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Strategies For Cryptocurrency Adoption In Contemporary Businesses, Jacqueline Rodriguez

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Millions of Bitcoin transactions occur daily, worth nearly $2 billion annually. With the proliferation of cryptocurrency markets, the reluctance to adopt the currency as an alternate payment method could cause businesses to forgo growth opportunities within this expanding market. Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory, the purpose of this qualitative multiple-case study was to explore strategies business leaders use to respond to the alternative payment concerns perpetuated by cryptocurrency markets. The participants comprised 6 business leaders who effectively employed cryptocurrency adoption strategies. Data were collected through semistructured interviews, corporate documents, and other company social media resources. Thematic analysis of …

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Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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A Tale Of Four Departments: Interdisciplinary Faculty Learning Communities Informing Mathematics Education, Bryan D. Poole, Caroline Maher-Boulis, John Hearn, Jason Robinson, Patricia Mcclung, Amanda Jones

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

As a result of the Curriculum Foundations Project and the SUMMIT-P consortium, faculty from four different departments at Lee University created a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) with the goal of improving students’ attitudes toward undergraduate mathematics courses, including students’ perception of the utility of mathematics in their lives and the feelings of anxiety that they experience in these courses. The interdisciplinary collaborations resulted in introducing novel activities and manipulatives in various mathematics courses (Introduction to Statistics, Concepts of Mathematics I and II, and Algebra for Calculus). This paper first describes the efforts of creating the inter-departmental FLC. Second, it discusses …

[Fall] Leyendas: Creepy Creatures And Other Lore, Raquel Estrada, William Flores

Library Display Posters

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Recasting Paul As A Chauvinist Within The Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications For The Authorship Debate On 1 Corinthians 14.34-35, Joseph A. P. Wilson

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

The mandate for women’s silence in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 is an incongruity within Paul’s undisputed writings. Critical scholars expressed doubts about these verses’ authorship beginning in the nineteenth century. The consensus of egalitarian Paulists today is that vv.34-35 are not Paul’s sentiments. Disagreements about circumstances beyond this fact remain unresolved. Supporters of the quotation/refutation (“Q/R”) hypothesis argue that Paul quoted a letter from Corinth in vv.34-35 and refuted it in v.36. Supporters of the interpolation hypothesis regard the passage as a marginal gloss by a later author, inserted at one of two locations (after v.33 or v.40). The present work …

Analyzing Factors That Contribute To Attrition Of Underrepresented Undergraduate Students In Computer Science, Noura Albarakati

Open Access Dissertations

In recent years, women and underrepresented minority students have made significant advances in traditionally White male-dominated majors. Nevertheless, they are still underrepresented in most STEM majors. Consequently, many institutions in Higher Education are exploring ways to deliver environments that support those underrepresented students’ retention in science and engineering. This study sheds some light on women and minority students’ underrepresentation in computer science by exploring factors associated with their retention in the field.

This dissertation starts with an exploratory analysis that examines the attrition rate of underrepresented students who switched to other majors compared to their majority peers and investigates any …

The Effect Of Climate Change, Human Activity, And Water Management Interventions On Environmental And Socio-Economic Outcomes In The Mekong Delta Region, Huynh Truong Gia Nguyen

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

The Vietnam Mekong Delta (VMD) is the southernmost part of the Mekong River watershed basin and plays a critical role in Vietnam’s socio-economic and ecological wellbeing. Because of both climate change and anthropogenic activities, such as hydropower dam construction and overwhelming water extraction, the area has recently experienced severe droughts, changing rainfall patterns, and decreasing water resources, collectively heightening disaster risks. Understanding the interactions among these evolving factors is key to preserving resources in the VMD and similarly afflicted regions. Therefore, this dissertation included three objectives. The first objective was to estimate potential impacts of changes in the available water …

Define “Learning Engineering” With The Trap Framework, Ke Zhang, Meina Zhu

Administrative and Organizational Studies

While the term “learning engineering” was first coined by Herbert [1]; it is becoming more salient recently. But there is not a commonly shared understanding of learning engineering as a professional or an academic field. Thus, we explored a range of resources, including scholarly publications and discussions, websites and initiatives of selected professional organizations, resources from related USA government and agencies, recent job posts and learning engineering degree programs to find relevant rhetoric, descriptions, curricula, task forces and other resources on learning engineering. Based on a critical synthesis of the above-mentioned materials, we argue that learning engineering is an emerging …

Comparison Of Chinese And Western Arts Mirroring The Evolvement Of Consciousness, Rui Peng

Journal of Conscious Evolution

A few researchers of consciousness in the West demonstrate that the development of western art mirrors the evolvement of human Consciousness since human civilization emerged. This paper explores the differences in art development between China and the West by comparing the artworks in the same era. Furthermore, discussing why the Chinese scholar art over two thousand years does not reflect the same structures of Consciousness that western researchers defined.

The Subsistence Economy In Urban Mayapán : Sustainability And Resiliency Through Diversity, Caroline Elizabeth Antonelli

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Agrarian states are often viewed as premodern manifestations of complex urbanism, with environmental constraints limiting growth and their sustainability. Pre-Columbian states in the Northern Maya Lowlands were one context where these conditions were thought to apply. However, despite environmental constraints such as a scrub forest, periodic droughts and hurricanes, and an uneven distribution of resources, civilization flourished. Critical to the success of these states were social and economic institutions that supported highly effective landscape management strategies. The impact of these systems is still apparent today.Multiscalar approaches are critical to understanding the complex structures of subsistence economies in premodern urban places. …

First-Year College Students' Perceptions Of Writing And Writing Instruction Across High School To College Transitions, Laura Dacus

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Over the past few decades, standards-based educational reforms in the U.S. have sought to enhance students’ college and career readiness. The most recent wave of such reforms has emphasized writing as an essential aspect of college readiness and a 21st century skill necessary for success in the workplace. A common feature of these conversations concerning college writing readiness is a prevailing sense that high school graduates are underprepared for postsecondary literacy demands and, relatedly, that standards-based instruction is the key to bridging this “gap.” Compared to the number of studies that focus on writing at either the secondary or postsecondary …

Spatial Geochemical Changes In Central And East Texas Soils Over Time Resulting From Human Decomposition, Isabela Marisol Overturf

CMC Senior Theses

Human decomposition is studied to aid forensic investigations and better understand the impact of cemeteries on urban resources like soil and groundwater. The purpose of this study was to identify changes in soil geochemistry at and around a human grave to search for lateral nutrient movement and possibly identify new patterns in elemental concentrations that could be used in estimating post-mortem intervals (PMIs). At the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) at Texas State San Marcos, soil samples were collected from a shallow grave over the course of 54 days to conduct analysis for organic matter content, texture, pH, and bulk …

Finding Jesus In The Storm: The Spiritual Lives Of Christians With Mental Health Challenges, Jeffrey Tabone

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Jeffrey Tabone reviews Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges by John Swinton, published by Eerdmans, 2020.

Bargaining For Abolition, Zohra Ahmed

Fordham Law Review

What if instead of seeing criminal court as an institution driven by the operation of rules, we saw it as a workplace where people labor to criminalize those with the misfortune to be prosecuted? Early observers of twentieth century urban criminal courts likened them to factories. Since then, commentators often deploy the pejorative epithet “assembly line justice” to describe criminal court’s processes. The term conveys the criticism of a mechanical system delivering a form of justice that is impersonal and fallible. Perhaps unintentionally, the epithet reveals another truth: criminal court is also a workplace, and it takes labor to keep …

Dislike: Facebook's Anticompetitive Monopoly On Social Media And Why U.S. Antitrust Laws Must Adapt To The Technological Era, Elizabeth I. Nielson

SMU Law Review Forum

Although Facebook started as a way to connect with college classmates, it has grown into one of the largest technology companies in the world. Facebook is no longer solely a way to connect with classmates. Instead, it is the powerhouse of social networks and dominates the online advertising business. Facebook has grown at an unprecedented rate—acquiring businesses and gathering users’ privacy along the way—partially because of the failure of U.S. antitrust laws to adequately protect against anticompetitive and monopolistic behavior in the technological arena.

Historically, antitrust laws have used the consumer welfare standard to determine if entities are engaging in …

Synthesis, Characterization, Computational Analyses, In Silico Admet Studies, And Inhibitory Action Against Sars-Cov-2 Main Protease (Mpro) Of A Schiff Base, Songül Şahi̇n, Necmi̇ Dege

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

COVID-19 disease caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has struck the whole world and raised severe health, economic, and social problems. Many scientists struggled to find a vaccine or an antiviral drug. Eventually, both vaccines and recommended drugs, repurposed drugs, or drug combinations were found, but new strains of SARS-CoV-2 continue to threaten human life and health. As part of the fight against COVID-19 disease, this study involves an in silico molecular docking analysis on the main protease (Mpro) of SARS-CoV-2. To this aim, a Schiff base compound was synthesized and characterized using spectroscopic techniques, including X-ray, …

Are Teachers Still The Problem? An Analysis Of The Nsw Education What Works Best Documents, Brad A. Fuller

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

: This paper interrogates Stacey’s assertion that New South Wales (NSW) education policy is underpinned by a ‘particular instance of neoliberalisation’ which has significant ‘direct and material impacts’ on teachers. It examines the role Evidence-based Practice can play in the neoliberalist reform of education globally and analyses the Centre for Education Statistics and Evaluation’s What Works Best documents. The paper asserts that the character of education policy in NSW is consistent with the wider Global Education Reform Movement and continues to exhibit and extend the neoliberalist tendencies identified by Stacey. Furthermore, it claims that, through a collection of neoliberalist devices, …

Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About Motivating Students To Learn Science, Davis Jean-Baptiste, Damian Maher

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

Motivation in science learning is important, given increasing necessity for scientific and critical literacy. The purpose of this article is to examine secondary science pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) beliefs about motivating students to learn science. A mixed method study was conducted with 73 secondary science PSTs across Australia. A web-based survey and interviews were used to gather data. Turner et al.’s motivation theory (2011) is used as a framework to analyse the data. The findings indicate that the PSTs believed that competence, belongingness, and meaningful learning were factors involved in motivating students. These findings are critical as they are relevant to …

The Difference Is In The Details: Attachment And Cross-Species Parenting In The United States And India, Shelly Volsche, Rijita Mukherjee, Madhavi Rangaswamy

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The purpose of the current research was to explore changes in Indian attitudes and practices with pet dogs and cats and compare them with responses from the United States. Pet parenting, defined as the investment of money, emotion, and time in companion animals, is a form of alloparental care (care given by someone other than the offspring’s biological parents). Pet parenting appears to emerge in cultures that (1) demonstrate high rates of urbanization, (2) have declining total fertility rates (average births per woman), and (3) support life orientations beyond reproduction (collectively called the second demographic transition). A total of 1,417 …

Embodied Reminders And Well-Being Among Breast Cancer Survivors: Examining The Influence Of Feminine Gender Role Orientation, Biographical Disruption, And Body Image, Andriana Frost

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality for women around the world, but despite the significant prevalence of the disease, research has shown that survival rates continue to improve globally. The present study utilized a cross-sectional design involving 108 women who were diagnosed with and completed treatment for breast cancer. Participants completed questionnaires that assessed their embodied reminders of their cancer treatment (e.g., scars, burns, hair loss), gender role orientation, self-narrative, mental health, and general well-being. Eight moderated mediation models were applied to test the hypothesis that women who identified as more feminine would experience greater biographical disruption …

Pennsylvania Game Commission's Public Management Of The Pa Common Pool Resource White-Tailed Deer Herd, Matthew Frankel

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

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The white-tailed deer herd of Pennsylvania is a common pool resource. Effective management of this resource is important as the herd impacts many facets of everyday life in the Commonwealth and is an essential part of Pennsylvania’s ecosystem. Responsibility for management of the resource rests with the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC). The purpose of this study was to consider the efficacy and fidelity of the PGC’s methods of managing the herd through the allocation of antlerless hunting permits. Additionally, this study considered whether current herd management tactics resulted in an optimal herd allocation among wildlife management units (WMUs).

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Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, June 16, 2022, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

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Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, February 17, 2022, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

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Post & Lintel, Fall 2022, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

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การโหยหาอดีตและการประกอบสร้างความทรงจำร่วมในแนวเพลงซินธ์ป๊อปของโพลีแคท และ วรันธร เปานิล, สุพิชญา คำเขียน

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์เรื่องนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษากลวิธีการนำเสนอการโหยหาอดีต และ วิเคราะห์การประกอบสร้างความทรงจำร่วมจากแนวเพลงซินธ์ป๊อปของศิลปินโพลีแคท และ วรันธร เปานิล ผู้วิจัยใช้วิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ โดยวิเคราะห์ตัวบทจาก ผลงานเพลงของทั้งสองศิลปินจากแพลตฟอร์มออนไลน์ และเอกสารที่เกี่ยวข้องกับกระบวนการสร้างสรรค์ ร่วมกับการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึก ผู้ประพันธ์เพลง แฟนเพลง และผู้เชี่ยวชาญที่ให้มุมมองวิชาการในด้านดนตรีศึกษากับมิติเชิงสังคม รวมทั้งสิ้น 23 คน ผลการวิจัยพบว่า การโหยหาอดีตในแนวเพลงซินธ์ป๊อปของทั้งสองศิลปิน มีกลวิธีในการนำเสนอผ่านองค์ประกอบต่าง ๆ ของเพลง ได้แก่ เนื้อเพลง (Lyrics) คีตประพันธ์ (Form) จังหวะ (Tempo) และ สีสันของเสียง (Tone color) โดยภาพรวมของผลงานเพลงทั้งหมด มุ่งถ่ายทอดเนื้อหาผ่าน 2 ประเด็นหลัก ได้แก่ มุมมองเกี่ยวกับเรื่องความรัก และ ช่วงเวลาสำคัญของชีวิต แฟนเพลงสามารถเชื่อมโยงการโหยหาอดีตที่เกิดขึ้นในระดับปัจเจกบุคคล ได้จากตัวแปรสำคัญ คือ ประสบการณ์การใช้ชีวิต (Live experience) ซึ่งสัมพันธ์กับอารมณ์และความรู้สึก (Emotional and feeling) ที่เกิดขึ้นระหว่างการฟังเพลงนั้นในอดีตเป็นหลัก สำหรับองค์ประกอบของคีตประพันธ์พบว่า โครงสร้างของเพลงแบบ ABC ที่มีการวนซ้ำในตำแหน่งครอรัสของเพลง เป็นแบบแผนที่เสริมให้เพลงซินธ์ป๊อปเกิดท่อนที่จดจำ และแฟนเพลงสามารถเชื่อมโยงเนื้อหาผ่านเพลงกับเรื่องราวของอดีตของตนเองได้ ในส่วนของสีสันของเสียง พบว่า ซินธิไซเซอร์ เป็นเครื่องดนตรีหลักที่ส่งเสริมอัตลักษณ์ (Identity) ของแนวเพลงเป็นซินธ์ป๊อปให้แฟนเพลงสามารถเชื่อมโยงกับเสน่ห์ในยุค 80s อาทิ สภาพสังคมความเป็นอยู่ หรือ แฟชั่นเครื่องแต่งกาย ที่ได้รับความนิยมในยุคนั้น และองค์ประกอบส่วนของจังหวะ เป็นตัวแปรสำคัญในการส่งเสริมอารมณ์เพลง ให้ผู้ฟังสามารถเลือกเชื่อมโยงความรู้สึกจากประสบการณ์อดีตที่เกิดขึ้นได้แตกต่างกันตามบุคคล เมื่อพิจารณาการสื่อสารเนื้อหาเกี่ยวกับการโหยหาอดีตผ่านเพลง กล่าวโดยสรุปได้ว่า ในมุมของศิลปิน อาศัยกระบวนการในการการถ่ายทอดแรงบันดาลใจร่วมกับ การนำเสนอเอกลักษณ์ของความเก่าคลาสสิค แบบ 80s ที่สะท้อนผ่านตัวตนของตนเอง ในขณะเดียวกับแฟนเพลงสามารถรับรู้และเชื่อมโยงเอกลักษณ์นั้น ร่วมกับประสบการณ์ส่วนตัวอันนำไปสู่การโหยหาอดีตจากแนวเพลงซินธ์ป๊อปได้ และสำหรับการประกอบสร้างความทรงจำร่วม ผู้วิจัยทำการวิเคราะห์ตัวบทผ่านสื่อคอนเสิร์ต ซึ่งเป็นเหตุการณ์ (Event) ที่มีร่วมกันระหว่างศิลปินและแฟนเพลง พบว่า ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลให้เกิดความทรงจำร่วมผ่านเพลงซินธ์ป๊อปของโพลีแคท และ วรันธร เปานิล ประกอบไปด้วย 1) ประสบการณ์ส่วนตัว 2) รสนิยมในการฟังเพลง (Personal …

Bissu’S Transvestites In The Buginese-Makassar Tradition Through The Transformation Of Faisal Oddang’S Literary Works: An Intertextuality Study, Saharul Hariyono, Nurhadi Bewe

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Writer Faisal Oddang narrated the existence of the bissu community seemingly reconstructed from an understanding of the historical text to become more colorful. This article questions how the transformation model of bissu community figures is revealed in Oddang’s fictional work. This study utilizes Julia Kristeva’s intertext abstracted through ideologeme as a text arrangement that refers to the space of exterior texts (semiotic practice). The results of the study show: first, how the transformation model of the bissu community character appears in the work of fiction; second, the libido of bissu community in their sacred place; third, the bissu community character …

The Double-Edged Sword Of Mandarin : Language Shift And Cultural Maintenance Among Middle-Aged Chinese-Malaysians, Teresa Wai See Ong, Robert A. Troyer

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Previous research has demonstrated that the increasing importance of Mandarin in education and public life has led many younger Chinese-Malaysians to regard Mandarin as their mother tongue and part of their cultural identity rather than a heritage language. Fewer studies have documented the language repertoires of middle-aged and older Chinese-Malaysians. This paper presents a qualitative study of Mandarin use conducted with six Chinese-Malaysians aged 40 and older. The participants reported extensive use of Mandarin in the domains of home, work, religion, and cultural maintenance, which were served by a heritage language in the past. This indicates that the use of …

A New Species Of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes, Elapidae, Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) From Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, Jackson R. Roberts, Bulisa Iova, Christopher C. Austin

Faculty Publications

We describe a new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Elapidae: Toxicocalamus) from a specimen in the reptile collection of the Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery. Toxicocalamus longhagen sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from other species of this genus by the presence of paired subcaudals, a preocular scale unfused from the prefrontal scale, a prefrontal distinct from the internasal scale that contacts the supralabials, a single large posterior temporal and two postocular scales. The new taxon is currently known only from one specimen, which was collected from Mt. Hagen Town in Western Highlands Province, Papua New …

Gis-Automated Delineation Of Hospital Service Areas In Florida: From Dartmouth Method To Network Community Detection Methods, Changzhen Wang, Fahui Wang

Faculty Publications

Since the Dartmouth Hospital Service Areas (HSAs) were proposed three decades ago, there has been a large body of work using the unit in examining the geographic variation in health care in the U.S. for evaluating health care system performance and informing health policy. However, many studies question the replicability and reliability of the Dartmouth HSAs in meeting the challenges of an ever-changing and a diverse set of health care services. This research develops a reproducible, automated, and efficient GIS tool to implement Dartmouth method for defining HSAs. Moreover, the research adapts two popular network community detection methods to account …

Linguistic Expressions Of Pidgin In Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy, Jimoh Junior Braimoh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation is a study of the comics’ lexical choices and how they achieve their goals with words. The comics’ choice of words is far from being incidental, superficial, or supplementary. Performers’ choices of words show how their ideas are embodied in language. That is to say, the effect of how a comedian uses words and humor strategies is vital for understanding the contextual meaning of jokes and how they appeal to logic and reason. The objectives are to identify and categorize lexical choices and interpret their denotative, connotative, and affective meanings. Based on the Incongruity Theory (Attardo, 1994) Data …