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Agenda, December 15, 2020, Programs Committee

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The Future Of The German-Jewish Past: Memory And The Question Of Antisemitism, Gideon Reuveni, Diana University Franklin

Purdue University Press Books

Germany’s acceptance of its direct responsibility for the Holocaust has strengthened its relationship with Israel and has led to a deep commitment to combat antisemitism and rebuild Jewish life in Germany. As we draw close to a time when there will be no more firsthand experience of the horrors of the Holocaust, there is great concern about what will happen when German responsibility turns into history. Will the present taboo against open antisemitism be lifted as collective memory fades? There are alarming signs of the rise of the far right, which includes blatantly antisemitic elements, already visible in public discourse. …

Coding Discourse Using Distributed Communicative Principles, Andrea Polin

Honors Scholar Theses

Purpose: Research has shown the positive influence of enriched environments on neuroplasticity outcomes for brain-damaged rodents. It is possible that the successful rehabilitation of adults with aphasia following a stroke requires a rich communicative environment. It has been posited that a rich communication environment is one that makes use of the distributed communication principles salience, flexibility, multiplicity, positivity, success, and flow as described by Hengst et al. (2019). The present study examines whether these principles are indeed meaningful in the context of the home environment for people with aphasia.

Methods: Conversations of four participants (two with aphasia and …

Effects Of Tetrabenazine On Work Output In Rats Responding On A Novel Progressive Ratio Task: Behavioral, Pharmacological, And Electrophysiological Studies, Danielle E. Canfield

Honors Scholar Theses

Depression is a debilitating disorder that is accompanied by a variety of motivational symptoms, many of which are only minimally treated by common antidepressants. Not much is known about the underlying brain activity that is associated with these symptoms. This study utilized several different techniques to investigate the neural processes related to an animal model of depression and the motivational symptoms that accompany the disorder. Progressive ratio (PROG) tasks have been used to assess animals’ willingness to exert high levels of work to obtain highly valued reinforcers. In this experiment, a novel version of the PROG schedule was developed to …

Language Abilities As A Function Of Lateralization Of Language-Specific Brain Networks, Jacey Anderson

Honors Scholar Theses

The strength of hemispheric lateralization appears to be a good predictor of language abilities in children with developmental language impairments. Studies of healthy adults, in contrast, have generally failed to identify any association between degree of lateralization and language abilities, perhaps due to limited sensitivity to individual differences in standardized language assessments. This study used fMRI to measure the lateralization of functional task-engaged language networks in 25 healthy right-handed adults. Linear regressions examined lateralization indices (LI) of language activation in inferior temporal, superior temporal, and frontal brain networks, as a function of syntactic complexity (via story retelling), a grammaticality judgment …

Is Kinesiology A Bridge To Stem Engagement? Sport Science Labs In High School, Judy A. Schultz, Robert W. Danielson, Robert D. Catena, Christopher P. Connolly, Kasee Hildenbrand

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Improving STEM education in schools is important to prepare students for the increasing number of STEM related jobs. As a STEM discipline, kinesiology, which includes the study of sport, exercise, movement and well-being, may be an effective link between science concepts and students’ everyday lives and thus may stimulate science engagement. Our university’s kinesiology programs developed a set of sport related kinesiology labs which were presented by faculty and students during one semester in local high school Freshmen and Senior science classes. Survey data included information about STEM engagement, scientific inquiry, and knowledge of kinesiology as a STEM field. Findings …

Social And Emotional Learning: Beyond Components And Outcomes, Lina Darwich, Tara Slaughter

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Social emotional learning (SEL) is the current zeitgeist in education. This collaborative self-study includes a teacher educator and her former student, a high school English Language Arts teacher. Both educators, who center relationships and social justice in their teaching, reflect on what they learned and identify and analyze three tensions experienced by the K-12 teacher: concerns about coming across as too political, responding to parent and caregiver reservations about teaching SEL, and grappling with teachers’ emotions in the classroom. Main takeaways are discussed, including the value of partnership between teacher educators and their former students in the development of teaching …

Social Factors That Exacerbate Features Of Borderline Personality Disorder In Young Adult Women, Erika Marie Carrasquillo

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Although there are studies conducted with Hispanics and Puerto Ricans living in the United States, there are no studies with female Puerto Rican BPD patients residing in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico available. Since most of the individuals affected by this condition are female, the present research was focused on uncovering factors that increased the likelihood of BPD features in women between the ages of 25-35 years. The purpose of this study was to examine the social factors that exacerbate borderline personality disorder in the female population between 25 and 35 years of age living in the metropolitan area of …

Spirit Confronts The Four-Headed Monster: Jean-Bertrand Aristide’S Mistik–Infused Flood-Rise In Duvalierist Haiti, Geoffrey Kain

Publications

To explore Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s rise from obscure rural Haiti to become the nation’s first democratically elected president—by a landslide—is to enter into a world and a swirl of events that reads like surreal fiction or magical realism. As a Catholic priest (Salesian order), Aristide was fueled by the religio-socialist principles of liberation theology, which emerged as a significant force in Latin America primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, forcefully and vocally advocating for the masses of Haitian poor mired in deeply-entrenched disenfranchisement and exploitation. As a charismatic spokesperson for the popular democratic movement in Haiti during an era of entrenched …

Communicable Diseases As Occupational Hazards For Agricultural Workers: Using Experience Sampling Methods For Promoting Public Health, Mahima Saxena, Margaret M. Burke

Psychology Faculty Publications

Vector-borne communicable diseases cause more than 700,000 deaths annually (World Health Organization, 2019). Despite various efforts, there has been no change in mortality rates due to communicable diseases worldwide (World Health Organization, 2019). Most communicable diseases have no cure and can attain epidemic status quickly. Therefore, prevention is critical in reducing disease transmission. Communicable disease transmission as an occupational health hazard is often ignored in work psychology research and public health policy. Using experience sampling methods, Saxena (2015) found that work and nonwork behaviors associated with rice farming in South Asia increase exposure to Japanese encephalitis. …

Exploring Initiation As A Predictor Of Acceleration For Emergent Readers: A Mixed Methods Study, Tracee Cay Farmer

Theses and Dissertations

Using an exploratory sequential research design, this research was conducted to explore whether the emergence of initiation predicted whether students reach grade-level literacy expectations by the conclusion of their Reading Recovery intervention. Reading Recovery is a research-based short-term intervention developed by Marie Clay with the goal to help the lowest-performing students accelerate their reading progress so that they can reach the average of their class. The following questions were the focus of research: 1) What is the behavioral structure of initiation as part of the problem-solving process in reading? 2) Does the emergence of initiation, as recorded on running records, …

The Kitchen Table: Relationships With The People, Food And Land That Sustain Us, Chelsey Frost

Masters Theses

The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which interactions with food and around food affect an individual’s sense of self, connection to community as well as to friends and family, and sense of place. Short, personal narrative gives way to discussion of such themes and ideas as home, homemade food and terroir. It becomes clear that acts of celebration of and gratitude for food, particularly in connection with a specific place or line of heritage, play necessary roles in the development of our personal identities and in our search for belonging. These stories are based on …

Gullibility And Its Relationship To Social Intelligence Among University Students, Ali Turki Nafel Al-Quraishi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abstract :

The research aimed at studying gullibility and its relationship to social intelligence in university students, and gullibility is the tendency for a person to be drugged or manipulated by one or more of the deceptive means of other people . And social intelligence is the kind of intelligence that an individual pleads with in his dealings with other people, and in practicing social relations. The gullibility scale was built according to the cognitive perspective, which included most of the gullibility theories reviewed in the theoretical framework chapter. As for measuring social intelligence, the Abu Amsha scale (2013) was …

Poetic Walking Across Mobile Boundaries: Contemporary Southeast Asian Narratives In The Work Of Trinh T. Minh-Ha And Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Weiying Yu

Master's Projects and Capstones

This research investigates how personal politics, the poetics of cinematic narrative form, and current Southeast Asian landscapes are embodied in the work of filmmakers/artists Trinh T. Minh-ha (b. 1952, Hanoi, Vietnam) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok, Thailand). Trinh and Apichatpong’s transnational reflections and radical poetics challenge the West as the authoritative domain of modern knowledge, evoking a border rupture that questions hegemonic definitions of culture, history, geography, and society. Synthesizing art and politics, their works create experimental spaces to navigate the multidimensional consciousness associated with the Asia Pacific and global political issues of immigration, refugeeism, military action resistance, and …

College Of Education News, College Of Education, Georgia Southern University

College of Education: News & Publications (2003-2023)

• Georgia Southern school psychology student pursues children’s literature dream

• Energy grant provides Effingham school opportunity to study smart home technology

• From the Bronx to Statesboro, a graduate’s dream to teach children turned into a reality

• ‘65 years old and not done yet,’ former marketing professional earns master’s in special education to work with children

Roundtable On The 1st Disrupting Thinking Research Conferece, Lucia Morales

Disrupting Thinking

Programme for the roundtable on the 1st Disrupting Thinking Research Conference with opening address by Dr. Eon Langan, Head of the School of Accounting and Finance, Technologicla University Dublin with invited speaker Dr. Jon-Hans Coetzer, Team Leader Online Learning and Education (Division for Peace) United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Unitar). The research theme for the roundtable was " A Qualitative Review of Peace Education Concept".

Byuキャンパスでの霊的な旅路, Yoshihiko Ariizumi

Spiritual Proficiency

There is a power in our prayer when we pray for small things of our academic performances.

Electronic Betrayal On Social Media And Its Impact On Marital Consistency Relations From The View Point Of Married Workers In Directorate Of Education Al-Rusafa One, Baghdad Province: Face Book As A Model, Majid H. Ramadhan

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The Study aims to identify the level of electronic betrayal on social media and its impact on the consistency of marital relations from the view point of married workers in Directorate of Education Al-Rusafa One, Baghdad Province: Face book as a model. The study uses the descriptive method. The sample of the paper consists of 250 male / female married employees. The researcher uses two questionnaires to achieve the objectives of the present paper. The first is for electronic betrayal; the second is to measure of the consistency of marital relations. The researcher also uses the following statistical means to …

A Linguistic Analysis Of The Primary Persuasive Strategies In Facebook Profile Of Aig, M.A.Abdulrahman Sabah Ghane, Huda Abed Ali Hattab

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The insurance company (or the insurer) like many other commercial organizations, needs persuasion for the sake of convincing the customers to buy his insurance products. The insurer uses many persuasive strategies through many platforms to persuade people to market his products. The current study aims to analyze the primary persuasive strategies that are used by AIG in facebook profile in order to specify the most effective strategies used by the American insurers, and to suggest the most suitable strategies to the Iraqi insurers. The present study hypothesizes that the persuaders use more than one strategy together to achieve their goals, …

The Degree Of Application Of The Concept Of Smart Learning In Salfit Government Schools And Its Obstacles From Teachers' Perspectives, Basem Mohammad Shalash

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study aimed to investigate the degree of application of the concept of smart learning schools in Salfit government schools and its obstacles from teachers' perspectives, it also aimed to detect whether there are differences in the degree of application of the concept of smart learning schools due to variables (Gender, experience, educational qualification, and specialization), The study sample consisted of (78) teachers, The researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of five areas related to school management and potential, and classroom management, and calendar or constraints, Composed of (53) paragraphs. To answer the study questions and hypotheses, the researcher used the …

Chronic Pain Acceptance And Social Support Among Patients With Chronic Disease, Ashraf Muwafaq Flaiyah, Saif Mohammed Radeef

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Chronic pain acceptance is developing as a vital concept to understand ways that chronic pain patients can remain engaged with valued parts of life. If patients find their pain inacceptable, they will likely work to avoid it at all costs and readily seek to reduce or eliminate it. Such measures may not be of best interest when they require no pain reduction and many missed opportunities to work more effectively and productively. The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of chronic pain acceptance among individuals who suffering chronic disease as well as to identify the differences in …

The Dark Underside Of 9/11 In Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar To The Country (2007) By, Eman Saud Thannoon, Azhar Noori Fejer

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The eventual attacks of 9/11in America, on The World Trade Center at Ground Zero, had changed the world and brought disastrous problems to a lot of civilians. Many people lost their lives; others were traumatized and suffered a disordered life. The disastrous event revealed the hidden aspects of the States and its assistants-the soldiers and copes. Studying the relationship between the psyche of individuals and their outside world is the core of this paper. The project investigates the reasons behind acting out trauma and its impact on individuals and society. The sociocultural approach applied helps in examining the behavior of …

Running Dictation Technique For Promoting Efl Primary Pupils’ Spelling, Pronunciation & Vocabulary Retention, Zainab Abbas Jawad

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present study highlights the importance of using running dictation technique in teaching the textbook's songs at the primary schools. Running dictation technique is a classroom activity where the pupils are moving around and working together as groups to handle dictation and raise enjoyment at the same time. This study is an experimental one in which forty eight pupils is taught the textbook's songs by using running dictation technique. The present study aims at finding out the effect of applying this technique on primary pupils' spelling, pronunciation and vocabulary retention. To achieve this aim, the researcher has used three achievement …

Рreposition And Case Form Of The Name As A Marker Of Dynamic The Meaning Of Modern Media Text, Anna Niko Bertyakova

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study hypothesizes the ability of a relative unit to participate in the consciousness of a native speaker of a certain meaning. The new cultural paradigm of universal visualization and virtualization predicts the dynamic meaning of modern media text, a meaning that reflects new technological realities. Not only new words, but also new grammatical units become this dynamic meaning markers. The argumentation of the hypothesis is based on the example of the expanding context of prepositional-case forms of nouns telephone, TV and computer.

The Effect Of Strategies Of The One- Minute Paper And Developed Jecso In The Achievement Of Kurdish Grammar And Deductive Thinking For Students In College Of Education –Ibn Rusd, Kawther Jasim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This paper is an attempt to show the influence of one minute strategy as well as the developed Jecso in developing student's skills in Kurdish Department in grammar. This paper is concerned with third year students in the morning classes- Kurdish Department at College of Education (Ibn Rushd) for human sciences for the academic year 2016-2017. The sample consists of (91) male and female students divided into two groups (30) students for both experimental groups, and (31) male and female students in the controlling group. The researcher conducted an equivalent in a number of variables. The researcher conducted an achievement …

The Handicapped Problems Inflicted With Diabetics Field Study In Baghdad, Suad Hameed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The interest in handicapped people has increased in general after the world organizations of United Nations Issued several regulations and legislations concerning the care and rehabilitation of the handicapped in different ages in order to incorporate them in their societies and alter them from dependent on the society to productive people and active people .This study comes to help this social class of by shedding light on the problems of the diabetics handicapped. The objective of this study is to discuss these problems diagnosing them and introduces the required solutions to limit these problems and reduce their burdens on the …

Musical Relational In Andalusian Poetry (Ibn Al-Abar (D. 595 Ah - 658 Ah) As An Example), سهام صائب

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The voice had a special place in the writting of the Andalusian poet (Ibn al-Abar ) , which aroused my attention because of the sonic capacity of the lettering inside the poetic at Ibn al-Abar poems . So Istudied the qualities of the lettering , structures and their exits .Scientists have not been able to determine the musical from the nonmusical sound , but we find the innate ability of Ibn al-Abar , which was able to determine this by using the lettering the right places and to revival the life to reflect the moments of his life , therefore …

Women Work In Coffee Shops And Night Cafes (Evidence Of Attraction And Exortion) ((A Field Study In Baghdad)), Widyan Yaseen

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

For years, most of the known Iraqi cafes were male-dependent in the service of their customers. And the precence of a woman im any café raised more than a question mark, because of the nature of Iraqi society that reserved women’s work in men’s fields. Today, however, the situation has changed with the presence of women, most of whom are underage, and that has angered many. The number of cafes and cafeterias increased in Baghdad where they offer a variety of juices, drinks, shisha, and some snacks. From the other side, the phenomenon of young girls working in bars has …

Skills Required For Teachers Of Art Education In The Intermediate Stage, Mayada Hassan

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The importance of this research in the development of performance of teachers of art education in the intermediate stage and update their preparation programs more effectively, and through this study determine the skills required for teachers and the level of importance in the development of their performance professionally and scientifically and their progress towards a better future to achieve an effective level. Accordingly, the research community was determined, which consisted of the middle schools for girls of the General Directorate of Education Baghdad Rusafa / third, and the size of the sample of female teachers in these schools (68) schools, …

Social Inclusion-Based Library Transformation: A National Library Of Indonesia’S Role To Support Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs), Reza Mahdi, Muakibatul Hasanah, Andi Asari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Since 2015, all countries that are members of the United Nations have participated in one of the programs to support human and environmental benefit, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Indonesia as a member of the United Nations supports the course of the program with the release of Presidential Regulation No. 59 year 2017 in which all institutions and ministers follow tpb in accordance with their respective basic duties. The National Library of Indonesia is one of the institutions affected by the regulation. As a building library and network between libraries in accordance with Law No. 43 year 2007 on Libraries, Perpusnas …