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Assessing The Effect Of The Magnitude Of Spillovers On Global Supply Chains Using Quantile Vector Autoregressive And Wavelet Approaches, Haibo Wang, Lutfu Sagbansua, Jaime Ortiz

International Business and Entrepreneurship Faculty Publications

Overwhelmed by the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, global supply chains are being restructured and improved worldwide. It then becomes essential to accurately assess their vulnerabilities to external shocks and understand the relationships between key influential factors to obtain the desired results. This study provides a new conceptual econometric framework to examine the relationships between the purchasing managers’ index, service purchasing managers’ index, world equity index, unemployment rate, food and beverage historical prices, Baltic Dry Index, West Texas Intermediate Index, and carbon emissions. A quantile vector autoregressive (QVAR) model is used to assess the dynamic connectedness among Brazil, Russia, …

A Method And System For Facilitating Customers On E-Commerce Websites To Do Financial Contributions, Mohamed Ajimal Nambiarkandy Abdulla Kunhi, Weiping Li

Defensive Publications Series

The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for facilitating customer on eCommerce websites to do financial contributions to an appropriate donation drive provided by a merchant. The system includes a merchant, a customer, payment network, a donation drive enabler, and a payment interface. The customer on purchasing through a merchant application initialize a transaction and probes the donation drive enabler to retrieving a donation drive created using the rules engine and display it to the customer on the merchant application. The customer may donate a certain amount to the donation drive while doing the checkout process in …

أساليب التعامل مع تغيرات الأنشطة التجارية بالمدن الجديدة في مصر Methods Of Dealing With Changes In Commercial Activities In Egyptian New Cities, Marwa Hamed

Journal of Engineering Research

يعتبر تغير استعمالات الأراضي بالمدن الجديدة المصرية من القضايا التي يجب مواجهتها أثناء إعداد تحديث المخططات العمرانية لتلك المدن. وتعد الأنشطة التجارية بكافة أشكالها وأنماطها من أهم الاستعمالات التي شهدت تغير مستمر في العقدين الاخرين فى مصر، فالنشاط التجاري ينتشر بصور متعددة، سواءا على المحاور الرئيسية المؤدية للمدينة أو محاورها الداخلية للمدينة، أو بالتداخل مع الاستخدام السكنى حيث يتم تحويل الوحدات السكنية الى وحدات تجارية وإدارية خاصة بالمدن الجديدة شبه المكتملة مثل مدينة العاشر من رمضان ومدينة السادس من أكتوبر ومدينة 15 مايو ومدينة القاهرة الجديدة. لذا يهدف البحث للوصول إلى أساليب التعامل مع تغيرات الأنشطة التجارية بالمدن الجديدة في …

October 4, 2023 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Itrr Presentation To Tourism Advisory Council, October 2023, Melissa Weddell

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

Presentation deck to the Tourism Advisory Council, October 4, 2023 highlighting Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research project overview, research methods, collaborations, recent accomplishments, etc.

Intentional Conversations: Co-Creating Global Family, School, And Community Engagement Research, Emily Markovich Morris

Brookings Scholar Lecture Series

As part of the Brookings Scholar Lecture Series, Brookings Mountain West presents a lecture titled "Intentional Conversations: Co-Creating Global Family, School, and Community Engagement Research" by Brookings fellow in global economy and development, Emily Markovich Morris. The more that families, schools, and communities work in partnership, the more students and schools have the support needed to thrive. This lecture explores a school and community-based research study representing education institutions in 14 countries across 6 continents. The project identifies beliefs held by families, educators, and students on the purpose of school, and global barriers to family, school, and community engagement. Surveys …

Gamification And Player Profiles Among Faculty In Mexico, Álvaro Antón-Sancho, Diego Vergara, Lorena Rodríguez-Calzada

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objectives: Analysis of the player profiles of professors is a fruitful line of research because player profiles may influence the design of gamified situations. We studied a sample of 243 university professors in Mexico to analyze the player profiles with which they identify and those they consider most effective didactically in gamified situations.

Method: Descriptive quantitative research was used to analyze the distributions of the responses to a questionnaire given to a group of 243 professors from different Mexican universities. These responses have been statistically analyzed by computing the proportions of player profile choices and applying Pearson’s chi-square test of …

Functional Behaviour Of Flocs Explained By Observed 3d Structure And Porosity, Tj Lawrence, Sj Carr, Aj Manning, Jat Wheatland, Aj Bushby, Kl Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Clay-rich flocculated suspended sediments are an important constituent of estuarine and coastal systems globally. They are responsible for the host, movement and deposition of a variety of pollutants, contaminants and sediment itself. Accurate modelling of the movement of these sediments is crucial for a number of industries including fisheries, aquaculture, shipping and waste management. This requires an accurate and reliable measurements of the physical properties of flocs and their behaviour. Porosity is a key element in floc structures, and this research provides updated 3D quantified porosity and pore space morphological data in relation to influences on floc settling behaviour. We …

Flood Risk Mapping And Management In Urban Areas: Integrating Geomatics And Hydrodynamic Modeling - A Case Study Of Al Bidi City, Saudi Arabia, Ashraf Abdelkarim, Ahmed F. D. Gaber

Information Sciences Letters

In this paper, we focus on developing a comprehensive approach to map and manage flood risks in Al Bidi City, located in the Al-Aflaj Governorate of Saudi Arabia. By integrating geomatics (Remote Sensing and GIS) and hydrodynamic modeling (PCSWMM and HEC-RAS), the study aims to simulate and model flood risks in populated areas under different scenarios, considering the impact of climate change. The study generates three integrated maps: flood intensity, environmental sensitivity, and flood risks. Strategic solutions and mitigation measures are proposed based on the findings. The results indicate that Al Bidi City is exposed to flood risks originating from …

The Role Of Soft Mobility Towards Strengthening Urban Transformation And Sustainable Well-Being: Case Study: Mansoura City, Egypt, Mai Madkour,

Journal of Engineering Research

This research investigates the method of soft mobility role on Egyptian neighborhood unit. It discusses itsrelationship with the main principles of New Urbanism. And proposes some objectives: Interpret Mobilitynew concepts in New Urbanism, cite urbanism principles and its trends to conclude soft mobility indicators,design a matrix inventories the compatibility of soft mobility indicators and behavioral dimension. And atlast, the matrix tests the combination of indicators and dimensions in an Egyptian traditional urban fabric,at Mansoura City.

Evaluation Of Visual Performance Of Religious Urban Open Spaces (Case Study: Al- Sayyida Nafisa Mosque Square In Cairo, Egypt) تقييم األداء البصرى للفراغات العمرانية ذات الطابع الدينى )دراسة حالة فراغ مسجد السيدة نفسية بالقاهرة - مصر(, Mohammed Ibrahim Ali, Nourhan

Journal of Engineering Research

The visual performance of Al- Sayyida Nafisa Mosque Square in Cairo is analyzed in this paper. The aim of the present study is to derive a proposed evaluation model that service as a tool for evaluating the visual performance of religious urban open spaces. The research also tries to reach the best visual basics and criteria which support the design and planning process that must be taken in consideration when dealing with the religious urban open spaces. Research results showed that legibility, identity, determinants, aesthetics consistency, sense of nature, and supplements of urban open space help in enhancing the visual …

Review Of Inju$Tice, Inc.: How America’S Justice System Commodifies Children And The Poor, Thomas Hansen

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Book review of this title explaining the corruption and the lack of ethics in Ohio and some other states involved in juvenile justice system, foster care placement, fines, fees, and jail.

Students’ Perceptions Of Threats To Their World' Future: An Introduction To Iccs And Global Lesson Plan, James A. Duplass, Reinis Alksnis, Ireta Čekse,

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

This article explains the scope and value of the only international assessment (IEA The International Civic and Citizen Education Study, IEA ICCS) of “Civic Understanding” and a uses data from the international comparative study to create a global education lesson plan for U.S. social studies teachers to have their students consider their perceptions of threats to their world as compared to students in other countries. The lesson would most likely be used with middle and high school students.

Grounding History Instruction: Engaging Place And Scale Through Iterative Local Inquiry Design, Megan Vangorder

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

Teaching local history is often an afterthought in the high school history classroom. It is difficult to find enough instructional time to incorporate local stories and there are often gaps in resource development and approach from a local lens. This article seeks to help teachers articulate a locally driven inquiry approach. Using Illinois as the local framework and the C3 Inquiry Design Model as the tool, teachers can begin to map out how to implement the competing mandates to promote disciplinary skill development, demonstrate content expertise using state mandated units of study, drive student-oriented history, and foster civic competence all …

Hate Speech, Historical Oppressions, And European Human Rights, Eva Nave

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

Today, around 5 billion people communicate through the Internet. While the benefits of online communication are undeniable, we also witness the proliferation of online hate speech, often associated with an increase in offline violence. Internet intermediaries and public bodies have developed frameworks to counter online hate speech. However, current frameworks lack a standardized approach to the conceptualization of hate speech. Some conceptualizations are overbroad, and others are underinclusive; overbroad because they lead to the removal of legal content (e.g. removal tools deleting legal content posted by marginalized communities), and underinclusive as the context of posts by linguistic minorities is often …

Association Between Socioeconomic Factors, Race, And Use Of A Specialty Memory Clinic, Abigail Lewis, Aditi Gupta, Inez Oh, Suzanne E. Schindler, Nupur Ghoshal, Zachary Abrams, Randi Foraker, Barbara Joy Snider, John C. Morris, Joyce Balls-Berry, Mahendra Gupta, Philip R. O. Payne, Albert M. Lai

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The capacity of specialty memory clinics in the United States is very limited. If lower socioeconomic status or minoritized racial group is associated with reduced use of memory clinics, this could exacerbate health care disparities, especially if more effective treatments of Alzheimer disease become available. We aimed to understand how use of a memory clinic is associated with neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic factors and the intersectionality of race.

METHODS: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study using electronic health record data to compare the neighborhood advantage of patients seen at the Washington University Memory Diagnostic Center with the …

Health Citizenship Attitudes Among Social Studies Teachers Of Post-Primary Education In Sultanate Of Oman: Role Of The Demographic Variables In The Covid-19 Pandemic Context, Rahma N.A. Al-Badawi, Saif N. A. Al-Maamari

Journal of Educational and Psychological Studies

Abstract: This study explored the Health Citizenship Attitudes among social studies teachers in post-primary education stage in Sultanate of Oman, besides examining the impact of some demographic and personal variables. The sample consisted of (N =200) teachers. The descriptive analytical design method was used. Health Citizenship Attitudes Scale was developed to include knowledge of health citizenship, commitment to health citizenship values, and participation in promoting health citizenship values. The Face validity, and reliability of scale were also verified, using expert judges and the internal consistency coefficient that showed a reliable value of Cronbach's alpha (α =0.90). The results showed that …

"I'M Really Just Scared Of The White Parents": A Teacher's Perceptions Of Barriers To Discussing Racial Injustice, Shimikqua Elece Ellis, Christian Goering

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose - This study explores the perceived barriers that a Secondary English teacher faced when attempting to discuss racial injustice through young adult literature in Mississippi.

Design/methodology/approach- The authors rely on Critical Whiteness Studies and qualitative methods to explore the following research question: What are the barriers that a White ELA teacher perceives when teaching about racial injustice through The Hate U Give?

Findings- The authors found that there were several perceived barriers to discussing modern racial injustice in the Mississippi ELA classroom. The participating teacher indicated the following barriers: a lack of racial literacy, fears of discomfort, and an …

Causes And Effects Of Shisper Glacial Lake Outburst Flood Event In Karakoram In 2022, Sandeep Kumar Mondal, Vatsal D. Patel, Rishikesh Bharti, Ramesh P. Singh

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Karakoram Himalayas are vulnerable to glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), which cause catastrophic floods in the surrounding areas. The increasing natural and anthropogenic activities, especially in the Indo-Gangetic Plains at the southern flank of the towering Himalayas, could be the cause of climate change affecting the frequency of the natural hazards in the Himalayas. In the present study, a detailed analysis of the Shisper Lake breach of 7 May 2022 is carried out using satellite remote sensing. A decreasing trend in the glacial mass balance is observed between 2017 and 2021; in this period, frequent GLOF episodes occurred. A pronounced …

Undergraduate And Graduate Students’ Challenges: A Qualitative Study With Ondas Framework Across Multiple Disciplines And Innovative Research Methodologies, Omar Khasro Akram, Daniel José Franco, Apina Lee

The Qualitative Report

The integration levels among research methods, management, research tools, and psychology could guide the development of the ONDAS framework toward the secrets of knowledge. The research grounds on undergraduate and graduate students' challenges, with particular emphasis on the need for writing critical literature reviews and weaknesses in identifying benchmark studies to extract the research gap and main research questions, resulting in most fresh graduate students not graduating on time. Some master’s students write doctoral theses, and vice versa, confusing their identified research approach. The study utilizes desk documents to identify the main problems that most students experienced during their research, …

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Coastal Permafrost Was Massively Eroded During The Bølling-Allerød Warm Period, Alessio Nogarotto, Riko Noormets, Teena Chauhan, Gesine Mollenhauer, Jens Hefter, Hendrik Grotheer, Simon T. Belt, Florence Colleoni, Francesco Muschitiello, Lucilla Capotondi, Claudio Pellegrini, Tommaso Tesi

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Bølling-Allerød interstadial (14,700–12,900 years before present), during the last deglaciation, was characterized by rapid warming and sea level rise. Yet, the response of the Arctic terrestrial cryosphere during this abrupt climate change remains thus far elusive. Here we present a multi-proxy analysis of a sediment record from the northern Svalbard continental margin, an area strongly influenced by sea ice export from the Arctic, to elucidate sea level - permafrost erosion connections. We show that permafrost-derived material rich in biospheric carbon became the dominant source of sediments at the onset of the Bølling-Allerød, despite the lack of direct connections with …

Analysis Of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Change Of The West Bank, Palestine, Using Multitemporal Satellite Remote Sensing Data, Ahmed Ghodieh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The West Bank is characterized by the diversity of its climate despite its small area. It includes four climatic regions:- a humid, semi-humid, arid, and semi-arid climate. This in turn affected the geographical distribution of vegetation cover seasonally and over the years. This study investigated changes in the West Bank, Palestine vegetation cover using multitemporal Landsat data. Four images were selected for this purpose – two corresponding to 2001 and the other two corresponding to 2021. Seasonal change of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) was investigated for the acquired images. ArcGIS 10.8 software was used for image processing and …

Determinants Of Foreign Policy In Turkish-Greek Relations, Rawa’A Mohammad Deifallah Aljazzazi

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

The Turkish-Greek relations are thorny relations, dominated by military intervention on some occasions and the threat of the use of military force at other times. This study came to analyze the principles of both Turkey and Greek foreign policy, shed light on the most important factors that limit Turkish-Greek relations, and present three scenarios for the future of Turkish-Greek relations. To achieve these objectives, the study used a decision-making approach and revealed that Turkish-Greek relations are determined by various contentious issues represented by the dispute in the Aegean Sea, the dispute over the island of Cyprus, the dispute over the …

معوقات استخدام التعليم المدمج من وجهة نظر معلمي مدارس محافظة الكرك, Thrwat Thalji Hamad Altarawneh

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال التعرف إلى المعوقات التي تواجه استخدام التعليم المدمج من وجهة نظر عينة من معلمي المدارس في محافظة الكرك، ولتحقيق هذا الهدف، استخدمت الدراسة المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، وتكونت عينة الدراسة من (760) معلماً ومعلمة تم اختيارهم بشكل عشوائي، وتم توزيع استبانة الدراسة عليهم، والتي تكونت من (32) فقرة، وبعد الانتهاء من جمع وإعداد البيانات وتحليلها تحليلا احصائيا على حزمة برنامج (SPSS)، أشارت نتائج الدراسة إلى أن أبرز معوقات استخدام التعليم المدمج هي الوقت والجهد الكبيران اللذان يحتاجهما المعلم نظراً لكثرة المسؤوليات الواقعة على عاتقه، إلى جانب معوقات أخرى ترتبط بصعوبة تقييم الطلبة في حال استخدام التعليم المدمج، وعدم توافر …

أثر استخدام تطبيقي جوجل ومايكروسوفت في تنمية مهارات التعليم عن بُعد لدى معلمي المدارس الخاصة في مأدبا, Heam Al-Rawahnah, Mohammed Mahmood Hileh, Sana'a Yacoub Banat

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال إلى استقصاء الاحتياجات التدريبية اللازمة لتنمية مهارات المعلمين في التعليم عن بُعد، وتلبيتها من خلال دورات متخصصة على تطبيقي جوجل ومايكروسوفت. وقد تكونت عينة الدراسة من (31) معلمًا ومعلمة من المدارس الخاصة من مدينة مأدبا، تم اختيارهم بالطريقة القصدية، واعتمدت الدراسة على تصميم مكون من مجموعتين تجريبيتين مستقلتين، حيث تضمن ذلك تطبيق بطاقة الملاحظة أداة للقياس (القبلي والبعدي)، وتم عقد دورة تدريبية للمعلمين لتنمية مهارات التعليم عن بُعد، باستخدام تطبيقات جوجل للمجموعة الأولى، وتطبيقات مايكروسوفت للمجموعة الثانية. وأظهرت النتائج أن هنالك أثراً واضحاً للستخدام تطبيقي جوجل ومايكروسوفت لتنمية مهارات التعليم عن بُعد لدى عينة الدراسة، وعدم وجود فروق …

درجة امتلاك معلمي الجغرافيا لمهارات استخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية جي آي أس في المدارس الحكومية في لواء دير علا, Afaf Omar Ibrahim Albalawneh

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت المقال إلى البحث في درجة امتلاك معلمي الجغرافيا لمهارات استخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية (GIS) في المدارس الحكومية في لواء دير علا، تمّ توزيع الاستبانة بشكلها الإلكتروني، وتمّ استرداد (100) استبانة، اعتمدت الباحثة على المنهج الوصفي، وقامت الباحثة بتطوير أداة استبانة، وتكوّنت الاستبانة في صورتها النهائية من (19) فقرة موزعة على محورين، وأظهرت النتائج أن هناك فروقاً ذات دلالة إحصائية (0.05a=) تعزى لأثر الجنس وجاءت الفروق لصالح الذكور، هذا وأوصت الدراسة إلى ضرورة إجراء المزيد من الدراسات حول استخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية (GIS).

The article aimed to investigate the degree to which geography teachers possess the skills of …

The Scarlet - Volume Cii, No. 2 (October 2, 2023), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The October 2, 2023 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

The Utah Statesman, October 2, 2023, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

October 2 Roundtable Update, Jeffrey M. Wice

Elections, Census & Redistricting Updates

No abstract provided.