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Tsana Ntyqana Renqa Tqwaa Tyqai Tqoe, Miranda Worl, Michaela Artavia-High, Hilaria Cruz

Mother Language: Chatino, Ojibwe and Hupa Children’s Books

Originally produced by students in the Winter 2018 "Language Revitalization" course at Dartmouth College, taught by Hilaria Cruz, Neukom Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Anthropology.

The Indian Information Technology Sector: The New Caste Inequality Frontier, Marilyn Fernandez

Sociology

My conversations with IT professionals, and Indians I met in social settings, about the current state of 'caste' in India and in Indian IT sector often went like this:¹ 'Why are we talking about caste in this modern age? Aren't we perpetuating caste distinctions by continuing to talk about it? Isn't it time to get rid of reservations as IT has done? Look at the progress the IT sector has brought to the country! It is "merit, pure merit" that matters, and not caste or any other background'. Such were the assessments, often angry and even dismissive, of many …

Community Health Worker Interventions To Promote Psychosocial Outcomes Among People Living With Hiv—A Systematic Review, H Han, K Kim, Jeanne Murphy, J Cudjoe, P Wilson, P Sharps, J Farley

Nursing Faculty Publications

Background

Community health worker (CHW) interventions are a successful strategy to promote health among HIV-negative and persons living with HIV (PLWH). Psychosocial factors are critical dimensions of HIV/AIDS care contributing to prognosis of the disease, yet it is unclear how CHW interventions improve psychosocial outcomes in PLWH. The purpose of this study was to critically appraise the types, scope, and nature of CHW interventions designed to address psychosocial outcomes in PLWH.

Methods

We performed database searches—PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Cochrane—to identify randomized controlled trials published in English before April 2017. Fourteen articles met the eligibility criteria.

Results

Half of the …

Fake Realities: Assassination And Race In Popular Culture, Kevin Marinella

Master’s Theses and Projects

Since the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks the United States had been involved in conflicts across the globe. These conflict have given rise to the use of target killing, commonly known as assassination as a way to eliminate enemies of the United States. A majority of those killed are of Middle-Eastern descent and/or are followers of Islam. Elements of American popular culture since 9/11 have portrayed assassination, with the antagonists generally being of Middle-Eastern or Muslim descent while the protagonist being a white American or from a country allied with the United States who is involved in the conflict. By …

The Totality (Chapter In Into The Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion), Abigail Rine Favale

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "For over a decade, the maleness of the priesthood kept me away from the Catholic Church. By the time I was a junior in college, my feminism was in full swing, and the ordination of women had become my litmus test for whether or not I could be part of a particular church or denomination."

Knowledge, Hope, And Fallibilism, Matthew A. Benton

SPU Works

Hope, in its propositional construction "I hope that p," is compatible with a stated chance for the speaker that not-p. On fallibilist construals of knowledge, knowledge is compatible with a chance of being wrong, such that one can know that p even though there is an epistemic chance for one that not-p. But self-ascriptions of propositional hope that p seem to be incompatible, in some sense, with self-ascriptions of knowing whether p. Data from conjoining hope self-ascription with outright assertions, with first- and third-person knowledge ascriptions, and with factive predicates suggest a problem: when …

Finding Teaching Inspiration At The Swenson Center, Dr. Kimberly La Palm

Swenson Center Faculty Research Stipend Reports

I spent a week working with the Swenson Center's collections. My original goal was to find material that I could use in my course on Scandinavian Folklore but I found much more material than I realized I would and now I have a list of ideas and inspiration for nearly all of the courses in the catalogue.

Work Of A Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism And Institutional Disruption In Swaziland, Casey Golomski

Anthropology

This article traces how contemporary funerary practices—foodways, prayer and burial cooperative participation—configure a Christian public culture in Swaziland that draws from ordinary citizens’ religious, ritual and political work and membership in diverse Christian churches. This kind of grassroots ecumenism importantly challenges the potency of orthodox institutional ecumenical projects of religious elites in the Kingdom. These projects include attempts to legislate Christianity as an official religion and the building of a national interdenominational church, both of which have failed to materialize. Exploring this emergent tension between religious institutions’ ideological goals versus communities’ practical engagement on pressing social problems invites a rethinking …

Medical Literary Messenger (Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2018)

Medical Literary Messenger

The Essentials / Dave Morrison -- Sometimes I Pretend / Emily Pineau -- Psalm for Anorexia / Elizabeth Gauffreau -- On Harvey Dent / Bryan Walpert -- On the Level / Jane Blanchard -- Cirrhosis / Arthur Ginsberg -- Open Microphone / Stuart M. Terman -- Guest Lavatory, Beaumont Hospital, Day Five / John Jeffire -- Change of Heart / Rosie Sorenson -- Code Blue / Caroline Mosher -- Beautiful Pulses / Paul Hostovsky -- The Hospital and After / Michele Levy -- Mouth to Mouth / Charles H. Halsted -- A Meditation on Memory and Morocco / Janie Breggin …

Virginia Commonwealth University Courses [2018], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of courses for the 2018-2019 year.

The Resurrection Of Trust In American Law And Public Discourse, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.

“It’S Making Memories”: A Qualitative Investigation Of Family Mealtime Cognitions, Barriers And Strategies For Success Of Parents And School-Aged Kids, K. M. Eck, K. Spaccarotella, C. L. Delaney, Melissa D. Olfert, K. P. Shelnutt, C. Byrd-Bredbenner

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Objective: Family meals, particularly those occurring in calm environments, are associated with numerous health benefits for both children and parents. However, families often struggle to share meals, with the frequency declining as kids get older. This qualitative research study aimed to explore the factors influencing family meal behaviors.

Methods: Parents (n=38) and school-age children (n=37) participated in focus group discussions guided by Social Cognitive Theory.

Results: Content analysis results indicate that parents and children believed family meals were important, promoted communication, and strengthened family bonds. Parents and children reported that a calm, enjoyable, conflict-free mealtime environment bolstered mealtime enjoyment and …

Adverse Event Detection By Integrating Twitter Data And Vaers, Junxiang Wang, Liang Zhao, Yanfang Ye, Yuji Zhang

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Background: Vaccinehasbeenoneofthemostsuccessfulpublichealthinterventionstodate.However,vaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry risks so that many adverse events (AEs) are reported after receiving vaccines. Traditional adverse event reporting systems suffer from several crucial challenges including poor timeliness. This motivates increasing social media-based detection systems, which demonstrate successful capability to capture timely and prevalent disease information. Despite these advantages, social media-based AE detection suffers from serious challenges such as labor-intensive labeling and class imbalance of the training data.

Results: Totacklebothchallengesfromtraditionalreportingsystemsandsocialmedia,weexploittheircomplementary strength and develop a combinatorial classification approach by integrating Twitter data and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) information aiming to identify potential AEs after …

2018 Symposium Brochure

Programs

No abstract provided.

Vegetarian Diet And Cardiometabolic Risk Among Asian Indians In The United States, Ranjita Misra, Padmini Balagopal, Sudha Raj, Thakor G. Patel

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Research studies have shown that plant-based diets confer cardiovascular and metabolic health benefits. Asian Indians (AIs) in the US (who have often followed plant-based diets) have elevated risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and obesity suggesting ethnic vulnerability that imply genetic and/or lifestyle causative links. This study explored the association between this ethnic group and diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome after controlling for demographics, acculturation, family history of diabetes, and lifestyle and clinical risk factors. The sample comprised of 1038 randomly selected adult AIs in seven US sites. Prevalence and metabolic syndrome was estimated, and obesity was …

E-Boys And E-Girls: Constructing And Performing Identity In League Of Legends, Yelim Lee

Honors Thesis Collection

Conducted over the course of a year and 6 months, E-boys and E-girls is an ethnography of online communities, particularly the League of Legends gaming communities. League of Legends is a highly competitive and team-work orientated game that forces people from around the world to communicate with each other. As players want to find others to game with consistently, online communities have formed out of necessity. Through interactions with the men and women, e-boys and e-girls, on one such community, I have come to observe persisting and rigid norms regarding gender performance and interaction. Even though people have the ability …

How The Framing Of Mass Shootings Correlates With Patterns Of Polarization On Twitter, Margaret Hughes

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Keats, The "Tongueless Nightingale," And The Legacy Of Philomela In English Poetry, Windsor Rose Whitlock

Honors Thesis Collection

In his groundbreaking essay, “The Hoodwinking of Madeline,” Jack Stillinger first posited a darker reading of Keats’ The Eve of St. Agnes, arguing that Keats’ mention in the poem of a “tongueless nightingale” is a calculated allusion to the story of Philomela from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Since Stillinger published his essay in 1961, not much else has been written on the subject, with the exception of Beverly Fields’ 1983 article, “Keats and the Tongueless Nightingale: Some Unheard Melodies in ‘The Eve of St. Agnes.’ ” In this essay, Fields suggests that Keats killed off the “tongueless nightingale” at the conclusion …

Origin Stories: Personal Genetics Testing, Transnational Adoption, And The Adoptee Identity Narrative, Margaretta Mitchell

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

The Tongues Of Eve: The Politics Of Language In Postcolonial Algerian Literature, Molly Hoyer

Honors Thesis Collection

Conflict in North Africa is often represented through a binary opposition between French and Arabic. Over the course of the almost 200 years since French colonization began in the region, these two languages have come to signify countless, contradictory elements of Algerian identity, history, and culture. This presentation will explore these language dynamics within the context of late 20th-century Algeria by analyzing two novels: So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar and Memory in the Flesh by Ahlam Mosteghanemi. While each author wrote in a different language—Djebar in French and Mosteghanemi in Arabic—both manipulate narrative structure and style to explore …

The Marginalization Of Abortion In Medicine, Sarah Hudson

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Divine Reflections: Embodying Erzulie, Yemayá And Black Womanhood, Jordan Mayfield

Honors Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Muslim Roots Of America, Hassan Syed Ali

Integrated Studies

Given the present day wave of nationalism and culturalism, it has become necessary to address the issue of Islam and Muslims in present day America. The Muslim bans, the chants of "go back where you came from" have pushed this issue in to main stream. I have always said that racism existed in America before 9-11 but it came your moral and patriotic duty. Mainstream media and academia has been complacent in the narrative and the story of discovery of America. This paper is an attempt to bring forth evidence of a different past and who truly came to America …

Factors Of Academic Achievement For Middle School Students, Kelly Geary

Integrated Studies

Factors contributing to academic achievement in elementary, middle, and high school students; is a very important topic that has been researched for many years. There have been key points that have been identified as assisting students to reach full academic achievement. This research paper will cover various topics regarding education, beginning with; students developmental stages, theories, academic achievement, extracurricular activities, gender, educators’ responsibilities, methods, strategies, and curriculum. This paper will acknowledge the importance that extracurricular activities, arts, and humanities plays on academic achievement. As well as how factors such as low socio-economic status and retention can hinder students achievement.

Commentary: Parental Broad Autism Phenotype And The Language Skills Of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Michelle Flippin

Communicative Disorders Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between Instruction Specificity And Resistiveness To Care During Activities Of Daily Living In Persons With Dementia, Jeffrey Buchanan, Britta Dejager, Sandra Garcia, Daniel Houlihan, Carolina Sears, Kathleen Fairchild, Adam Sattler

Psychology Department Publications

It is common for persons with dementia to display resistant behaviors during activities of daily living (ADLs) and caregiver communication skills can influence the likelihood of these behaviors. Previous research suggests that the type of instructions issued by caregivers is related to rates of compliance during ADLs in persons with dementia. It is unclear, however, if these instruction types affect the likelihood resistiveness to care (RTC) during ADLs. The purpose of the current study was to examine how the use of different types of instructions relate to instances of RTC during ADLs. Results indicated that vague and ambiguous instructions (i.e., …

2017 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System

Faculty Publications Books

This is the 2017 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College & University System. It includes all eligible 2017 publication citations of faculty within the Touro College & University System, including New York Medical College (NYMC). It was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.

Thoracic Surgeon And Patient Focus Groups On Decision-Making In Early-Stage Lung Cancer Surgery, R. M. Schwartz, K. Gorbenko, S. M. Kerath, R. Flores, S. Ross, T. N. Taylor, E. Taioli, C. Henschke

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Computational Linguistic Analysis Applied To A Semantic Fluency Task To Measure Derailment And Tangentiality In Schizophrenia, L. Pauselli, B. Halpern, S. D. Cleary, B. Ku, M. A. Covington, M. T. Compton

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Digital Trajectories To Care In First-Episode Psychosis., M. L. Birnbaum, A. F. Rizvi, K. Faber, J. Addington, C. U. Correll, C. Gerber, A. C. Lahti, R. L. Loewy, D. H. Mathalon, J. M. Kane, +4 Additional Authors

Journal Articles

OBJECTIVE::The emphasis on reducing the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) has highlighted complex barriers to accessing appropriate services. Internet and social media use by individuals with first-episode psychosis (FEP) was examined to explore how these platforms might be used to facilitate treatment initiation. METHODS::Participants ages 15-35 were interviewed with the Pathways to Care for Psychosis Questionnaire, an 81-item instrument designed to explore online activity during symptom emergence. RESULTS::Of 112 participants, 90% used the Internet and social media daily. The Internet was listed as the most used resource (62%) for information while symptoms were emerging. A minority (19%) shared concerns via …