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Leading Towards The Queerest Insurrection: Queer Anarchism And Leadership Studies, Josie Holland

Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies

Leadership shapes our world, our narratives, and what is possible to imagine. Unfortunately, leadership studies has some trouble imagining queer leadership, or rather, queer theory and leadership studies. In order to integrate the more abstract aspects of queer theory with the largely evidence-based field of leadership studies, I draw on the texts, history, practices, and theory of queer anarchism. This article aims to highlight a gap in leadership studies as it currently stands, and through accounting for the absence of queer anarchism in leadership studies, expand what leadership looks like. To this end, I suggest the framing of ‘leadership acts’ …

Utilitarian And Self-Representational: Player-To-Player Character Relationships In Final Fantasy Xiv, Zu Er Guan

Theses

This thesis studies the relationships between video game players and their player characters, the characters that they control, through the lens of player purpose and intent by conducting research using an online survey developed and analyzed using an interdisciplinary methodology based on existing studies in the field regarding avatar identification, player psychology, and queer and feminist theory. This thesis posits that are two types of player relationships with their player characters based on player intent—player characters as the personal avatar and representation of the self, and player characters as a tool for the execution of player control and gameplay experience. …

From Surviving To Thriving: Key Considerations For Weight Control Across Diverse Cancer Survivorship Populations, Justin C. Brown, Marlyn Allicock, Carmina G. Valle, Tanya Agurs-Collins

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, progressive disease of excess adiposity that increases the risk of dying from at least 16 types of cancer. The prevalence of obesity has increased more rapidly in cancer survivors compared with the general population. Tailored weight management strategies are needed to improve prognosis and health outcomes in the growing population of cancer survivors. However, certain cancer survivor population subgroups require unique consideration when developing weight management strategies. METHODS: In a symposium convened by The Obesity Society during ObesityWeek 2023 titled "From Surviving to Thriving: Key Considerations for Weight Control Across Diverse Cancer Survivorship Populations," …

Interculture Marketing From A Multimodal Perspective: Taking Burberry As An Example, Huan Liu, Shaojun Bai

Visions in Leisure and Business

In today's era of globalization and international reach, firms and organizations are actively seeking fresh avenues to grow and broaden their operations, particularly beyond their domestic markets. Achieving success in new markets is not solely dependent on creating a high-quality product, but also effective marketing. This essay takes Burberry as an example, analyzing the influence of culture in intercultural marketing from a multi-modal perspective. The posters for a Chinese New Year marketing campaign lack symmetry and harmony, contrary to Chinese aesthetics. The prominent element does not align with the campaign's purpose. The use of black violates New Year taboos, and …

A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study Of Electric Vehicle Advertisements From The Perspective Of Visual Grammar, Hu Yumeng, Yizhou Yuan

Visions in Leisure and Business

This article aims to explore the application of visual grammar in a cross-cultural context. Taking the visual grammar performance of electric car advertisements in different cultural backgrounds as an example, it analyzes how visual elements in these advertisements reflect visual grammar from a cross-cultural perspective, focusing on the principles of cross-cultural business communication. Based on the visual grammar theory of Kress and van Leeuwen, this study selected electric vehicle advertising samples from China and the United States and analyzed them using content analysis. The study found that although global electric vehicle advertisements have commonalities in conveying core values such as …

How Ngos Operationalize The Ecological Capability Approach To Achieve Sustainability Goals, Patrick Elven P. Bañaco, Maria Assunta C. Cuyegkeng

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

This study explores how NGOs achieve sustainability goals as they focus on poverty alleviation through ecological capability building. In-depth semi-structured interviews with nine representatives of NGOs working on poverty alleviation were conducted and subjected to thematic analysis within a critical realist perspective. Findings show that the NGOs engage their communities in all the different stages of their programs, creating a sense of empowerment that becomes the foundation for their ecological meta-capability, a holistic approach to the development of human capability that considers social, economic, and environmental aspects. This is better understood by analyzing the interplay of Structure, Agency, and Culture …

Exploring Predictors Of Purchase Intention Toward Plant-Based Meat, Kristiana Ginelle D. Monares, Ken Sean D. Roque, Melissa A. Santos, Sofia Marianne S. So, Catherine A. Valentin, Alvin Patrick M. Valentin

Journal of Management for Global Sustainability

Plant-based meat (PBM) presents itself as a sustainable alternative to meat production systems that have adversely impacted consumers’ health and the environment at large. In the Philippine context, however, there are only a few PBM manufacturers to date even though production has been emerging with expanded options for consumers to consider. Moreover, while PBM’s potential allows it to be a prospective working food system in the country through the promotion of healthier food chains, the literature on PBM in the Philippines is scant. This study thus contributes to this literature by exploring predictors of purchase intention toward PBM. The researchers …

The Enactive Nature Of The Relationship Between Criticism And Aesthetics: From Practice To Theory To Pedagogy, Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau

Presidential Fellows Articles and Research

This article delves into the intricate relationship between criticism and aesthetics, emphasizing its enactive nature. It explores how this relationship informs pedagogy and has culminated in the creation of an innovative undergraduate aesthetics course centered around the practice of writing critiques. Moreover, it illustrates the dynamic process through which practice gives rise to theory, subsequently influencing pedagogical approaches, and, intriguingly, circling back to practice. To elucidate this flow of ideas across the realms of practice, theory, and pedagogy, we introduce several key concepts. These include the paradigm of creation research, also known as practice as research, which forms the foundation …

Hauntings Of Publication Deaths, Possibilities For Our Academic Present, Kathleen (Kaye) A. Hare, Amber Moore

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In this paper, we use a feminist dialogue to query publication deaths that haunt us. We ruminate on respective past publications that remain unread and uncited, despite encapsulating defining events in our development as scholars. For Author Kaye Hare this was an affective narrative that troubled a seemingly ideal moment of public scholarship; for Author Amber Moore, this was a hard-fought analysis of precarious intersectional feminist resistance in popular culture. Inspired by the horror-film genre “spectral incognizance,” we methodologically deploy a multivocal dialogical structure based on multiple revisitings that attenuate anxieties of metaphorical publication death, before revealing that this death …

"They Don't Get It": Marginalized Mothers And Their Experiences With Social Support", Zuleida Herba

Counseling and Psychology Dissertations

Maternal caregivers of children with developmental disabilities (DD) experience a significant burden of care and increased parenting stress, making social support crucial to family well-being. This qualitative study used a feminist, intersectional framework to examine how marginalized mothers of children with DD, who have been less extensively studied than majority mothers (Stober & Franzese, 2018), perceive and experience social support from extended family, friends and community members. It also examined how social supports impact the mother’s quality of life, understanding that the caregiver's well-being is a determining factor for the child's well-being. The study investigated, from mothers’ perspectives, what kind …

Swimming Against The Tide: Resistance Strategies And Agentic Skills Used By Childfree Women, Carolina Rojas-Madrigal

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In pronatalist societies, the decision to remain childfree creates a conflict-laden scenario. This article explores how childfree women confront social hostility and defend their reproductive autonomy through resistance strategies and tactics. With this aim, the results of a feminist research, positioned from feminist Standpoint theory and digital ethnography, are presented. The researcher conducted biographical-narrative interviews with sixteen voluntary childless women from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Spain, and the United Kingdom, all of whom were members of a childfree Facebook group. This research revealed that there is a persistent tension between societal pressure placed on these women in pronatalist …

Agfi-Gan: An Attention-Guided And Feature-Integrated Watermarking Model Based On Generative Adversarial Network Framework For Secure And Auditable Medical Imaging Application, Xinyun Liu, Ronghua Xu, Chen Zhao

Michigan Tech Publications

With the rapid digitization of healthcare, the secure transmission of medical images has become a critical concern, especially given the increasing prevalence of cyber threats and data privacy breaches. Medical images are frequently transmitted via the Internet and cloud platforms, making them susceptible to unauthorized access, tampering, and theft. While traditional cryptographic techniques play a vital role, they are often insufficient to fully ensure the integrity and confidentiality of these sensitive images. In this paper, we present AGFI-GAN, a robust and secure framework for medical image watermarking that leverages attention-guided and Feature-Integrated mechanisms within a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). Specifically, …

Cross-Cultural Management Strategies Of Chinese Enterprises In Central Asia — A Case Study Of A Shaanxi Agricultural Product Enterprise, Mengyu Dai, Shaojun Bai

Visions in Leisure and Business

Under the guidance of the "Belt and Road" policy, a group of Chinese companies have begun to seek new markets or sources of goods in countries along the route. Central Asia, as an important region among the "Belt and Road" countries, has great appeal to Chinese enterprises. However, different cultures and values pose significant challenges to organizational management. To address these issues, companies place a high emphasis on cross-cultural management strategies, using a range of measures such as salary incentive policies, training local managers, taking on social responsibilities, and through the charisma of leaders to promote cultural identity and integration, …

From Vacant Lots To Paved Roads: Exploring West Whittier- Los Nietos, Marianne Edith Vazquez-Ochoa

Whittier City & College Historical Research

West Whittier- Los Neitos history of Latino in neighborhood like Jimtown in Whittier California

Preparedness And Practice Competency In Tracheostomy Management By Speech Language Pathologists In Saudi Arabia, Shabeer A. Abdul Samadh, Muhannad Aljabli

Journal of Medical Rehabilitation Science

The scope of practice by Speech language pathologists in tracheostomy management in patients with or without mechanical ventilation is continuously expanding. Despite this expanding scope, less is known on what is being done throughout the SLPs academic and professional practice in order to achieve competencies and quality practice.

This study aimed to identify the preparations, clinical consistencies and current practice patterns among the Speech language pathologists while treating tracheostomy patients with and without mechanical ventilator within the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire adapted with approval from the authors, Ward et al., (2007, 2008 and 2012) and McGowan et al, …

Activity Performance Priorities For Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Insights From Management And Staff At A Transitional Housing Facility, Bernard Austin Kigunda Muriithi

Communication Disorders and Occupational Therapy Faculty Publications and Presentations

For people experiencing homelessness (PEH), the provision of affordable housing has been recognized as the most crucial intervention for improving housing stability and facilitating substance abuse treatment. However, evidence indicates that providing housing does not significantly improve substance abuse, mental health, or physical health outcomes. Optimal participation in essential daily activities has been shown to improve health outcomes and support independent living, but there is limited research that identifies activity performance priorities among PEH living in transitional housing. The present study investigates activity performance priorities using the focus group methodology. Management and staff from a transitional housing facility participated in …

Cancer Organoids As Reliable Disease Models To Drive Clinical Development Of Novel Therapies, Giovanni Blandino, Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Ingeborg Tinhofer, Giovanni Tonon, Sarah C Heilshorn, Yong-Jun Kwon, Ana Pestana, Carlotta Frascolla, Luca Pompili, Aurora Puce, Sara Iachettini, Annalisa Tocci, Sofia Karkampouna, Marianna Kruithof-De Julio, Piera Tocci, Nicla Porciello, Klizia Maccaroni, Daniela Rutigliano, Xiling Shen, Gennaro Ciliberto

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

On September 23-24 (2024) the 6th Workshop IRE on Translational Oncology, titled "Cancer Organoids as Reliable Disease Models to Drive Clinical Development of Novel Therapies," took place at the IRCCS Regina Elena Cancer Institute in Rome. This prominent international conference focused on tumor organoids, bringing together leading experts from around the world.A central challenge in precision oncology is modeling the dynamic tumor ecosystem, which encompasses numerous elements that evolve spatially and temporally. Patient-derived 3D culture models, including organoids, explants, and engineered or bioprinted systems, have recently emerged as sophisticated tools capable of capturing the complexity and diversity of cancer cells …

Bаsing Thе Sресifiс Сhаrасtеristiсs Оf Sаlinе Sоils Оn Thе Bаsis Оf Buildings Аnd Struсturеs In Thе Соnditiоns Оf Uzbеkistаn (Аs Аn Еxаmрlе Оf Thе Mirzасhоl Рlаins), Аbdubaki Djalilovich Kауumоv, Murad Kаmbаrоv, Olmos Zafarov, Zukhriddin Muradov, Islom Ilhom Ugli Ro‘Ziyev

Technical science and innovation

This article comprehensively examines the physical-mechanical and chemical properties of saline soils and their changes under the influence of moisture, as well as the impact of these changes on the foundations of buildings and structures. The study analyzes the variation of salinity levels over time due to prolonged water exposure and its effects on the stability and safety of structures, highlighting critical issues observed in regions of our country where saline soils are prevalent. Based on engineering-geological and hydrogeological research, solutions to minimize the consequences of salinity, determine soil deformation and strength characteristics, and ensure the safety of structures are …

Development Of The Principles Of Forming A Database For Geoinformation Mapping Of Tourism (As An Example Of Bostanlyk District Of Tashkent Region), Lola Xoji-Akbarovna Gulyamova, Risolat Raximjon Qizi Nizomova

Technical science and innovation

When creating tourist assessment maps for the purpose of tourist mapping, special attention is paid to determining the criteria for the formation of a database. To assess tourism opportunities in terms of natural conditions, ecology and socio-economic factors, data collection, their characteristics and requirements for them were studied. In order to improve the quality of sources of tourist assessment maps, parables of working with the internet and real-time removable data, creating a map based on social network data were considered. Proposals were made to create, manage and maintain a big data base. The ArcGIS program analyzed the possibilities of describing …

Method For Calculating Characteristic Frequency Ab (Rechargeable Batteries), Alisher Ganisher Ugli Bozorov

Technical science and innovation

A method for calculating the characteristic frequency is proposed, based on automatic interpolation of the frequency dependence of the reactance and subsequent calculation of the characteristic frequency as one of the roots of the interpolation function. The developed algorithm allows you to calculate the characteristic frequency from only 4 points of the frequency dependence of the reactance. In this case, the error in calculating the resonant frequency parameter does not exceed ~2 Hz.

Obviously, the values of the coefficients of the equation depend on the number of resistance values X and the corresponding frequencies of the test signal. The indicated …

Front Matter

Texas A&M Law Review

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The Soft Skills Of The Clinical Experience, Michaela Banks

Virginia Dental Journal

Michaela Banks, a Class of 2024 student at VCU School of Dentistry, shares her experiences in developing soft skills during her clinical training. Initially overwhelmed, she found that mastering patient communication and management was more challenging than the technical aspects of dentistry. With guidance from faculty, she learned to effectively communicate treatment plans and reassure anxious patients. By improving her soft skills, she has built trusting relationships with patients, enhanced her time management, and strengthened her empathy, which she believes will benefit her throughout her career.

A Partnership With Special Olympics, Organized Dentistry, The Community, And Two Dental Schools, Phillip Ashkar

Virginia Dental Journal

The document discusses a partnership involving Special Olympics, organized dentistry, the community, and two dental schools to address the oral health disparities faced by individuals with special needs, particularly those with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities (IDD). It highlights the challenges these individuals face in accessing appropriate dental care due to a lack of specialized resources and providers. The partnership's efforts include providing free dental services through events like the one held on June 10, 2023, where dental students and professionals offered comprehensive care to underserved populations. Despite these efforts, the document emphasizes the ongoing need for systemic changes to improve …

Reusing And Adapting Marketing Content To Make Your Life Easier, Michaela Mishoe

Virginia Dental Journal

Creating an efficient, long-term content plan for your dental practice's marketing can save time and effort. Key strategies include using an editorial calendar to plan content around important dates, building a bank of photos, quotes, and testimonials, and recycling content by slicing it into smaller pieces for various platforms. Tools like Google Sheets, Canva, and third-party content from organizations like the ADA can help streamline the process. This approach ensures consistent, strategic, and creative content aligned with your marketing goals.

Automated Insurance Verification Can Improve Patient Satisfaction And Revenue, Robert Mcdermott

Virginia Dental Journal

Automated insurance verification can significantly enhance patient satisfaction and boost revenue for dental practices. By providing clear and transparent billing information, reducing administrative burdens, and preventing unexpected costs, this technology improves communication and efficiency. It ensures patients are well-informed about their coverage and out-of-pocket expenses, leading to better patient experiences and increased practice profitability.

Ethics: Informed Consent, Adel Rizkalla Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

Informed consent in dental practice involves clear communication between dentists and patients about treatment risks, benefits, costs, and outcomes. It is rooted in the patient's right to self-determination and requires the dentist to present information objectively and holistically. Ethical practice demands that treatment recommendations should not be influenced by financial pressures or personal gain but should focus on the patient's best interests. Effective informed consent enhances the patient-clinician relationship and supports ethical decision-making in dental care.

Introducing The Virginia Dental Academy’S Certified Dental Office Professional Program, Ryan Dunn

Virginia Dental Journal

The Virginia Dental Academy (VDA) has launched the Certified Dental Office Professional program, aimed at enhancing the skills of dental office team members. This year-long program combines in-person and virtual learning, starting at the 2023 Virginia Dental Showcase in Norfolk. It covers essential topics like patient communication, HIPAA compliance, and practice management. Limited to 25 participants, the program offers continuing education and networking opportunities to improve practice efficiency and success. For more information, visit vadental.org/academy.

Letter To The Editor: Suspended By Dentaquest, Supported By The Vda, Jacqueline Carney Dds

Virginia Dental Journal

Dr. Jacqueline Carney faced suspension from the DentaQuest network without prior inquiry, following a patient's mother's complaint. Despite her self-reporting and a clean record, DentaQuest's lack of communication left her in a dire financial situation. The Virginia Dental Association (VDA) intervened, providing crucial support that helped resolve the issue and lift the suspension. Dr. Carney emphasizes the importance of being part of organized dentistry, crediting the VDA's efforts for saving her practice from potential bankruptcy.

Va Dent J July, August And September 2023

Virginia Dental Journal

The July-September 2023 issue of the Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 100, No. 3) showcases diverse and timely topics in dentistry. Highlights include the launch of the Virginia Dental Academy’s Certified Dental Office Professional program, designed to elevate front office team members through specialized training and certifications. Advocacy efforts spotlight the ADA Dentist and Student Lobby Day and fundraising events for legislative priorities. Scientific discussions delve into oral pathology and periodontics, while practice management resources cover cybersecurity, insurance verification, and informed consent ethics. A standout feature is Tooth Sleuths, an engaging look at how dentists apply investigative skills to solve …

Using Email Marketing To Stay Connected With Patients, Michaela Mishoe

Virginia Dental Journal

Email marketing can be a powerful tool for healthcare practices to stay connected with patients. By sharing healthy tips, featuring new products and procedures, highlighting staff and charitable activities, and reengaging inactive patients, practices can enhance patient engagement and ensure regular checkups. It's important to comply with regulations like the CAN-SPAM Act and ensure emails are visually appealing and professional.