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Kinematic Variations Between Successful And Unsuccessful Dynamic Rock Climbing Movements, Max R. Jarvis

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

Rock climbing as a sport and leisure activity has grown exponentially in popularity in recent years. Claims of best technique for rock climbing have been made in guide books, but are unsubstantiated. Specific upper body characteristics, determinants of climbing skill, and injury prevalence have been evaluated, but research examining climbing-specific movements has remained largely unexamined. The purpose of this study was to determine the angular kinematics and center of mass (COM) characteristics of the two-handed dynamic climbing maneuver (dyno). Participants received three attempts to complete a dyno on a 15° overhanging bouldering wall (EPIC Adventures) that were recorded via camcorder …

Politics And Pandemics: An Investigation Of The Potential Covariates In The Relationship Between Conservative Political Ideology And Reduced Facemask Wearing, Danielle M. Foster

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

Facemasks have been empirically shown as one of the most effective non-pharmaceutical interventions in preventing the spread of COVID-19. However, research shows that individuals identifying as politically conservative are less likely to comply with mask mandates and engage in less mask wearing. This study investigated five variables that could explain the relationship between political identity and less mask wearing: loyalty to ingroup and obedience to authority moral foundations, trust in science, belief in conspiracy theories, and psychological reactance. Using an online survey system, 138 U.S. adults completed several measures of political identity, mask wearing, and the hypothesized covariates. A simple …

Teacher And Support Staffs' Knowledge On How To Support Children's Psychological Needs After Hospitalization, Elyssa Hoffman

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Social And Emotional Competence And Its Association With Cyberbullying Among Adolescents, Sivabalan Thava Viknaraj

Student Works (2020-2029)

Cyberbullying is a growing menace especially in countries like Malaysia which highly focuses on digital industry development. Adolescents are at greater risk since their higher usage of internet mainly on the grounds of social networking. The aim of this study is to describe cyberbullying through various factors and the relationship with social and emotional competence (SEC) using the General Aggression Model as a theoretical framework. The study, conducted through June 2019 to November 2019, adopted a cross sectional study design, among 889 adolescents aged 13 and 14 years old of national secondary schools in Penang, Malaysia. Two-stage random sampling was …

Applying Singapore Airline’S Human Resource Management Strategy For Service Excellence At Pakistan International Airline, Abdul Basit Sami Shaikh, Fahad Habib, Muhammad Zulfiqar Hadi, Osama Ahmed

MBA Research Projects

The purpose of the study was to develop human resource management strategy for service excellence at Pakistan International Airline (PIA). We studied HRM strategy of various airlines and chose Singapore International Airline’s (SIA) HRM strategy due to in depth study by researchers for over ten years. Further, the similarities between PIA and SIA as both are state owned and both of their states got freed from British rule.

Through our secondary research and literature review, we learned that SIA’s HRM strategy stands on five cornerstones 1) Stringent Recruitment & Selection 2) Training & Retraining 3) High performance Service Delivery Teams …

Public Health Insurance And Pharmaceutical Innovation: Evidence From China, Xuan Zhang, Huihua Nie

Research Collection School Of Economics

Developing countries are characterized by low levels of pharmaceutical innovation. A likely reason is their small market size, which is not because of the population size but because of low levels of income and lack of health insurance coverage. This study exploits a natural experiment from the implementation of a public health insurance program for rural residents in China (New Cooperative Medical Scheme [NCMS]) to examine whether the pharmaceutical industry increases innovation regarding diseases covered by the NCMS that are prevalent in rural areas. We examine the 1993–2009 patent data to gauge pharmaceutical innovation in China. Diseases with a 10% …

Nurturing Clinical Academic Talent, Frazer Underwood, Jill Shawe

South West Clinical School Journal

Editorial for the first edition of the South West Clinical School Journal.

Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Damage On Roskear Ward, Holly Murrell

South West Clinical School Journal

Quarter 1 2019/20 WINNER #400WORDS: KNOWLEDGE+ACTION (IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE)

Experiences Of Midwives Working In Rural Communities, Samantha Gale, Sandra Hogan

South West Clinical School Journal

#400WORDS: RESEARCH PROPOSAL

Improving Proactive And Preventative Community-Based Dementia Care From Within The Acute Trust, Caroline Ellis, Emily Oliver, Rachel Johnstone

South West Clinical School Journal

Quarter 1 2020/21 WINNER #400WORDS: KNOWLEDGE+ACTION (IMPLEMENTING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE)

Role Of Strategic Leadership In Achieving University Governance Requirements: A Survey Of A Sample Of Teaching Staff At College Of Administration And Economics/University Of Mosul, Shihab Mohammed Al-Taha

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Aim of the Study: The paper aims at identifying the extent of the role of strategic leadership represented by its four dimensions (administrative, transformational, political, moral) in fulfilling the requirements of university governance (Context, message and Goal, Management orientation, Independence, Issue, Sharing) Methodology: A survey is applied to (107) members of the teaching staff at the college of Administration and Economics/ University of Mosul. To achieve the goals of the study, the researcher makes use of a number of tools such as: questionnaire, statistical tools and methods (repetitions, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, response rate, difference coefficient, correlation coefficient, linear …

Peer-Taught Virtual Research Workshops For Surgical Residents: Protocol For A Novel And Sustainable Solution To Improving Surgical Research In Pakistan, Russell S. Martins, Ronika Devi Ukrani, Mohummad Hassan Raza Raja, Maria Khan, Haissan Iftikhar, Syeda Sadia Fatima, Saulat Fatimi

Medical College Documents

Objective: To generate a protocol describing the methodology for a study assessing the effectiveness of a comprehensive series of peer-taught online research workshops for surgical residents across Pakistan in terms of improving research-related knowledge and skills, and long-term research involvement and output.
Methods: The quasi-experimental study will consist of a series of six online research workshops conducted over Zoom for surgical residents across Pakistan. An online sign-up form will be circulated on social media to current surgical residents throughout Pakistan. Curricular content covered in the workshops will be developed in collaboration with experienced research faculty at the Departments of Surgery …

Mss0170. Gordon Alexander Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection comprises copies of Memphis, Tennessee newspapers that music writer Gordon Alexander created or contributed to, including Bluff Town Buffoon and The Dixie Flyer.

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Mss0198. R.E. Johnson Papers Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection contains political and business correspondence and personal papers of engineer Robert Eugene Johnson (1890-1964), a vocal critic of the E.H. Crump political machine in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Mss0461. Stereograph Card Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection comprises stereograph cards and a stereoscope. The cards, predominantly from the United States, are of scenic and historic places, historic events, and for entertainment.

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Mss0048. Civil War Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection of American Civil War materials includes letters, diaries, official documents and other published items.

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Mss0362. James A. Matthews Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, poems, and personal correspondence of James A. Matthews, a government field auditor during World War I and certified accountant in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Special Collections Periodicals (Uncatalogued)

Special Collections Finding Aids

List of periodicals held by the Special Collections Department that are uncatalogued.

Mss0495. Vertical Files Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection is composed of items collected by Special Collections on a wide variety of subjects including clippings, brochures, booklets, pamphlets and other publications.

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Mss0284. Hopkins Family Papers Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The collection is correspondence primarily between husband-and-wife, David and Sara Hopkins, née McCleary, from the Great Lakes region. Included are other correspondences with Sara Hopkins and material associated with the couple.

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Mss0515. Wdia Radio Collection Finding Aid

Special Collections Finding Aids

The WDIA Collection contains documents, photos, programs, posters, flyers, a scrapbook, a photo album, newspapers and newspaper clippings, booklets, contracts, correspondences, vinyl, cd’s, a book, and artifacts from Radio Station WDIA.

Public Health Surveillance In The Context Of Covid-19, Jennifer D. Oliva

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Numerical Investigations Of Transient Wind Shear From Passing Vehicles Near A Road Structure (Part I: Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations), Hamid Rahai, Assma Begum

Mineta Transportation Institute

In this research, the authors performed unsteady numerical simulations of a moving Ahmed body under a freeway overpass at different distances from the bridge columns in order to evaluate transient wind shear and the wind load on these columns. Results have shown that when the vehicle is at 0.75W distance from the bridge columns, an unsteady wind speed of up to 24 m/s is observed at the columns with a pressure coefficient difference of 0.9. Here W is the width of the vehicle. These results indicate with an appropriate system for harnessing these wind energy potentials, significant renewable electric power …

The Impact Of A Democratic Leadership Style On Employee Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction, And Customer Loyalty At A Midsized Nonprofit Sport And Recreation Center, John Vincent, Michael Baptiste

Global Sport Business Journal

This study examined how leadership styles correlated with employee job satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty by surveying managers, employees, and customers at a midsized nonprofit sport and recreation center. Drawing on the extant literature and Heskett et al.’s (1994) service-profit chain model, we developed a conceptual model that hypothesized how the adoption of a democratic leadership style would facilitate employee job satisfaction, and mediate other positive outcomes. Of the three leadership styles examined, autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire, only democratic leadership was found to be positively correlated with employee job satisfaction and customer satisfaction. The results showed that employee job …

University Of San Diego Graduate Course Catalog 2021-2022, University Of San Diego

Graduate Course Catalogs (1971-)

304 pages

Association Between Life Course Social Determinants Of Health And Metabolic Syndrome Among Female Secondary School Teachers In Johor, Mohammad Fadzly Marzuki

Student Works (2020-2029)

Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of multiple risk factors, is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and certain cancers. Poor health behaviours such as poor dietary intake and physical activities are known risk factors of metabolic syndrome. However, very little is known if the social determinants of health throughout the life�course are associated with metabolic syndrome. The study aimed to explore the association between life-course social determinants of health and metabolic syndrome. The cross-sectional study involved female secondary school teachers living in the state of Johor, Malaysia. The study used available data from the Clustering of Lifestyle risk …

Artisanal Mining Impacts In Urbanized Semi-Arid Environments: Lessons From Historic Arsenic Mining Near San Diego, California, James A. Wright

Theses

Anomalously elevated arsenic concentrations occur at an abandoned artisanal mine site in an open space recreational park in urban San Diego County, California. Although mining at the site ceased 100 years ago little to no remediation efforts took place leaving shafts, adits, waste piles and derelict infrastructure accessible by inquisitive hikers and adventurers frequenting Black Mountain Open Space Park. This study evaluates the geochemical mechanisms of As transport downgradient from the mine and examines the contribution of both climate and urbanization on the restriction of As mobility. Sediment As concentrations reach 2,320 mg/kg (483 times background crustal concentrations; n=73) along …

2021 Usd Fact Book, University Of San Diego

USD Fact Books (1985- )

No abstract provided.

Usd President's Report 2021 Financial Operations, University Of San Diego

President's Reports (1985- )

Dear Toreros, President's Report 2020-21 Financial Operations, Giving to the University, Leadership

The Ties That Bind: What Pauli Murray Teaches Us About Race, Family, Slavery, And Inequality, Jessica Dixon Weaver

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Pauli Murray is an unsung American hero. The modern-day understanding of equality and the legal arguments used to obtain it for various groups including African Americans, women, and the LGBTQ community were the brainchild of Pauli Murray. This essay illustrates how Dr. Murray’s family history is emblematic of the struggle for racial justice and equality in America. The pain and tenacity of her ancestors shaped her destiny and spurred her activism. Her family experiences illuminate the many ways that the foothold of structural racism began with placing insurmountable legal barriers between Black men, women, and children as a family unit. …