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Effectively Transporting A Spiritually Based Intervention For Reducing Subsyndromal Anxiety And Increasing Coping Skills In Urban Adolescents: A Multiple Baseline Design, Morais Cassell

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

A critical review of literature revealed a gap in the literature of spiritually based interventions, most notably the subject of a spiritually based intervention for reducing subsyndromal anxiety and increasing coping skills in urban adolescents. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between a spiritually based intervention, a triangulation approach, subsyndromal anxiety, and coping skills in urban adolescents, employing the add-on/integration of a Prayer Wheel intervention. Utilizing a multiple baseline design across subjects to demonstrate the controlling effects of spiritually based intervention/prayer wheel, research revealed a decrease in subsyndromal anxiety levels, and an increase in coping skills …

Environmental Reform In Africa: A Comparative Continental Union Solution Through Plastic Reform Legislation, Wynee Ngo

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

In the face of environmental turmoil; countries across the world are implementing measures to mitigate the deteriorating effects that common day practices have on the ecosystem. The European Union has implemented directives to govern plastic use on a continental scale. On the other hand; the African Union (AU) has been silent on plastic use; despite a string of African countries implementing stringent plastic reform legislation. This Note will examine the European Union and AU’s international frameworks and powers; while also detailing currently enacted EU directives and African state-level regulations. It will then conduct a comparative analysis of the AU and …

Quantity Versus Quality Of Offspring, Nadhilla Velda Melia, Norman P. Li

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Organisms continually face trade-offs for how to allocate limited energy and resources. One of the key trade-offs involves the quantity versus the quality of offspring. On the one hand, if organisms invest heavily in their offspring to better their developmental and survival outcomes, they tend to only have enough resources to produce a small number of “high-quality” offspring. On the other hand, if organisms make little parental investment per child, they can produce a large number of “low-quality” offspring – although each child has a lower chance of survival, there is a higher probability that at least some offspring will …

The Rhetorical Canons Of Construction: New Textualism's Rhetoric Problem, Charlie D. Stewart

Michigan Law Review

New Textualism is ascendant. Elevated to prominence by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and championed by others like Justice Neil Gorsuch, the method of interpretation occupies an increasingly dominant place in American jurisprudence. Yet, this Comment argues the proponents of New Textualism acted unfairly to reach this lofty perch. To reach this conclusion, this Comment develops and applies a framework to evaluate the rhetoric behind New Textualism: the rhetorical canons of construction. Through the rhetorical canons, this Comment demonstrates that proponents of New Textualism advance specious arguments, declare other methods illegitimate hypocritically, refuse to engage with the merits of their …

Securing The Internet Of Healthcare, Scott J. Shackelford, Michael Mattioli, Steve Myers, Austin Brady

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Charge Injection Studies Of Mxenes/Tio2 Nano-Composite And Aluminum Nanohole Array (Reactive Chemical Systems), Yi Rao

Funded Research Records

No abstract provided.

Framing Of Terrorism And Ethiopian Dam On Online Egyptian Publications And Social Media, Noha El Tawil

Theses and Dissertations

This study aims at examining the framing of crises threatening the security and welfare of Egypt embodied in the ongoing terrorism and the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) that will drastically decrease the country's water share. The samples are derived from social media, specifically Facebook and Twitter, as well as online publications. The nine political Facebook pages selected are among the top 100 in Egypt in terms of followers. The three publications are chosen to reflect the type of ownership which varies from state-owned to privately-owned including partisan publications. The Tweets were picked according to hashtags of …

The Political Economy Of Migrant Smuggling: The Case Of Conflict In Mali, Thomas Hinkel

Theses and Dissertations

The extensive human smuggling networks that have emerged around North Africa and the Sahel have inaugurated a significant shift in the economic landscape of a region that has traditionally been characterized by the gray economy and precarious political arrangements. Ample and detailed research has been produced that highlights how militia groups and non-state actors have been tapping into these flows (via taxation of routes and racketeering against non-armed smuggling enterprises) in order to fund their various projects. The way in which this new economic landscape is affecting local political arrangements is a heretofore little considered, yet highly consequential, development of …

The Neoconservative Theory Of International Politics, Zane Larwood

Theses and Dissertations

Neoconservatism has largely not been considered a theory of international relations. In this paper, I seek to answer the following questions: Can neoconservatism be considered an international relations theory, or is it something else? If it is the former, is neoconservatism a unique theory in and of itself, or is it a variation of an already existing theory, like neorealism or neoliberalism? Given its basis in the monadic democratic peace theory and concrete views on national interests, this paper argues that neoconservatism has all the components of an ontological IR theory and therefore should be treated as such. Though similar …

The Logic Of Love: A Short Theory Of An Integral Science And Ethics, Hosang, Maik

Journal of Conscious Evolution

No abstract provided.

There Has Never Been A 'Timber War', Greg King

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

There has never been a 'timber war' in northwestern California, but rather premeditated and ongoing attacks against the forests, and against the people who would protect them. This paper provides a historic examination of redwood logging and protection efforts since 1850.

Peoplehood Beyond The State:Rebellion In A South Asian Borderland, Radhika Moral

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Living History And War Reenactment Stories From Weekend Warriors, Hayden S. Mcneil

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Sinaloa World: The Dark Mirror Of The Global Drugs Trade, Stephen P. Hull

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Gear Up, Mishaps Down: The Evolution Of Naval Aviation Safety, 1950–2000, Robert C. Rubel, Robert Dunn

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

The Forgotten Front: Patron-Client Relationships In Counter-Insurgency, Iskander Rehman, Walter C. Ladwig Iii

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

Review Essay: In Pursuit Of A Disappearing Paradigm, Martin N. Murphy, Sebastian Bruns

Naval War College Review

"U.S. Naval Strategy and National Security: The Evolution of American Maritime Power"

Charting A New Course: The Knox-Pye-King Board And Naval Professional Education, 1919–23, David Kohnen

Naval War College Review

By attacking the problem of professional military education openly and without deference to higher-ranking personalities or bureaucratic protocols, the Knox-Pye-King Board helped place the U.S. Navy on the course that would educate the personnel who would secure the strategic victories of the Second World War and lead the service into the Cold War era.

The Role Of The Human Operator In The Third Offset Strategy, Adam Biggs, Rees Lee

Naval War College Review

New gadgets are useful, but our personnel are the most critical component to continued operational success. The Third Offset Strategy provides a near-unique opportunity to leap forward in optimizing human performance. We must establish priorities, tangible deliverables, and a timeline.

Lifting The Fog Of Targeting: “Autonomous Weapons” And Human Control Through The Lens Of Military Targeting, Merel A.C. Ekelhof

Naval War College Review

Military targeting practices should be the core of any analysis that seeks a better understanding both of the concept of meaningful human control within a context of increasingly autonomous weapons, and of what human-machine relationship we require.

Japan’S Defense Readiness: Prospects And Issues In Operationalizing Air And Maritime Supremacy, Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi

Naval War College Review

Facing a fluid regional security environment and the need to strengthen its alliance role, Japan has worked to increase the capabilities of the Japan Self-Defense Forces by adjusting the relevant bureaucratic, political, and operational frameworks and making key investments in new force structures.

Into The Abyss?: European Naval Power In The Post–Cold War Era, Jeremy Stöhs

Naval War College Review

A survey of how Europe’s naval forces have evolved since the end of the Cold War amid a complex and threatening security environment. More than two decades of fiscal austerity have jeopardized Europe’s ability both to ensure good order at sea and to provide credible deterrence, and have limited its ability to promote common interests and shape events abroad.

President’S Forum, Jeffrey A. Harley

Naval War College Review

The nature of the challenges we foresee for the Navy and the nation in the decades ahead has resulted in a series of organizational changes and realignments at the Naval War College since the summer of 2016.

Summer 2018 Full Issue, The U.S. Naval War College

Naval War College Review

No abstract provided.

President's Notes, Edward F. Welch Jr.

Naval War College Review

I am confident that the proven elements of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies, CAR and CWG, with the addition of the Strategic Studies Group, will keep the Naval War College at the van of strategic thought and will provide a new, valuable resource for our naval leaders as they grapple with the complex issues that surround the structure and employment of future naval forces.

Alternative Marriage Practices Of Wartime Urban China In Discourse And Practice (1937-1949), Charlotte Cotter

Student Work

A 2017-2018 William Prize for best essay in East Asian Studies was awarded to Charlotte Cotter (Grace Hopper College '18) for her essay submitted to the East Asian Studies Program, "Alternative Marriage Practices of Wartime Urban China in Discourse and Practice (1937-1949)” (Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History, advisor).

Charlotte Cotter’s thesis, “Alternative Marriage Practices of Wartime Urban China in Discourse and Practice (1937-1949)” is an excellent study of how women in Shanghai during wartime explored different modes of intimate life, including alternate forms of marriage, when the upheaval of war tore apart families and disrupted personal relations. Throughout …

Sanbur Shire V. Attorney General United States

2018 Decisions

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Producing Empty Socialized Housing: Privatizing Gains, Socializing Costs, And Dispossessing The Filipino Poor, Chester Antonino C. Arcilla

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

This paper explicates the moral hazard in the current private-public partnerships (PPPs) that produced empty socialized housing in the Philippines. It argues that not only do housing PPPs privatize profits and socialize risks and costs, these also strengthen the state housing agency’s efficacy as an instrument of neoliberal governance. It further argues that this moral hazard is built on and resolved by curtailing the urban poor’s right to democratic participation and adequate housing. Through the socialized housing program, a systematic spatial, political, and economic displacement of the poor is institutionalized to facilitate private gain and commodify housing for the poor. …

Jean Gebser And The Spirit Of Cooperation, Combs, Allan

Journal of Conscious Evolution

No abstract provided.

The Search For Cohesion In The Age Of Fragmentation, Beck, Don Edward

Journal of Conscious Evolution

At the beginning of Chapter 17 in our book Spiral Dynamics we noted:

“George Bush’s hundred hour war in the Persian Gulf and Caesar-like triumphal parading through Washington, D. C. in l991 became his twilight’s last gleaming. He never recovered from the victory. In his speech announcing Operation Desert Storm he had claimed: ‘We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order.’”

The term “New World Order” itself not only became a fearful symbol of global domination by an elite few, but it also stoked paranoid fears of a new march …