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Development Of The Ukrainian Orthodoxy In The Conditions Of The Revanchist Policy Of The Russian Federation Against Ukraine, Yuriy Figurnyi, Oksana Semenova, Liubov Otroshko, Оlнa Shakurova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article analyzes the development of Ukrainian Orthodoxy in the context of the revenge policy of Russia against Ukraine at the turn of the 21st century. It is discovered that almost a quarter of a century of inactivity of the Ukrainian authorities and active anti-Ukrainian and anti-state actions of the Russian Orthodox Church and its Little-Russian branch the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate contributed to their introduction into the Ukrainian humanitarian space of fundamental ideas, dogmas, and postulates of the “Russian World,” which subsequently led to the occupation by Russia of Crimea and parts of Donbas and the …

Repressive Psychiatry As A Means Of Combating Religious Dissidents In The Soviet Union, Oksana Vysoven, Nina Brehunets, Tetyana Lohvynyuk

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article highlights the impossibility of the coexistence of modern civilization in conditions of impunity for crimes against humanity, which have no statute of limitations, but due to the lack of punishment and concealment of information it creates even greater crimes. Many of the unjustly convicted political prisoners have been rehabilitated since the condemnation of Stalin's cult of personality and his crimes in Soviet Ukraine since 1956. As a result of the mass rehabilitation of political prisoners, the regime gained serious opposition, some of whom сonsisted of evangelical Baptist communities who advocated genuine freedom of conscience. The Soviet regime used …

Using Social Annotation To Enhance Student Engagement In Psychology Courses, Julie Lazzara, Virginia Clinton-Lisell

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

Increasing engagement in asynchronous online courses is a goal for many college instructors. While discussion boards have been used in the past, social annotation is an alternative that may have multiple benefits for instructors and students. Students from an introductory psychology course (two sections) and a developmental psychology course (one section) used Perusall for social annotation with open educational resources. Over the semester, on average, students submitted quality annotations and more than what was required. Students also reported predominantly favorable perceptions of social annotation via a survey using both Likert scale and open-ended items. These findings are suggestive of student …

“Intended Between A Man And A Woman”: Examining The Lgbtq Campus Climate Of A Non-Affirming Free Methodist University, Justin Cospito

Industrial-Organizational Psychology Dissertations

Objective: The purpose of this is research is to further LGBTQ-related research in the education space by examining the LGBTQ college campus climate of Seattle Pacific University (SPU), a non-affirming religiously affiliated university and Denominational Institution of the Free Methodist Church. SPU has recently come into the national spotlight for its non-affirming stance on LGBTQ issues, specifically its controversial hiring policy banning employees from having sexual intercourse with the same gender. This study hypothesizes that perceptions of the LGBTQ climate at SPU will be related to campus satisfaction for students who identify as sexual minorities as well as sexual majorities. …

Unwavering Support And Relentless Fear: A Narrative Inquiry Into How Mothers Of Adult Children Who Are Registered As Sex Offenders In Florida Experience The Sex Offender Registry, Rules, And Laws, Shelley Kavanagh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Sex Offender Registry and Notification (SORN) and Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (SORR) laws and policies were developed and implemented with the intention of keeping communities and children safe, however many studies illustrate that these policies are in fact resulting in negative consequences for registrants and their families. All the existing studies focused on both registrants and family members, in most cases, spouses. A gap in the literature about the possible impacts on mothers of adult registrants was identified. Further, there was a lack of qualitative research, which, in highlighting the lived experiences and stories of mothers, is powerful and can …

Two Essays On Peer Effects And Diversity Within The Boardroom, Jason Damm

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

In this manuscript, I present two essays which examine the role of diversity within the corporate boardroom. The first essay determines that board compensation practices at competing firms influence the remuneration arrangements of directors. Consistent with the observational learning perspective, directors mimic the behavior of peer firms in setting their own compensation, but that diversity, in the form of gender, race/ethnicity, education, and experience moderates this relationship. Diversity also leads to better board performance measured through its impact on excess CEO compensation and CEO turnover sensitivity. In the second essay, I document the presence of peer influence in diversity hires. …

Embedding Learning For Complex Dynamic Information Networks, Man Wu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

With the rapid development of networking platforms and data intensive applications, networks (or graphs) are becoming convenient and fundamental tools to model the complex inter-dependence among big scale data. As a result, networks (or graphs) are being widely used in many applications, including citation networks [40], social media networks [71], and so on. However, the high complexity (containing many important information) as well as the dynamic nature of the network makes the graph learning task more difficult. To have better graph representations (capture both node content and graph structure), many research efforts have been made to develop reliable and efficient …

Establishing A Sponge Hybridoma For The In Vitro Production Of A Marine Natural Product, Cassady Dougan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Marine sponges are one of the most prolific sources of chemical compounds with pharmaceutical importance. To establish a supply of such compounds large enough for clinical development, in vitro production methodology was investigated. Since all sponge cells do not divide in culture, it was hypothesized that the fusion of rapidly dividing cells of a sponge that does not produce any compounds of interest with cells of a nondividing but compound-producing sponge would result in a hybridoma that produces the compound of interest. In this study, hybridomas have been produced with cells of two marine sponges, Axinella corrugata, which produces the …

Estimation Of The Physical Properties Of Corroding Rebar In Reinforced Concrete Using Biot-Stoll Model Inversion, Matthew Brogden

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

The detection of rebar corrosion in reinforced concrete is important due to the high costs of corrosion related damages to infrastructure. One such method of rebar corrosion lies in the use of non-destructive ultrasonic testing. To date, acoustic methods require either the training of an artificial neural network or a theory of acoustic wave propagation. Using a more complete acoustic model such as the Biot-Stoll model avoids algorithm training requirements by directly modeling the acoustic environment. A problem with this method lies in the complexity of the model and the selection of free parameters. The problem of parameter selection is …

Incorporating Emotion Recognition In Co-Adaptive Systems, Osamah M. Al-Omair

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

The collaboration between human and computer systems has grown astronomically over the past few years. The ability of software systems adapting to human's input is critical in the symbiosis of human-system co-adaptation, where human and software-based systems work together in a close partnership to achieve synergetic goals. However, it is not always clear what kinds of human’s input should be considered to enhance the effectiveness of human and system co-adaptation. To address this issue, this research describes an approach that focuses on incorporating human emotion to improve human-computer co-adaption. The key idea is to provide a formal framework that incorporates …

Justice On Demand: A Qualitative Case Study Of Virginia Artrip Snyder, Maria I. Alvarez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

This thesis is a single ethnographic qualitative case study on gender, focusing on the parallels between gender and historical inequities of social, economic, political, and power oppression. The study metaphorically examines the systolic and diastolic reading of approximately 100 years of injustices. Virginia Artrip Snyder, the subject of this study, is a woman, practitioner, and advocate. The timeframe is from the 1920s to the present. The researcher examined a variety of samples, which included Virginia's documents, files, news clippings, books, letters, community involvement, and the criminal justice system. Virginia's family donated the data to the Spady Museum in Delray, Florida, …

Last-Mile Delivery Scheduling Using Autonomous Delivery Robots, Vasileia Antonoglou

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Urban freight system constitutes an essential component for both economic and social aspects of the urban areas. However, the driving forces of globalization and ecommerce have adversely affected the volume of freight vehicles in urban roads over the past few decades impacting the sustainability and efficiency of last-mile deliveries. At the same time, the last-mile problem of goods distribution from companies to customers comprises one of the most costly and highest polluting components of the supply chain. Over the past few years, different innovative concepts of autonomous vehicles were introduced to improve last-mile logistic inefficiencies such as traffic congestion and …

Narco Corridos & Violence, John William George Robertson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

A set of informal street codes that govern inner city environments in the U.S. have been identified by scholar Elijah Anderson. Anderson’s street code has been analyzed in a variety of ways, including via rap lyrics. This analysis documented how reflective culture and the street code is within a nontraditional source - music. By researching a Mexican sub-genre of music known as narco corridos, I extend this work with a qualitative lyrical content analysis. Using a sample size of 100 narco corridos sourced via the music application Spotify, Anderson’s framework was used as a starting point to uncover themes of …

Srsf1 Is An Rna-Binding Protein That Functions As A Transcriptional Activator, Sean Paz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

Serine/Arginine splicing factor 1 (SRSF1) is an RNA-binding protein (RBP) with multiple functions in RNA biogenesis. SRSF1 plays a prominent role in oncogenesis, immune function, and response to several physiological stimuli. To date, the role of SRSF1 as a regulator of mRNA splicing has been largely considered the main mechanism driving its biological functions and its role in disease. We have now characterized SRSF1’s role in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I (HIV-1) transcription. SRSF1 interacts with the 7SK small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) to mobilize and activate the positive transcription-elongation factor (P-TEFb), which is then positioned on the HIV-1 promoter to …

Teaching Hearing Clients Sign Language In Therapy: The Sign Your Feelings Intervention's Effects On The Therapeutic Alliance And Client Outcomes, Grisel Mf Lopez-Escobar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

The aim of the study was to validate the researcher's new therapeutic intervention, Sign your Feelings, through a four-week randomized control trial (RCT). This intervention involves hearing therapists working with hearing clients. It incorporates (a) discussions about the therapeutic alliance, (b) therapists teaching their clients 36 signs in American Sign Language (ASL) and (c) frequent emotional disclosure as clients learn and practice the signs. This RCT measured the therapeutic alliance and client outcomes, using the Sessions Rating Scale (SRS) and CORE-10 instrument. Eighty adults from 10 U.S. States participated in the study. Sixteen therapists underwent training before administering the intervention, …

The Representation And Evolution Of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn And The Joker, Jenna Isaacs

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

This thesis The Representation and Evolution of Abusive Relationships: Harley Quinn and the Joker takes a psychoanalytic, gender, and media studies approach to comics such as Mad Love, The Batman Adventures, Suicide Squad and the film Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad (2016) Drawing on the work of Lenore Walker, Scott McCloud and other various scholars, this thesis will explore the distinctions in how the comics and film confront, disguise, or conceal the abuse. An analysis of the increasingly romanticized representation of abuse in the comics and film, where audience support for the couple and merchandizing were core concerns, reflect …

The Feasibility And Acceptability Of Digital Technology For Health And Wellbeing In Social Housing Residents In Cornwall: A Qualitative Scoping Study, Sa Buckingham, T Walker, K Morrissey

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Objective The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility and acceptability of digital technology for improving health and wellbeing in social housing residents living in a deprived area in Cornwall, England. Methods Qualitative scoping study with focus groups and telephone interviews (23 participants in total). Focus groups and interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. Results Levels of use and experience with digital technology were diverse in this group, ranging from ‘willing and unable’ to ‘expert’ on a self-perceived scale. Overall, participants had positive perceptions of technology and were keen to try new technologies. Five categories of …

Self-Perceived Loneliness And Depression During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Two-Wave Replication Study, Alessandro Carollo, Andrea Bizzego, Giulio Gabrieli, Keri Ka Yee Wong, Adrian Raine, Gianluca Esposito

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

The global Covid-19 pandemic has forced countries to impose strict lockdown restrictions and mandatory stay-at-home orders with varying impacts on individual’s health. Combining a data-driven machine learning paradigm and a statistical approach, our previous paper documented a U-shaped pattern in levels of self-perceived loneliness in both the UK and Greek populations during the first lockdown (17 April to 17 July 2020). The current paper aimed to test the robustness of these results by focusing on data from the first and second lockdown waves in the UK. We tested a) the impact of the chosen model on the identification of the …

Dataset Of Parent-Child Hyperscanning Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Recordings, Andrea Bizzego, Giulio Gabrieli, Atiqah Azhari, Mengyu Lim, Gianluca Esposito

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

The term “hyperscanning” refers to the simultaneous recording of multiple individuals’ brain activity. As a methodology, hyperscanning allows the investigation of brain-to-brain synchrony. Despite being a promising technique, there is a limited number of publicly available functional Near-infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning recordings. In this paper, we report a dataset of fNIRS recordings from the prefrontal cortical (PFC) activity of 33 mother-child dyads and 29 father-child dyads. Data was recorded while the parent-child dyads participated in an experiment with two sessions: a passive video attention task and a free play session. Dyadic metadata, parental psychological traits, behavioural annotations of the play …

Innovations In The Design Of An Architectural Engineering Curriculum, Shannon Chance, Emanuela Tilley

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

This paper introduces a new curriculum, launched in October 2021, in Architectural Engineering, designed out of London, UK for implementation in Giza, Egypt. The developers of this newly formed higher education institution, Newgiza University, sought to introduce more contemporary approaches as well as cutting-edge curricular innovations to the education landscape in Egypt. To achieve this, they enlisted curriculum developers in architecture and engineering from University College London who have expertise in education research, curricular innovation, and the delivery of engineering and architecture modules and degree programs. The team worked in collaboration with experts and educators from Egypt to create a …

Global Responsibility Of Engineering - The Extent To Which Global Responsibility Is Embedded Into Engineering Practice: An Exploratory Study, Jonathan Truslove, Shannon M. Chance, Katie Cresswell-Maynard, Emma Crichton, Inês Direito, John E Mitchell

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

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Caregiving Fathers In The Workplace: Organisational Experiences And The Fatherhood Forfeit, Jasmine Kelland

Plymouth Business School

This book explores the experiences of caregiving fathers in the UK. Conceptions of fatherhood, childcare, and work have altered over the last few decades, with many fathers taking a more active role in caregiving than before and seeking to alter their working patterns accordingly. However, such a wider involvement in caregiving for fathers can clash with traditional values about masculinity and work, which still hold sway over public opinion and workplace policies.Using quantitative and qualitative data, collected through the use of surveys, focus groups and semi-structured interviews with managers and working parents, the book explores perceptions and experiences of fathers …

Social Media Addiction And Self-Esteem Among Students Of Degree Colleges Of Udupi Taluk, Karnataka, India, Sriparna Sarkar, Linu George, Latha T

Manipal Journal of Nursing and Health Sciences

Abstract

As a quintessential part of our routine life, social media users are projecting the success or their achievements to potentially large virtual onlookers to obtain visible recognitions through positive comments from other social media users.

Objective: The objective was to determine the relationship between social media addiction and self-esteem among college students.

Methods: A correlative survey was conducted among 658-degree college students from selected colleges. Prior to the study, administrative permissions were obtained from the colleges which were selected by using simple random sampling technique. The Social Media Addiction scale, Rosenberg’s self-esteem scale, and Background proforma were used for …

Retiring Social Security’S (Non)Payment At Death After Eight Decades, Alberto B. Lopez

Emory Law Journal Online

Section 202 of the Social Security Act, which originated in the 1939 Amendments to the 1935 Social Security Act, authorizes monthly benefits payments to an eligible person until the month prior to the month of death. Under this rule, an individual who dies on November 30th at 11:59 pm is not eligible to receive a check for benefits accrued during November because the individual failed to survive one additional minute; eligibility for payment ended on October 31st. After a beneficiary’s death, the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) either prevents deposit of a check for month-of-death benefits or mandates …

Netchoice V. Moody, 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

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Shared V Facebook, Northern District Of California

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Netchoice V. Paxton, Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals

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Cook V. Meta, Northern District Of California

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Makemytrip India V. Booking.Com, Delhi High Court

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Trump V. Twitter, Northern District Of California

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