as a result of the training as well as reactions to the training through the use of pre and post-training measures. Mental healthcare workers (n = 47) completed a pretest, received the diversity training, and then completed …

When It Comes To Standing, Two Legs Are Better Than Four, Kelsey Kobil

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

Animal rights activists are currently filing lawsuits naming animals as plaintiffs hoping that courts will grant animals legal personhood status and standing to file lawsuits on their own behalf. Currently, animals are designated as property in the United States. If courts grant animals legal personhood status, animals would no longer be classified as property, but instead would hold the same legal rights as humans.

Several courts have grappled with the issue of granting animals standing to file lawsuits, and--other than a Ninth Circuit decision that was later explicitly dismissed as dicta by the same circuit-all have declined to do so. …

To Bioprint Or Not To Bioprint, Jeffrey Abramson

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

America’S Evolution Of Women And Their Roles In The Intelligence Community, Amy J. Martin

Journal of Strategic Security

The role of women in the Intelligence Community has evolved over time and captures the use of their skills to further assist, perpetuate, and lead intelligence operations globally. This paper serves as a historical overview of some of the techniques of the early female spies and highlights the successes of the modern woman’s contributions to the intelligence mission. Emerging female operations officers often face obstacles: dealing with bias within the bureaucracy, issues of female equality within certain cultures, and experiencing slower rates of promotion. This has meant a lack of females in competitive leadership positions. Female mentors and former intelligence …

Introduction To Forum: The Hemispheric French Atlantic, Michelle Burnham

English

“The Hemispheric French Atlantic” begins to suture a transatlantic to a hemispheric spatiality by tracing out the movement of texts, figures, and traditions within a complex and kinetic circulatory system that moves beyond the geometric model imagined by studies of the French Atlantic triangle. In tracking the discourses of politics, literature, and anthropology through a hemispheric French Atlantic space complicated by race and slavery, these five literary critical essays focus on the legacies of violence and promise that radiate through time and space from the Haitian revolutionary moment, spiraling across and beyond the long nineteenth century while circling across and …

Characteristics Of Speech (Part 1) And Language (Part 2) For Hearing Devices (Aids), Earl E. Johnson

ETSU Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Ndp News- Fall 2015, Ndp Staff

Nontraditional Degree Program Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Markets, Society And The Economy, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

Most of the popular discussion on the economy remains obsessively focused on the government, its policies and institutions. While it is true that these policies and institutions play a critical role, we do forget that productivity gains which form the cornerstone of economic growth and better living standards are achieved under a given factor endowment through interactions between public policies and institutions, private sector response and behavior, society’s norms and culture and external environment. We should therefore shed light on the societal norms, attitudes and culture and the markets in which the private economic agents operate taking the public policy …

Predicting Autism Over Large-Scale Child Dataset, Arpit Arya

Master's Projects

Data Analytics and Machine learning in healthcare are one of the most emerging and needed fields in current time. Also, a lot of research has been performed and is still being done in this field. In healthcare, gone are those days when only doctor examines and patient listens. Now doctor has a lot of technologies which can assist him and help in accurately diagnosing the disease with which his patient is suffering. The backbone of such technologies is data analytics and machine learning where we can make out a lot of inferences from tons of patients‟ data already available. This …

Trash Talk: Interpreting Morality And Disorder In Negev/Naqab Landscapes, Emily Mckee

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

In contexts of land conflict and deep social divisions, evaluations of dirty and disordered landscapes carry social and political weight. This article employs a “political dwelling” perspective in southern Israel to examine how links between Bedouin character, litter and disorder, and lawlessness have become widespread, even naturalized, among many government officials and Jewish residents and even some Bedouin Arab residents. Contemporary trash talk draws on, but simultaneously masks, a history of state-building projects that employed Orientalist evaluations of order and disorder and segregationist approaches to development. While this masking of social construction is a property of all symbolically powerful social …

Pool, Rosey, Msrc Staff

Manuscript Division Finding Aids

Title: Papers, 1959-1967 Description: 1 linear ft.

Notes: Author, educator, and editor of two anthologies of Afro-American poetry; b. Amsterdam. Chiefly correspondence with established and emerging Afro-American poets; together with personal papers. Correspondents include Robert J. Abrams, Samuel W. Allen (writing as Paul Vesey), Imamu Amiri Baraka (writing as LeRoi Jones), Julian Bond, Arna Bontemps, Roscoe Lee Browne, John Henrik Clarke, Owen Dodson, Mari Evans, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, and Arthur B. Spingarn.Gifts of Rosey E. Pool, 1962, 1965, 1967.

Subjects: Abrams, Robert J., 1924- , as correspondent. Allen, Samuel W., as correspondent. American poetry -- Afro-American authors. Baraka, Imamu …

Deferred Action And The Bounds Of Agency Discretion: Reconciling Policy And Legality In Immigration Enforcement, Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Meaningful And More Meaningful: A Modest Measure, Peter Baumann

Philosophy Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Environment And Civil War: Exploring The Relationship Between The Environmental Performance Index And Incidence Of Internal Armed Conflict, Katerina N. Krohn

Student Publications

The state of the environment is receiving increasing attention. Environmental quality’s possible relationship to violent conflict attracts both popular and academic interest. Prior research has found support for the idea that environmental scarcity is related to higher occurrences of civil war. There have been few comprehensive quantitative studies regarding this relationship. This study tests a more general argument that higher environmental quality can lead to fewer occurrences of internal armed conflict. The study utilizes an environmental performance index found in the Quality of Government Standard Dataset to test its hypothesis. The study finds that the higher the environmental performance index …

Two Steps Forward And One Step Back: An Assessment Of How Uneven Economic Development Affects The Number Of Civil Wars, Cassandra M. Scheiber

Student Publications

The effects of economic development are enormously important in understanding the causes of civil war and the requirements for successful post-conflict reconstruction. In recent decades we have seen an increase in the number of civil wars because of a phenomenon known as the conflict trap. I question why we see an increase in civil wars and what role unstable economic development plays in contributing to the conflict trap. This paper offers evidence to support the hypothesis that uneven economic development increases the risk of multiple civil wars occurring in a short amount of time. Based on the results of testing …

Education: A More Powerful Weapon Than War?, Maja K. Thomas

Student Publications

In this paper, I analyze the impact of education on civil war onset, utilizing variables measuring length of compulsory education and number of internal armed conflicts in a given country per year. Using data from the Quality of Government Institute’s Quality of Government Standard Time Series data set, I test this hypothesis and find that an increase in compulsory education length decreases the expected number of internal armed conflicts. The results suggest further importance of education as a great equalizer among individuals as well as nations.

Letters To Mr. Carter, Jasmin S. Eddy

Student Publications

This final project synthesized discussion and learning from four different books: "To Teach: The Journey in Comics" by W. Ayers and R. Alexander-Tanner, "Musician and Teacher: An Orientation to Music Education" by P. S. Campbell, "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by N. Postman and C. Weingartner, and "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by P. Freire. Through a series of letters to a teacher, Mr. Carter, the letter writers demonstrate the important ideas presented in each of the books.

Mcnair Scholars Research Journal Volume Viii, St. Mary's University

McNair Scholars Research Journal

This is the eighth journal for the McNair Scholars Program at St. Mary's University.

"Congratulations to the scholar-authors whose work is published in this edition of the McNair Scholars Research Journal. As always, I am impressed with the diverse topics and creative work of our scholars and look forward to their future publications. These projects are, in most cases, the result of a minimum of sixteen weeks of close collaboration with a mentor who is an expert in the scholar's field of study. The opportunity to work in close concert with an accomplished mentor is a key component of the …

Review Essay: Mhra Tudor & Stuart Translations, Joshua S. Reid

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of Hadfield, Andrew and Neil Rhodes, Gen ed. MHRA Tudor & Stuart Translations. 23 vols. London: Modern Humanities Research Association 2011-2017.

Czech Bluegrass In Play, Lee Bidgood

ETSU Faculty Works

Drawing from scholarship on play, ritual, and performance, I propose that Czech bluegrass thrives – as does my fieldwork – in a state of in-betweenness, in a territory that is between work, play, here and there, self and other. Being comfortable with this kind of in-between state is important for fieldwork, and for music-making – play, I find, is both a central activity and metaphor in both. The bluegrass play I discuss in this essay can become a response to the encroachment of Americanization in economic and cultural globalization, but also a way of being “Americanist” – and entirely Czech.

Soziale Kompetenz: A Comparative Examination Of The Social-Cognitive Processes That Underlie Legal Definitions Of Mental Competency In The United States, Germany, And Japan, Joseph Alan Wszalek

Fordham International Law Journal

Part I of this Article will examine plain-text selections of legal language concerning mental competency from the constitutions, codes, or relevant decisions by the highest national courts, of three countries: the United States, Germany, and Japan. As three of the biggest economic powers on the planet, these countries merit consideration not just for their contrasting cultural and legal frameworks but also for their relative influence within the international arena during the latter half of the twentieth century. Part I’s examination will focus on constitutional and code language for two important reasons: (1) these sources of law form the basis of …

Scitech News Volume 69, No. 4

Sci-Tech News

Table of Contents:

Columns and Reports

From the Editor 5

SciTech News Call for Articles 5

Division News

Science-Technology Division 6

Preliminary Results from SciTech Survey 15

Chemistry Division 18

Membership Survey Report 19

Appendix: Summary of DCHE 2015 Membership Survey Result 20

Engineering Division 42

Engineering Division Executive Board Election Results 44

Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division 45

Call for Nominations & Applications

Engineering Division: First call - 2016 award nominations & applications 43

Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 46

Advertisements Annual Reviews 3

CRC Press 4

A Program Evaluation Of A Literacy Intervention For Reluctant Middle School Readers, James Allison

Dissertations

The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to determine if the literacy intervention program for reluctant readers in one middle school was effective as measured by an increase in student reading scores measured by the Student Reading Inventory Assessment. I investigated perceptions of 100 students and 28 teachers regarding the literacy intervention program through the use of district-administered surveys. I also interviewed eight teachers regarding their delivery of the literacy interventions in the classroom setting. The literacy intervention program targeted the population of students identified as reluctant readers who were not already receiving any reading intervention, but were reading below …

Integrated Reading And Writing: A Case Of Korean English Language Learners, Hyonsuk Cho, Janina Brutt-Griffler

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

This study reports Korean English language learners’ perceived needs concerning their learning of reading and writing and how the integrated reading and writing instruction impacts their reading comprehension and summary-writing abilities. The study also delineates teacher’s challenges faced during the instruction. A total of 93 students in a middle school in Korea participated in a needs survey, and 69 students at three proficiency levels received the integrated instruction. The study found that students desired extra help on their writing to gain balanced English competence; also they wanted to learn reading and writing together. After the intervention, students at intermediate and …

A Cross-Sectional Study Of Anxiety And Marital Quality Among Women With Breast Cancer At A University Clinic In Western Saudi Arabia, Faten N. Al-Zaben, Mohammad G. Sehlo, Harold G. Koenig

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To examine relationship between the quality of marital relationship and anxiety among women with breast cancer (BC) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited a consecutive series of 49 married women with BC seen in the Al-Amoudi Breast Cancer Center of Excellence at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA in early 2013. Participants completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Spouse Perception Scale, and Quality of Marriage Index forms, and answered questions on demographic and cancer characteristics. Results: Anxiety symptoms indicating “possible” anxiety disorder were present in 10.4% and “probable” anxiety disorder in 14.6% (25% …

Soo Hyon Kim Assistant Profess Of English (Cola) Travels To New Zealand, Soo Hyon Kim

Faculty Travel Reports

In November 2015, I traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to present a paper at the 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing. The annual symposium, since its inception in 1998, has been devoted to moving forward the field of second language writing and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars situated in fields such as applied linguistics, composition and rhetoric, education, and foreign language studies.

The Visions That Created The Hymn “Be Thou My Vision", Brenda Ayres

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Besides encouraging these homeschooled graduates to follow the advice of the words in the hymn "Be Thou My Vision," the speech tells the history of the formation of the song that conveyed the vision of its creators.

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Philosophy, Fall 2015, Richard Harrison

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, Judaic Studies, Fall 2015, Richard Harrison

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.

The Subject Librarian Newsletter, History, Fall 2015, Richard Harrison

Libraries' Newsletters

No abstract provided.