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Cayuga County Families Access To Services Team Year Three, Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany

Behavioral Health Services Reports and Research Briefs

In October 2016, Cayuga County received a four-year System of Care Expansion grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to enhance their current System of Care (SOC) through an initiative called Families Access to Services Team (FAST). Cayuga County developed their SOC in two ways. First, they aimed to improve accessibility to programs for at-risk children/youth and their families through an expanded multi-systems single point of access process. Cayuga County Community Mental Health Center (CCCMHC) leads FAST, in partnership with various providers within Cayuga County, including the Auburn School District, Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), …

New York State Systems Of Care Year Four Report, Center For Human Services Research, University At Albany

Behavioral Health Services Reports and Research Briefs

This report describes the implementation and outcomes of the New York State System of Care (NYS SOC) initiative. This four-year project, funded through a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) System of Care (SOC) Expansion grant, was awarded to the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) in October 2016. The grant focus was in two areas:

• Strengthening NYS child-serving systems using the SOC framework through state-wide and county-specific efforts, and
• Implementing the NYS SOC High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) Pilot within Health Homes Serving Children (HHSC) for youth and young adults with severe mental health needs and …

What Is Translation?, Amber C. Johnson

The Corinthian

As the translation scholar Michael Cronin states, “if we want a world that values diversity of perspective over the certainty of singular belief, a world where many voices balance the privileged few, then translators must be part of the dialogue” (Eco-Translation). Translation is the transfer of factual and cultural knowledge from one way of understanding to another. Translation exposes us to divergent texts, viewpoints, and information, from parts of the world or fields of knowledge not otherwise available to us. In order to produce an ethical translation, the translator has to be respectful of the intentions and effects …

Development And Field Testing Of A Narrative-Centered Digital Game For English Comprehension, Jenilyn Agapito, Dominique Marie Antoinette Manahan, Ma. Monica L. Moreno, Jose Isidro Beraquit, Ingrid Yvonne Herras, Kevin Arnel C. Mora, Johanna Marion R. Torres, Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo

Education Department Faculty Publications

This paper describes the development and field testing of Learning Likha: Rangers to the Rescue, a narrative-centered, mobile-based digital game for practicing English comprehension. Twenty-seven (27) student participants from Grades 4, 5, and 6 were invited to play the game and answer a comprehension test to determine their level of understanding of the game’s contents. Self-report questionnaires were also used to assess the extent to which they enjoyed playing the game. Three (3) teachers were likewise invited for a focus group discussion (FGD) to gather their insights about the game and how they may use it in their classes. Student’s …

Mining The Harvard Caselaw Access Project, Felix B. Chang, Erin Mccabe, James Lee

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

This Essay illustrates how machine learning can disrupt legal scholarship through the algorithmic extraction and analysis of big data. Specifically, we utilize data from Harvard Law School’s Caselaw Access Project to model how courts tackle two thorny question in antitrust: the measure of market power and the balance between antitrust and regulation.

Communication Within The Perioperative Department, Leah Quinn

Master of Science in Nursing Theses and Projects

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Kindergarten Entry Assessment Tools And Transition Practices: A Review For New Hampshire's Preschool Development Grant Birth To Five, Nh Preschool Development Grant

Preschool Development Grant

No abstract provided.

New Hampshire Strategic Plan For Early Childhood 2020-2022, Nh Preschool Development Grant

Preschool Development Grant

No abstract provided.

Cultural Linguistics And Treaty Language: A Modernized Approach To Interpreting Treaty Language To Capture The Tribe's Understanding, Barbara Cosens

Articles

Language is a reflection of a thought world. A worldview that has been shaped by place to describe one's identity in space and time does not equate to species relatedness as a default to know one another. In the legal system of the United States, there is acknowledgement of treaties in colonized lands that there are rights granted from the tribes and not to them, and those rights are land-based. Yet, the Indigenous voice is dead before arrival, before it enters the room of science, justice, academe, or otherwise. The exclusion of Indigenous peoples at the table of knowledge and …

Assessing Health Professionals’ Perception Of Health Literacy In Rhode Island Community Health Centers: A Qualitative Study, Mary L. Greaney, Sherrie F. Wallington, Sankeerth Rampa, Vivian S. Vigliotti, Carol A. Cummings

Public Health Faculty Publications

Background: Limited health literacy is linked with poor health behaviors, limited health care access, and poor health outcomes. Improving individual and population health outcomes requires understanding and addressing barriers to promoting health literacy.

Methods: Using the socio-ecological model as a guiding framework, this qualitative study (Phase 1 of a larger ongoing project) explored the interpersonal and organizational levels that may impact the health literacy levels of patients seeking care at federally qualified community health centers (FQCHCs) in Rhode Island. Focus groups were conducted with FQCHC employees (n = 37) to explore their perceptions of the health literacy skills of …

The Impact Of Texting Language On Nigerian Students: A Case Study Of Final Year Linguistics Students, Jimoh Braimoh

Faculty and Student Publications

© 2020, Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University. All rights reserved. This article reports on research which examined whether the use of mobile phone text messaging is responsible for the reported presence of abbreviations in students’ written work at the University of Benin. I argue that the frequent use of short messaging service (SMS) abbreviations may not be attributed only to the reported increase in the use of abbreviations in the written work of students. Other factors, such as the purpose of the writing and the students’ state of mind, might also be determinants of whether students use abbreviations or …

Interactional Relevance Of Linguistic Categories: Epistemic Modals Daroo And Deshoo In Japanese Conversation, Michiko Kaneyasu

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

The present study investigates the locally situated interactional functions of so-called epistemic modals, daroo and deshoo, in Japanese conversation. Although the two forms are generally considered plain and polite variants of the same epistemic modal, both forms frequently appear in the present casual conversational data. A detailed sequential analysis demonstrates that daroo and deshoo are used to perform various social actions rather than simply expressing the speaker’s conjecture. Deshoo has a rather fixed function of soliciting alignment or confirmation from the interlocutor. On the other hand, daroo works as part of larger constructions for various actions, including (i) displaying …

Dimensions Of Recipe Register And Native Speaker Knowledge: Observations From A Writing Experiment, Michiko Kaneyasu, Minako Kuhara

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

This study investigates native Japanese speakers’ context-dependent linguistic knowledge of cooking recipes. Recipes are a typical example of a register, defined as the use of language in a particular social situation for a specific purpose. Thirty participants in the present study were asked to write a recipe for curry rice (a popular dish in Japan) or an unnamed soup (shown in a photo) on a blank piece of paper without access to any resources. Most participants’ texts contained specialized vocabulary and basic procedural organization. On the other hand, few integrated the typical grammatical features of commercial recipes. It suggests that …

Honorary Degree Award Citation For Ruth Lunt, Lawrence University

Faculty Award Citations

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Classy, Bougie, Ratchet: Analyzing Hip-Hop Artists’ Megan Thee Stallion’S #Hotgirl Phrase As A Performative Identity, Dasharah Green

Theses and Dissertations

In 2019, female hip-hop artists’ used their platforms to break through the glass ceiling of hip-hop misogynoir by reclaiming what it means to be unapologetic.The artists’ unapologetic lyrics, which explores the power in owning their sex appeal has shifted how listeners regard female hip-hop artists. With strategic marketing, these artists’ have used their social media platforms as a tool to reclaim what it means to be sexy while dominating in hip-hop. Megan Thee Stallion’s catchphrase and the accessibility she provides to her fans via social media stands out most. With over ten million Instagram followers her use of hashtags, uploading …

One Nation Invisible: U.S. Veterans Of Color And The Authoring Of Cultural Citizenship Through Asymmetrical Authorship, Sheeba W. Varkey

Theses and Dissertations

The national story of America is one of a country that has managed the contradictory: many bodies coming together, “out of many, one.” However, such a mythos naturally evades the problematic erasure of many cultural and minority bodies and stories, in the proposition that unity demands such an erasure. As an extension of American civil society, the U.S. military has operated as a part of this system of whiteness, while its military operations have been celebrated as victory for progress and democratic ideals, particularly in WWII. Bodies of color, recruited into the national agenda through military service, while historically denied …

Designing A Translingual Global Literature Course: Valuing Student Repertoires & Personal Experience, Carolyn J. Salazar

Theses and Dissertations

moving them forward together in translingual global literature courses through valuing the repertoires and personal experiences students bring into the classroom. The semester-long mixed method study reported includes both survey respondents (N=134) and interview participants (N=7) and foregrounds student voices to argue that a translingual orientation is an optimal response to the needs of the global literature classroom. In the first chapter I review global/world literature theory discussing the purpose and content of global/world literature courses in higher education. In a chapter overviewing translingual theory, I present the main tenets of the theory including negotiation, fluidity and valuing difference and …

Eliberative Democracy In The Writing Classroom And Beyond Author(S): Michael Reich, Michael Reich

Theses and Dissertations

In this dissertation I explore the consequences of adopting a deliberative pedagogy, based on the study of one or two sample courses taught in 2018 at St. John’s University. The project as a whole argues that the university should be an idea place for students to develop a sense of personal and political agency, and First Year Writing courses organized around deliberation allow students to learn to listen and reason with each other as individuals and as citizens. My first chapter defends the methodology of a humanistic idea of deliberation (a pedagogy not based in classroom drills or Standard English) …

Germany/ England: Inside/Outside, David Cast

History of Art Faculty Research and Scholarship

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On And Off Script: A Teacher’S Adaptation Of Mandated Curriculum For Refugee Newcomers In An Era Of Standardization, Rabia Hos, Beth Kaplan-Wolff

College of Education Faculty Publications

English Learners (ELs) make up 9. 6 of the total student population in the U.S. ( National Center for Education Statistics , 2019). Students with interrupted formal education SIFE ) are a subgroup of ELs who have had at least two fewer years of schooling than their peers, and function at leas t two years below grade level in reading and mathematics (DeCapua, Smathers, & Tang, 2007). To meet the demands of high stakes testing, schools have been increasingly implementing commercially published, scripted programs for ELs/ SIFE (Reeves, Again st this backdrop of the standards driven and testing based system, …

Real Smart (Data) City: Le Colonialisme Par Les Données, Conor Mcgarrigle Dr., Noel Fitzpatrick

Book chapters

This chapter sets out to define the Data City by counteracting the Smart City as ahistorical, uprooted and dislocated, the Data city approach will highlight the rootedness, the historical and locate context of data colonalisation both historical and within contemporary Smart City Discourse. The Data City is, hence, taken within the paradigm of discourses in relation to the smart city, the smart city is here understood as the spectrum of discourses about the contemporary city. This spectrum encapsulates city authorities laudable aspirations for more social inclusion and better distribution of services to the Smart City as a form of technological …

Voicing A Transnational Latina Poetics: The Dedication Poems Of Amelia Denis And Carlota Gutierrez, Vanessa Ovalle Perez

English Faculty Publications

This article explores the transnational and gendered aspects of nineteenth-century poem dedications authored by women in Spanish-language newspapers. These intimate exchanges routinely contaminated the public sphere with very personal missives, resulting in the development of a genre that was both socially performative and literary. The article considers a previously unstudied exchange between the Central American poet Amelia Denis and the Mexican-American poet Carlota S. Gutierrez as a flashpoint for thinking through these issues. In September of 1875, Denis dedicated a poem "A la Señorita Carlota S. Gutierrez" in the San Salvador newspaper La America Central. Gutierrez published her response in …

"Torture The Women": A Gaze At The Misogynistic Machinery Of Scary Cinema, Sarah Hankins

Copley Library Undergraduate Research Awards

A frightening truth remains that within horror-thriller films the experience of women is at the heart of the horrifying. This project analyses the effects of film media on the construction, fetishization, and destruction of female figures and engages with feminist critical concepts, such as Laura Mulvey’s “male gaze” and Linda Williams’ “body horror,” to evaluate Alfred Hitchcock’s film Vertigo (1958) and Satoshi Kon’s anime Perfect Blue (1997). Importantly, this essay critiques the misogynistic inner-workings of the horror-thriller genre typified in Vertigo—that evokes visual pleasure from objectification, victimization, and physical, often sexual, violence—and contrasts it with Kon’s anime. This paper finds …

What Is Asian German Studies?, Chunjie Zhang, Doug Mcgetchin, Stefan Keppler‐Tasaki, Thomas Pekar, Caroline Rupprecht, Bettina Brandt, Johanna Schuster‐Craig, Joanne Miyang Cho, Qinna Shen, Veronika Fuechtner

German Faculty Research and Scholarship

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Meals, Mouths, And Martyrs: Paulinus Of Nola And Sacrificial Spaces (Chapter 6 Of Food, Virtue, And The Shaping Of Early Christianity), Dana Robinson

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

In January 406, Paulinus of Nola devotes his twelfth Natalicium, or birthday poem, in honor of St. Felix’s festival day (Carm. 20), to three miracle stories about local farmers and devotees of the saint.1 Each one vows to bring a fattened animal – two pigs and a calf, respectively – to the shrine of Felix as a devotional offering. After much misadventure, and thanks only to Felix’s intervention, each one successfully performs his vow. The first “cuts the throat of the fat beast he had vowed, as men bound by a promise do.” The second brings a pig who “demands …

Examining How Rural Ecological Contexts Influence Children's Early Learning Opportunities, Iheoma U. Iruka, Mark Dekraai, Janell Walther, Susan M. Sheridan, Tarik Abdel-Monem

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

According to Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory (Bronfenbrenner & Evans, 2000), children’s early development and learning are influenced by multiple systems, including the microsystem (e.g., family poverty level), mesosystem (e.g., home-school partnership), exosystem (e.g., community type, early education policies), and macrosystem (e.g., rural culture). Given the lack of early education studies focused on rural communities, we sought to explore how these ecological systems are linked to children’s early learning experiences, with a particular focus on educators’ perceptions of how these ecosystems influence children’s learning environments and opportunities. Based on interviews and focus groups with school leaders, educators, and parents in 10 rural …

Moving Toward Inclusion: Participant Responses To The Inclusive Scicomm Symposium, Hollie Smith, Sunshine Menezes, Katherine Canfield, Rachel Guldin, Meredith Morgoch, Katharine Mcduffie

Natural Resources Science Faculty Publications

This study shares key findings from evaluation research for Inclusive SciComm: A Symposium on Advancing Inclusive Public Engagement with Science. The symposium, organized by the University of Rhode Island's Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting with support from partner organizations, took place on September 28 and 29, 2018 at the University of Rhode Island. Pre- and post-symposium surveys showed that after attending the symposium, participants reported higher levels of knowledge about and confidence in implementing inclusive approaches to science communication. Participants also exhibited three types of response orientations: emotion, knowledge, and action.

Employee Handbook, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

NOTICE OF DISCLAIMER

The policies and procedures contained in this handbook are for informational purposes only and are subject to change. Any changes made to this handbook will be included in the version appearing on Kean University’s Web site. Since this handbook is subject to change, it is the employee’s responsibility to refer to the current version and to be knowledgeable of the revised policies and procedures. This handbook is a general guide to Kean University’s current employment policies, procedures and employee benefits. It is for informational purposes only, and is not intended to be and should not be construed …

The Global Child: A Roadmap For Becoming Culturally Responsive Educators, Ana I. Berdecia Med, Caitlin Kosec Mpp, Kamili O. Leath Ms, The John S. Watson Institute For Public Policy For Thomas Edison State College

Center for the Positive Development of Urban Children

The program strategies and the assessment tools encourage early childhood teachers to adopt 26 strategies across three competency areas: 1) classroom design; 2) teachers’ rhythm and temperament; and 3) instructional strategies during the 10-month program year. Mentors are assigned to each teaching team and through supportive site visits and assessment visits help the teams change their thinking and practices to be more culturally and linguistically responsive.

An Evaluation Of Text Representation Techniques For Fake News Detection Using: Tf-Idf, Word Embeddings, Sentence Embeddings With Linear Support Vector Machine., Sangita Sriram

Dissertations

In a world where anybody can share their views, opinions and make it sound like these are facts about the current situation of the world, Fake News poses a huge threat especially to the reputation of people with high stature and to organizations. In the political world, this could lead to opposition parties making use of this opportunity to gain popularity in their elections. In the medical world, a fake scandalous message about a medicine giving side effects, hospital treatment gone wrong or even a false message against a practicing doctor could become a big menace to everyone involved in …