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Campus Community Health Assessments Using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring, Sue Mueller, Cassidy Go, Grace Hahn, Erica Olsen, Megan Sutton Jan 2020

Campus Community Health Assessments Using Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring, Sue Mueller, Cassidy Go, Grace Hahn, Erica Olsen, Megan Sutton

Research Days Posters 2020

Background and Purpose: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM), frequently used by bio-anthropologists as a research tool, provides a detailed assessment of daily blood pressure variation in response to activity and mood. The purpose of this study was to explore associations between ADLs, blood pressure, and health risk behaviors, including nicotine, using ABPM. This study was guided by Pender’s Health Promotion Model. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study with a case control group and convenience sample used survey methodology and biometric data collection. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25 and statistical tests appropriate to each research hypothesis. Results: University campus members (N=61) …

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Assumptions About The Nature Of Sexual Attraction And Asexuality, Chloe Cairncross, Alex Rehman-Grosser Jan 2020

Assumptions About The Nature Of Sexual Attraction And Asexuality, Chloe Cairncross, Alex Rehman-Grosser

Research Days Posters 2020

Asexuality is defined as the non-experience of sexual attraction, but if humans are naturally sexual beings then the assumption is that asexuality must not be natural. This research explores the idea of asexuality as part of human nature. We reviewed literature on the topic of asexuality and administered a survey. The survey was released on five different platforms and received nearly 600 responses, the majority from individuals identifying on the asexual spectrum. The survey addressed understandings of asexuality and experiences of both asexual and non-asexual individuals. Almost all survey participants believed that asexuality is natural, however, approximately two-thirds also believed …

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Systematic Racism In The U.S.: Disproportionate African American Maternal Mortality Rates, Jillian Karlicek, Connor Barry, Mackenzie Johnson Jan 2020

Systematic Racism In The U.S.: Disproportionate African American Maternal Mortality Rates, Jillian Karlicek, Connor Barry, Mackenzie Johnson

Research Days Posters 2020

Black mothers in the United States have significantly higher mortality rates than all other American racial or ethnic groups, even when factors such as education, income, and overall health are controlled for. We considered whether life experiences of systemic racism contribute to poor maternal health for black women. Through literary analysis and an interview with a medical anthropologist, we found indications that higher incidences of maternal mortality are not due to genetic factors shared among African-American women. Rather, along with other cultural factors, continuous exposure to racism strains the body in ways that negatively impact maternal health. Our research highlights …

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Trash-Talking In Soccer: What It Tells Us About Human Nature, Diana Almallah, Max Amram, Kerry Harper Jan 2020

Trash-Talking In Soccer: What It Tells Us About Human Nature, Diana Almallah, Max Amram, Kerry Harper

Research Days Posters 2020

Aggressive communication has been receiving more attention, not only in social endeavors, but in sports. Trash talking in athletics is one of the oldest forms of competitiveness, perhaps connecting to an innate human characteristic. We decided to focus on one sport and asked: what role does aggression play in organized soccer? We hypothesized that human nature does impact aggression in sports and our study aimed to investigate that inference. An online survey was sent to coaches and captains of varying schools and levels of soccer and then forwarded to players. The questions were designed to help us understand aggression's role …

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Acculturative Stress And Substance Use Among Chinese International Students, Liam Lane Jan 2020

Acculturative Stress And Substance Use Among Chinese International Students, Liam Lane

Research Days Posters 2020

Substance use among domestic US college students has been studied at length, but research surrounding substance use among international students in the US remains minimal. Many international students experience acculturative stress (commonly known as "culture shock") and how students cope with this stress is a topic of interest in promoting their well-being. This research focuses on Chinese international students, in particular, as this demographic is one of the largest international populations on US college campuses. Considering the increased availability of substances to students in the US, Chinese international students may turn to substance use as an outlet for their experienced …

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Opioid Abuse As A Result Of Work Related Trauma, Alex Szczepanski, Julien Maarek, John Mercaldo Jan 2020

Opioid Abuse As A Result Of Work Related Trauma, Alex Szczepanski, Julien Maarek, John Mercaldo

Research Days Posters 2020

Our studies examine and observe the widespread impact that prescription opioids have left on the United States, with a specific focus on working-class Americans and veterans. By narrowing our reach to Americans who are forced to handle large amounts of physical labor we have found a strong correlation between these workers getting injured on the job and opioid abuse. Finding that the it is generally attributed to overprescription and unnecessary prescription from physicians. The information was drawn from studies, surveys, dissertations and censuses. Observing these works on injuries/trauma caused by these occupations has yielded important information to the origin of …

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Colonial Hangover And The Politics Of Space In Kiran Desai’S Inheritance Of Loss, Aparajita Nanda Jan 2020

Colonial Hangover And The Politics Of Space In Kiran Desai’S Inheritance Of Loss, Aparajita Nanda

English

Spatial history has been defined by Nigel Thrift as the merger of space, a term he associates with human geography, with time, a word borrowed from history. This paper analyzes the spatial history at play in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, a novel that ponders on questions of identities flawed by a deep sense of deprivation and loss left by colonization that manifests itself in various forms through generations. It particularly focuses on two characters, Gyan and Biju, whose responses to space are determined by the historical resonance of these places even as they are influenced by other inhabitants …

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Legal Complexities Of The Sex Trafficking Of Minors, Christie Mccormick Jan 2020

Legal Complexities Of The Sex Trafficking Of Minors, Christie Mccormick

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Among human rights abuses in modern society, the trafficking of women and children for labor, prostitution, and other forms of sexual exploitation is one of the greatest. While a large amount of time and financial support has gone into efforts to suppress trafficking and shelter its victims, there has not been enough done to tackle this problem. Before reaching the age of 18, it is predicted that 80% of adolescents in the United States will have traded money for sex. Many adolescent girls who have been trafficked in the commercial sex industries are subject to serious criminal penalties for prostitution-related …

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Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating Lidar And Geophysical Surveys At The Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, Usa, Henry R. Edward, Alice P. Wright, Sarah C. Sherwood, Barrier R. Casey, Stephen B. Carmody, Christopher Van De Ven Jan 2020

Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating Lidar And Geophysical Surveys At The Johnston Site, Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, Usa, Henry R. Edward, Alice P. Wright, Sarah C. Sherwood, Barrier R. Casey, Stephen B. Carmody, Christopher Van De Ven

Anthropology Faculty Research and Scholarship

Archaeologists often use near-surface geophysics or LiDAR-derived topographic imagery in their research. However, rarely are the two integrated in a way that offers a robust understanding of the complex historical palimpsests embedded within a social landscape. In this paper we present an integrated aerial and terrestrial remote sensing program at the Johnston Site, part of the larger Pinson Mounds landscape in the American MidSouth. Our work at Johnston was focused on better understanding the history of human landscape use and change so that we can begin to compare the Johnston Site with other large Middle Woodland (200 BC-AD 500) ceremonial …

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Grandma’S Meatballs And Syrian Sweets: Food Is Home, Anke Klitzing Jan 2020

Grandma’S Meatballs And Syrian Sweets: Food Is Home, Anke Klitzing

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Abstract: Food plays a strong part in the formation and maintenance of our identity, and is intimately linked with memory and a sense of home. Meals are an important site of socialisation and the tastes and smells of our childhood often recall the nurture and affirmation of identity received at that time. Individual foodways are anchored in the family, which in turn is embedded in regional foodways and cuisine

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Plutarch Reading Plato: Interpretation And Mythmaking In The Early Empire, Collin Miles Hilton Jan 2020

Plutarch Reading Plato: Interpretation And Mythmaking In The Early Empire, Collin Miles Hilton

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Plutarch of Chaeronea, an eminent figure among the Platonists of the early Roman Empire, built his philosophy by continuously drawing frameworks and models from Plato’s dialogues, both in his works dedicated solely to exegesis and his own lively philosophical dialogues. He both interprets Plato and adapts various models from the Platonic dialogues. Each philosopher was especially concerned with problems posed by myth, yet each also employed their own elaborate and imagistic narratives. In this study, I argue two main points. First, Plutarch’s treatment of mythic narratives, in their dangers and their potential uses, is carefully modelled after Plato. Both are …

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‘The Oracular Tale’ And The Oracles Of The Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, And Oracular Ambiguity In Herodotus’ Histories And Its Historical And Cultural Context, Daniel J. Crosby Jan 2020

‘The Oracular Tale’ And The Oracles Of The Greeks: Storytelling, Conjecture, And Oracular Ambiguity In Herodotus’ Histories And Its Historical And Cultural Context, Daniel J. Crosby

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

In this dissertation, I investigate the belief in the power of prophecy in ancient Greece. More specifically, I study how the ancient Greeks used oracles, like those of the famous oracle at Delphi, to make their past, present, and future knowable. I analyze the stories about oracles from Herodotus’ Histories as well as Thucydides and the corpus of Greek inscriptions using a theory of storytelling called narratology. With this theory, I show that all stories about oracles are expressions of the same basic plot whether a narrator employs all of its typical episodes or leaves some of them implied. Further, …

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"The Utmost Strength I Can Bear": Strategies And Psychological Costs Of Mothering Within Political Violence, Cindy A. Sousa, Mona El-Zuhairi, Manahil Siddiqi Jan 2020

"The Utmost Strength I Can Bear": Strategies And Psychological Costs Of Mothering Within Political Violence, Cindy A. Sousa, Mona El-Zuhairi, Manahil Siddiqi

Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship

Though certainly not women’s only identity or set of responsibilities for women in conflict settings, political violence creates distinct challenges for mothers due to the additional burdens of care-taking in these contexts. Yet, given the paucity of research on the topic, we still are operating without a clear understanding of how political violence jeopardizes maternal well-being and care-taking practices. Drawing on feminist perspectives on mothering, in the analyses presented here, authors use content analysis to explore mothering and political violence from five focus groups with women in Palestine. Results demonstrate the considerable suffering mothers and children endure in war; the …

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Using Visual Prompts In Research, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado Jan 2020

Using Visual Prompts In Research, Maura A. Smale, Mariana Regalado

Publications and Research

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Women On Boards Of Philippine Corporations: Quantitative Explorations, Maria C G Bautista, Marlene De Leon, Rudyard Jose R. Nano Iv Jan 2020

Women On Boards Of Philippine Corporations: Quantitative Explorations, Maria C G Bautista, Marlene De Leon, Rudyard Jose R. Nano Iv

Graduate School of Business Publications

This inductive study explored the likelihood and correlates of gender diversity in corporate boards in the Philippines. The improvement of gender diversity on boards is of advocacy and policy interest as the country emerges to middle-high income status. Logistic regression analyses from individuals' (in a directors' talent pool) responses to an online survey showed that females had a likely odds of 0.10 to be on the boards, compared to males. For every one female getting onto boards, 9 would be unable to. Females with advanced degrees were 7x likely to be on boards than female and male counterparts. The odds …

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Strategies Small Business Leaders Use To Improve Employee Engagement, Jennifer A. Boyd Jan 2020

Strategies Small Business Leaders Use To Improve Employee Engagement, Jennifer A. Boyd

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

When employees are disengaged, owners of small businesses face decreased employee productivity, which affects profitability. Owners of small businesses may reduce the profits lost annually by implementing strategies to improve employee engagement. Grounded in the social exchange theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies that 3 small business owners in Virginia used to improve employee engagement. The participants selected successfully implemented strategies to improve employee engagement. Data were collected using semistructured interviews via Zoom audio, employee handbooks, and documents obtained from the small businesses' websites. The 3 themes that emerged from the thematic analysis …

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Beyond Cruzan: Dementia And The Best Interests Standard, Rebecca Susan Dresser Jan 2020

Beyond Cruzan: Dementia And The Best Interests Standard, Rebecca Susan Dresser

SMU Law Review

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When Priests Forgot About God: An Analysis Of The Catholic Church's Role In Genocide, Mary M. Fertitta Jan 2020

When Priests Forgot About God: An Analysis Of The Catholic Church's Role In Genocide, Mary M. Fertitta

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Catholic Church in Rwanda for more than a century was a witness to the atrocities of genocide. One million Rwandans died in 100 days while many Catholic priests and nuns stood by offering no assistance. Others participated in the slaughter. The majority of those killed were killed in churches or on church grounds. Since Belgium's acquisition of Rwanda, there have been ties between the Catholic Church and the government of Rwanda. The Catholic Church blamed Belgium for the ethnic class designations and for disturbing the native culture. The Church and priests, however, remained silent and maintained their silence to …

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Use Of Managerial Epidemiology By Healthcare Leaders In Ambulatory Settings, Chantelle Schenning Jan 2020

Use Of Managerial Epidemiology By Healthcare Leaders In Ambulatory Settings, Chantelle Schenning

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite many health reforms, the United States continues to struggle with limited healthcare access, exponential healthcare costs, and poor quality of care. Overcoming these challenges requires healthcare leaders’ effective navigation of industry transformation towards population health and a shift in patient volume to ambulatory healthcare settings. Research has demonstrated that the use of managerial epidemiology, an application of epidemiology tools and principles to management decision-making within healthcare organizations, can better serve the health of the population and could improve the triple aim of inadequate access, high costs, and poor quality. However, the adoption of this practice is weak and its …

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High-Performance Organizational Culture And Corporate Success, Alexander Lapshun Jan 2020

High-Performance Organizational Culture And Corporate Success, Alexander Lapshun

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Some Singapore global corporation business leaders experience difficulties building a high-performance culture. Building a high-performance culture encourages high performance, promotes excellence, and nurtures a continuous improvement climate. Grounded in Gilbert's behavioral engineering model, the purpose of this qualitative mini ethnography single case study was to explore strategies midlevel managers in Singapore use to create a high-performance organizational culture. Six midlevel managers representing a Fortune 500 information technology firm in Singapore participated in the study. Data collection included semistructured interviews followed by member checking, direct observations, and a review of the company's documents. Marshall and Rossman's 5-step data analysis process identified …

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Tecumseh And Tenskwatawa: Myths, Memories, And Messages For Present Times, Matt Hoerauf Jan 2020

Tecumseh And Tenskwatawa: Myths, Memories, And Messages For Present Times, Matt Hoerauf

Wayne State University Theses

Tecumseh has been hailed as the most famous Indigenous leader in the United States and Canada. Many scholars have bemoaned the difficulty to separating man from myth. One thing is clear: there could be no Tecumseh without his brother Tenskwatawa. It was Tenskwatawa who first had a religious awakening that birthed a spiritual movement. It was Tenskwatawa who was the first leader of this pan-Indigenous group of followers. Tecumseh’s leadership would not emerge until nearly six years later. In the many works on Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa’s story can be easily found. However, he is nearly always portrayed as less important and …

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Organizational Culture And Knowledge Transfer In Enterprise Social Media, Garry Blackstock Jan 2020

Organizational Culture And Knowledge Transfer In Enterprise Social Media, Garry Blackstock

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Enterprise social media (ESM), digital platforms used within organizations to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration, are valuable tools that can help organizations gain a competitive advantage. Efficient retention, dissemination, and transfer of knowledge is an industry differentiator, and companies are spending a tremendous amount of resources on ESM to achieve this discriminating advantage. The behavior of transferring knowledge, especially tacit knowledge, can be a challenging task. Discordant organizational culture has been identified as a barrier to efficient knowledge transfer, whether it is explicit or tacit. Despite ESM’s positive track record of promoting communication, it lacks the efficiency to facilitate knowledge …

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Protecting The Protector: Mapping The Key Terrain That Supports The Continuous Monitoring Mission Of A Cloud Cybersecurity Service Provider, Chris Bush Jan 2020

Protecting The Protector: Mapping The Key Terrain That Supports The Continuous Monitoring Mission Of A Cloud Cybersecurity Service Provider, Chris Bush

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Key terrain is a concept that is relevant to warfare, military strategy, and tactics. A good general maps out terrain to identify key areas to protect in support of a mission (i.e., a bridge allowing for mobility of supplies and reinforcements). Effective ways to map terrain in Cyberspace (KT-C) has been an area of interest for researchers in Cybersecurity ever since the Department of Defense designated Cyberspace as a warfighting domain. The mapping of KT-C for a mission is accomplished by putting forth efforts to understand and document a mission's dependence on Cyberspace and cyber assets. A cloud Cybersecurity Service …

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The Great Turning: A Call For Systems-Thinkers, Gabriella M. Demarce Jan 2020

The Great Turning: A Call For Systems-Thinkers, Gabriella M. Demarce

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

David Orr, in an article on ecological intelligence reminds us that the modern world was shaped by people who did not understand that our social and economic systems could not coexist with the rest of the biological or natural systems on Earth (Orr, 1994). My research is rooted in Orr’s argument and discovering ways to shift this degrading paradigm. With my belief in the power of education in empowering youth and my background in environmental and climate change studies, I see a future in great need of people who holistically understand the functions of all types of systems and can …

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“Fértil Camposanto Llamado México”: Contemporary Poetry Of U.S.-Mexico Border Deaths, Caroline Tracey Jan 2020

“Fértil Camposanto Llamado México”: Contemporary Poetry Of U.S.-Mexico Border Deaths, Caroline Tracey

Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies (JOLLAS)

Death marks the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. This paper considers accounts of migrant death in contemporary poetry, examining the presence of migrants, necropower, and landscape in four works: Sara Uribe’s Antígona González (Oaxaca: Sur+editions, 2012), Eduardo C. Corral’s Slow Lightning (New Haven: Yale, 2012), Balam Rodrigo’s Libro Centroamericano de los Muertos (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2018), and Forrest Gander’s Be With (New York: New Directions, 2018), drawing on recent theorizations of Achille Mbembé’s idea of necropolitics/ necropower from both United States and Mexican scholars. I argue that examining the poetic and the theoretical texts in light of one another offers new …

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Rendering 20th Century Peruvian Folklore For A 21st Century Reader: Es>En Translation And Analysis Of Peruvian Folktales And Mythology, Angela Walsh Jan 2020

Rendering 20th Century Peruvian Folklore For A 21st Century Reader: Es>En Translation And Analysis Of Peruvian Folktales And Mythology, Angela Walsh

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

In the 1940s José María Arguedas and Francisco Izquierdo Ríos collected oral tradition stories from three separate geographical areas of Peru. The publication of these legends, myths and Peruvian tales (Mitos, leyendas y cuentos peruanos 1947) and its function as an historical record of cultural and national identity led Arguedas to national acclaim. However, these mythological and folk tales, legends and myths have had little attention outside of Peru and few tales have been translated into English. The thesis begins with an introduction to the challenges of translating folklore and cultural artifacts, the nature and function of tales likes these …

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Habermas And Argumentation In The Philippine Context, Maria Lovelyn Corpuz Paclibar Jan 2020

Habermas And Argumentation In The Philippine Context, Maria Lovelyn Corpuz Paclibar

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

The article critically analyzes the perception on the incompatibility of the Filipino self-understanding as kapwa with Habermas's notion of argumentative discourse that champions autonomy and individuality. It argues that this apparent incompatibility is more due to the absence of an imagination of non-Western forms of rationalization processes and reflexivity, than to the commonly held claim of the incommensurability of lifeworlds. The key to this imagination is to locate potential rationalization processes from within modes of communication that reinforce kapwa solidarity. In the end, the article shows that kwentuhan, which is the mode of communication that is integrated with kapwa solidarity, …

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Institutional Racism And The Transformative Practices Of Black Women Educators In New York City Alternative Education, Gail M. Perry-Ryder Jan 2020

Institutional Racism And The Transformative Practices Of Black Women Educators In New York City Alternative Education, Gail M. Perry-Ryder

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

How does a teaching practice meet structural violence and oppression? And, how do teachers navigate systems they wish to change, in which they are also participating? This study is a qualitative investigation of institutional racism and power in U.S. alternative educational settings, and the knowledge and experiences of six Black women educators working to counteract the problem from the inside. There is a vast literature on preparing teachers for diverse classrooms; however, it has not adequately represented teachers who deploy transformative practices to directly challenge institutional racism in nontraditional educational settings, nor has it addressed the costs associated with doing …

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2020 Symposium Brochure Jan 2020

2020 Symposium Brochure

Programs

No abstract provided.

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Bulletin: General Catalog Issue 2020-2021, Portland State University Jan 2020

Bulletin: General Catalog Issue 2020-2021, Portland State University

Bulletin & Curriculum Change Documents

Volume 1 - Programs is available via the Download option, Volume 2 - Courses is available in the Additional Files below

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