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Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories Of Living With Mental Illness, Patrick J. Kennedy, Lee Gutkind, Karen Wolk Feinstein
Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories Of Living With Mental Illness, Patrick J. Kennedy, Lee Gutkind, Karen Wolk Feinstein
Books
20 fascinating journeys through madness. What do you do when your father kills himself, or your mother is committed to a psych ward, or your daughter starts hearing voices telling her to harm herself—or when you yourself hear such voices?
Using Transition Teams To Support Middle Level Learners, Aaron Dean Nelson
Using Transition Teams To Support Middle Level Learners, Aaron Dean Nelson
Education
This study focuses on the learning characteristics of young adolescent children and their unique learning needs. The study evaluates the implementation of a transition team to develop interventions in reading and math to support students in transition from an elementary school setting to a junior high school setting. This analysis of the nature of the child in transition from elementary school to a middle level setting, will guide the re-design and improvements necessary to ensure every child is receiving a quality educational experience. The research found measurable improvements in student assessments, particularly math, when compared to previous classes as a …
Evaluation Of Response Plans In Two Counties: Implications For Response Planning In North Dakota, Florija Adjari
Evaluation Of Response Plans In Two Counties: Implications For Response Planning In North Dakota, Florija Adjari
Emergency Management
This comprehensive paper sought to evaluate two county emergency response plans to determine the implications of their plan quality for Central Plains Ag Services, a North Dakota agricultural business, that handles hazardous chemicals. The planning research literature was reviewed to identify what steps are taken in the planning process, the characteristics that impact plan quality, the importance of participation in planning, and the recommended plan content for all plans regardless of type and response plans specifically. The basic evaluation characteristics for plan quality were identified and these items, along with recommended content were put into an evaluation form. This evaluation …
German Romantic Guitar Duets (Schneiderman, Yamaya), Richard Long
German Romantic Guitar Duets (Schneiderman, Yamaya), Richard Long
Soundboard Scholar
Long reviews Darr's German Romantic Guitar Duets by John Schneiderman and Hideki Yamaya.
The Boundaries Of Social Entrepreneurship In Higher Education: A New Framework, Michele Mcfadden Reid
The Boundaries Of Social Entrepreneurship In Higher Education: A New Framework, Michele Mcfadden Reid
Education
Social entrepreneurship (SE) incorporates the more ethical dimensions of innovative business practices in the pursuit of financial sustainability in the advancement of societal goals, and is intended to empower all participants while bringing about positive changes in communities and society at large. An increasing number of colleges and universities are now embracing SE to stay competitive in the higher education market, find new sources of income in times of fiscal constraint, and align with their public service missions. However, despite the interest in SE on the part of the academic community, there is no broad or consistent understanding regarding what …
Do Victim Impact Panels Reduce Dui Recidivism?, Sarah Leigh Joyce
Do Victim Impact Panels Reduce Dui Recidivism?, Sarah Leigh Joyce
Criminal Justice and Political Science
This study looks at Victim Impact Panels as an effective program for reducing recidivism of convicted drunk drivers. Researchers collected data on a group of DUI offenders who were sentenced to attend a Victim Impact Panel (VIP) after being convicted of a DUI (410 cases) and a group of DUI offenders who were sentenced by a judge who did not order them to attend a VIP (373 cases). Using logistic regression, researchers found those offenders who were sentenced to attend a Victim Impact Panel were significantly less [likely] to reoffend, both in terms of subsequent DUI convictions, and criminal offenses …
Absence, Revision, And The Other: Rhetorics Of South Carolina Antebellum Tourism Sites, Deborah Cunningham Breede, Christine S. Davis, Jan Warren-Findlow
Absence, Revision, And The Other: Rhetorics Of South Carolina Antebellum Tourism Sites, Deborah Cunningham Breede, Christine S. Davis, Jan Warren-Findlow
Journal of Hate Studies
The production of tourism situated within an antebellum history is fraught with tension. Moralities, power conflicts, and identities clash as tourist production based on historical apartheid in the United States proliferates and becomes more popular and profitable. Southern states such as South Carolina are particularly subject to such concerns. As one of the original thirteen colonies, South Carolina was a profitable participant in the plantation system, a system built upon rhetorics of absence, revision, and hatred. These rhetorical constructions effectively created a view of enslaved Africans that “othered” and minimized them and erased their presence, importance, and humanity. The resulting …
The Love And Hate Relationship Of Colonial Heritage: Exploring Changes Of The Heritage Archive In Zimbabwe, Njabulo Chipangura
The Love And Hate Relationship Of Colonial Heritage: Exploring Changes Of The Heritage Archive In Zimbabwe, Njabulo Chipangura
Journal of Hate Studies
This article present some of the main debates circling around the conservation of colonial heritage in Zimbabwe and the contestations that undergird its protection because of a shift in understandings of the heritage archive, the former British colony’s national monuments register, which is constituted by a list of declared and protected heritage sites. In the conventional archive, archivability is “the product of a judgement, the result of the exercise of a specific power and authority, which involves placing certain documents in an archive at the same time as others are discarded” (Mbembe, 2002, p. 2), and so it is unsurprising …
Curating Hatred: The Joe Mcwilliams's Controversy At The Ulster Museum, Tom Maguire
Curating Hatred: The Joe Mcwilliams's Controversy At The Ulster Museum, Tom Maguire
Journal of Hate Studies
Since heritage is a manifestation of how the past is used in the present,engagement with heritage is a critical indicator of how contemporaryhatreds play out, both feeding and feeding off traditions and legacies.Despite its ongoing peace process, Northern Ireland remains a site of dissonantheritages, where sectarian hatred continues to be expressed in societaldivisions, often resulting in outright violence. This relationship betweencurrent expressions of hatred and the uses of the past present particularissues for heritage professionals. This essay examines a recent example inwhich these tensions have been made manifest, the inclusion of a paintingby Belfast artist Joe McWilliams in the Annual …
Discussing Auschwitz, Scholarly Integrity And Governmental Revisionism: A Case Study In Academic Intimidation, Kevin Mccarthy
Discussing Auschwitz, Scholarly Integrity And Governmental Revisionism: A Case Study In Academic Intimidation, Kevin Mccarthy
Journal of Hate Studies
In September 2015, I became embroiled in a controversial and confrontational media discourse that rapidly assumed a global context as external actors engaged in a hateful campaign of intimidation and threatening behavior. It was initiated by a letter I had published in the Belfast Telegraph, which included a reference that localised anti-Semitism was a factor in the Nazi decision to locate the Auschwitz-Birkinau extermination camp in Poland. It was a response to a letter thread that had included multiple mentions of Poland, Auschwitz-Birkinau, and hateful intimidation. However, a forensic examination of the letter suggests the confrontation had, in fact nothing …
Beyond Hate: White Power And Popular Culture By C. Richard King And David J. Leonard (Surrey, Uk: Ashgate, 2014. 200 Pp. $31.96. Isbn 978-1472427465)., Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Matthew W. Hughey
Beyond Hate: White Power And Popular Culture By C. Richard King And David J. Leonard (Surrey, Uk: Ashgate, 2014. 200 Pp. $31.96. Isbn 978-1472427465)., Bianca Gonzalez-Sobrino, Matthew W. Hughey
Journal of Hate Studies
In Beyond Hate, C. Richard King and David J. Leonard present a critical, virtual ethnography that examines the relationship between popular culture, media, and white supremacy. Their efforts center on the exploration of the intersections of white power and popular culture in the virtual world as articulated in the context of the contemporary United States. In specific, King and Leonard explore how white nationalists come to utilize the digital realm of popular culture as a clarion call to cleanup a society “polluted” by the rise of nonwhite populations, the proliferation of liberal ideology and to the supposed demise of the …
Native America And The Question Of Genocide By Alex Alvarez (Lanham, Md: Rowman And Littlefield, 2014. 203 Pp. $34.13. Isbn 978-1442225817)., Lisa King
Journal of Hate Studies
On September 6th, 2015, Indian Country Today publicized a story that did not make mainstream news but resonated throughout Indian Country: a Navajo/Maidu student, Chiitaanibah Johnson, was ejected from her California State-Sacramento history class after asking the instructor to address the genocide of Native peoples in his coverage of American history. The instructor claimed that Native peoples had simply died of disease and that she was “hijacking” his class when she insisted (Schilling). Meanwhile, amid the protests of 50 different California tribes, Pope Francis made headlines when he canonized the controversial figure Juniper Serra, one of the leaders of the …
Magnesium Rich Primer For The Corrosion Protection Of Aluminum Alloys: Investigation, Improvement And Application, Junren Lin
Coatings and Polymeric Materials
The goals of this research are to develop deeper understanding of the corrosion protection mechanism of Mg-rich primer (MgRPs), improve corrosion protection performance of MgRPs, and extend the application of MgRPs. To address these research goals, the following studies were performed: 1. Early blistering problems encountered during constant immersion or ASTM B117 exposure of top-coated MgRPs over AA2024-T3 substrate were investigated. The results suggest that hydrogen entrapment by topcoat, instead of Al corrosion, contributes significantly to the formation of early blistering. Meanwhile, simultaneous real-time hydrogen collection and open circuit potential measurement was demonstrated as a new method for studying the …
Risk Perceptions In The Management Of Student Organizations, Kim Bruemmer
Risk Perceptions In The Management Of Student Organizations, Kim Bruemmer
Education
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of risk in student organization management, including differing perceptions among student leaders, advisers, and university personnel, as well as, how factors such as institutional size and community setting influenced said perceptions. In identifying how these three individual groups articulate risk, the study sought to identify disconnect between the groups. This disconnect could lead to better resources to assist in the risk management processes. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, five research questions were developed. An electronic survey was used to gather information on risk perceptions. The survey had …
The Effects Of Salinity On Herbivorous Pests Of Corn And Soybean, Jaclyn Lee Eichele
The Effects Of Salinity On Herbivorous Pests Of Corn And Soybean, Jaclyn Lee Eichele
Entomology
Many environmental factors, including soil characteristics, are critically important for plants, herbivorous arthropods, and their interactions. Despite increasing evidence that soil salinity can drastically impact plants, little is known about how salinity affects the herbivorous arthropod pests feeding on those plants we investigated how soil salinity affects two major crop pests: the two spotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) feeding on corn and soybean and the soybean aphid (Aphis glycines) on soybean. We quantified the impact of salinity by measuring demographic characteristics and behavior of pests on plants grown in soil with various levels of salinity. Overall, both crop pests performed …
The Expansion Of Gender Roles In The Legend Of Zelda Series, Rachel Elyce Jones
The Expansion Of Gender Roles In The Legend Of Zelda Series, Rachel Elyce Jones
English
This study asked how the existing roles in video games may or may not change over time. The study used The Legend of Zelda series for a content analysis of the actions performed by all characters that appear in a segment of the game and all actions were recorded as data. The study used Judith Butler’s concept of gender being a performative act as a critical lens. Results showed that the possibilities for performing different character roles for male, female, and ungendered characters expanded across the study. The majority of females were found to be the Healer, Non-Profit Gifter and …
Resisting Rape Myths In Young Adult Fiction: An Analysis Of Young Adult Novels Speak And Crank, Kaylee Blanche Jangula Mootz
Resisting Rape Myths In Young Adult Fiction: An Analysis Of Young Adult Novels Speak And Crank, Kaylee Blanche Jangula Mootz
English
Introducing young people to fiction that depicts rape is important in that reading this type of fiction can be a more effective strategy for reducing rape-myth acceptance in young people than lecture-based prevention programs. To be fully effective, literature used for lowering rapemyth acceptance must fully resist rape myths. This paper analyzes Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and CRANK by Ellen Hopkins to find the ways in which each novel resists and conforms to rape myths, to determine whether these texts would be suitable for reducing rapemyth acceptance, and to identify ways in which future texts that aim to reduce …
Catering To Our Aging Population: Increasing The Overall Usability Of Financial Information Through Personalization, Alison Ruth Driscoll
Catering To Our Aging Population: Increasing The Overall Usability Of Financial Information Through Personalization, Alison Ruth Driscoll
English
Older adults are increasing in numbers nationwide at a higher rate than any other age group because of longer life expectancies. As a result, older populations, or those individuals aged 65 and above, have to make increasingly more difficult financial decisions. The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes regarding financial information among a sample of older adults when compared to a younger group. Findings included that older populations prefer to research financial information on their own rather than seek professional help. Thus, technical communicators must begin working closely with the financial and technology sectors to improve usability of …
(Re)Writing Sexual Consent: Affirmative Consent Culture In Sexual Misconduct Policies Of Higher Education Institutions, Jessica Jean Hatti Piek
(Re)Writing Sexual Consent: Affirmative Consent Culture In Sexual Misconduct Policies Of Higher Education Institutions, Jessica Jean Hatti Piek
English
This study primarily seeks to determine what policy language best reflects affirmative consent culture in the sexual misconduct policies of higher education institutions. It considers such policies to be important and influential documents which reflect institutional values, and as such, have the capacity to transform campus cultures. Coding categories based off of the concerns of Feminist Critical Policy Analysis were developed and applied to a corpus of eight policies, and the results of the coding were further analyzed rhetorically. The study found that policies are already reflective of affirmative consent culture, using similar language, content and structure. However, the study …
Sustaining Conversations For Rural North Dakota Language Arts Teachers, Erika Joy Dyk
Sustaining Conversations For Rural North Dakota Language Arts Teachers, Erika Joy Dyk
English
This qualitative study explores the role conversation plays in sustaining rural North Dakota Language Arts teachers. This study examines the questions: What conversations are sustained rural North Dakota Language Arts teachers engaging in? and What role does conversation play in sustaining rural North Dakota Language Arts teachers? Six rural Language Arts teachers were interviewed about their experiences with conversation using the framework of the three different discourse communities as proposed by Australian researchers Tytler et al. for rural professional development: the local school community, the local community, and the subject-matter community. Tytler et al.’s framework was productive in this study …
League Of The South's Internet Rhetoric: Neo-Confederate Community-Building Online, Brett A. Barnett
League Of The South's Internet Rhetoric: Neo-Confederate Community-Building Online, Brett A. Barnett
Journal of Hate Studies
A nationwide backlash against the Confederate flag and other Confederatesymbols occurred after the deadly June 17, 2015, church shootings inCharleston, South Carolina, when images of the alleged gunman displayinga Confederate flag surfaced. This backlash sparked a reactionary movementamong pro-Confederate supporters who viewed the attacks on Confederatesymbols as an affront to their Southern heritage. Some neo-Confederategroups exploited the backlash, and the pro-Confederate sympathy it generated,as an opportunity to build their communities. This essay examineshow the neo-Confederate group League of the South (LOS) used its websiteto attract members to its community in the week before the Confederateflag’s removal from South Carolina’s state …
Christopher Bail, Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream By Christopher Bail (Princeton, Nj: Princeton University Press, 2015. $27.95 Isbn 9780691159423)., Stephen Sheehi
Journal of Hate Studies
Christopher Bail’s Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations Became Mainstream is a fascinating and original contribution to the growing number of critical examination of Islamophobia in the United States, especially since 2001. Bail’s sociological study is the first quantitative study of anti-Muslim activism. The author clearly announces in the opening pages that “principle contribution” of his work is “a new theory that explains how cultural, social psychological, and structural processes combine to shape the evolution of shared understandings of social problems in the wake of crisis such as September 11th."
Personalized Health Insurance Services Using Big Data, Ylli Sadikaj
Personalized Health Insurance Services Using Big Data, Ylli Sadikaj
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cloud computing paradigm has significantly affected the healthcare sector like various other business domains. Persistently growing healthcare data over the Internet has called for the development of methodologies to efficiently handle the health big data. This study presents a framework that utilizes the cloud computing services to offer personalized recommendations about the most apposite health insurance plans. The users are offered implicit and explicit recommendations. A standard ontology is presented to offer a unified representation to the health insurance plans. The plans are ranked based on: (a) similarities between the users’ coverage requirements and the plans (b) priority of the …
Cloud Based Recommendation Services For Healthcare, Assad Abbas
Cloud Based Recommendation Services For Healthcare, Assad Abbas
Electrical and Computer Engineering
With the inception of portable computing devices, enormous growth in the healthcare data over the Internet has been observed. Consequently, the Web based systems come across several challenges, such as storage, availability, reliability, and scalability. By employing the cloud computing to offer healthcare services helps in overcoming the aforementioned challenges. Besides the healthcare organizations, cloud computing services are also equally beneficial for general public in devising patient-centric or user-centric methodologies that involve users in managing health related activities. This dissertation proposes methodologies to: (a) make risk assessment about diseases and to identify health experts through social media using cloud based …