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The Role Of Citizenship Status And Its Impact On Latino’ Civic Engagement In The United States, Veronica Torres Luna

Res Publica - Journal of Undergraduate Research

This paper discusses the way in which U.S. citizenship status and legal permanent resident status impacts the likelihood of involvement in civic engagement activities among Latinos in the United States. Past research has looked into various variables such as group consciousness, Spanish-media language, and importance of issues; however, specific research on citizenship status is limited. This paper analyzes data from the Pew Research Center and data obtained from individual interviews in the Midwest. The results show that citizens are more likely than residents to be involved in the community and politics. These findings have important implications in how policies are …

The Effect Of Mild Cognitive Impairment On Anxiety In Older Adults In American And Ukraine, Eleanor Ryan

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

With the growing population of elderly individuals throughout the world, the study of their emotional distress is ever poignant to society. This is especially true when these individuals have cognitive impairment. The research, in regards to Eastern European individuals, is lacking. To gain a better understanding of this understudied population, elderly people with Mild Cognitive impairment (MCI) from both Ukraine and the United States were studied. It was found that the anxiety rates of the Ukrainian MCI group were significantly higher than both the United States MCI group and the Ukraine control (p = 0.004). Purpose The purpose of this …

“Making It Your Own By Adapting It To What’S Important To You”: Plurilingual Critical Literacies To Promote L2 Japanese Users’ Sense Of Ownership Of Japanese, Noriko Iwasaki, Yuri Kumagai

East Asian Languages & Cultures: Faculty Publications

The dichotomy between native speaker (NS) and non-native speaker (NNS) remains ubiquitous across different language-learning contexts despite increasing mobility and multilingualism of society. L2 Japanese learners in particular may find themselves positioned as subordinate to NSs because of the myth of Japan being a homogeneous nation of one race and one language. To help L2 Japanese students counter such positioning and gain a sense of ownership, we implemented “plurilingual critical literacies” in a Japanese language course in the U.S. Critical literacy aims to cultivate students’ awareness that power relationships are at play in language use, and plurilingual pedagogy valorizes students’ …

The (Next) Big Short And The End Of The Anthropocene, M. Alexander Pearl

Faculty Articles

It is incredibly difficult to imagine an event the likes of which humans have never seen before. That, in and of itself renders the challenge to prepare for such an event even more difficult because there is no frame of reference pushing us to act. How do you prepare to avoid something which has never occurred in the history of human occupation? That is the challenge of climate change. I argue that the Subprime Mortgage Crisis and its aftermath parallel the Climate Crisis in critical ways that should inform our tactics. Of course, there are obvious critical differences as well. …

Predicting Violent Crime Reports From Geospatial And Temporal Attributes Of Us 911 Emergency Call Data, Vincent Corcoran

Dissertations

The aim of this study is to create a model to predict which 911 calls will result in crime reports of a violent nature. Such a prediction model could be used by the police to prioritise calls which are most likely to lead to violent crime reports. The model will use geospatial and temporal attributes of the call to predict whether a crime report will be generated. To create this model, a dataset of characteristics relating to the neighbourhood where the 911 call originated will be created and combined with characteristics related to the time of the 911 call. Geospatial …

A Spatial Framework For Ex-Ante Impact Assessment Of Agricultural Technologies, José F. Andrade, Juan I. Rattalino Edreira, Andrew Farrow, Marloes P. Van Loon, Peter Q. Craufurd, Jairos Rurinda, Shamie Zingore, Jordan Chamberlin, Lieven Claessens, Julius Adewopo, Martin K. Van Ittersum, Kenneth G. Cassman, Patricio Grassini

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Traditional agricultural research and extension relies on replicated field experiments, on-farm trials, and demonstration plots to evaluate and adapt agronomic technologies that aim to increase productivity, reduce risk, and protect the environment for a given biophysical and socio-economic context. To date, these efforts lack a generic and robust spatial framework for ex-ante assessment that: (i) provides strategic insight to guide decisions about the number and location of testing sites, (ii) define the target domain for scaling-out a given technology or technology package, and (iii) estimate potential impact from widespread adoption of the technology(ies) being evaluated. In this study, we developed …

"Introduction" To Crossroads: Frankfurt Am Main As Market For Northern Art 1500–1800, Miriam Hall Kirch, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Alison Stewart

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

Table of Contents Inhaltsverzeichnis

Simple curiosity has sparked many a book, and that is true of this book, too. We wanted to know what role Frankfurt am Main played in the rise of the commercial art market in general and in particular of painting and printmaking during the early modern period. We were surprised to find no ready answer to our question, for although the Frankfurt Book Fair remains a major publishing event, art historians have not yet focused sufficiently on its precursor, the Frankfurt fair, an important location for the trade in paintings and prints. Frankfurt's hub function as …

นโยบาย "3 ไม่" ของเวียดนามกับความสัมพันธ์ด้านความมั่นคงกับสหรัฐอเมริการะหว่างปี 2010-2019, ชภาภัทร โสตถิอนันต์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การมีภัยคุกคามและผลประโยชน์ทางยุทธศาสตร์ร่วมกันในทะเลจีนใต้ของเวียดนามกับสหรัฐอเมริกาเป็นปัจจัยขับเคลื่อนในความสัมพันธ์ด้านความมั่นคงของทั้งสองประเทศอย่างต่อเนื่อง แต่เวียดนามยืนยันไม่เป็นพันธมิตรทางการทหารกับสหรัฐฯ เพื่อร่วมกันต่อต้านจีนโดยยึดนโยบาย “3 ไม่”กล่าวคือ ไม่เป็นพันธมิตรทางทหาร ไม่ให้ตั้งฐานทัพต่างชาติในประเทศ และไม่ร่วมมือกับรัฐหนึ่งเพื่อต่อต้านรัฐอื่น นโยบาย 3 ไม่จึงเป็นเครื่องมือในการรักษาความสัมพันธ์กับจีนควบคู่ไปกับพัฒนาความสัมพันธ์ด้านความมั่นคงกับสหรัฐฯ สารนิพนธ์ฉบับนี้มุ่งศึกษานโยบาย “3 ไม่” ของเวียดนามกับความสัมพันธ์ด้านความมั่นคงกับสหรัฐอเมริการะหว่างปี 2010-2019 โดยประยุกต์ใช้แนวคิดเรื่องพันธมิตรทางทหารของเคนเน็ต วอลท์เพื่อเสนอว่าการใช้นโยบาย “3 ไม่” ทำให้เวียดนามยังรักษาความสัมพันธ์ในฐานะเพื่อนบ้านที่ดีกับจีนไว้ได้ พร้อม ๆ กับอนุญาตให้เวียดนามสามารถเข้าใกล้สหรัฐฯ ได้มากขึ้นด้วย และยังเป็นนโยบายที่เวียดนามใช้เพื่อป้องกันตนเองจากแรงกดดันและแสวงหาผลประโยชน์จากความสัมพันธ์กับสองมหาอำนาจ ทั้งนี้ แม้เวียดนามมีความสัมพันธ์ที่ใกล้ชิดกับสหรัฐฯ มากขึ้น แต่เวียดนามหลีกเลี่ยงคำและการกระทำที่เข้าข่ายการเป็นพันธมิตรทางทหาร โดยในการสร้างข้อตกลงทางการทหารอย่างไม่เป็นทางการกับสหรัฐฯ เวียดนามพยายามจำกัดให้อยู่ภายในขอบเขตของนิยามความเป็นหุ้นส่วน เพื่อยืนยันว่าตนยังคงยึดมั่นนโยบาย “3 ไม่” อย่างมั่นคง

พื้นที่สาธารณะรูปแบบใหม่กับการสื่อสารทางการเมือง: ขบวนการร่มบนสื่อสังคมออนไลน์, พศพันธุ์ ศุขเกษม

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

ขบวนการร่ม (Umbrella Movement) หรือการชุมนุมประท้วงในฮ่องกงในปี ค.ศ. 2014 เพื่อเรียกร้องให้ชาวฮ่องกงมีส่วนร่วมในกระบวนการเลือกตั้งผู้บริหารสูงสุด กลายมาเป็นขบวนการเคลื่อนไหวทางสังคมซึ่งมีการเข้ายึดพื้นที่ในจุดที่สำคัญต่าง ๆ เพื่อกดดันรัฐบาลฮ่องกงรวมถึงรัฐบาลปักกิ่ง และในขณะเดียวกัน ได้มีการใช้พื้นที่บนสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ในการสร้างพื้นที่สาธารณะแบบเสมือนจริงเพื่อส่งเสริมขบวนการเคลื่อนไหว บทความวิชาการนี้ต้องการที่จะศึกษาลักษณะหรือรูปแบบการเคลื่อนไหวออนไลน์ของขบวนการร่มที่สอดคล้องกับขบวนการเคลื่อนไหวที่สำคัญในประเทศต่าง ๆ ทั่วโลกในห้วงเวลาเดียวกัน (ปี ค.ศ. 2011 - 2014) โดยเฉพาะการใช้แฮชแท็กผ่านสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ของขบวนการร่มในการเชื่อมโยงผู้คนระหว่างกันจนกลายเป็น Hashtag activism ที่มีประสิทธิภาพในการผลักดันเสียงของประชาชนให้เป็นที่ถกเถียงบนพื้นที่สาธารณะ รวมถึงศึกษาการใช้มีมในขบวนการร่มซึ่งสะท้อนความคิดทางวัฒนธรรม สัญลักษณ์ หรือการปฏิบัติ ที่สามารถส่งความรู้สึกต่างๆ จากบุคคลหนึ่งไปสู่อีกคนหนึ่งได้ ผ่านการเขียน พูด ท่าทาง ภาพล้อเลียน เป็นต้น สุดท้ายบทความชิ้นนี้ยังวิเคราะห์ข้อจำกัดในการเคลื่อนไหวของขบวนการร่มบนสื่อออนไลน์

Tribal Governance In American Indian Country, Terry E. Mcdonald

School of Business Student Theses and Dissertations

Public Administrators seek to synthesize, comprehend, and clarify challenging problems of social progress as it relates to the administration of public services. We must, therefore, think about all forms of governance to have a comprehensive understanding of the discipline. If civilization ignored the prehistory of the past 600 million years, from the Late Precambrian Era through the Mesozoic, there would be a consequential loss of knowledge. A comprehensive understanding would be absent regarding one of the fundamentals in our evolution – life's ability to avoid demise by symbiosis and adaptation. In the same way, we may have overlooked an essential …

The Diversity Distraction: A Critical Comparative Analysis Of Discourse In Higher Education Scholarship, Derria Byrd

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

This critical literature review investigates how "diversity" and "equity" are employed in top-cited higher education scholarship published between 2000 and 2015. No analysis to date has offered such a comparative exploration relative to well-recognized racial disparities in higher education. Findings reveal a divergence with "diversity" largely attending to affirmative action concerns and "equity" to analyses of the pursuit of equity in higher education. The article concludes with advocacy for the equity frame because of its presumption of a normative justice-oriented standard and embedded orientation toward inquiry and action, both of which offer greater promise for policy, practice, and research that …

Sustainability Education And Organizational Change: A Critical Case Study Of Barriers And Change Drivers At A Higher Education Institution, Edwin E. Akins Ii, Elizabeth Giddens, David Glassmeyer, Amy Gruss

Faculty Articles

Integrating sustainability within institutions of higher education can have a tremendous impact on students, faculty, and the larger community. Sustainability efforts also experience many barriers to implementation within higher education contexts. A change management perspective can help characterize these barriers and ways to overcome them. In this critical case study, we use a process model to examine the kinds of barriers Kennesaw State University (KSU) has faced regarding implementation of academic sustainability and to evaluate change drivers that can advance sustainability during a time of leadership change. The process model evaluates barriers and change drivers according to published frameworks, and …

A Multitrophic Perspective On Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning Research, Nico Eisenhauer, Holger Schielzeth, Andrew D. Barnes, Kathryn Barry, Aletta Bonn, Ulrich Brose, Helge Bruelheide, Nina Buchmann, Francois Buscott, Anne Ebeling, Olga Ferlian, Grégoire T. Freschet, Darren P. Giling, Stephan Hättenschwiler, Helmut Hillebrand, Jes Hines, Forest Isbell, Eva Koller-France, Birgitta König-Ries, Hans De Kroon, Sebastian T. Meyer, Alexandru Milcu, Jörg Müller, Charles A. Nock, Jana S. Petermann, Christiane Roscher, Christoph Scherber, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Andreas Schuldt, Teja Tscharntke, Manfred Türke, Nicole M. Van Dam, Fons Van Der Plas, Anja Vogel, Cameron Wagg, David A. Wardle, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Christian Wirth, Malte Jochum

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Concern about the functional consequences of unprecedented loss in biodiversity has prompted biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) research to become one of the most active fields of ecological research in the past 25 years. Hundreds of experiments have manipulated biodiversity as an independent variable and found compelling support that the functioning of ecosystems increases with the diversity of their ecological communities. This research has also identified some of the mechanisms underlying BEF relationships, some context-dependencies of the strength of relationships, as well as implications for various ecosystem services that mankind depends upon. In this paper, we argue that a multitrophic perspective of …

“...Members Of One And The Same Mystical Body…” Development Of A British Protestant Identity During The Thirty Years War, Shira Cohen

Honors Papers

The political situation of the British Isles changed from a uniting monarchy to a military-run, vaguely representative government over the course of a very short time during the 17th century. The Scottish and English populace overthrew their monarch for a majority of reasons, including economic and political ones, many of which have been studied extensively. This thesis addresses the less-emphasized religious reasonings that allowed for such a disruptive event supported by so many people, which can trace their roots to the Thirty Years War that began a few decades before these overarching changes in British society.

This thesis will investigate …

Can Machine Learning On Economic Data Better Forecast The Unemployment Rate?, Aaron S. Kreiner

Honors Papers

This paper examines different machine learning methods to project the U.S. unemployment rate one year ahead. The forecasts include a naive forecast equal to the current unemployment plus the change of unemployment over the last year, along with forecasts from a Lasso regression and a neural network model. The last two models, which can be quickly run using an SQL database, select data from the Federal Reserve Economic Database (FRED) and are fitted (trained) in-sample from 1970 to 2000 to forecast quarterly unemployment rates over 2001 to 2018. The training window is updated in each forecast quarter to include new …

Carceral Camouflage: Inscribing And Obscuring Neoliberal Penality Through New York City's Borough-Based Jail Plan, Katie Wilson

Honors Papers

This project seeks to interrogate the socio-spatial implications of New York City's contemporary criminal justice machine through mayor Bill de Blasio's ongoing jail reform plan to build new, "borough-based jails." In 2017, following decades of controversy over entrenched violence and horrific abuses on Rikers Island, New York's notorious island penal colony, de Blasio announced a 10-year plan to "to close Rikers Island and replace it with a smaller network of modern jails." While the plan claims to make jails in New York "smaller, safer, and fairer," this project analyzes the plan's strategies, its rhetoric, and its goals to understand the …

The Management Consulting Toolkit: Fifty Of The Most Versatile And Value-Adding Tools Used By The World’S Leading Business Analysts, Transformation Experts And Management Consultants., Expert Toolkit

Hosted E-Book Collection

The Management Consulting Toolkit contains 50 of the most useful, versatile and value-adding tools used by management consultants the world-over. The tools focus on business analysis and transformation and cover key consulting disciplines such as:1) Business performance analysis; 2) Future state design; 3) Transformation planning; 4) Transformation execution; 5) Project management; 6) Change management; 7) Team management.

These tools have all stood the test of time, and the team at Expert Toolkit believes they will continue to be relevant, powerful and value-adding in the hands of the competent practitioner. They will save you time, stress, frustration and help you make …

Future Of Appalachian Culture, Emily Hilliard, Travis Stimeling, Michael Kline, Carrie Kline, Trevor Mckenzie, Nancy Abrams, Torey Siebart, Chris Haddox, Mehmet Oztan, West Virginia University Press

Exhibit Panels

Appalachia is often associated with its traditional arts and culture, but that does not mean that we are stuck in the past. Local traditions often play a crucial role in galvanizing forward-thinking cultural institutions, involving artists and workers alike in making new futures that are still distinctively Appalachian. This section of the exhibit highlights this kind of work from the West Virginia Humanities Council, Arthurdale Heritage, and more, connecting to a traditional past to new traditions yet to be forged.

Appalachian Economic Futures, Dewayne Barton, John Deskins, Paul Corbit Brown, William Hal Gorby, Jill Moles Mullins, Nicholas F. Stump, Matt Winans, Brenden E. Mcneil, Eloise Elliott, Chris Haddox, E Gordon Gee, Eddie Brzostek, Audra Slocum, Trevor Mckenzie, Tom Hansell

Exhibit Panels

When people talk about the future of Appalachia, they typically mean economic futures: What will happen to coal jobs? How will Appalachia diversify its economy? What about poverty? Stereotypes about our region represent our people as disinterested in education, and hostile to innovation, technology, and sustainability. We see a different story. This part of the exhibit looks at ways that Appalachians are taking their strong sense of culture, their linguistic distinctiveness, and their relationship to the natural world to imagine new futures in diverse industries, sustainable practices, and stronger education systems.

Research On Youth Government Organizations, Daniel Mcmurray

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

No abstract provided.

2019-2020 Course Catalog, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Course Catalogs, 1895-2024

An annual catalog of courses and course descriptions offered at the University of Montana.

Leverage Dan Partisipasi Ekspor: Studi Empiris Pada Perusahaan Manufaktur Di Indonesia, Ilham Perintis, Maddaremmeng A.Panennungi

Jurnal Kebijakan Ekonomi

The study aims to investigate the relationship between leverage on firms' opportunities to participate in export markets at the levels of aggregate sectors and subsectors of manufacturing of Indonesia by using Industry Survey data published by Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS) for the period 2007 - 2015. The results of logistic estimation at the sectoral aggregate level indicate that the higher a firm has the financial capacity to meet obligations or that the company is not burdened by debt arising from the use of leverage, the firms are not financially constrained and have greater opportunity for firms to participate in the …

An Analysis Of Mergers And Acquisitions In Non-Profit Organizations, Shakiyla K. Davis

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

This paper hypothesizes that poor planning of merger or acquisitions will lead to increased issues within the organization. To effectively examine the hypothesis, the paper provides an overview of mergers and acquisitions. The paper highlights the process and considerations of a merger and acquisition and uses examples to provide insight on successful and unsuccessful partnerships.

Female Disparity And Political Participation In The Kentucky State Legislature; The Presence Of Female Legislative Candidates And Their Effect On Voter Turnout In The Kentucky Electorate, Trenton K. Patrick

MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects

Female disparity in the political process in the state of Kentucky follows the same distinct pattern of female disparity all across state legislatures in the United States, and in the federal legislative branch. Female representation and parity in the political process is vital to the success of governmental bodies due to the benefits that the female perspective offers to governmental processes. After extensive review of the existing literature, it is clear that there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding how the presence of a female candidate effects the total turnout rate, female turnout rate, and …

Recording As Heckling, Scott Skinner-Thompson

Publications

A growing body of authority recognizes that citizen recording of police officers and public space is protected by the First Amendment. But the judicial and scholarly momentum behind the emerging “right to record” fails to fully incorporate recording’s cost to another important right that also furthers First Amendment principles: the right to privacy.

This Article helps fill that gap by comprehensively analyzing the First Amendment interests of both the right to record and the right to privacy in public while highlighting the role of technology in altering the First Amendment landscape. Recording information can be critical to future speech and, …

The New Agriculture: From Food Farms To Solar Farms, Jessica Owley, Amy Wilson Morris

Articles

Across the United States, government agencies and energy developers are looking to agricultural land for development of renewable energy. One attraction of agricultural lands is that they are already relatively ecologically impaired compared with the previous solar development sites in the California and Arizona desert that have been a major source of concern for many environmental groups-and subject to expensive mitigation requirements under the Endangered Species Act. Renewable energy development pressures are accelerating the existing loss of agricultural land, heightening concerns about food security and the economic viability of agricultural communities. California farmland is at the center of this conflict. …

The Influence Of Geography On Yemen's Red Sea Geopolitics And The Houthi Maritime Insurgency / Khaldoon Ahmed Hasson Abdulla, Hasson Abdulla Khaldoon Ahmed

Student Works (2010-2019)

Regardless of Yemen’s historical significance in the construction of the Red Sea identity, contemporary studies of the Red Sea sub-system perceive it as a peripheral and fragile state, so the threat of non-state actors in the country could result in a spillover effect on the region. Meanwhile, Yemen’s geographical factor has been understudied, there is a shortcoming in defining the causal relationship that geography grants Yemen in the Red Sea geopolitics. This fact is evident in the analysis of the current civil war in Yemen, especially the Houthi maritime operations. Given this setting, this study aims to illustrate the influence …

Mechanisms And Age Estimates Of Continental-Scale Endorheic To Exorheic Drainage Transition: Douro River, Western Iberia, Pedro P. Cunha, António A. Martins, Alberto Gomes, Martin Stokes, João Cabral, Fernando C. Lopes, Diamantino Pereira, Vicente G De, Jan Pieter Buylaert, Andrew S. Murray, Loreto Antón

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

The Law Of Moses: An Overview, Dan Belnap

Faculty Publications

During the last week of his life, Christ was confronted by a group of Jewish authorities who asked him, “Master, which is the great commandment in the law?” (Matthew 22:36). Christ’s answer, that one should love God with all one’s heart, soul, and might (Deuteronomy 6:5), as well as one’s neighbor as oneself (Leviticus 19:18), was then followed by the assertion “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:40). Clearly, in Christ’s day the law of Moses was regarded as providing crucial instruction regarding one’s behavior both with one’s fellow man and with God, and …

Ever-Widening Circles: Consolidating And Enhancing Wirlomin Noongar Archival Material In The Community, Clint Bracknell, Kim Scott

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Returning archival documentation of endangered Indigenous languages to their community of origin can provide empowering opportunities for Indigenous people to control, consolidate, enhance and share their cultural heritage with ever-widening, concentric circles of people, while also allowing time and space for communities to recover from disempowerment and dislocation. This process aligns with an affirming narrative of Indigenous persistence that, despite the context of colonial dispossession, can lead to a positive, self-determined future. In 2007, senior Noongar of the Wirlomin clan in the south coast region of Western Australia initiated Wirlomin Noongar Language and Stories Inc., an organisation set up to …