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The Status Of Utah Hispanic Or Latina Women, Jessica C. Hill, Marin Christensen, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

In 2021, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute published a databook on race, ethnicity, and sex, and since that time related dialogues have become more common. According to these data, Utah is becoming increasingly diverse, which has brought wide disparities between most minority groups and the White population in terms of education, housing, and health outcomes.¹ To continue this important conversation, the Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) is expanding and deepening this research by publishing a series of research snapshots on Utah women of color. Often, research entities publish data on gender and race separately, leaving a gap …

Authenticity Without Belief In Western Tibetan Buddhist Practice, Hannah Sharp-Wang

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a study of Tibetan Buddhism as practiced by adult converts in Utah. Semiotic ideology is a thread throughout the paper that functions as an explanatory mechanism for describing the ontological variations between beginning and seasoned practitioners. I show examples of clashing semiotic ideologies that demonstrate differing assumptions in understanding of how the world operates. In Chapter 2, I explore the concept of interiority and the taken for granted assumptions of religiosity in the West. The tensions introduced in Chapter 2 are addressed in Chapter 3, which explores how practitioners resolve concerns about authenticity through reliance on their …

Social Work Advocacy In Federal Immigration Courts: A Consultant’S Reflection On Successful Cases, Luis H. Zayas

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Advocacy for immigrant families undertaken by social workers, attorneys, and other supporters to protect against deportation, detention, and unfair government policies occurs mostly in immigration and federal courts. Social workers bring unique knowledge and skills that enhance legal teams’ representation of immigrants. This paper provides case illustrations of social work’s contribution in three types of legal actions. One illustration from immigration court demonstrates the social work consultant’s role in cancellation of removal cases when undocumented immigrants have US-citizen children. A second case is a federal class-action lawsuit to end the detention of asylum-seeking families. The third case was a federal …

The Inequalities Of Innovation, Colleen Chien

Faculty Publications

Over the last few decades, the United States has become more innovative, but the gains have been distributed unequally. In 2020, over 50% of new U.S. patents went to the top 1% of patentees, and more than 50% of all patents of U.S. origin were generated by just five states, all coastal. Less than 13% of inventors were women. The economic, geographic, and demographic concentration of innovation highlight how the intersections between two traditionally discrete topics—innovation and inequality—have become increasingly relevant. But rather than any single inequality, this Article argues, multiple inequalities—of income, opportunity, and access—have relevance to innovation. Examining …

Working Paper No. 55, An Inquiry Into The Assumptions And Tenets Of Neoclassical Economics That Lead Towards Income Inequality, Katharine Nester

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that key assumptions foundational to Neoclassical Economics contribute towards income inequality. A consideration of the Neoclassical interpretation and assumptions of the laissez-faire approach to market economies opens the inquiry. I examine the economic outcomes that result when the assumptions underpinning the Neoclassical application of laissez-faire are false, as they often are in the real world. The inquiry then turns to the theories and natural “laws” as advanced by Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) and John Bates (J. B.) Clark (1847-1938), which were built upon the Neoclassical adaptation of laissez-faire and became canon in the Neoclassical school. Finally, …

It Is Time To Recognize The Rio Grande Valley As A Rising Borderland Metropolis, Rodney Gomez, Luis Guajardo, Edna Ely-Ledesma

Public Affairs and Security Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Weeds In The Wheat Crops In Tehsil Paharpur District Dera Ismail Khan, Nazish Akhtar, Samreen Afzal

Journal of Bioresource Management

Weed infestation is a serious problem for crop yield. It causes a huge yield loss. A comprehensive study to investigate the main wheat weeds within Tehsil Pharpur (Dhakki, Headbilot, Dhupsari, Malakheil, Kalapani, Laar, Rakh Bandkura) in the Dera Ismail Khan region was conducted during the 2020-21 harvest. About 21 species were collected and the weeds competed with the wheat crop for nutrients, water, and light and disrupted the wheat crop. Data was collected in a weed growth phase and a quadratic method was used. Homophobic (RD), relative frequency (RF), relative coefficient (RCC), and value index (IVI) were recorded. It was …

Hybrid And Approximate Algorithms For The Dial-A-Ride Problem With Adaptive Ride Times Considering Different Service Strategies, Sherif A. Fahmy

Faculty Journal Articles

The dial-a-ride problem (DARP) is that of satisfying a number of pickup and drop-off customer requests, using a fleet of vehicles. In real life, traffic conditions can affect expected travel times, and hence the satisfaction of rigid pickup/drop-off time windows and scheduled ride times. This article considers the DARP with customer-adaptive ride times under different service conditions and strategies. The problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model that minimizes service cost and customer inconvenience. A hybrid genetic–variable neighbourhood search algorithm (GAVNS) is proposed to solve the problem. Experiments are conducted to compare the performance of GAVNS with …

The Place Of Archaeological Studies And Historical Geography In ‎Contemporary Interpretations, Tahereh Sadat Tabataba’I Amin

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Since Allah sometimes speaks of the location of historical stories in the verses of the Qur'an, understanding some of these verses requires historical ‌archaeological and geographical studies. The advancement of science in the new age and the existence of spiritual crises due to the distance from religion require interpreters to interpret with a scientific perspective. Social and cultural developments and the expansion of the field of science due to the relationship between the Islamic world and Western civilization have created some innovative factors that have had a profound effect on the content and style of interpretation. This is why contemporary …

Hydrological Analysis Of Groundwater In East Of Wasit Province ‎Using Geographic Information Systems (Gis)‎, Liqaa Jabbar Kaki

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study of the hydrological characteristics of groundwater in the governorate is prepared by showing the concentrations of salinity and the main elements by adopting fifteen water models collected from several sites in the governorate in different periods representing the increase and decrease of water, as the spread of saline and nitrate pollution in the groundwater in the open reservoir as well as the spread of pollution The salinity is only in the water of the confined reservoir, whether in the sediments of the Quaternary age or the reservoir of the Muqdadiya and Bey Hasan formation. The analysis models were …

Waste Of The Pure Water Used To Irrigate Green Areas In The City Of ‎Al Kut In 2015:‎ A Field Study, Hameda Kadem Zgair

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abstract

This study focused on the use of pure water for irrigation of green areas in the city of Al-Kut, which is intended for human use and not for watering green areas. The study included the percentage share of pure water in the city of Al-Kut in 2015. It was 421 liters / day, which is close to the standard quota per capita in the governorate center, which is 450 liters / day, but after the waste of pure water by several reasons, the per capita share in the city decreased to 324 liters / day. The study also included …

Cultural Diversity And The Alternate History In Kim Newman’S Novel ‎Anno Dracula, Tatheer Assim Faiq

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The paper offers a new insight into the global perception of vampirism as cultural diversity tradition lens in the British writer Kim Newman’s novel Anno Dracula, published in 1992. The historical allusions throughout the novel presents the discourse of intercultural concepts that does not only speak to the Western Dracula tradition and the 19^th Century English historical setting but also to our own 21^st Century with its multicultural emerging societal relations. In a politically charged destruction of a fictional setting, the writer shows a kind of prevailing evil that defies the existence of mankind. The paper presents …

Spatial Variation Of Large-Scale Industries In Diyala Governorate For 2019‎, May Thamer Ragab

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify the large-sized industries in the province of Diyala and their spatial distribution to the administrative units, as well as to know the important locational factors that contributed to signing them in their current locations. Hence the question is: Have the large-sized industries in Diyala province invested all the potentials available for the activity? Is there a discrepancy in the distribution of large-sized industries at the level of the districts of Diyala Governorate? And that their investment was not efficient and was not distributed in a balanced and fair manner in the districts of the governorate, …

The Effect Of The Interaction Between The Two Infographic Types ‎And The Cognitive Style And Their Impact On Developing The ‎Cognitive And Performance Aspects Of Digital Graphics Design ‎Skills And Motivation Towards Them Among Students Of ‎Educational Technology At The University Of Jeddah, Hosam Abdulhameed Althibyani, Nabeel Alsayid

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The current research aims to investigate the effect of the interaction between the two types of infographics in terms of presentation and cognitive style in developing digital graphics design skills and motivation towards it among undergraduate students in the Department of Educational Technology, College of Education, University of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. To achieve this, the experimental method was used and the study sample consisted of (109) students, who were divided into four experimental groups according to the cognitive style and the infographic technique used in education. The research reached a number of results. The most important of which are: the …

Assessing L2 Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (Eca) Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence, Ahmed Said Mohammed Elgebaly

Theses and Dissertations

This study assesses L2 Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) Learners' Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC). The study participants were 19 L2 (ECA) learners who completed one semester at least in Egypt. The participants were only from two proficiency levels; the advanced and high-intermediate levels. The current study used a mixed methodological approach for data collection, beginning with an ICC test and concluding with a series of follow-up semi-structured interviews with ten participants. The ICC test employed in the current study was created based on a model that includes ten features of the ICC. The current study's findings revealed that although high-intermediate learners …

Critical Corridor: Survey Of Predator Occurrence And Habitat Use In A Threatened Rainforest Protected Area: Comatsa-Sud And Marojejy National Park, Madagascar, Patrick H. Ross

Theses

Madagascar is a nation praised for its floral and faunal endemism and biodiversity. Among the island nation’s most emblematic fauna are its native mammalian carnivores; they are members of the threatened and endemic Eupleridae family. The Corridor of Marojejy – Anjanaharibe Sud – Tsaratanana (COMATSA) is a system of forest protected areas in which three large protected areas are connected in northern Madagascar: Tsaratanana Reserve, Anjanaharibe Sud Special Reserve and Marojejy National Park which is also a UNESCO World Heritage site. COMATSA is a newly protected and currently threatened corridor system that lacks detailed surveys and assessments of its native …

The Burden Of Short-Term Major Adverse Cardiac Events And Its Determinants After Emergency Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization: A Prospective Follow-Up Study, Rajesh Kumar, Jehangir Ali Shah, Bashir Ahmed Solangi, Ali Ammar, Mukesh Kumar, Naveedullah Khan, Jawaid Akbar Sial, Tahir Saghir, Nadeem Qamar, Musa Karim

Journal of the Saudi Heart Association

Objectives: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remains recommended reperfusion therapy for patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction. This study aimed to evaluate the short-term major adverse cardiac events (MACE) and their determinants among patients who underwent primary PCI at a tertiary care cardiac center of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: A cohort of patients who underwent primary PCI were followed for the MACE. Multivariable Cox-regression analysis was performed with backward conditional variable selection and hazard ratio (HR) along with 95% confidence interval (CI) were obtained. Results: A total of 1150 patients were included, of which follow-up was successful in 95.8% (1102) and …

Enterprise Access Policies Utilizing 3gpp Operator Barring, Timothy P. Stammers, Bhavik Adhvaryu, Irfan Ali

Defensive Publications Series

Enterprises wish to provide access policies for private cellular networks that are tailored to a building's use. In support of such an enterprise use case, techniques are presented herein that apply 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) approaches for geographies, tracking areas, and access barring in innovative ways to realize a standards-compliant solution. Aspects of the presented techniques encompass novel floor-centric policies, whereby an enterprise may maintain a mapping of tracking areas to the floors of a building such that a floor may be uniquely determined by an association with one or more tracking areas. Under further aspects of the presented …

Advancing Open Science At Florida State University Libraries, Renaine Julian, Nicholas Ruhs

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

No abstract provided.

تحسين الإنتاج الزراعي باعتبارات اجتماعية واقتصادية: دراسة حالة من فلسطين, Fathi Annaya

Palestine Technical University Research Journal

Agriculture is not only the main source of income to most Palestinian families; it is also the link to connect them to their valuable land and water resources. Farmers seek assistance from agronomists and decision makers to cultivatethe proper products. In this study, the best selection of agricultural crops is addressed in the multiple-objective context. The study deals with three conflicting objective functions: net benefit, agricultural production, and labor employment. Four-stageprocedure is adopted combining multiple-objective optimization, simple valuation methods, cluster analysis, and multiple criteria decisions making (MCDM) methods. Pareto optimal curves are used to evaluate the marginal prices of both …

American Textbooks 1700-1820, Rolland Mcgiverin

Library Faculty and Staff

No abstract provided.

Wang Xitian And The Chinese Experience In Imperial Tokyo, 1899-1923: Class, Violence, And The Formation Of A New National Consciousness, Isabella Yihan Yang

Student Work

A 2021-2022 Williams Prize for best essay in East Asian Studies was awarded to Isabella Yang (Saybrook ‘22) for her essay submitted to the Department of History, "Wang Xitian and the Chinese Experience in Imperial Tokyo, 1899-1923: Class, Violence, and the Formation of a New National Consciousness” (Daniel Botsman, Professor of History, advisor).

Drawing upon a remarkable array of sources in Japanese, Chinese and English, Isabella Yang, in her thesis “Wang Xitian and the Chinese Experience in Imperial Tokyo, 1899-1923: Class, Violence, and the Formation of a New National Consciousness,” has crafted a genuinely path-breaking account of an aspect of …

Same Game, Different Rules: Pointillist Imperialism And The New Cartography Of Great Power Competition, Andrew Jesse Shaughnessy

Dissertations and Theses

For centuries, "Great Powers" competed for global hegemony not only through building up military strength and amassing wealth, but through the formal acquisition of distant lands, conquered and folded into their borders. Today, core states continue to vie for global power, but no longer exert formal control or sovereignty over less powerful states. So how has the nature of great power competition in peripheral states changed? Most scholars studying great power competition measure power in terms of military and economic resources, often failing to account for a third, crucial dimension in international power politics: the impact of distributed networks of …

An Absence Of Elephants In The Room: Religion, Philosophy, And Negative Numbers In Albert Girard’S A New Discovery In Algebra, Ethan Wilmes

Lawrence University Honors Projects

In early seventeenth-century Europe, the lines separating theology, science, and humanism were thin; what the modern reader understands as three distinct spheres of knowledge considerably overlapped with one another. Scientific discoveries and innovations coming from new technologies and foreign lands were laden with implications about theology and the human condition. While bland to all but the most fringe historians of mathematics today, the discovery of negative numbers led to a passionate and occasionally fierce epistemological debate throughout Europe. Falling outside of traditional mathematical knowledge, negative numbers found themselves in a sort of existential limbo; however useful they proved themselves to …

Association Of Medicaid Expansion With Emergency Department Visits By Medical Urgency, Theodoros V. Giannouchos, Benjamin Ukert, Christina Andrews Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

Importance Relatively little is known about the association of the Medicaid eligibility expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act with emergency department (ED) visits categorized by medical urgency.

Objective To estimate the association between state Medicaid expansions and ED visits by the urgency of presenting conditions.

Design, Setting, and Participants This cross-sectional study used the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Emergency Department Databases from January 2011 to December 2017 for 2 states that expanded Medicaid in 2014 (New York and Massachusetts) and 2 states that did not (Florida and Georgia). Difference-in-differences regression models were used to estimate …

About The Contributors, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.

Doing Ethnography To Connect, Exchange, And Impact, Brian A. Hoey

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.

Creating Healthy Community In The Postindustrial City, Brian A. Hoey

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.

About The Contributors, Journal Editors

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

No abstract provided.

The Art Of Teaching Anthropology: Examples From Biological Anthropology, Susan Kirkpatrick Smith, Laura D. Lund, Marilyn R. London

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Teaching in a college or university setting has many challenges, including often-inadequate preparation in graduate school and the requirement to develop new courses, often in a short period of time. Anthropology faculty are at a particular disadvantage because anthropology lacks any discipline-specific journals for the publication of articles on the scholarship of teaching and learning. Many anthropology faculty desire to have more resources available for course and assignment development. In this chapter, we present several examples of course syllabi, class activities, and a sample student paper that faculty can use as they develop or revise anthropology courses.