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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, …

Health Insurance And The Undocumented Immigrant, Anja Diercks

Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to perform a comparative analysis on how seven different countries (USA, South Africa, Germany, England, Canada, France and Singapore) organize their healthcare system to cope with the issue of undocumented immigrants and whether or not these systems in place were “fair.” The thesis will also explore the possible ways the United States could change to be more inclusive and fairer in the world of healthcare and health insurance for the undocumented immigrant. A study on what fairness means both in ethical and economical terms is done to suggest a new basis of a fair …

The Effect Of Holding Time Of Whole Mare Blood On Concentration Of Progesterone, Clarissa Menefee

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this study was to evaluate if holding time had an effect on mare whole blood progesterone levels. This research was completed using 12 mares, with blood being collected on multiple cycles to get a total of 28 separate blood collections. At each collection 5 vials of blood were taken for different time treatments of 0, 12, 24, and 48 hours. The 0 hour was centrifuged within 30 mins of collection and the other 4 were refrigerated at 4℃ until the specific time treatment was finished. After they were centrifuged all the samples were stored in the freezer …

Species Distribution Modeling For Arid Adapted Habitat Specialists In Zion National Park, Sam Driver, Chris M. Schalk, Daniel Unger, David Kulhavy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus) and Jones’ waxy dogbane (Cycladenia humilis var. jonesii) are habitat specialists with historical ranges in the desert southwest and specifically, Zion National Park (ZION). The machine learning method, MaxEnt, constructed species distribution models (SDMs) in ZION for the two study species at 30 m and 900 m spatial resolutions using climate, topographic, and remotely sensed data. Additionally, 900 m forecasting models were constructed to observe the shifts in suitable habitat for the years 2050 and 2070, based off two representative concentration pathway scenarios. Results indicate promising predictive power for both high …

Working Paper No. 45, An Intellectual History Of Josiah Warren, Jaye Balentine

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that Josiah Warren (1798-1874) developed a synthesis of anti-capitalist economics and radical individualism which became a unique, yet highly practical strand of anarchism in the United States. This inquiry relies heavily upon Crispin Sartwell’s The Practical Anarchist: Writings of Josiah Warren (2011) for insight into Warren’s contributions. Warren registers as distinct because of his relative isolation from other anarchist thinkers, existing largely as a lone practitioner operating in the western territories of the United States during middle-part of the 19th century. This inquiry considers Warren’s philosophical views as well as his practical program—namely his doctrines …

Working Paper No. 47, The Transformation Of Developmental States: Patterns Of Economic Development In South Korea And Taiwan, Mina Kim

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry considers similar yet contrasting patterns in the economic development of South Korea and Taiwan. Taiwan’s developmental state has tended to exhibit ‘softer’ characteristics than South Korea’s. I identify a tendency for when developmental states face crises and then transition forward to a ‘post-developmental state’. This is traced to the internal 'paradox of success' and external pressure of neoliberal globalization. Though these two countries tend to embrace and rely upon neoliberal policies for economic growth, the speed and degree of systemic change register as different. A 1997 financial crisis appears to have goaded South Korea to move quickly through …

Epidemics, Politics And Public Health: Ludwig Rajchman, Md, The League Of Nations Health Organization And The Creation Of A Transnational Health Institution, Paul J. Weinbaum

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Traditional scholarship on the League of Nations labels the organization as a failure because it did not prevent the outbreak of the World War II. Recent research examines League activities in a more comprehensive manner and concludes that the organization should be credited with important and enduring achievements. Perhaps the most successful work was carried out by the Health Section led by Dr. Ludwick Rajchman. Using primary sources from the League archives in Geneva, documents from organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, articles from medical journals and other relevant secondary sources, I argue that the Health Section, became the world’s …

An Atlas Of S. Pneumoniae And Host Gene Expression During Colonization And Disease, Public Relations

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Growing Quelites In The City: Exploration On Memory And Food Sovereignty In Mexico City, Paola Valeria Ramirez Ensastiga

Masters Theses

In Mexico, as in the world, the number of people living in urban areas is increasing. In addition, urbanization directly generates a fragmentation of the natural habitat and causes the loss of biodiversity. Native edible crops are also being threatened by a constant decline in biodiversity, causing negative ecological, economic and even cultural impact. Until now, the main guardians of the edible biodiversity have been indigenous peoples. Several authors agree that the way in which indigeous people relate to nature may shed some light on how to face the ecological and climate crisis that we are experiencing today. I argue …

Upper Limit Of Electron Fluxes Observed In The Radiation Belts, Kun Zhang, Xinlin Li, Hong Zhao, Zheng Xiang, Leng Ying Khoo, Wenxun Zhang, Benjamin Hogan, Michael A. Temerin

Publications

Radiation belt electrons have a complicated relationship with geomagnetic activity. We select electron measurements from 7 years of DEMETER and 6 years of Van Allen Probes data during geomagnetic storms to conduct statistical analysis focusing on the correlation between electron flux and Dst index. We report, for the first time, an upper limit of electron fluxes observed by both satellites throughout the inner and outer belts across a wide energy range from ∼100s keV to multi-MeV. The upper flux limit is determined at different L's and energies, for example, 1.9 × 107/cm2-s-sr-MeV at 470 keV at L = 1.5 and …

The Autobiography Of Daniel Parker, Frontier Universalist, Daniel Parker, David Torbett

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

A vastly informative and rare early-American pioneer autobiography rescued from obscurity.

In this remarkable memoir, Daniel Parker (1781–1861) recorded both the details of everyday life and the extraordinary historical events he witnessed west of the Appalachian Mountains between 1790 and 1840. Once a humble traveling salesman for a line of newly invented clothes washing machines, he became an outspoken advocate for abolition and education. With his wife and son, he founded Clermont Academy, a racially integrated, coeducational secondary school—the first of its kind in Ohio.

However, Parker’s real vocation was as a self-ordained, itinerant preacher of his own brand of …

Explaining The Nonlinear Response Of Stock Markets To Oil Price Shocks, Diego Escobari, Shahil Sharma

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

This paper is set to reconcile the existent conflicting empirical evidence on the effect of oil prices on stock prices. We estimate various nonlinear models where the response changes according to a first-order Markov switching process. More importantly, we model the transition probabilities between the high- and low-response regimes to depend on state variables to allow us to explain the forces behind the asymmetry in the response. The results show statistically significant asymmetries that can be explained by economic recessions and to a lower extent depend on the magnitude of the oil price shift and on whether the shift is …

Lindenwood Digest, December 15, 2020, Lindenwood University

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Flow Patterns, Velocity Distributions And Mixing Time In Stirred Tank Reactor Under A Range Of Operating Conditions, Nor Haslina Abdullah

Student Works (2020-2029)

The present work employed a two-dimensional Particle Imaging Velocimetry (PIV) technique to determine the flow patterns and velocity distributions of a down-pumping pitched-blade turbine (4PB) and a Rushton turbine (RT) in a flat-bottom fully baffled stirred vessel (T=0.155m) using distilled water and glycerin as liquids. Fluid velocities increased as the impeller speed increased from 50rpm to 300rpm for both fluids and the RT impeller reached a maximum value of velocity of 1.42m/s at the blade tip. The 4PB had higher velocity compared to RT in glycerin, but RT had higher velocity than 4PB in distilled water. In water, radial flow …

Geographic Range Estimates And Environmental Requirements For The Harpy Eagle Derived From Spatial Models Of Current And Past Distributio, Luke J. Sutton, David L. Anderson, Miguel Franco, Christopher J.W. Mcclure, Everton B.P. Miranda, F. Hernán Vargas, F. Hernán Vargas, Robert Puschendorf

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Clinical Characteristics And Outcomes Of Critically Ill Patients With Covid-19 Admitted To An Intensive Care Unit In London: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study, Ross J. Thomson, Jennifer Hunter, Jonathan Dutton, James Schneider, Maryam Khosravi, Alisha Casement, Kulwant Dhadwal, Daniel Martin

Peninsula Medical School

Background Cohorts of severely ill patients with COVID-19 have been described in several countries around the globe, but to date there have been few published reports from the United Kingdom (UK). Understanding the characteristics of the affected population admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK is crucial to inform clinical decision making, research and planning for future waves of infection. Methods We conducted a prospective observational cohort study of all patients with COVID-19 admitted to a large UK ICU from March to May 2020 with follow-up to June 2020. Data were collected from health records using a standardised …

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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 …

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.

Urban Geomorphology And Its Effect On The Distribution Of Land Use In Al - Haklaniya City, Amjad Raheem Mohammed Al-Kubeisi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study examined the relationship between the growth and distribution of land uses and the topographical characteristics in the city of Al- Haklaniya by relying on a series of geomorphological indicators affecting urban growth and sustainability by deriving the extent of the city's growth over the geomorphological units. The geomorphological indicators showed the lack of symmetry in the growth and distribution of Land uses on the geomorphological units, and the urban indicators showed that kin relation had a significant role in the growth and distribution of land uses. The relation between the growth and distribution of land uses in 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 …

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, …

The Educational Perspective Of The Quran And Sunnah On The Professional And Craft Work, Abdeslalm Derdah Faleh

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The perspective of the Quran and Sunnah for the professional and craft work.

This study aimed at demonstrating the Islamic educational perspective of professional work. Moreover, it aimed at highlighting the attitude of the Quran and Sunnah towards the professional and craft work, explaining its status, formulating the vision of the Muslim community of these professions and crafts according to the Quranic vision as well as showing the permissibility of them through Islamic guidance, practical educational incentives, following the example of Prophets, Messengers and good scholars who practiced professional and craft work themselves and set a great example for people …

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, …

Construction And Deconstruction: Approaches According To The Principles Of Art Education, Salah Rahaif Ameer Al-Zamili

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Through a long time, theories and researches have been varied to be able to read different events and human scenes in various readings. There were important sides in life, like: Art, education, history and other subjects that come in line with to identify the patterns of these researches, theories and visions or they may be the pioneer in the discovery of such patterns and they may play the role of writer or critic. On the threshold of historical and temporal eras the so called modern critical methods emerged that are the visions and plans which look for, analyze, interpret and …

The Holy Quran Bilingual/ Thought Off Sensual Miracles Study In Cultural Contexts, Firas Salah Abdullah Al-Atabi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research begins with a question about why the Qur'anic miracle differs from the previous sensory divine miracles by observing the polytheists and unbelievers to inflict a sensual miracle seen as the miracles of the previous prophets. Moses (p) down to the seventh century AD with the miracle of the last Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in a cultural reading of the most prominent cultural patterns of human nature to reach cultural completion and maturity, and tools of the cultural curriculum that asks time and its changing nature Insulting human perception and the physical factors, the biology that characterized (Homo sapiens Homo …