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Mirza Salih Shirazi And His Safarnāmeh As A Case Study For A Legal-Governance Translation Into Persian, Hassan Rezael

Governance Programme Papers

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Islamic Calligraphy (Book Review), Walid Ghali

Faculty & Staff Publications

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Indian Foundations And Chinese Developments Of The Buddha Dharma, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun

Philosophy and Religious Studies

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Resisting Borders, Resisting Control: Examining The Multiplicity Of Identities In A Map Of Home And The Girl In The Tangerine Scarf, Zainab Abdali

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

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Synthesis And Large-Scale Textual Corpora: A Nested Topic Model Of Britain's Debates Over Landed Property In The Nineteenth Century, Jo Guldi, Benjamin Williams

History Faculty Publications

Scholars need tools that will allow them to generalize about the fit of themes, events, and rhetorical styles represented in a body of texts. In this article, we introduce the concept of “nested topics,” an approach to topic modeling large-scale textual corpora that highlights implicit ontologies and relationships within the texts themselves. This tool exploits the fact that topic modeling can be used to generalize about topics on an aggregate level as well as a fine-grained level, an approach that has the consequences of revealing overarching themes that appear across all texts as well as more idosyncratic events and rehtorical …

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How To End “Illegal Immigration”, Kari Hong

Maryland Journal of International Law

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Holocaust Art Disputes: The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act Of 2016, Herbert I. Lazerow

The International Lawyer

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American Nursing Students' Immersion Experience In Ghana: A Qualitative Study, Srijana Bhandari

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Health care providers are more than ever challenged to care for patients due to multicultural nature of American society. Studies report that health care disparities widely exist in our health care system and patients of different racial and cultural backgrounds do not receive adequate health care. Nurses are in the position to prevent and eliminate such disparities by providing individualized care to these patients. Nurses must be well equipped with knowledge and training to deliver care that is relevant and within the cultural context of patients they encounter. Studies have identified study abroad program as one of the approaches to …

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El Impacto De La Instruccion Explicita En El Uso De Los Acentos Escritos En Dos Modalidades : Un Estudio De Los Hablantes De Herencia, Jessica Yandun

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

La instrucción de los lenguajes de herencia es importante y poco estudiada. En un estudio reciente, se ha notado que los hablantes de herencia (HH) consideran la habilidad de escribir en su lengua materna como un elemento importante en cuestión de su identidad a (HH; Mikulski, 2006). Sin embargo, no hay mucha información sobre cómo ayudarles a los HH en el desarrollo de estas habilidades. Este estudio examinó el impacto de la instrucción explicita sobre el uso de los acentos escritos en una clase de espanol para HH al nivel secundario. Para poder observar los efectos de la instrucción explicita …

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Byzantine Spirit Of The Undead And Its Legacy In The Sick Man Of Europe, Joan Davison

Faculty Publications

What is the character and extent of the Byzantine political-legal legacy? The contemporary discourse on political institutions uses new language to describe old mechanisms for accommodation and decentralization phenomena: millet systems, internal diasporas, population displacement of enclaves, consociation, asymmetric federalism, and even democracy as a part of modern institutionalized network systems. Employing Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical method, we tap into the undead body of Byzantine political legacy in order to show and extract the legacy of a specific ‘spirit.’ In other words, we identify the existence of a very specific sites which emerges from within a non-Being (in Plato’s …

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Mental Representations Of The Homeless, Stephanie E. Mckee

Theses and Dissertations--Psychology

Stereotypes surrounding race and socioeconomic status often have overlapping attributes. That is, we tend to stereotypically associate African Americans and poor individuals with being incompetent. Further, people automatically associate African Americans with the concept of poor. The current research examined people’s mental representations of a homeless person, a poor person, and a person with a home, to see if people’s mental representation of a homeless varied from that of a poor person. Results from Study 1 (N = 524), using a bi-racial base image indicate that people, on average, mentally represent the poor and homeless in a similar manner. …

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How Graduate Experience Changes Beliefs In Working With Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Populations: A Survey Study, Stephanie Bove

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Speech-language pathologists work in a variety of settings that require savvy transitions between patients from many cultures and backgrounds. Graduate students may get little practice working with culturally and linguistically diverse populations depending upon where they perform their practicum and internships. Researchers at a mid-western university developed a survey to collect student perspectives regarding cultural competence. A single cohort received the survey at three intervals to track a change in responses from the beginning of their first year of graduate school through their clinical fellowship. Students took a Multicultural Issues class between their first and second survey responses. Data collected …

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Computational Thinking Equity In Elementary Classrooms: What Third-Grade Students Know And Can Do, Yune Tran

Faculty Publications - College of Education

The Computer Science Teachers Association has asserted that computational thinking equips students with essential critical thinking which allows them to conceptualize, analyze, and solve more complex problems. These skills are applicable to all content area as students learn to use strategies, ideas, and technological practices more effectively as digital natives. This research examined over 200 elementary students’ pre- and posttest changes in computational thinking from a 10-week coding program using adapted lessons from code.org’s Blockly programming language and CSUnplugged that were delivered as part of the regular school day. Participants benefited from early access to computer science (CS) lessons with …

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Dialogue Or Drama? The Role Of Language As Seen By Gadamer And Foucault, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

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The Psychometric Evaluation Of The Turkish Version Of The Mann Assessment Of Swallowing Ability In Patients In The Early Period After Stroke, Ebru Karaca Umay, İbrahi̇m Gündoğdu, Eda Gürçay, Erhan Ari̇f Öztürk, Volkan Yilmaz, Özgür Zeli̇ha Karaahmet, Yasemi̇n Eren, Güleser Saylam, Fatma Aytül Çakci

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

Background/aim: The Mann Assessment of Swallowing Ability (MASA) is an efficient tool that allows physicians to determine the alertness, cooperation, and respiration of patients, which are important factors when assessing swallowing . This study aimed to translate the MASA into Turkish (T-MASA) and to assess its reliability and validity in patients during the early period after a stroke . Materials and methods: The scale was administered to 141 patients in the early period after a stroke. For reliability, both internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha and corrected item-to-total correlations) and interrater reliability were analyzed. The procedures were scored by two blinded independent …

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§5.29 Inadvertent Disclosure, Christopher B. Mueller

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This article addresses waiver of the attorney-client privilege by inadvertent disclosure, usually during discovery. It discusses the protections provided by FRE 502 when an attorney has taken “reasonable steps” to prevent the inadvertent disclosure and “reasonable steps” to rectify the error.

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Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2018, Fall (Volume 53 No. 1), Noel T. Manning Ii

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine, previously titled The Webb Magazine, focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University. This issue features an extensive article on Dr. A. Frank Bonner, his contributions to Gardner-Webb, and the accomplishments that the school has achieved during his presidency. There is also an article on his wife, Flossie. Several articles describe achievements of Summer Research Scholars and alumni, and one article details the life of graduate Anna Pashkova who was part of the high school volleyball team featured in the 2018 movie, The Miracle Season.

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Health Literacy As A Measure To Reduce Cost, Improve Health And Access, Vivian Dee

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The United States dedicates greater than 17% of its gross national product to healthcare. This percentage is expected to go up to 20% by 2018. Despite the high cost of care, the health care system remains inefficient and ineffective. Barriers include reduced access to care related to low health literacy. Complicating low health literacy is the high readability score of patient education materials. The high readability score is in part due to tools that are not standardized and measure different aspects of education materials creating varying readability scores. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to adopt a tool, …

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Diversity And Cultural Competence In The Lis Classroom: A Curriculum Audit, Nicole A. Cooke, Jennifer A. Jacobs

Urban Library Journal

In a case study examining a library and information science graduate curriculum, 18 graduate students engaged in a comprehensive diversity audit of the School of Information Science curriculum. The diversity audit was a student-generated review of 108 syllabi and permitted students to engage in an action-learning project that benefited the school and allowed them, and the school’s faculty, to see first-hand why diversity and cultural competence are important facets of library and information science curricula.

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Resist: A Controversial Display And Reflections On The Academic Library’S Role In Promoting Discourse And Engagement, Stephanie Beene, Cindy Pierard

Urban Library Journal

Libraries engage communities in a variety of ways, including through exhibitions and displays. However, librarians may not always know how to promote critical discourse if controversy arises surrounding exhibits or displays. This article reflects on one academic library’s experience hosting a controversial display during a divisive political time for the library’s parent institution, its broader urban community, and the United States as a whole. The authors contextualize the display, created by a local art collective, against the backdrop of creative activism, and consider implications for library displays and exhibits within similar environments. Rather than retreating from controversy, libraries have an …

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Low Health Literacy And Hpv Vaccine Uptake Of African American And Hispanic American Women, Peter Ntiamoah

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Cervical cancer incidence in the United States has declined for the past 40 years, yet the odds of developing cervical cancer is much higher among marginalized women, particularly African American and Hispanic American women. Although preventable through vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) prior to infection, uptake and completion rates of the vaccine among African American and Hispanic American women are low. The purpose of the study was to determine if a significant relationship existed between the health literacy levels of African American and Hispanic American women, ages 18-26, and the low HPV vaccination uptake. The integrated behavioral model, which …

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A Reflection Of Adults As Child Participants In Commercial Activities, Janette Angella Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Children are being used as marketers and consumers for the purpose of financial gain. Although much research exists about children's stance as consumers, very little is known about their role as marketers. Such lack of information indicates that children's authentic voices about their experiences are seldom articulated, heard, listened to, and acted on. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological heuristic study was to explore the lived experiences of former child participants in commercial activities in order to understand their perceptions as well as, the meaning, and impact of the experiences on their childhood development. The theoretical framework used included the …

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An Eye-Tracking Study Examining The Role Of Question-Answer Congruency In Children’S Comprehension Of Only: A Preliminary Report, Lauren Covey, Caitlin E. Coughlin, Utako Minai

Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

‘Crain’s puzzle’ is a term that has been used to describe children’s difficulty comprehending the focus operator only when it is in subject position (subject-only), showing a tendency to interpret only as if it preceded the verb phrase instead. While some researchers attribute children’s difficulty to impoverished pragmatics in the discourse (Hackl et al., 2015), others argue that children’s grammar fundamentally differs from adults’ Notley et al. (2009), yielding a debate regarding whether children’s misinterpretation reflects a non-adult-like linguistic representation of only or some computational burden on their processing of meaning. This study addresses this debate by using eye-tracking to …

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Combating Russian Disinformation In Ukraine: Case Studies In A Market For Loyalties, Monroe E. Price, Adam P. Barry

Articles

The article examines how Ukraine has responded to Russian disinformation through two distinct projects: the Guidelines Project and the Words and Wars Project. These initiatives represent different approaches to combating disinformation, with the Guidelines Project emphasizing international norms and consensus-building, while the Words and Wars Project focuses on directly countering Russian tactics. The analysis highlights how the structure, stakeholders, and funding of these projects shape their recommendations and outcomes, underscoring the tension between national security and freedom of expression.

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Understanding Important Hotel Attributes From The Consumer Perspective Over Time, Sungha Jang, Tian Liu, Ji Hye Kang, Huichen Yang

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Faculty Publications

Consumers consider various product attributes when they evaluate products. Researchers and practitioners have used multi-attribute models to understand which product attributes are important for consumers. However, in those models, product attributes are limited and are determined by researchers at the time of the inquiry. In this study, using a longitudinal study of hotel reviews over 6 years, the top 30 important hotel attributes from the perspective of consumers are identified and examined as to how the importance of these hotel attributes has changed over time. Our findings show that staff is the most important attribute with a positive effect on …

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Can College Students’ Global Competence Be Enhanced In The Classroom? The Impact Of Cross- And Inter-Cultural Online Projects, Ji Hye Kang, Su Yeon Kim, Sungha Jang, Ae-Ran Koh

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Faculty Publications

This study examines college students’ global competence acquisition at a US and Korean university and assesses the effect of cross- and inter-cultural online projects implemented simultaneously at both universities. The data were collected through a pre- and post-survey of the participating students. The findings were as follows: (1) overall, the projects significantly increased students’ intercultural communication skills and knowledge of the other country, (2) among three antecedents, the global mass media had mixed effects on the global competence and the effect of the projects, (3) mass migration was identified as a significant influence on students’ global competence and the effect …

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Mind Als Geist In Der Welt Der Kultur: Kultuphilosophie, "Naturalistische" Transzendentalphilosophie Und Die Frage Nach Dem Raum Der Kultur, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Abstract: Mind as Spirit in the World of Culture. Philosophy of Culture, "Naturalistic" Transcendental Philosophy and the Question of the Space of Culture. In this essay I present Cassirer's philosophy of culture as a special application of Kant's transcendental philosophy. I then compare and contrast it to another tradition, namely the Pittsburgh School, especially McDowell. The starting point here is the Sellarsian concept of the 'Space of reasons', which McDowell expands through his Aristotelian-inspired concept of 'Second nature'. By way of a rather peculiar interpretation of an early interpreter of Cassirer -Howe- I will attempt to bring 'Marburg' and 'Pittsburgh' …

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What Kind Of Judge Is Brett Kavanaugh?, Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen

Cardozo Law Review de•novo

This article reports the results of a series of data analyses of how recent Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh compares to other potential Supreme Court nominees and current Supreme Court Justices in his judging style. The analyses reveal a number of ways in which Judge Kavanaugh differs systematically from his colleagues. First, Kavanaugh dissents and is dissented against along partisan lines. More than other Judges and Justices, Kavanaugh dissents at a higher rate during the lead-up to elections, suggesting that he feels personally invested in national politics. Far more often than his colleagues, he justifies his decisions with conservative doctrines, …

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What Is Face Anyway?, Jiying Song

Faculty Publications - George Fox Digital

Face-saving is not a unique Chinese cultural phenomenon. The purpose of this article is to discuss what face really is from a cross-cultural perspective. The author uses Berger and Luckmann’s theory of socialization as the background and introduces what face means and what contributes to face in China. Then the author discusses the concept of face in several Western terms: impression management; politeness; collectivism; and identity. Finally, the author draws a face model at an institutional level and concludes that it is necessary to integrate cultural perspectives on face, social behavior, and identity formation.

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Examining Academic Resilience Factors Among African American High School Students, Natasha L. Murray

Theses and Dissertations--Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology

Public school systems in America continue to show unequal learning outcomes for African American students. This investigation seeks to understand salient factors that are critical and essential to the process of increasing the probability of academic resilience (success) among African American students. Academic resilience is defined as "the process of an individual who has been academically successful, despite the presence of risk factors (i.e., single parent family, low future aspirations, and low teacher expectation) that normally lead to low academic performance" (Morales & Trotman, 2011, p.1). Using the baseline data from the Educational Longitudinal Study (ELS: 2002), a multilevel logistic …

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Mirza Salih Shirazi And His Safarnāmeh As A Case Study For A Legal-Governance Translation Into Persian, Hassan Rezael

Governance Programme Papers

Islamic Calligraphy (Book Review), Walid Ghali

Faculty & Staff Publications

Indian Foundations And Chinese Developments Of The Buddha Dharma, Ronald S. Green, Chanju Mun

Philosophy and Religious Studies

Resisting Borders, Resisting Control: Examining The Multiplicity Of Identities In A Map Of Home And The Girl In The Tangerine Scarf, Zainab Abdali

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Synthesis And Large-Scale Textual Corpora: A Nested Topic Model Of Britain's Debates Over Landed Property In The Nineteenth Century, Jo Guldi, Benjamin Williams

History Faculty Publications

How To End “Illegal Immigration”, Kari Hong

Maryland Journal of International Law

Holocaust Art Disputes: The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act Of 2016, Herbert I. Lazerow

The International Lawyer

American Nursing Students' Immersion Experience In Ghana: A Qualitative Study, Srijana Bhandari

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

El Impacto De La Instruccion Explicita En El Uso De Los Acentos Escritos En Dos Modalidades : Un Estudio De Los Hablantes De Herencia, Jessica Yandun

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Byzantine Spirit Of The Undead And Its Legacy In The Sick Man Of Europe, Joan Davison

Faculty Publications

Mental Representations Of The Homeless, Stephanie E. Mckee

Theses and Dissertations--Psychology

How Graduate Experience Changes Beliefs In Working With Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Populations: A Survey Study, Stephanie Bove

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Computational Thinking Equity In Elementary Classrooms: What Third-Grade Students Know And Can Do, Yune Tran

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Dialogue Or Drama? The Role Of Language As Seen By Gadamer And Foucault, Pol Vandevelde

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

§5.29 Inadvertent Disclosure, Christopher B. Mueller

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2018, Fall (Volume 53 No. 1), Noel T. Manning Ii

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine

Health Literacy As A Measure To Reduce Cost, Improve Health And Access, Vivian Dee

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Diversity And Cultural Competence In The Lis Classroom: A Curriculum Audit, Nicole A. Cooke, Jennifer A. Jacobs

Urban Library Journal

Resist: A Controversial Display And Reflections On The Academic Library’S Role In Promoting Discourse And Engagement, Stephanie Beene, Cindy Pierard

Urban Library Journal

Low Health Literacy And Hpv Vaccine Uptake Of African American And Hispanic American Women, Peter Ntiamoah

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

A Reflection Of Adults As Child Participants In Commercial Activities, Janette Angella Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

An Eye-Tracking Study Examining The Role Of Question-Answer Congruency In Children’S Comprehension Of Only: A Preliminary Report, Lauren Covey, Caitlin E. Coughlin, Utako Minai

Department of Linguistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Combating Russian Disinformation In Ukraine: Case Studies In A Market For Loyalties, Monroe E. Price, Adam P. Barry

Articles

Understanding Important Hotel Attributes From The Consumer Perspective Over Time, Sungha Jang, Tian Liu, Ji Hye Kang, Huichen Yang

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Faculty Publications

Can College Students’ Global Competence Be Enhanced In The Classroom? The Impact Of Cross- And Inter-Cultural Online Projects, Ji Hye Kang, Su Yeon Kim, Sungha Jang, Ae-Ran Koh

Textiles, Fashion Merchandising and Design Faculty Publications

Mind Als Geist In Der Welt Der Kultur: Kultuphilosophie, "Naturalistische" Transzendentalphilosophie Und Die Frage Nach Dem Raum Der Kultur, Sebastian Luft

Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications

What Kind Of Judge Is Brett Kavanaugh?, Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen

Cardozo Law Review de•novo

What Is Face Anyway?, Jiying Song

Faculty Publications - George Fox Digital

Examining Academic Resilience Factors Among African American High School Students, Natasha L. Murray

Theses and Dissertations--Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology