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Addressing The Ten Commonly Asked Questions About Qualitative Research In The Philippines, Safary Wa-Mbaleka Dec 2017

Addressing The Ten Commonly Asked Questions About Qualitative Research In The Philippines, Safary Wa-Mbaleka

The Qualitative Report

There is no doubt that the need for qualitative research has increased and has been felt all around the world. Once feared, detested, or even not much valued by some, qualitative research has now become the rare bird many people are trying to catch. Unfortunately, as more and more people and institutions try to embrace qualitative research, maybe more damage is being done in the process because of the lack of solid understanding of qualitative research. To pave a strong way to excellence in qualitative research conduct and dissemination, it is important to have an idea of the current state …

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Assessing Concerns And Leading Pedagogical Innovation In Higher Education: A Case Study Of The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School Of Business, Kamla Mungal, Gour C. Saha Dec 2017

Assessing Concerns And Leading Pedagogical Innovation In Higher Education: A Case Study Of The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School Of Business, Kamla Mungal, Gour C. Saha

Journal of Curriculum, Teaching, Learning and Leadership in Education

Studies of pedagogical innovation indicate that the implementation process is enhanced by addressing teachers’ concerns. Institutions address teacher preparedness mainly from the perspectives of their preparation and institutional support, without recognising teachers’ mental state and particular implementation concerns. This paper adopts the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) to examine the Stages of Concern (SoC) of faculty involved in the implementation of pedagogical reform. The standardized 35-item SoC questionnaire was sent online to 152 faculty members and 31 responses were obtained. The study found the faculty body had high levels of self-concerns, low levels of impact concerns and a willingness to …

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Constitutional Barriers To Congressional Reform, John M. Greabe Dec 2017

Constitutional Barriers To Congressional Reform, John M. Greabe

Law Faculty Scholarship

Americans celebrate our Constitution as a beacon that can guide us through difficult situations. And justly so. But at times, the Constitution also has stood as a barrier to necessary reform.

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Hanging In The Balance: The Intersex Child, The Parent, And The State, Alexandra Akre Dec 2017

Hanging In The Balance: The Intersex Child, The Parent, And The State, Alexandra Akre

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

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Oscar Brousse Jacobson: The Life And Art Of A Cosmopolitan Cultural Broker, Anne Allbright Dec 2017

Oscar Brousse Jacobson: The Life And Art Of A Cosmopolitan Cultural Broker, Anne Allbright

History Theses and Dissertations

As a graduate student studying art at Yale, Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882–1966) pinned his career on the hopes of someday opening an art school in the American West. Jacobson was a Swedish immigrant, but he felt a deep connection to the West because he spent much of his youth on a ranch in Kansas and roamed the greater Southwest by horseback during the late 1800s. Jacobson believed that after he completed his graduate studies in New England, he would eventually return West. He planned to bring great works of art, produce his own paintings, instruct young artists, and foster art …

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Foreword Classcrits 8: New Spaces For Collaboration And Contemplation, Wendy A. Bach, Lucille A. Jewel Dec 2017

Foreword Classcrits 8: New Spaces For Collaboration And Contemplation, Wendy A. Bach, Lucille A. Jewel

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

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Sentencing Pregnant Drug Addicts: Why The Child Endangerment Enhancement Is Not Appropriate, Monica Carusello Dec 2017

Sentencing Pregnant Drug Addicts: Why The Child Endangerment Enhancement Is Not Appropriate, Monica Carusello

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

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Horizontal Plastic Injection Molding Machines With Auxiliary Equipment, Barthélemy Aucourt, Réal Bourbonnière, Yuvin Chinniah, Sabrina Jocelyn Dec 2017

Horizontal Plastic Injection Molding Machines With Auxiliary Equipment, Barthélemy Aucourt, Réal Bourbonnière, Yuvin Chinniah, Sabrina Jocelyn

Guides

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Infant Feeding Beliefs, Attitudes, Knowledge And Practices Of Chinese Immigrant Mothers: An Integrative Review Of The Literature, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Qun Le, Mary Greaney Dec 2017

Infant Feeding Beliefs, Attitudes, Knowledge And Practices Of Chinese Immigrant Mothers: An Integrative Review Of The Literature, Ana Cristina Lindsay, Qun Le, Mary Greaney

Public Health Faculty Publications

Chinese are a fast-growing immigrant population group in several parts of the world (e.g., Australia, Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, United States). Research evidence suggests that compared to non-Hispanic whites, individuals of Asian-origin including Chinese are at higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes at a lower body mass index (BMI). These risks may be possibly due to genetic differences in body composition and metabolic responses. Despite the increasing numbers of Chinese children growing up in immigrant families and the increasing prevalence of obesity among Chinese, little research has been focused on children of Chinese immigrant families. This …

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12/23/2017 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Dec 2017

12/23/2017 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 12/23/2017. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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Cks1 Expression In Melanocytic Nevi And Melanoma, Anna A. Brożyna, Andrew Aplin, Cynthia Cohen, Grant Carlson, Andrew Joseph Page, Michael Murphy, Andrzej T. Slominski, J. Andrew Carlson Dec 2017

Cks1 Expression In Melanocytic Nevi And Melanoma, Anna A. Brożyna, Andrew Aplin, Cynthia Cohen, Grant Carlson, Andrew Joseph Page, Michael Murphy, Andrzej T. Slominski, J. Andrew Carlson

Department of Cancer Biology Faculty Papers

Cyclin-dependent kinase subunit 1 (Cks1) regulates the degradation of p27, an important G1-S inhibitor, which is up regulated by MAPK pathway activation. In this study, we sought to determine whether Cks1 expression is increased in melanocytic tumors and correlates with outcome and/or other clinicopathologic prognostic markers. Cks1 expression was assessed by immunohistochemistry in 298 melanocytic lesions. The frequency and intensity of cytoplasmic and nuclear expression was scored as a labeling index and correlated with clinico-pathological data. Nuclear Cks1 protein was found in 63% of melanocytic nevi, 89% primary and 90% metastatic melanomas with mean labeling index of 7 ± 16, …

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Eliminate The Carbon Externality, Connor Mcfayden Dec 2017

Eliminate The Carbon Externality, Connor Mcfayden

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

Before we do anything else, let’s establish two things: the global climate is changing at an alarming rate and the primary cause is human CO2 emissions. There is a worldwide scientific consensus on this fact. Even our own government, despite a remarkably vocal minority, has confirmed this. A report released this year by 13 government agencies identifies humans as the primary cause of global climate change and links this phenomenon to rising sea levels, increased incidence of droughts and floods, and the intensification of large storms. These events are the result of the carbon externality, the social costs of emissions …

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The Tax That Will Actually Do Something Is Not In The Current Bill, Steven Kirchner Dec 2017

The Tax That Will Actually Do Something Is Not In The Current Bill, Steven Kirchner

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

If we are going to be talking about tax reform, we should be talking about solutions that will actually solve a problem. The combustion of fossil fuels has much more than environmental implications. Burning fossil fuels is a blatant catastrophe for our entire economic system. The current American energy market is entirely reliant on fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas). Negative externalities have flooded the American economic system because of the combustion of fossil fuels. A negative externality is a cost that indirectly affects someone outside of the economic transaction. That third party entity must bear the burden of …

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Palm Oil: The Hidden Costs, Rachel Goehring Dec 2017

Palm Oil: The Hidden Costs, Rachel Goehring

Op-Eds from ENSC230 Energy and the Environment: Economics and Policies

The growing demand for palm oil generates tens of billions of dollars in revenue and employs millions in Southeast Asian countries. The story is that conserving the rainforests from palm oil production puts this economy at risk, but only because the current formula does not account for the externalities of deforestation.

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Microcredit And Survival Microenterprises: The Role Of Market Structure, P.V. Viswanath Dec 2017

Microcredit And Survival Microenterprises: The Role Of Market Structure, P.V. Viswanath

Faculty Working Papers and Articles

Poverty remains a pervasive problem all over the world, but the problem is worst in underdeveloped areas like Africa. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very successful in helping survival microenterprises, i.e., businesses that the very poor with limited human capital have access to, in sectors with low barriers to entry and selling undifferentiated products. In this paper, I examine the role of market structure in mediating the impact of micro-lending to such survival enterprises. While there have been many evaluations of microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been …

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Instagram Influencers: The Effects Of Sponsorship On Follower Engagement With Fitness Instagram Celebrities, Morgan Neal Dec 2017

Instagram Influencers: The Effects Of Sponsorship On Follower Engagement With Fitness Instagram Celebrities, Morgan Neal

Theses

Instagram influencer marketing is one of the fastest growing trends in advertising. Part of what makes influencers so powerful is their ability to foster parasocial relationships with their followers. But does this relationship change when an influencer becomes affiliated with brands? This study assessed how brand promotions affect follower engagement with influencer posts through the lens of source credibility theory. A quantitative content analysis was performed on 100 fitness influencer posts and their comments (N = 7,716) to determine if followers interact differently with sponsored and organic posts. Significant differences in follower engagement and sentiments were found between sponsored and …

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December 23, 2017 (Pages 7667-7822), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau Dec 2017

December 23, 2017 (Pages 7667-7822), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 47 (2017)

No abstract provided.

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Deacon Daisy "Jake" Kelly Dec 2017

Deacon Daisy "Jake" Kelly

African American Funeral Programs

Deacon_Daisy--Jake--Kelly.pdf - Funeral program for Daisy Kelly

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Physical Exercise During Pregnancy And Its Related Factors: An Observational Study In Japan, Megumi Haruna, Masayo Matsuzaki, Mie Shiraishi, Seonae Yeo Dec 2017

Physical Exercise During Pregnancy And Its Related Factors: An Observational Study In Japan, Megumi Haruna, Masayo Matsuzaki, Mie Shiraishi, Seonae Yeo

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

This study aimed to investigate the exercise habits of pregnant women in the third trimester (N = 303). We assessed participation in physical activities, including exercise or sports, using the Japanese version of the Pregnancy Physical Activity Questionnaire. A total of 183 (60.4%) pregnant Japanese women participated in some form of exercise and 87 (28.7%) exercised for 2 hours or more, per week, in the third trimester. Multiple logistic regression analyses indicated that women who set themselves a gestational weight gain target (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 8.10, 95% CI [2.82, 23.4], p< .001), were more likely to participate in exercise or sports. In contrast, multiparous women (AOR = 0.44, 95% CI [0.26, 0.72], p = .001), and those whose …

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Lived Experience In Patients With Recurrent Glioblastoma In Japan: A Narrative Study, Ai Chikada, Asako Takekuma Katsumata, Mariko Asase, Sayaka Takenouchi, Yoshiki Arakawa, Kazuko Nin Dec 2017

Lived Experience In Patients With Recurrent Glioblastoma In Japan: A Narrative Study, Ai Chikada, Asako Takekuma Katsumata, Mariko Asase, Sayaka Takenouchi, Yoshiki Arakawa, Kazuko Nin

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

Glioblastoma (GBM) is well known to have one of the poorest prognoses among all cancers. Patients with GBM in progression-free survival (PFS) may be relatively stable and can often maintain their quality of life. Thus, PFS is a desirable goal. In Japan, the median PFS is 11 months. It is difficult to grasp a patient's thoughts and hopes when, after PFS, they are readmitted due to recurrence or acute deterioration. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the lived experience of illness in patients with recurrent GBM, focusing on PFS. We enrolled five patients into the study; however, only four patients …

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Re-Envisioning Population Health For Vulnerable Older Adults: Life Story Today And Tomorrow, Kate Clark Mpa Dec 2017

Re-Envisioning Population Health For Vulnerable Older Adults: Life Story Today And Tomorrow, Kate Clark Mpa

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Population Health Informatics: Challenges, Opportunities, And Case Studies Dec 2017

Population Health Informatics: Challenges, Opportunities, And Case Studies

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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A Center Cultivating Cannabis Research And Policy Take Root At Jefferson, Charles V. Pollack Jr, Ma, Md, Facep, Faaem, Faha, Fesc, Fcpp, Kate Clark Mpa Dec 2017

A Center Cultivating Cannabis Research And Policy Take Root At Jefferson, Charles V. Pollack Jr, Ma, Md, Facep, Faaem, Faha, Fesc, Fcpp, Kate Clark Mpa

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Teaching Online For Jcph: An Introduction For Prospective Instructors, Juan Leon Phd Dec 2017

Teaching Online For Jcph: An Introduction For Prospective Instructors, Juan Leon Phd

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Bridging Health Equity Across State Lines And Communities Dec 2017

Bridging Health Equity Across State Lines And Communities

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Bridging The Gaps: Inspiration Through Community Engagement, Nisha Hodge Dec 2017

Bridging The Gaps: Inspiration Through Community Engagement, Nisha Hodge

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Growth In Global Health Engagement At Jefferson And Beyond: Mph Student Perspectives, Pia Ghosh, Brandon Horvath Dec 2017

Growth In Global Health Engagement At Jefferson And Beyond: Mph Student Perspectives, Pia Ghosh, Brandon Horvath

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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My Public Health Journey: Tackling Reality In And Out Of The Classroom, Rosemary Frasso Phd, Msc, Cph Dec 2017

My Public Health Journey: Tackling Reality In And Out Of The Classroom, Rosemary Frasso Phd, Msc, Cph

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

No abstract provided.

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Download Full Text Pdf - Population Health Matters Fall 2017 Dec 2017

Download Full Text Pdf - Population Health Matters Fall 2017

Population Health Matters (Formerly Health Policy Newsletter)

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Seeing Witchcraft, Bernhard Udelhoven Dec 2017

Seeing Witchcraft, Bernhard Udelhoven

Journal of Global Catholicism

When Christians in Zambia struggle with witchcraft, they also struggle with African cultural and religious concepts that deal with life’s ambiguities and that require discernment. It is not by working against the cultural and religious heritage, but by working with it, as far as possible, that the pastor can identify the broken relationships towards which many witchcraft discourses point. However, before we place the concepts of witchcraft into the realm of superstition (as are the trends of mission Christianity) or the demonic (as are the trends of charismatic Christianity), the Church has the duty to look at the concepts, stay …

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