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Suicide Ideation, Planning, And Attempts: The Case Of The Latinx Lgb Youth, Javier F. Boyas, Tatiana Villarreal-Otálora, Luis R. Alvarez-Hernandez, Mariam Fatehi

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Background: Guided by an ecological systems theory (EST) framework, the purpose of the present study was to investigate how multiple micro, mezzo, and macro factors influence the suicidality continuum from suicidal ideation to suicide attempt among Latinx LGB (lesbian, gay, and bisexual) youth living in the United States.

Methods: Data for this cross sectional-study included 451 participants who self-identified as Latinx LGB on the 2017-National Youth Risk Behavioral Survey. The analysis explored micro, mezzo, and macro-level factors’ association with three suicidality outcomes (ideation, planning, and attempt) at the bivariate and multivariate level. Since the outcome variables were dichotomized, univariate logistic …

Evaluation Of Adam33 Gene’S Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Variants Against Asthma And The Unique Pattern Of Inheritance In Northern And Central Punjab, Pakistan, Muhammad U. Ghani, Muhammad F. Sabar, Iqbal Bano, Mariam Shahid, Muhammad Akram, Ifrah Khalid, Alishba Maryam, Muhammad U. Khan

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To investigate the relationship of 3 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variants of ADAM33 with asthma susceptibility in patients from Northern and Central Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan. Methods: In this case-control study, healthy and asthmatic participants were recruited between 2015 and 2017. The SNPs of ADAM33 gene, rs2280089, rs2280090, and rs2280091 were analyzed in 296 asthma patients and 343 healthy controls, as well as linkage disequilibrium and haplotype analysis. Results: The non-significant differences were observed in allele and genotype frequencies of the SNPs in asthmatic and healthy persons even after population stratification based on age, caste, gender, family history, and environment. …

Comparison Of Quality Of Life In Children Undergoing Peritoneal Dialysis Versus Hemodialysis, Ola A. Alhusaini, Lamis A. Wayyani, Hadeer E. Dafterdar, Mariyah M. Gamlo, Zainab A. Alkhayat, Abeer S. Alghamdi, Osama Y. Safdar

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To record pediatric end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients’ quality of life (QOL) in relation to peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD). Chronic kidney disease is a rising global epidemic yielding worldwide prevalence of 11-13%. It could possibly lead to ESRD, thus imposing serious burdens on patients and reducing their QOL. These burdens may affect their family members as well. Methods: This cross-sectional study examined 23 pediatric ESRD patients aged 2-18 years who were undergoing peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in July 2018. Data were collected using the validated Pediatric …

More Buildings Make More Generalizable Models—Benchmarking Prediction Methods On Open Electrical Meter Data, Clayton Miller

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

Prediction is a common machine learning (ML) technique used on building energy consumption data. This process is valuable for anomaly detection, load profile-based building control and measurement and verification procedures. Hundreds of building energy prediction techniques have been developed over the last three decades, yet there is still no consensus on which techniques are the most effective for various building types. In addition, many of the techniques developed are not publicly available to the general research community. This paper outlines a library of open-source regression techniques from the Scikit-Learn Python library and describes the process of applying them to open …

Specific Learning Disorder With Impairment In Reading (Dyslexia), Tiraya Lerthattasilp, Issarapa Chunsuwan

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

Specific learning disorder with impairment in reading (SLD, dyslexia) was found 5% in school-age children. It is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the capabilities of the brain responsible for basic reading skills which include phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Remedial therapy by training these skills could improve patients' reading ability and should be done promptly after diagnosis for the best outcome.

Leadership Conceptualization : The Construct, Jessica Lee Francavilla

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

In the last two decades, the leadership conceptualization literature, already shrouded in confusion, has broadened from the traditional, hierarchical view to encompass systemic views that characterize leadership as a process, leadership as a property of the system, and leadership as an outcome. This study seeks to clarify the leadership conceptualization construct by (1) separating it from the leadership construct into its own construct to juxtapose the components of the four theories; (2) proposing and examining an antecedent to leadership conceptualization, leadership experience; and (3) exploring the component structure of leadership conceptualization to see if the range of leadership beliefs are …

"It Takes Less To Be A Man Nowadays": Exploring Persistence And Change In Masculinity Narratives Among College-Aged Men, Shelby Lynn Clark

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Over the last several decades, a growing field of scholarship unpacks the concept of masculinity and its implications for gender and social hierarchy. Of particular interest are the ways in which hegemonic masculinity is perpetuated through the media and social discourse. The current study uses content analysis to highlight themes in the commodification of masculinity depicted in a series of Playboy Magazine’s “What Sort of Man Reads Playboy?” ads throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Conducting focus groups, I then use responses to these historical images and a contemporary equivalent to explore the persistence and evolution of portrayals of masculine ideals …

Testing Lotka’S Law And Pattern Of Author Productivity In The Scholarly Publications Of Artificial Intelligence, Muneer Ahmad, Sadik Batcha M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Artificial intelligence has changed our day to day life in multitude ways. AI technology is rearing itself as a driving force to be reckoned with in the largest industries in the world. AI has already engulfed our educational system, our businesses and our financial establishments. The future is definite that machines with artificial intelligence will soon be captivating over trained manual work that now is mostly cared by humans. Machines can carry out human-like tasks by new inputs as artificial intelligence makes it possible for machines to learn from experience. AI data from web of science database from 2008 to …

Topic Enhanced Word Embedding For Toxic Content Detection In Q&A Sites, Do Yeon Kim, Xiaohang Li, Sheng Wang, Yunying Zhuo, Ka Wei, Roy Lee

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Increasingly, users are adopting community question-and-answer (Q&A) sites to exchange information. Detecting and eliminating toxic and divisive content in these Q&A sites are paramount tasks to ensure a safe and constructive environment for the users. Insincere question, which is founded upon false premises, is one type of toxic content in Q&A sites. In this paper, we proposed a novel deep learning framework enhanced pre-trained word embeddings with topical information for insincere question classification. We evaluated our proposed framework on a large real-world dataset from Quora Q&A site and showed that the topically enhanced word embedding is able to achieve better …

Ai-Fashion: Collaborative Ai In The Fashion Industry, Y. Luo, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Abstract The word vintage is generally accepted to mean clothing produced in the period between 1920s and 1980s (Cervellon et al., 2012). According to Fischer (2015), fashion usually means rapid changes and up-to-date trendiness. Vintage dressing, however, has been a fashionable trend for over 40 years. Can AI be used to predict the next fashion trend? Fashion industry is currently exploring the use of AI to analyze customer behavior and predict next year’s fashion trends. Predicting the correct next trend is vital to the competitiveness and survivability of fashion brands. Research in this area is not new. For example, research …

Adapting Bert For Target-Oriented Multimodal Sentiment Classification, Jianfei Yu, Jing Jiang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

As an important task in Sentiment Analysis, Target-oriented Sentiment Classification (TSC) aims to identify sentiment polarities over each opinion target in a sentence. However, existing approaches to this task primarily rely on the textual content, but ignoring the other increasingly popular multimodal data sources (e.g., images), which can enhance the robustness of these text-based models. Motivated by this observation and inspired by the recently proposed BERT architecture, we study Target-oriented Multimodal Sentiment Classification (TMSC) and propose a multimodal BERT architecture. To model intra-modality dynamics, we first apply BERT to obtain target-sensitive textual representations. We then borrow the idea from self-attention …

We The People: These United Divided States, Catherine Powell

Cardozo Law Review

In the wake of President Trump's announcement that he will withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, then-California Governor Jerry Brown called on the President to fight climate change or to "get out of the way" while the rest of the world works to reduce emissions and invest in clean energy. Similarly, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg-now a United Nations (U.N.) Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change-said, "If Washington won't lead, then mayors and governors will." Indeed, Trump's threat to withdraw has not only been met with widespread criticism and derision abroad …

Arthur Jacobson And The Normativity Of Jewish Law, Uriel Procaccia

Cardozo Law Review

Arthur Jacobson has been for several decades a leading expert in contract law; he was recruited to edit the supplement of the most respected treatise on the subject, Corbin on Contracts, and has shared his expertise, to great acclaim, with generations of colleagues and students. His interest in Jewish Law, on the other hand, is of a more recent vintage. But it appears that since this recent calling took a grip on his mind it captured his intellectual curiosity to the point of dominating the rich array of his other inquisitive interests with the sole exception, perhaps, of his …

Dementia Screening In A Primary Care Clinic: Quality Improvement Project To Identify A Proper Dementia Screening Tool, Erni Dewi Ruslie

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

Alzheimer’s dementia affects approximately 50 million people in the world and was the sixth leading cause of death in the United States in 2014 (Heron, 2016). The death rate due to Alzheimer’s increased by 55% from 1999 to 2014 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Several studies have shown that in primary care, the majority of older adults with dementia are undiagnosed (Boustani et al., 2011; Connolly, Gaehl, Martin, Morris, & Purandare, 2011; Sternberg, Wolfson, & Baumgarten, 2000). Mild dementia is particularly under-diagnosed (Van den Dungen et al., 2011). In 2014, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force concluded current …

Dialect Transfer For L2 Arabic Learners, Jozeca Lathrop

Theses and Dissertations

With rising numbers of Arabic language learners studying abroad, language programs face two challenges that are unlike many other commonly-studied languages. First, dialects of spoken Arabic vary significantly across the span of North Africa and the Middle East, so in choosing a location to study abroad, learners are also choosing a particular dialect of Arabic on which to focus their attention. Second, Arabic is diglossic, so written and spoken varieties are significantly different from each other. Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is used for most written material, media, and some formal settings, while Colloquial Arabic (CA) is used for informal spoken …

Exploring Violence: The Role Of Neighborhood Characteristics, Alcohol Outlets, And Other Micro-Places, Aleksandra J. Snowden

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

This study explores the association between neighborhood characteristics, alcohol outlets, other micro-places, and neighborhood violence rates. Prior studies that examined the alcohol availability and violence associations suggested that alcohol outlets play an important role in violent outcomes, yet we know less about the larger environment in which alcohol outlets are located, including how the availability of other types of places that exist side by side with alcohol outlets in neighborhoods could influence the alcohol-violence relationships. I collected publicly available data on simple and aggravated assaults, neighborhood characteristics (concentrated disadvantage, concentrated immigration, residential stability, and ethnic heterogeneity), on- and off-premise outlets, …

The Influence Of Homeschooling On The Lives Of College Graduates: A Transcendental Phenomenological Study, Jennifer Rose Elliott

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the influence of a K–12 home education on the academic, familial, spiritual, and vocational aspects of the adult lives of select four-year college graduates. Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory framed this study, as it purports that learning and development occur in the symbiotic relationship between learner and environment. Central research question: How do select four-year college graduates describe the influence of a K–12 home education on their adult lives? Sub-questions: (a) How do participants describe the impact of a K–12 home education on their experiences in higher education? (b) How do participants …

High-Fidelity Simulation Education And Clinical Judgment: New Nurses' Voices, Martha Kay Lawrence, Deanne Karen Hilfinger Messias

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Research suggests high fidelity simulation (HFS) contributes to development of clinical judgment among nursing students. This research examined the translation of HFS educational experiences into nursing practice. Nurses reported educational HFS experiences as contributing to their ability to notice and respond to patient conditions and to prioritize and organize care.

Middle Eastern Nursing Students: Recommendations For Recruitment And Retention, Brenda Moore

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

A diverse healthcare patient population deserves culturally and linguistically diverse nurses. As nursing educators, we can work toward meeting this need by recruiting, mentoring and supporting Middle Eastern nursing students as they become registered nurses.

Using Context To Communicate: Romanian Sign Language Learners And Their Communication Strategies, Rebecca Melville

Theses and Dissertations

This study focuses on the communication strategies used by second language learners of Romanian Sign Language (LSR), including learners of different proficiency levels, and investigates whether the learner’s proficiency level affects the kinds or variety of communication strategies they use. Unlike previous studies of communication strategies by language learners, it focuses on learners of a signed rather than a spoken language.

The study consisted of two tasks—the first being a structured task where the learner was given a list of ten words to communicate to an interlocutor (a Deaf native signer). The second task was less structured and asked the …

Constituent Order And Participant Reference In Napo Quichua Narrative Discourse, Larinda Moffitt

Theses and Dissertations

Napo Quichua is a Quechuan language variety spoken along the Napo River in Northern Peru and Southern Ecuador. This thesis presents a description of the constituent order and participant reference system of oral narrative discourse. The primary data source for this study consists mostly of folk tales told by native speakers, with a few autobiographical accounts.

Napo Quichua is an SOV language with a relatively high degree of variation in constituent order. Constituent order variations are motivated by the guiding principles of information structure, including showing focus, highlighting information, and backgrounding information. Constituent order and participant reference also interact to …

Autour De L'Ouvrage De Philippe Delisle: «Renouveau Missionnaire Et Société Esclavagiste. La Martinique: 1815-1848», Claude Prudhomme, Léo Elisabeth

Mémoire Spiritaine

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Antipodes

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Examining The Role Of Varying Levels Of Classroom Quality For Toddlers In Early Head Start And Subsidized Child Care Programs: Understanding Threshold Effects, Krystal Bichay Awadalla

Open Access Dissertations

The Toddler Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS-T) is one of the most commonly used measures to assess the quality of teacher-child interactions in toddler classrooms. Cut-points on the CLASS-T scores are being used to determine Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) ratings of programs as high or low quality, and therefore have policy implications for program funding and for parent consumers. Despite widespread use of the CLASS-T for these purposes, few studies have examined the construct validity of the CLASS-T for use in Early Head Start (EHS) and subsidized child care programs serving low-income, ethnically and linguistically diverse children and …

The Saga Of The Jómsvikings: A Translation For Students, Alison Finlay, Þórdís Edda Jóhannesdóttir

Northern Medieval World

Unique among the Icelandic sagas, part-history, part-fiction, the Saga of the Jómsvikings tells of a legendary band of vikings, originally Danish, who established an island fortress of the Baltic coast and launched and ultimately lost their heroic attack on the pagan ruler of Norway in the late tenth century. The saga's account of their stringent warrior code, fatalistic adherence to their own reckless vows and declarations of extreme courage as they face execution articulates a remarkable account of what it meant to be a viking. This translation presents the longest and earliest text of the saga, never before published in …

Arabic: Why Indonesians Have To Learn It?, Letmiros Letmiros

International Review of Humanities Studies

Arabic has many virtues. The first virtue of Arabic is that it is part of Islam. Then, Arabic as one of the old languages in the world has an amazing history of civilization. Furthermore, Arabic is an international language that has been used as one of the official languages of the United Nations since 1973. Because of these advantages, Arabic is interesting to be studied and researched by non-Arabs including by Indonesians. Arabic is studied, in addition to the purpose or because of the factors of Islam, also because of the factors of world life, for the demands of work …

The Use Of Task Based Language Teaching (Tblt) As To Improve Descriptive Writing Skills, Inayanti Inayanti, Sisilia Setiawati Halimi Dr.

International Review of Humanities Studies

Writing skills are one of the skills that must be mastered by language learners. As an effort to improve writing skills, the researcher uses the Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT) approach. The TBLT approach is carried out on 19 level 1 students of the English Literature study program in learning descriptive writing skills in English. The type of research conducted is Classroom Action Research (CAR) in collaboration with lecturers of Writing 1 class. The research is supported by qualitative and quantitative data to determine the students’ improvement in the process of learning descriptive writing using TBLT. The results show a …

Factors Predicting Reading In Indonesian Adolescents, Chysanti Arumsari, Bernard Amadeus Jaya Jap, Sri Tiatri, Tjibeng Jap

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

The current study investigates predictors of reading abilities of adolescents in Standard Indonesian (SI). Reading predictors typically signify, with some degree of error, essential cognitive skills needed for individuals to read effectively. This is crucial since it forms a key part of the initial steps to assess or identify reading-related language impairments such as dyslexia. In addition to measures of reading itself and nonverbal intelligence, the present research examines six empirically motivated potential predictors of reading and decoding: phonological awareness; phonological short-term memory; verbal and semantic fluency; rapid automated naming (RAN); motor control; familial risk; and, self-reported factors. The results …

Predicting The Emotional Intensity Of Tweets, Intisar M. Alhamdan

Theses

Automated interpretation of human emotion has become increasingly important as human-computer interactions become ubiquitous. Affective computing is a field of computer science concerned with recognizing, analyzing and interpreting human emotions in a range of media, including audio, video, and text. Social media, in particular, are rich in expressions of people's moods, opinions, and sentiments. This thesis focuses on predicting the emotional intensity expressed on the social network Twitter. In this study, we use lexical features, sentiment and emotion lexicons to extract features from tweets, messages of 280 characters or less shared on Twitter. We also use a form of transfer …

Panduan Praktikum Biokimia Ii Berbasis Inkuiri Terbimbing Dengan Pendekatan Kearifan Lokal, Oktri Anggo, Endang Budiasih, Siti Marfu’Ah

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This research aims to develop biochemical practicum guidelines II and test the guidelines for small-scale practicum guides. This research was developed based on the Thiagarajan (4D) method. The practicum guide produced is a biochemistry practical guide II specifically for students, biochemical practicum guide II specifically for lecturers /assistants and multiple choice tests. The validation guide shows guidelines for biochemical practices specifically students have an average value of 88.89 with very feasible criteria and biochemical practicum guidance guide II specifically for lecturers / assistants has an average value of 91.11 with very feasible suggestions. The results of a small group biochemical …