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Resilience As A Mediator Of Perceived Organizational Justice And Turnover Intention For Licensed School Counselors, Autumn Warren Raffety

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

School counselor shortages and high turnover rates have been reported in school districts across the United States. These high turnover rates have led to critical problems for educational institutions as counselors serve a vital role in organizational success and stability. The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and turnover intention and whether resilience mediated this relationship for 102 licensed school counselors working in elementary and secondary schools in the United States. Equity theory provided the theoretical foundation for this study, and a nonexperimental correlational research design was used to examine the research questions. …

Counselor Experiences With Clients Who Bring Emotional Support Animals To Sessions, Jennifer Reynolds

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

AbstractLimited research on emotional support animals (ESAs) has led to distorted viewpoints of ESAs and how they are used; many individuals are not utilizing ESAs appropriately, and heightened awareness of the negative uses of ESAs in media and other public sources. ESAs can be an effective intervention when working with clients during counseling sessions, but due to the limited research and the negative stigma media this intervention may not be adequately represented. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore lived experiences of counselors who allow their clients to bring ESAs to counseling session, the goal of reducing …

Strategies For Increasing Information Technology Employee Work-Life Balance, Kimberly D. Seymour

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Small to medium enterprise (SME) information technology (IT) managers’ lack of strategic planning initiatives in creating a work life balance environment has created personal and financial concerns for some employees in the United States. Managers must develop and implement strategies that increase profits and productivity as well as create work life balance. Grounded in Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies SME IT business managers used to develop and implement an employee work-life balance environment. The participants were three IT managers and two human resources business managers. Data were collected from semistructured …

Social Media Marketing Strategies For Increasing Customer Engagement, Joe Nwachukwu Umunna

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Some business leaders are not using social media to improve customer engagement resulting in a potential loss of profit. Ineffective social media marketing strategies can negatively impact customer engagement. Grounded in the networking, representation, engagement theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore social media marketing strategies business leaders use to increase customer engagement. The participants comprised of six business leaders located in the northeast region of the United States who effectively used social media marketing strategies to increase customer engagement. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. Four themes emerged: marketing …

Play Lu Interactive Technology And Standardized Mathematics Scores, Oguz Yildiz

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Technology-based learning tools provide new opportunities to engage students in learning academic content. This study focuses on one such tool, Play Lu Interactive Technology (PLIT), and analyzes how students’ math achievement on standardized test scores differs between students who have used PLIT and students who have not. PLIT is designed to improve students’ communication and teamwork skills in addition to math skills. The data were collected from seventh-grade students at a public school in the state of New York that used PLIT to support students’ academic achievement in math. Due to scheduling limitations, only half of the seventh-grade students used …

Cross Border Regional Planning: Insights From Cascadia, Francesco Cappellano, Kathrine Richardson, Laurie Trautman

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This analysis focuses on different levels of Cross-Border Regional Planning (CBRP) processes in the Cascadia borderland. The region is home to the business-led initiative ‘Cascadia Innovation Corridor’ (CIC), designed to foster cross-border economic integration. The CIC strives to build a global innovation ecosystem in Cascadia, including a new high-speed train to connect Seattle and Vancouver. This paper focuses on the scope of the CIC as a CBRP case. The authors evaluate engagement of city governments and coherency between different planning scales to determine whether the CIC has been addressing the major challenges that may prevent tighter economicintegration in Cascadia. The …

Expanding The Narrative: ‘Fashion, Style, Aesthetics And #Blacklivesmatter’, Travis D. Boyce, Lisa D. Lenoir, Winsome M. Chunnu

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

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Racial And Social Justice At San José State University: Students Respond With Social Action, Scott Myers-Lipton, William Armaline

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

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A Conceptual Framework For Social, Behavioral, And Environmental Change Through Stakeholder Engagement In Water Resource Management, Weston M. Eaton, Kathryn J. Brasier, Mark E. Burbach, Walt Whitmer, Elyzabeth W. Engle, Morey Burnham, Barbara Quimby, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Hannah Whitley, Jodi Delozier, Lara B. Fowler, Amber Wutich, Julia C. Bausch, Melissa Beresford, C. Clare Hinrichs, Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel, Heather E. Preisendanz, Clinton Williams, Jack Watson, Jason Weigle

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Incorporating stakeholder engagement into environmental management may help in the pursuit of novel approaches for addressing complex water resource problems. However, evidence about how and under what circumstances stakeholder engagement enables desirable changes remains elusive. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for studying social and environmental changes possible through stakeholder engagement in water resource management, from inception to outcomes. We synthesize concepts from multiple literatures to provide a framework for tracing linkages from contextual conditions, through engagement process design features, to social learning, community capacity building, and behavioral change at individual, group, and group network levels, and ultimately …

Building Pillars Where Bridges Are Easy To Imitate - Mediating Technologies In Knowledge-Based Economies, Guido Fioretti, Stephen K. Kwan, Stefania Niciforo

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

We carried out a qualitative investigation of a pioneer of the Industrial Internet of Things operating in Silicon Valley since 1989. We reconstructed a sequence of strategic turns and conceptualized their current business model in a way that is relevant for several other industries enabled by the Internet, generalizing Thompson’s concept of mediating technologies in order to adapt it to contemporary, knowledge-based economies. We propose an interpretive framework for mediating technologies that we express by means of semantic networks.

Extensible Embedded Processor For Convolutional Neural Networks, Joshua Misko, Shrikant S. Jadhav, Youngsoo Kim

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) require significant computing power during inference. Smart phones, for example, may not run a facial recognition system or search algorithm smoothly due to the lack of resources and supporting hardware. Methods for reducing memory size and increasing execution speed have been explored, but choosing effective techniques for an application requires extensive knowledge of the network architecture. This paper proposes a general approach to preparing a compressed deep neural network processor for inference with minimal additions to existing microprocessor hardware. To show the benefits to the proposed approach, an example CNN for synthetic aperture radar target classification …

The Greenhouse, Vol. 1, 1944

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Vol. 1 of The Greenhouse, a compilation of items from Memphis Commercial Appeal columnist Paul Flowers' columns for 1944. The content includes some of Flowers' columns but also verses contributed by readers.

Armour Training Center, City Of Memphis, Circa 1963

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Illustrated brochure about the Armour Training Center, the fire and police training and communications facility operated by the City of Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1963.

Centrality Of Youth Engagement In Media Involvement, Yoshitaka Iwasaki

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

Contextualized within the popularity of new media, youth engagement is a very important concept in the practice of public involvement. Guided by the current literature on youth engagement and media studies, this chapter examines the key engagement-related notions involving youth and media usage. Being informed by a variety of case studies on youth engagement through the use of media within various contexts globally, the chapter discusses the opportunities and challenges of engaging youth through media involvement. The specific notions covered in this chapter include (1) the role of “hybrid” media in youth engagement, (2) “intersectionality” illustrating the diversity of youth …

Narratives Of Disability And Displacement: Oral Histories Of The Lived Experiences Of Disabled Refugees, Jennifer Lynn Ward

Doctoral Dissertations

Disabled refugees are considered as the most marginalized group of all displaced populations. Disabled displaced people are at particular risk of violence, exploitation, and abuse. Additional barriers to accessing humanitarian assistance, education, health care, and other services exist for disabled displaced people. The purpose of this study was to collaborate with disabled refugees who have resettled in the United States and to create a space for their stories to be told. This research project explores the narratives of the lived experiences of disabled displaced people through the lenses of three theoretical frameworks: human rights, disability justice, and Critical Refugee Studies. …

The Role Of Community Building In Second Language Acquisition In The Mainstream Classroom, Alejandro Clemente Fernandez

Doctoral Dissertations

The world is currently suffering from population displacement due to climate change, war, and economic instability which force many people to migrate in search of a better life, and many of these immigrants include school-age children. This mixed-methods research study sought to establish the association between community building, emotion, and second language acquisition by administering a survey to second language learners in the Napa Valley north of San Francisco in the spring of 2020. The participants were fourteen sixth grade students who had been enrolled in the same English and Spanish dual language immersion program since kindergarten.

The theoretical framework …

Incorporating Critical Perspectives In Nonprofit Management Education Programs: How Critical Scholars Of Color Navigate Pressures In Higher Education, Khanh H. Nguyen

Doctoral Dissertations

The nonprofit sector has grown from a few charities, based on religious affiliation, to a multi-billion-dollar sector that supports the United States of America’s economic stability. As a result, the need for nonprofit management education has increased over the last three decades from 1990 to 2019 (O’Neill, 2005; Mirabella, 2014). However, most of the classes taught in nonprofit programs across the US focus on the transactional aspect of nonprofit leadership (Mirabella, 2014; Wang & Ashcraft, 2012). The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the ways critical perspectives are engaged within nonprofit management education programs by …

Teaching Critical Thinking Skills In A Chinese Immersion School, Pui Hung Helen Wong

Doctoral Dissertations

As a frontline teacher and administrator, I received feedback consistently from parents and students asking for a fun and effective method of instruction for Chinese language development in the US. This study explored the micro-level of how teachers in Chinese immersion schools create an environment to support development of students’ critical thinking skills while learning Chinese. I applied a qualitative approach to the research and designed a case study focused on answering the following research questions: How do teachers help their students to develop critical thinking skills when teaching in a Chinese immersion program? What are the challenges teachers have …

Curtiss Fly Leaf, 27:4, 1944

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Vol. 27, No. 4 of the "Curtiss Fly Leaf" published by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Buffalo, New York, in September/October 1944.

The First, Circa 1945

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Booklet published by Stars and Stripes describing the service of the U.S. Army's First Infantry Division, nicknamed "The Big Red One", published circa 1945. The front cover of the booklet is damaged.

River City Blues Festival Program, Memphis, 1971

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Program for the River City Blues Festival held at the Ellis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee, on December 3, 1971. It featured Furry Lewis, Earl Bell, Sam Clark, Dewey Corley, Mose Vinson, Hammie Nixon and Sleepy John Estes, Willie Morris, Mrs. Van Hunt, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Richard "Hacksaw" Harney, Willie "61" Blackwell, Rev. Robert Wilkins, Houston Stackhouse, “Sweet Charlene”, and Bukka White.

L. Guy Woollard Journal, 1861-1863

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51-page journal of Leander Guy Woollard (1834-1874) of the 9th Mississippi Infantry, and later the 42nd Mississippi Regiment, who served in Florida, eastern Tennessee, and then in Virginia. The journal covers the period of March 23, 1861, to March 1, 1863. A transcript is included.

Woollard was a lawyer who joined the "Senatobia Invincibles" in February 1861 that became Company I of the 9th Mississippi Infantry until the men's service ended in 1862. Upon reenlisting, Woollard became a first lieutenant, and then captain of Company B of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment. At the Battle of Gettysburg, he was captured with …

Mcnairy County School Journal, 1:5, 1927

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Vol. 1:5 of "The McNairy County School Journal" published in Selmer, Tennessee, in March 1927.

Ramer High School, Purple And Gold, 1924

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Vol. 3:1 of the Ramer High School, McNairy County, Tennessee, student newspaper "Purple and Gold" published in October 1924.

Phyllis Schlafly Report, 11:1.2, 1977

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Vol. 11, No. 1, Section 2 of "The Phyllis Schlafly Report" published in Alton, Illinois, in August 1977. This edition of the newsletter focused on the wasted money for, and the unrepresentative nature of, the state conferences and forthcoming national conference sponsored by the national Commission on International Women's Year. Also included is a copy of Vol. 11, No.5, Section 2 published in December 1977 that reported on the national conference in Houston and the Pro-Family Rally held in opposition to it at the same time. Shirley Curry's role in organizing the Tennessee contingent to the rally is mentioned.

Mountaineers

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An undated (circa 1950) 66-page book titled "Mountaineers", a unit history of the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division's service during World War II, published by Artcraft Press, Denver, Colorado. The narrative was edited by T/4 Theodore Lockwood, the sketches were made by M/Sgt. Robert Willis, S/Sgt. Robert Fels and Sgt. Jacques Parker, and the maps were drawn by Sgt. Armand Casini. Some annotations were made by Salvatore Palazolo.

Meeting The Needs Of The Times, 1951

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"Meeting the Needs of the Times: A Short History of the Sisters of St. Dominic in Memphis, 1851-1951", Memphis, Tennessee, 1951. The Dominican Sisters ran both St. Agnes Academy and Siena College. The book includes photographs of the St. Agnes class of 1951.

Using Experiential Learning To Create An Inclusive Classroom, Promote Equity, And Develop Professional Identity, Tianna N. Gibbs

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Legal education is changing. As law schools diversify their student bodies, they are being more intentional about the creation of an inclusive and equitable learning environment. Law schools also are engaging in curricular and pedagogical reform to better prepare students for law practice. Incorporating experiential learning into the law school curriculum has been a significant component of these reform efforts. The development of students’ professional identity also has become a focus of preparation for practice.

Observational Measurement Of Attachment In Toddlers With Disruptive Behavior Using The Strange Situation Procedure And Attachment Q-Set, Corey C. Lieneman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Child-caregiver attachment is an important factor in healthy child development and is often targeted by early intervention programs. To assess the efficacy of these interventions, attachment must be accurately measured across the toddler years in populations referred for treatment of externalizing behavior problems. The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP; Ainsworth et al., 1978) and Attachment Q-Set (AQS; Waters, 1987) are empirically-validated measures of child-caregiver attachment, each with unique strengths and weaknesses. Previous research has reached mixed conclusions on relations between the observer-report AQS and SSP, depending on sample and study characteristics, and a review of the literature did not produce any …

A One-Session, Brief Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Workshop For Chronic Pain Patients: A One-Sample Pretest-Posttest Prospective Exploratory Study, Kelly Anne Thomas Ms

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Chronic pain affects one in every four persons (NIH, 2010). For individuals residing in rural communities where chronic pain treatment is often not accessible (Artnak et al., 2011), a one-session brief mental health intervention is a critical healthcare need. More specifically, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) for chronic pain is a novel treatment approach in need of more research (Society of Clinical Psychology, 2016). This current study contributes to the gap in the literature by implementing an ACT workshop in a rural healthcare setting for individuals with chronic pain. It was hypothesized that the workshop would increase adaptive coping mechanisms …