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Slowing The Spread Of Covid-19: Review Of “Social Distancing” Interventions Deployed By Public Transit In The United States And Canada, Camille Kamga, Penny Eickemeyer

Publications and Research

This paper presents a review of social distancing measures deployed by transit agencies in the United States and Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how specific operators across the two countries have implemented changes. Challenges and impacts on their operations are also provided.

Social distancing is one of the community mitigation measures traditionally implemented during influenza pandemics and the novel coronavirus pandemic. Research has shown that social distancing is effective in containing the spread of disease. This is applicable to the current situation with the novel coronavirus, given the lack of effective vaccines and treatments in the United States …

Clinical Geography: A Proposal To Embrace Space, Place And Wellbeing Through Person-Centered Practice, Jessica M. Finlay, Graham D. Rowles

Graduate Center for Gerontology Faculty Publications

This essay envisions how geography can operationalize nuanced understandings of space and place to enrich the lives of individuals across the lifespan. We propose a focused integration of geography into person-centered practice: a clinical geography dedicated to working directly with people to promote optimal physical and mental health outcomes and wellbeing. Our proposal integrates spatial modifications to facilitate access and utility, behavioral interventions to maximize effectiveness in using space, and therapeutic engagement to nurture a deeper sense of ‘being in place’ that enhances wellbeing and quality of life. This focus is timely given societal instability and precariousness resulting from incongruous …

A Geopolitical Analysis Of The Construction Of Informal Structures In Iraq After 2003, Haider Abdullah Abbas, Nice Full Kidney

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The existence of informal structures in the state is a definite and urgent necessity as complementary and supportive to the official institutions within the entity of the state, as it is the supervisory body that works to monitor government performance and thus evaluate its work. The state is indispensable for the presence of professional unions, civil society institutions and political parties operating within the political arena, as it represents a front for democracy. In the modern state, this is in the event that these institutions were operating according to formal well-studied work systems and methodologies and were driven by a …

A Geopolitical Analysis Of Terrorist Operations In Iraq After 2003 (A Study In Political Geography), Adnan Abdullah Hamadi Al-Jumaili

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Iraq witnessed accelerated crimes during the years following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, as it was exposed to several terrorist crimes in many respects. Therefore, it is an academic, moral and social duty to research this phenomenon that has become haunting mankind and works to fuel hostility.

Trends Of Research Visualization Of Digital Collections And Resources In Academic Libraries From 2001 To 2020: A Bibliometric Analysis, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Mr. Farooq Abdullah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper was intended to evaluate electronic collections, digital collections, digital resources, e-books, e-resources using bibliometric exploration from 2001 to 2020. The main purpose is to associate the available scholarship on the electronic and digital collections in the Web of Science indexed documents. There was a lack of computable quantities on the electronic collections. We used the bibliometric analysis and 2002 published documents were found. The results indicated that the top topic of published documents as electronic books or e-books and library, article as a type, English as the top language, top publications in 2016, and Huang YM was the …

New Aspects On Using Artificial Intelligence To Shape The Future Of Entrepreneurs, Saad Darwish, Abdulsalam Darwish, Venus Bunagan

Information Sciences Letters

One way for enterprises to be successful in today’s challenging market is to be agile and be flexible to handle market changes. Using a conceptual and operational framework for improving the enterprise and keeping their desired situation, is always required. In this paper, a service oriented decision support system-based framework is proposed. The framework seeks for service oriented architecture (SOA) governance and suggests the initial architecture of the enterprise to support agility and optimality. Also, for the stability purpose a structure including service platforms, analyzers and decision support systems are employed to analyze the enterprise and make better decisions.

Entropic Dynamics Of Networks, Felipe Xavier Costa, Pedro Pessoa

Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS)

Here we present the entropic dynamics formalism for networks. That is, a framework for the dynamics of graphs meant to represent a network derived from the principle of maximum entropy and the rate of transition is obtained taking into account the natural information geometry of probability distributions. We apply this framework to the Gibbs distribution of random graphs obtained with constraints on the node connectivity. The information geometry for this graph ensemble is calculated and the dynamical process is obtained as a diffusion equation. We compare the steady state of this dynamics to degree distributions found on real-world networks.

Tequesta: The Journal Of The Historical Association Of Southern Florida, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, has appeared since our last number. It is issued annually and this is number eight. Throughout it is on the high level of former issue sand more, this is the best number yet. The last three issues have been under the direction of Dr. Charlton W. Tebeau as editor, and his policy has been to confine the articles to subjects of South Florida interest, the result is that the history of that region is steadily being written and published.

John Westcott’S Plan For Public Education In Florida, 1844, Nita Katharine Pyburn

Florida Historical Quarterly

In 1843 the Legislative Council of Florida passed two acts pertaining to education ; one providing that “the sheriff of the several counties . . . be Commissioners of school’lands in their respective counties.” Each was to rent or lease the land and retain ten percent as commission. The remainder of the proceeds was to be paid to the county treasurer at the beginning of the year. The county court was to appropriate the fun.ds thus accruing “to the education of the poor children of the County in which such land was situated.“l In 1844 another act was passed which …

Taylor County History And Civil War Deserters, W. T. Cash

Florida Historical Quarterly

When Florida seceded from the Union, Taylor county was four years old, it having been created from Madison county on December 23, 1856. As a functioning political unit its age was at least six months less, for the members of its first board of county commissioners were not qualified until March 27, 1857, and its first judge of probate, one of whose duties was to preside at board meetings, was not commissioned until July 4, following.

Early Education In Tallahassee And The West Florida Seminary Now Florida State University, Part I, William G. Dodd

Florida Historical Quarterly

The school problems of early Tallahassee, after a long process of trial and error, were finally solved by the establishment, on January 1, 1857, of the West Florida Seminary. Though the Seminary was nominally a State institution, actually for many years nearly all of its students were from Tallahassee and vicinity, and it was to all intents and purposes a Tallahassee school. With its location in the town, citizens were at last assured of a permanent means of educating their sons, and a little later, their daughters also. Until this fortunate event, Tallahassee, like the other towns of the Territory …

Comte De Castelnau In Middle Florida, 1837-1838, Arthur R. Seymour

Florida Historical Quarterly

Included in the last issue of this QUARTERLY was Comte de Castelnau’s account of his visit to the Tallahassee region more than a century ago: Essai sur la Floride du Milieu. In addition, the Count published Vues et Souvenirs de l'Amerique du Nord (Paris, 1842), and Note de deux Itineraires de Charleston a Tallahassee, the latter of which appeared in Bulletin de la Societe de Geographie. These are reprinted here, both being translated by Dr. Seymour.

Essay On Middle Florida (Essai Sur La Floride Du Milieu), Comte De Castelnau

Florida Historical Quarterly

Translated by Arthur R. Seymour (Note-This essay was published in Nouvelles Annales des Voyages et des Sciences Geographiques, cx, vol. iv (1843) pp. 129-208. It will be followed in subsequent issues of the QUARTERLY by extracts translated from “Vues et Souvenirs de l’Amerique du Nord,” also by Francis de Castelnau (Paris, 1842), descriptive of eleven plates (of thirty-five in the volume) which are of Florida interest. Seven of these will be reproduced. There will be published also a translation of “Note de deux Itineraries de Charleston a Tallahassee” by the same author, which appeared in Bulletin de la Societe de …

Stephen Russell Mallory Part Ii, Occie Clubbs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of those who have been identified with early Key West, one who has been given highest acclaim is Ellen Mallory, Stephen R. Mallory’s mother.

Stephen Russell Mallory, Occie Clubbs

Florida Historical Quarterly

Perhaps Charles Mallory, as he worked at his carpenter’s bench somewhere in New England, dreamed that some day he might have a son to work beside him or to follow him at the same bench; and later, now a building superintendent and contractor in the island of Trinidad off the coast of South America, he may have dreamed again that the little Stephen playing about his shop or office, might become a great man. But if so, the reality far surpassed his dreams-for the boy became a member of the foremost legislative body of the world, and later was one …

2021 Conference Program, Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Final Conference Program

Socastee Interview, Participant #03, March 26, 2021, Jennifer Mokos, Jaime Mccauley

Flood Survivor Interviews

A community member of the Rosewood neighborhood in Socastee is interviewed by a CCU student.

Socastee Interview, Participant #01, March 26, 2021, Jennifer Mokos, Jaime Mccauley

Flood Survivor Interviews

A community member of the Rosewood neighborhood in Socastee is interviewed by CCU students.

Going Beyond The Blue: The Utility Of Emergency Medical Services Data In Understanding Violent Crime, Julie Hibdon, Cody E. Telep, Jessica Huff

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

National victimization data suggest less than 50% of violent crime incidents are reported to the police. Official reports of crime to police, however, are often the only type of data used for the analysis of violence problems, the identification of geographic concentrations of violent crime, and the selection of targets for police and prevention resources. Yet, the question remains, are estimates of violent crime prevalence and location distorted from a unilateral reliance on police data? Here, we examine whether emergency medical service (EMS) data collected by the fire department are spatially concentrated in the same way as police data and …

Ice Thickness Estimates Of Lemon Creek Glacier, Alaska, From Active-Source Seismic Imaging, Stephen A. Veitch, Marianne Karplus, Galen Kaip, Lucia F. Gonzalez, Jason M. Amundson, Timothy C. Bartholomaus

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Lemon Creek Glacier, a temperate valley glacier in the Juneau Icefield of Southeast Alaska, is the site of long running (>60 years) glaciological studies. However, the most recent published estimates of its thickness and subglacial topography come from two ∼50 years old sources that are not in agreement and do not account for the effects of years of negative mass balance. We collected a 1-km long active-source seismic line on the upper section of the glacier parallel and near to the centerline of the glacier, roughly straddling the equilibrium-line altitude. We used these data to perform joint reflection-refraction velocity …

Decline In Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Volumes Associated With The First Wave Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Thanh N. Nguyen, Diogo C. Haussen, Muhammad M. Qureshi, Hiroshi Yamagami, Toshiyuki Fujinaka, Ossama Y. Mansour, Mohamad Abdalkader, Michael Frankel, Zhongming Qiu, Allan Taylor, Pedro Lylyk, Omer F. Eker, Laura Mechtouff, Michel Piotin, Fabricio Oliveira Lima, Francisco Mont'alverne, Wazim Izzath, Nobuyuki Sakai, Mahmoud Mohammaden, Alhamza R. Al-Bayati, Leonardo Renieri, Salvatore Mangiafico, David Ozretic, Vanessa Chalumeau, Saima Ahmad, Umair Rashid, Syed Irteza Hussain, Seby John, Emma Griffin, John Thornton, Jose Antonio Fiorot, Rodrigo Rivera, Nadia Hammami, Anna M. Cervantes-Arslanian, Hormuzdiyar H. Dasenbrock, Huynh Le Vu, Viet Quy Nguyen, Steven Hetts, Romain Bourcier, Romain Guile, Melanie Walker, Malveeka Sharma, Don Frei, Pascal Jabbour, Nabeel Herial, Fawaz Al-Mufti, Atilla Ozcan Ozdemir, Ozlem Aykac, Dheeraj Gandhi, Chandril Chugh, Charles Matouk, Pascale Lavoie, Randall Edgell, Andre Beer-Furlan, Michael Chen, Monika Killer-Oberpfalzer, Vitor Mendes Pereira, Patrick Nicholson, Vikram Huded, Nobuyuki Ohara, Daisuke Watanabe, Dong Hun Shin, Pedro Sc Magalhaes, Raghid Kikano, Santiago Ortega-Gutierrez, Mudassir Farooqui, Amal Abou-Hamden, Tatsuo Amano, Ryoo Yamamoto, Adrienne Weeks, Elena A. Cora, Rotem Sivan-Hoffmann, Roberto Crosa, Markus Möhlenbruch, Simon Nagel, Hosam Al-Jehani, Sunil A. Sheth, Victor S. Lopez Rivera, James E. Siegler, Achmad Fidaus Sani, Ajit S. Puri, Anna Luisa Kuhn, Gianmarco Bernava, Paolo Machi, Daniel G. Abud, Octavio M. Pontes-Neto, Ajay K. Wakhloo, Barbara Voetsch, Eytan Raz, Shadi Yaghi, Brijesh P. Mehta, Naoto Kimura, Mamoru Murakami, Jin Soo Lee, Ji Man Hong, Robert Fahed, Gregory Walker, Eiji Hagashi, Steve M. Cordina, Hong Gee Roh, Ken Wong, Juan F. Arenillas, Mario Martinez-Galdamez, Jordi Blasco, Alejandro Rodriguez Vasquez, Luisa Fonseca, M. Luis Silva, Teddy Y. Wu, Simon John, Alex Brehm, Marios Psychogios, William J. Mack, Matthew Tenser, Tatemi Todaka, Miki Fujimura, Roberta Novakovic, Jun Deguchi, Yuri Sugiura, Hiroshi Tokimura, Rakesh Khatri, Michael Kelly, Lissa Peeling, Yuichi Murayama, Hugh Stephen Winters, Johnny Wong, Mohamed Teleb, Jeremy Payne, Hiroki Fukuda, Kosuke Miyake, Junsuke Shimbo, Yusuke Sugimura, Masaaki Uno, Yohei Takenobu, Yuji Matsumaru, Satoshi Yamada, Ryuhei Kono, Takuya Kanamaru, Masafumi Morimoto, Junichi Iida, Vasu Saini, Dileep Yavagal, Saif Bushnaq, Wenguo Huang, Italo Linfante, Jawad Kirmani, David S. Liebeskind, Viktor Szeder, Ruchir Shah, Thomas G. Devlin, Lee Birnbaum, Jun Luo, Anchalee Churojana, Hesham E. Masoud, Carlos Ynigo Lopez, Brendan Steinfort, Alice Ma, Ameer E. Hassan, Amal Al Hashmi, Mollie Mcdermott, Maxim Mokin, Alex B. Chebl, Odysseas Kargiotis, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Jane G. Morris, Clifford J. Eskey, Jesse Thon, Leticia Rebello, Dorothea Altschul, Oriana Cornett, Varsha Singh, Jeyaraj Pandian, Anirudh Kulkarni, Pablo M. Lavados, Veronica V. Olavarria, Kenichi Todo, Yuki Yamamoto, Gisele Sampaio Silva, Serdar Geyik, Jasmine Johann, Sumeet Multani, Artem Kaliaev, Kazutaka Sonoda, Hiroyuki Hashimoto, Adel Alhazzani, David Y. Chung, Stephan A. Mayer, Johanna T. Fifi, Michael D. Hill, Hao Zhang, Zhengzhou Yuan, Xianjin Shang, Alicia C. Castonguay, Rishi Gupta, Tudor G. Jovin, Jean Raymond, Osama O. Zaidat, Raul G. Nogueira

Neurology Articles

BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic, decreased volumes of stroke admissions and mechanical thrombectomy were reported. The study's objective was to examine whether subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) hospitalisations and ruptured aneurysm coiling interventions demonstrated similar declines.

METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective, observational study across 6 continents, 37 countries and 140 comprehensive stroke centres. Patients with the diagnosis of SAH, aneurysmal SAH, ruptured aneurysm coiling interventions and COVID-19 were identified by prospective aneurysm databases or by International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, codes. The 3-month cumulative volume, monthly volumes for SAH hospitalisations and ruptured aneurysm coiling procedures were compared for the period …

Defining And Addressing The Intersection Of Sports, Media, And Social Activism, Kaylee Layne Crafton

Honors Theses

Athletes have used their sports platforms and the elevated statuses of fame to share their political views and seek change for centuries. However, our society is now at a time in which athlete activism seems to be at its peak due to constant societal shifts and the quick, widespread dissemination of news through various forms of media. This study sought to answer one primary question: When can athletes share their views about racial equality and social justice? For Americans, the “when” in which athletes can speak up is often a divisive issue. This study analyzed how major sports leagues and …

Latitude Dictates Plant Diversity Effects On Instream Decomposition, Luz Boyero, Javier Pérez, Naiara López-Rojo, Alan M. Tonin, Francisco Correa-Araneda, Richard G. Pearson, Jaime Bosch, Ricardo J. Albariño, Sankarappan Anbalagan, Leon A. Barmuta, Leah Beesley, Francis J. Burdon, Adriano Caliman, Marcos Callisto, Ian C. Campbell, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Jesús Casas, Ana M. Chará-Serna, Szymon Ciapała, Eric Chauvet, Jose Checo Colón-Gaud, Aydeé Cornejo, Aaron M. Davis, Monika Degebrodt, Emerson S. Dias, María E. Díaz, Michael M. Douglas, Arturo Elosegi, Andrea C. Encalada, Elvira De Eyto, Ricardo Figueroa, Alexander S. Flecker, André Frainer, Juliana S. França, Erica A. García, Gabriela García, Pavel E. García, Mark O. Gessner, Paul S. Giller, Jesús E. Gómez, Sergio Gómez, José F. Gonçalves Jr., Manuel A. S. Graça, Robert O. Hall Jr., Neusa Hamada, Luiz U. Hepp, Cang Hui, Daichi Imazawa, Tomoya Iwata, Edson S. A. Junior, Samuel K. Kariuki, Andrea Landeira-Dabarca, María Leal, Kaisa Lehosmaa, Charles M. M’ Erimba, Richard Marchant, Renato T. Martins, Frank O. Masese, Megan Camden, Brendan G. Mckie, Adriana O. Medeiros, Jen A. Middleton, Timo Muotka, Junjiro N. Negishi, Jesús Pozo, Alonso Ramírez, Renan S. Rezende, John S. Richardson, José Rincón, Juan Rubio-Ríos, Claudia Serrano, Angela R. Shaffer, Fran Sheldon, Christopher M. Swan, Nathalie S. D. Tenkiano, Scott D. Tiegs, Janine R. Tolod, Michael Vernasky, Anne Watson, Mourine J. Yegon, Catherine M. Yule

Biology: Faculty Publications

Running waters contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes through decomposition of terrestrial plant litter by aquatic microorganisms and detritivores. Diversity of this litter may influence instream decomposition globally in ways that are not yet understood. We investigated latitudinal differences in decomposition of litter mixtures of low and high functional diversity in 40 streams on 6 continents and spanning 113° of latitude. Despite important variability in our dataset, we found latitudinal differences in the effect of litter functional diversity on decomposition, which we explained as evolutionary adaptations of litter-consuming detritivores to resource availability. Specifically, a balanced diet effect appears to operate …

A Research Visualization Of Academic Learning Skills Among Students In Higher Education Institutions: A Bibliometric Evidence From 1981 To 2020, Dr. Muhammad Shoaib, Mr. Farooq Abdullah, Mr. Nusrat Ali

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article provides an insight into the academic learning skills acquired by students in higher education institutions across the globe. A bibliometric study was designed to consolidate the published scholarship of the academic learning skills in the Web of Science indexed documents from 1981 to 2020. The data were extracted on March 18, 2021, at 06:54 AM, PST. A total of 964 publications were found using Biblioshiny, ScientoPy, VOSviewer, and MS Excel to extract data and preparation of figures. The study findings asserted that knowledge skill was the top topic, article as a type of documents, and the English language …

Predicting The Severity Of The Grass Pollen Season And The Effect Of Climate Change In Northwest Europe, A Kurganskiy, S Creer, N De Vere, The Pollergen Consortium, Et Al

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Hay fever patients can be helped in managing their symptoms by predicting the severity of the upcoming grass pollen seasons.

From The Ground Up: Building A Digital Scholarship Program At The University Of South Carolina, Stacy L. Winchester, Amie D. Freeman, Kate F. Boyd

South Carolina Libraries

In 2019, the University of South Carolina Libraries launched a new department called Digital Research Services to support new and evolving forms of scholarship in the digital age. Departmental librarians will discuss the experience of planning and implementing a digital scholarship program and will provide suggestions for other libraries planning a digital research initiative.

French Fixed Expressions: Language Initiation In Writing Skill Of Lower Intermediate Level For French As Foreign Language Learners, Tri Eko Agustiningrum

Dirassat

Language mastery is based on complex language knowledge and skills. To achieve a high level of proficiency in one language, it is not enough to know many words and know how to apply grammar rules, but it is also important to understand and use specific expressions in that language. The use of expressions allows people to express themselves figuratively more naturally in the target language. Native speakers generally prefer to use expressions rather than producing new lexical combinations. For example, if a native French speaker says "He runs away very quickly", he will tend to use a common phrase such …

La Diversité Linguistique Et La Pensée Maghrébines Avant L’Avènement De L’Islam, Leila Errhouni

Dirassat

The Ancient world was divided into three parts, Europe, Asia Minor and Libya (the present-day Maghreb). The Maghreb of the ancient world is geographically situated in an area which recieived cultural and linguistic influence form all over the world. Accordingly, the conception of identity is affected by socio-cultural historical events. Thus, history is a major component of identity formation.

Denying a part of pre-Islamic history bears on the totality of the artistic and philosophical production that existed in the North of Africa which means a total erasure of a historical period. Such segmentation divides Maghrebins into two distinct origins, the …

علاقة السلطة المركزية بالجنوب المغربي خلال القرنين19 و 20 م: حالة مجال أسا 1830-1934 م, سويلام بوغدا

Dirassat

The relationship between the central authority with southern Morocco during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: ASSA as a case study between 1830 and 1934

Morocco has witnessed dangerous and obvious transformations in the relationship between the tribes and the Moroccan regime or the so-called “Makhzen”. These relations were also influenced by the continuous existence of the foreign occupation regimes (France and Portugal). These changes affect the vision of the local leaders since the occupation made tribalism lose all its components and itsinheritance. As a result, nervousness, nomadism, and raiding lost its power. This article attempts to deal with the topic …

La Hausse De L’Immobilier, Le Déclin Du Pouvoir D’Achat Du Citoyen Tunisien: Quelles Issues ?, Fadhila Aloui Miadi

Dirassat

Title : The rise in real estate, the decline in the purchasing power of the Tunisian citizen: what issues?

Since independence, Tunisia has given pride of place to the housing sector in its economic and social development policies. In this context, various institutions have been set up to help citizens to have decent housing; in this regard, we mention the national real estate company of Tunisia (SNIT), the national housing savings fund (CNEL), which became the housing bank in 1989, the land agency housing... In reality, these institutions offered services only to solvent categories composed mainly of the middle class, …