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Moore: The Overlooked Excise Power, Conor Clarke

Scholarship@WashULaw

Moore v. United States, a constitutional challenge to the mandatory repatriation tax in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, has been litigated almost entirely as a case about the scope of the Sixteenth Amendment. I present an alternative theory: The repatriation tax doesn’t need to flow from the Sixteenth Amendment power to tax “incomes,” because it flows from Congress’s Article I power to lay and collect “excises.” The Supreme Court has long upheld Congress’s power to tax business earnings and activities as a valid exercise of the excise power, and the mandatory repatriation tax fits within that framework. The repatriation …

Let’S Practice: Shaping Crisis Management Of Preservice Counseling Professionals, Yuleinys A. Castillo, Jason Cartwright, Mandy Greaves, Suzanne Maniss

Counseling Faculty Publications

Counselors frequently encounter crises in practice with various factors shaping crisis management. However, limited preparation and training combined with personal and situational characteristics affect a counselors’ ability to properly handle a crisis. The purpose of the present study was to identify factors that could potentially affect the ability to handle a crisis in session among counselors-in-training and add to the understanding of self-efficacy in crisis counseling. The study consisted of participants enrolled in a practicum pre-service course in a CACREP accredited program. Results were analyzed through a narrative research approach, specifically a categorical-content narrative analysis, theory-driven thematic analysis and cross-case …

National Emissaries For Preventive Healthcare. Visiting Nurses In Interwar Bulgaria And Yugoslavia, Evguenia Davidova

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

In the interwar period, as part of a wholesale reorganization of public healthcare, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia saw the emergence of a new healthcare protagonist: the visiting nurse. Grounded in archival materials, by means of an analysis that intertwines gender and class, this article argues that the visiting nurse became a crucial (and cheaper) link between the hospital and the home in the fight against social diseases and reducing child mortality. These social interactions were often mediated by international humanitarian organizations. In this context, the visiting nurse serves as another bridge—this time between national and international public health policies. Visiting nurses …

Bilingual Preaching : A Proposed Methodology For Multicultural Churches, Fikri Youssef

ATS Dissertations

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Discovering Best Practices Of Contextual Discipleship Program Leading To Church Growth Of Multi-Site Churches : Implementing Best Practices Of Contextual Discipleship Program For Win Churches In The Philippines, Mark Eduard Yu

ATS Dissertations

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How Philo Wrote His Biography On Moses : An Analysis Of Ancient Compositional Practices And Their Implications On The Gospels, Esteban J. Hidalgo

ATS Dissertations

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Exploring The Differences Among The Gospels In Light Of Ancient Biographies : A Comparative Study Between The Gospels And The Accounts Of Alexander's Life, Soo Kwang Lee

ATS Dissertations

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Priestly Pragmatics : Leviticus 1-7 As Rhetoric Of Enculturation, Dustin J. Mills

ATS Dissertations

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The Kurds, Turkey, And Strasbourg: Failure To Find And Remedy Discrimination Amid A Century-Old Mountain Of Evidence, Samuel I. Horowitz

Emory International Law Review Recent Developments

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The Declaration Of Independence: Inalienable Rights, The Creator, And The Political Order., Christopher Kaczor

Philosophy Faculty Works

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San Juan Unified School District Newcomer Support: Promising Practices, Magaly Lavadenz, Ph.D., Linda Kaminski, Ed.D, Elvira G. Armas, Ed.D.

Reports

This report was developed through a partnership between the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) Newcomer Research-Practice-Policy Partnership and the Center for Equity for English Learners (CEEL) at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). It presents a case study that identifies promising practices for newcomer education implemented in San Juan Unified School District (SJUSD), one of 12 local educational agencies (LEAs) funded under the California Newcomer Education and Well-Being (CalNEW) project between 2018 and 2021. The case study was conducted during a 2022 summer program for recently arrived immigrant students. Using interviews with 32 school and community leaders and educators, a review …

The Effectiveness Of The Implementation Of A Multifactorial Life Skills Manual In A Residential Substance Use Treatment Facility, Jennifer Anderson

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"In 2017, 35% of families and 44% of domestic violence survivors residing in shelters reported concerns about their ability to function in work and social environments (Schultz-Krohn & Quinn, 2018). It is crucial to view this vulnerable population with a trauma-focused care lens. In 2020, 8% of transgender adults experienced homelessness and were twice as likely over cis- gendered individuals (Van Dyke & Blaskowlitz, 2022). Individuals who experience substance use typically have underlying, unresolved trauma. Most of this population has experienced some form of domestic violence."

Perceptions Of Individuals Participating In B.E.A.R. P.A.W. Center Life Skills Program: Persons With Iadl Goals, Alisha Bailey

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"Individuals with disabilities often face challenges in occupational engagement, particularly with instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), which significantly impact their independence and quality of life. The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) defines occupational engagement as a person's ability to engage in occupation based on choice, motivation and meaning in a supportive context both environmental and personal factors (AOTA, 2020). For instance, a study conducted by Raina et al. (2020) demonstrated that 43.9% to 61.7% of individuals with these chronic conditions developed an IADL disability over a span of five years."

Unlimbited Recreation: Access To Resources For Improved Wellness & Wellbeing For Individuals With Ull/D, Alyssa Daniels

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"The doctoral experiential (DEx): Unlimbited Recreation explored the multifaceted aspects of upper limb loss and difference (ULL/D), focusing on recreational therapies and nonprofits' role in supporting affected individuals. This project highlighted the challenges individuals face with upper limb loss or difference and the therapeutic potential of recreational interventions. Additionally, it examined the contributions of nonprofits in providing comprehensive support and facilitating community integration for those individuals."

Implementation Of Driving Services Into A Student-Run Pro-Bono Occupational Therapy Center, Amanda C. Hill

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"This doctoral experiential capstone project focuses on the implementation of driving services into the BEAR PAW Center to offer a free driving program to members of Springfield, Massachusetts (MA) and the surrounding community. In conjunction with implementation into the BEAR PAW Center, the Western New England University (WNE) Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) curriculum will be reevaluated to incorporate the driving component into the existing requirement. This will allow current and future students to learn more about occupational therapy’s role in driving and serve as an additional experiential learning opportunity. The overall goal of the project is to increase access …

Increasing Occupational Engagement For Individuals With Partial Hand Loss Through Telehealth, Amelia T. Lee

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"Individuals with partial hand loss have diverse needs and experiences. Skoff & Skoff (2022) found that individuals with partial hand loss experience symptoms of anxiety, anger, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder for at least three months following amputation. For this Doctoral Experiential Capstone, the student researcher sought to expand the existing Unlimbited Wellness© telehealth program created by Dr. Debra Latour, OT, PP-OTD, M.Ed., OTR, to include individuals with partial hand loss in the population and add additional educational modules regarding returning to work. The program was a mixed-methods research design with a pre and post-program survey and Quick DASH. The …

Perceptions Of Individuals Participating In Bear Paw Center Life Skills Program: Persons With Health And Wellness Goals, Isabella Lagos

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"Data shows that the state population of Massachusetts was 6,915,688, with 11.7% of these individuals, or 808,474 people, identified as having a disability in 2021. Among those individuals, 56.5% had both self-care and independent living disabilities (Paul et al., 2021). In Springfield, Massachusetts, 15.7% of individuals under the age of 65 years old were identified to have a disability in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Numerous life skills programs are accessible during high school; however, these opportunities often become scarce for individuals beyond their graduation. Due to the lack of life skills programs provided to individuals with disabilities, …

Perceptions Of Individuals Participating In Bear Paw Center Life Skills Program: Persons With Social Skills Goals, Olivia Nappi

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"Across the United States, there are a limited number of pro-bono life skills programs available for adults with disabilities. Oftentimes, free of cost life skills special education services are provided through the public education system but then terminates upon high school graduation. This leaves young adults with disabilities at a disadvantage when attempting to develop independent living skills during a transitional phase of life. This study explored the lived experiences of young adults participating in pro-bono, occupational therapy student-run life skills group program through the Bear Paw Center at Western New England University. The purpose was to gather the perceptions …

Implementation Of Pediatric Services At A Pro Bono University Ot Center, Deanna Padilla

OTD DEx Reports - College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

"With a focus on bringing equity, accessibility, and rehabilitation to all people, and achieving wellness in the Greater Springfield area, a student-run Occupational Therapy (OT) center should serve all populations. The completion of this Doctoral Experiential (DEx) capstone project allowed the BEAR PAW OT Center (BPC) at Western New England University (WNE) to officially provide services to all populations within the community. The process of implementing pediatric services at the BPC included redesigning and organizing the designated pediatric space, which meant designing the space to be appealing for the pediatric population, ordering supplies and equipment, and ensuring the space is …

Writing For A “High Purpose”: Examining Charles Chesnutt’S Antiracist Manipulation Of Genre And Language In The Conjure Woman, Sheniah Lanier

Masters Essays

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Dialogic Teacher Inquiry: The Case Of A Preservice Teacher Learning To Facilitate Class Discussion, Sergio L. Sanchez, Steven Z. Athanases

Benerd College Faculty Articles

Developing knowledge and practice for high-quality K-12 class discussion remains challenging, especially for new teachers juggling other classroom responsibilities. Our study reports the case of a preservice teacher learning to lead discussions while enrolled in a teacher education inquiry course, simultaneous with semester-long supervised practice teaching in a seventh-grade class (12-13-year-olds) in a high-poverty urban community. The work is guided by a complex teacher learning process for developing complex practice of facilitating discussions in culturally and linguistically diverse high school English classes. Countering popular approaches to “talk moves” as useful but often generic facilitation practices, the teacher education pedagogical innovation …

Validity And Reliability Of Spanish Version Of The Eq-I: Yv[S] In Colombian Children And Youth, Claudia Patricia Navarro Roldán, Sandra Mateus Gómez, Catalina Botero, Gabriel M. Velez

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of EQ-i:YV[S] with a Colombian’ sample.

Method: We randomly selected a sample of 1355 children and adolescents between 8 and 14 years old (Mage = 10.80;SD = 1.41). We conducted exploratory (n1 = 416) and confirmatory (n2 = 939) factor analyses (EFA, CFA), reliability, internal consistency, and predictive validity.

Results: The EFA explained 27.6% of the variance. The AFC indicated a multidimensional structure with four factors and 21 items obtained the best fit (χ 2 = 334.358; df = 183; RMSEA=0.030; CFI=.951; TLI=944; NFI=.899) with acceptable internal consistency (ω = .57,.75). EQ-i: YV[S] factors …

Pragmatically Appropriate Abstractive Summarization Of Jtac Radio Conversations, Spencer M. Seals

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

In this work, I explore the development of computational methods for automatically creating after-action reports of JTAC radio conversations. Prior research has investigated related issues of sentence compression, text summarization, and conversation summarization (Banerjee, Mitra, & Sugiyama, 2015; Clarke & Lapata, 2008; L. Wang & Cardie, 2012; Raffel et al., 2020). However, this work makes limiting assumptions about what features are relevant to a summary and what sources of information should be included. I propose methods that combine knowledge from linguistic, procedural, and domain sources to address these limitations. Results indicate that the proposed model performs better than some of …

Data-Driven Strategies For Disease Management In Patients Admitted For Heart Failure, Ankita Agarwal

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

Heart failure is a syndrome which effects a patient’s quality of life adversely. It can be caused by different underlying conditions or abnormalities and involves both cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular comorbidities. Heart failure cannot be cured but a patient’s quality of life can be improved by effective treatment through medicines and surgery, and lifestyle management. As effective treatment of heart failure incurs cost for the patients and resource allocation for the hospitals, predicting length of stay of these patients during each hospitalization becomes important. Heart failure can be classified into two types: left sided heart failure and right sided heart failure. …

Professional Development In Phonological Awareness For Early Childhood Educators In Low-Income, Urban Classrooms: A Pilot Study Examining Dosage Effects, Jayne E. Jaskolski, Maura Jones Moyle

Speech Pathology and Audiology Faculty Research and Publications

Providing high-quality literacy instruction in early childhood may positively affect the long-term outcomes of children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Previous research has shown that educators are generally lacking in their own phonological awareness knowledge and skills which could negatively impact the provision of effective instruction in code-focused early literacy skills. The purposes of this pilot study were to examine the effects of differing dosages of professional development in phonological awareness on early childhood educators’ (ECEs) own phonological awareness skills and instructional practices, and to examine the effects on child outcomes. The comparison group consisted of 10 ECEs who were receiving professional …

Reshaping The Narrative, Crystal Little Owl

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

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Proceedings Of The 10th Geia Seminar (2023), Patrícia Tosqui Lucks, Juliana De Castro Santana

GEIA Seminar

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How To Get Away With Discrimination: The Use Of Algorithms To Discriminate In The Internet Entertainment Industry, Sumra Wahid

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

In July 2021, Ziggi Tyler posted a video on TikTok, a popular video sharing platform, where he expressed his frustration with being a Black content creator on TikTok. The video showed Ziggi typing phrases such as “Black Lives Matter” or “Black success” into his Marketplace creator bio, which the app would immediately flag as inappropriate content. However, when Ziggi replaced those words with “white supremacy” or “white success,” no inappropriateness warning appeared. Although a TikTok spokesperson responded to the video clarifying that the app had mistakenly flagged phrases without considering word order, Ziggi refused to let an algorithm absolve TikTok …

Umkämpfte Erinnerungskultur: Historikerstreit 2,0, Das Humboldt Forum Und Die Neue Deutsche Geschichte, Jonathan Hogan

Lawrence University Honors Projects

The Humboldt Forum, a reconstructed Prussian palace, is uniquely entangled in the ongoing debates around Germany’s relationship with its colonial past. As early as 2007, NGOs such as “NoHumboldt21!” formed to protest the palace, which would house the state’s ethnography collection, entailing an estimated 500,000 stolen artifacts. Upon opening in 2020, the Forum had come to embody the controversy surrounding its construction. Words adorned the façade of the building contrasting enlightenment ideals with colonial exploitation and a permanent exhibition—“Berlin Global”—sought to address the nation’s colonial past.

The Humboldt Forum can thus be conceptualized as a reactive object, one that resituates …

Barriers To And Solutions For Representative Inclusion Across The Lifespan And In Life Course Research: The Need For Structural Competency Highlighted By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Madison N Lecroy, Ebony B Carter, Sarah S Farabi, Dominic N Reeds, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Exclusion of special populations (older adults; pregnant women, children, and adolescents; individuals of lower socioeconomic status and/or who live in rural communities; people from racial and ethnic minority groups; individuals from sexual or gender minority groups; and individuals with disabilities) in research is a pervasive problem, despite efforts and policy changes by the National Institutes of Health and other organizations. These populations are adversely impacted by social determinants of health (SDOH) that reduce access and ability to participate in biomedical research. In March 2020, the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute hosted the "Lifespan and Life Course Research: integrating …