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The Songs Of Jean Sibelius: Poetry, Music, Performance, By Gustav Djupsjöbacka, Lina Sheahan Dec 2024

The Songs Of Jean Sibelius: Poetry, Music, Performance, By Gustav Djupsjöbacka, Lina Sheahan

Library Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Know Your Birth: Improving Knowledge And Confidence Through Education On Childbirth In Rural Kenya, Stephanie Cortez, Jasmine Ochoa, Manvi Pal, Carol Xiong Dec 2024

Know Your Birth: Improving Knowledge And Confidence Through Education On Childbirth In Rural Kenya, Stephanie Cortez, Jasmine Ochoa, Manvi Pal, Carol Xiong

ELMSN E-Portfolio. A collection of Scholarly and Creative Works

No abstract provided.


A Revolution Deferred: Polycrisis And The Failures Of Incremental Change In South Africa, Geoffrey Schneider Dec 2024

A Revolution Deferred: Polycrisis And The Failures Of Incremental Change In South Africa, Geoffrey Schneider

Working Papers

No abstract provided.


News From Hope College, Volume 56.2: Winter 2024, Hope College Dec 2024

News From Hope College, Volume 56.2: Winter 2024, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.


Acer 2023-2024 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer) Dec 2024

Acer 2023-2024 Annual Report, Australian Council For Educational Research (Acer)

ACER Annual Reports

No abstract provided.


Social Context And Interlanguage Variability, Brian Kapustka Dec 2024

Social Context And Interlanguage Variability, Brian Kapustka

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This project explores how interlanguage development is influenced by the social contexts in which language learners interact. Drawing upon foundational theories, such as Selinker’s interlanguage theory and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory, it analyzes how learners adapt their language use based on formal and informal communicative settings. The study emphasizes that interlanguage variability is not an error but an adaptive strategy shaped by social mediation and contextual influences. The project synthesizes empirical research from scholars such as Ortega, Amirjalili et al., and Saric to investigate how factors like feedback, input processing, and crosslinguistic influences shape language outcomes. It also highlights the pedagogical …


University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2024-25, University Of Dayton Dec 2024

University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2024-25, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of University Marketing and Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD.


Maternal Care Providers’ Perspectives Of Selective Vs Routine Episiotomy, Uzma Akhtar, Salma Rattani, Rahila Meghani, Nadeem F. Zuberi Dec 2024

Maternal Care Providers’ Perspectives Of Selective Vs Routine Episiotomy, Uzma Akhtar, Salma Rattani, Rahila Meghani, Nadeem F. Zuberi

Journal of Asian Midwives (JAM)

Background: Normal Vaginal delivery is considered the favorable mode of delivery, but perineal trauma due to episiotomy is a significant concern in obstetric care nowadays. Although, routine episiotomy practice is discouraged because there is no evidence regarding its benefits, the rate of episiotomy is very high especially in lower-middle-income countries as compared to recommended rate given by the World Health Organization (WHO) which is 10% of all normal vaginal deliveries.
Method: Utilizing Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. (PRISMA) guidelines, the study searched for appropriate literature on Investigating Healthcare Professionals' Views on Selective versus Routine Episiotomy. Significant databases: …


Characteristics Of Adolescent Romantic Partnerships And Their Associations With Partnership Qualities, Jonathon J. Beckmeyer, Gabrielle C. Kline Dec 2024

Characteristics Of Adolescent Romantic Partnerships And Their Associations With Partnership Qualities, Jonathon J. Beckmeyer, Gabrielle C. Kline

Faculty Publications - Family and Consumer Sciences

The purpose of our study was to identify characteristics of adolescents’ romantic partnerships that are associated with the quality of those partnerships. 101 romantically involved adolescents (15 to 18 years old, 47.5% female) were recruited from Qualtrics Panel Services for an online, cross-sectional study of family and social relationships. Most adolescents had same-age and different-gender romantic partners, lived geographically close to their partners, and spent several unsupervised hours with their partners each week, had a define the partnership talk, and anticipated stability in their partnership. Partnership characteristics and quality were significantly associated. Living close to partners and seeing them often, …


Evaluating Consumers' Acceptability Of Laser-Labeled Apple Fruit, Durga Khadka, Martin J. Talavera, Eleni D. Pliakoni, Logan L. Britton, Londa Nwadike, Manreet S. Bhullar Dec 2024

Evaluating Consumers' Acceptability Of Laser-Labeled Apple Fruit, Durga Khadka, Martin J. Talavera, Eleni D. Pliakoni, Logan L. Britton, Londa Nwadike, Manreet S. Bhullar

Dairy Science and Food Science Faculty Publications: 2022 to Present

Fresh produce is traditionally labeled with plastic Price LookUp (PLU) stickers that are environmental contaminants and can easily detach during handling and disrupt traceability. The CO2 laser-labeling technology (LLT), an alternate method of produce labeling, has been gaining attention. However, the performance of this technology varies by produce, and consumer perception and acceptability remain understudied. The study evaluated consumers' perception and acceptability of the laser-labeled apple fruit that were purchased locally, laser-printed with a QR code, and coated with edible wax. A consumer study (N = 75) was conducted using 1) Apple with QR-code, 2) Apple with PLU plastic …


Low Public Awareness Opens Up New Opportunities For Highlighting Milk As An Iodine Dietary Source, Giovanni Niero, Simona Censi, Caterina Mian, Carmen L. Manuelian, Maristela Rovai, Eleni Tsiplakou, Luciana Da Costa, Et.Al Dec 2024

Low Public Awareness Opens Up New Opportunities For Highlighting Milk As An Iodine Dietary Source, Giovanni Niero, Simona Censi, Caterina Mian, Carmen L. Manuelian, Maristela Rovai, Eleni Tsiplakou, Luciana Da Costa, Et.Al

Dairy Science and Food Science Faculty Publications: 2022 to Present

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Immigration, Sanctuary Counties, And Crime: A Safety Net For Vulnerable Populations?, Carson Duca Dec 2024

Immigration, Sanctuary Counties, And Crime: A Safety Net For Vulnerable Populations?, Carson Duca

Sociology and Criminology Undergraduate Honors Theses

The literature for the relationship between immigration and crime has been growing in recent decades, but the research on how immigration sanctuary policies are associated with crime is relatively underdeveloped. There is much theory that describes how immigration sanctuary policies could make the police more effective and efficient due to increased correspondence levels, which also has the potential to increase crime reporting rates. The current study advances the extant literature on the relationship between immigration sanctuary policies and crime. To do so, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression techniques are run to analyze how the presence of immigration sanctuary policies along …


Multi-Scale Modeling Of Dna-Templated Aggregates For Excitonic Applications, German Barcenas Moncada Dec 2024

Multi-Scale Modeling Of Dna-Templated Aggregates For Excitonic Applications, German Barcenas Moncada

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Quantum entanglement occupies a central role in the application of quantum mechanics towards emerging technologies of quantum information systems. Meanwhile, quantum entanglement is believed to be observed at room temperature in photosynthetic complexes in plants and algae through the energy transfer of dye molecules. The goal of this project is to engineer dye properties and their arrangement when dyes and aggregates are covalently attached to DNA so that the emergent property of exciton delocalization is as coherent, predictable, detectable and controllable. The creation of such a platform would enable the continued study of near room-temperature quantum entanglement and the more …


Is Subjective Well-Being Insured Against Income Shocks? Evidence From 20-Year Panel Data In South Korea, Jiyeon Ahn, Taehyun Ahn, Kim Dec 2024

Is Subjective Well-Being Insured Against Income Shocks? Evidence From 20-Year Panel Data In South Korea, Jiyeon Ahn, Taehyun Ahn, Kim

Research Collection School Of Economics

Using 20 years of nationally representative panel data in South Korea, we estimate how life satisfaction responds to income shocks. We document that unexpected income changes significantly impact an individual's life satisfaction, and the magnitudes depend on the persistence of income shocks. We find that permanent income shocks substantially penetrate life satisfaction, while transitory income shocks have minimal impact. We also find that life satisfaction regarding external factors such as family income and leisure activities is more sensitive to income shocks than life satisfaction related to social relationships. Our findings imply that it is critical for the government to address …


A Clinician’S Guide To Pediatric And Adolescent Alopecia Areata Treatments, Heli A. Patel, Rishab R. Revankar, Jenna E. Koblinski, Benjamin Ungar, Emma Guttman-Yassky, Jamie B. Mackelfresh, Dirk Elston, Peter Lio Dec 2024

A Clinician’S Guide To Pediatric And Adolescent Alopecia Areata Treatments, Heli A. Patel, Rishab R. Revankar, Jenna E. Koblinski, Benjamin Ungar, Emma Guttman-Yassky, Jamie B. Mackelfresh, Dirk Elston, Peter Lio

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Background: Available treatment options for pediatric alopecia areata are limited and may even exacerbate the physical and psychosocial burden. Objective: This article aimed to provide a treatment classification system and counseling recommendations. Recommendations: Topical corticosteroids are appropriate for initial treatment due to their ease of use and safety. Topical minoxidil and dithranol are often used as adjunctive treatments based on mixed data. Intralesional corticosteroids are effective for localized disease, but injections may be challenging in children. Contact immunotherapy, systemic corticosteroids, and immunosuppressive agents such as topical and oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors, dupilumab, and low-dose methotrexate demonstrate varying effectiveness, adverse …


Empowering The B&Vi Within The Sport Of Fencing: An Exploration Of Research, Grant Proposals, And Instructor Perspectives, Rylie Knight Dec 2024

Empowering The B&Vi Within The Sport Of Fencing: An Exploration Of Research, Grant Proposals, And Instructor Perspectives, Rylie Knight

Occupational Therapy Doctoral Capstones

Visual impairment can affect various aspects of individuals lives, including social interactions, daily activities, mobility, and emotional well-being. Individuals with visual impairment often exhibit lower levels of physical fitness and coordination, leading to increased sedentary behavior and potential long-term health consequences. Existing studies have not detailed occupational therapy involvement in blind and visually impaired (B&VI) fencing to enhance mobility, sensory capabilities, and daily activities. Furthermore, there is a lack of research on competitive sports within the B&VI community. This project addressed the limited research in B&VI fencing, analyzed the activity of fencing through an occupational therapy lens, discovered grants for …


Picturing The Teaching Of The Holocaust: A Narrative Case Study Of Four English Language Arts Teachers Who Teach The Holocaust, Shelley L. Esman Dec 2024

Picturing The Teaching Of The Holocaust: A Narrative Case Study Of Four English Language Arts Teachers Who Teach The Holocaust, Shelley L. Esman

Dissertations

This qualitative narrative case study was designed to examine the pedagogical choices of four English Language Arts teachers who teach the Holocaust. This study shares the “picture” of the four English language arts teachers from Michigan, Indiana, and Florida. Data collected through interviews and curricular documents were analyzed in connection to each of the teacher’s identities and rationales for teaching the Holocaust. This study highlights each teacher’s process of becoming a Holocaust teacher and describes how each teaches the content of the Holocaust in grades fifth to tenth. It uncovers the common dispositions of these four teachers. It shares the …


A Mixed-Methods Outcome Evaluation Of A National Science Foundation Advance Project Examining The Effect Of Gender On Organizational Climate And Faculty Experience With Inclusion, Alena Hofrova Dec 2024

A Mixed-Methods Outcome Evaluation Of A National Science Foundation Advance Project Examining The Effect Of Gender On Organizational Climate And Faculty Experience With Inclusion, Alena Hofrova

All Dissertations

Despite increased efforts through the NSF ADVANCE program to enhance the representation and inclusion of female faculty in academia over the past two decades, challenges related to gender equity persist. This raises concerns regarding the effectiveness of these initiatives, with research indicating gaps in the evaluation of institutional transformation efforts. This mixed-methods dissertation utilized secondary data analysis from the NSF TIGERS ADVANCE Organizational Climate Survey conducted in 2017 (N = 446) and 2024 (N = 429) at Clemson University. A unique identifier was used to track participants' responses over time (N = 76), facilitating the evaluation of …


Preschool Teachers’ Self-Efficacy In Teaching Mathematics: A Multiple Holistic Case Study Approach, Farhana Afroz Dec 2024

Preschool Teachers’ Self-Efficacy In Teaching Mathematics: A Multiple Holistic Case Study Approach, Farhana Afroz

All Dissertations

Teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching mathematics plays a significant role in students’ success in mathematics (Levine et al., 2010; MacDonald, 2020). Introducing high-quality mathematics instruction in preschool is crucial, as this practice impacts children’s future mathematics achievement (Claessens & Engel, 2013; Braak et al., 2021). Despite having this benefit, children at the preschool level get inadequate mathematics lessons due to the preschool teachers’ uneasiness or discomfort with teaching mathematics (Gerde et al., 2018; Bates et al., 2013). However, this discomfort or uneasiness may arise from teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching mathematics (Copley, 2004). This study investigated the perceived self-efficacy of preschool teachers …


200 Years Of Johnson V. M'Intosh (Jvm): Indigenous Responses To The Religious Foundations Of Racism, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree, Adam Dj Brett Dec 2024

200 Years Of Johnson V. M'Intosh (Jvm): Indigenous Responses To The Religious Foundations Of Racism, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree, Adam Dj Brett

Religion - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Religious Origins Of White Supremacy And The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree, Adam Dj Brett Dec 2024

The Religious Origins Of White Supremacy And The Doctrine Of Christian Discovery, Philip P. Arnold, Sandra L. Bigtree, Adam Dj Brett

Religion - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.


University Of Nebraska At Omaha Commencement: December 2024, University Of Nebraska At Omaha Dec 2024

University Of Nebraska At Omaha Commencement: December 2024, University Of Nebraska At Omaha

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


New Legal Realism At 20: Rethinking Law In An Era Of Populism And Social Movements, Jeffrey Omari, Pablo Rueda-Saiz, Richard Ashby Wilson Dec 2024

New Legal Realism At 20: Rethinking Law In An Era Of Populism And Social Movements, Jeffrey Omari, Pablo Rueda-Saiz, Richard Ashby Wilson

Connecticut Law Review

This Article critically examines the New Legal Realism (NLR) movement on its twentieth anniversary and illuminates its distinctive intellectual contributions. In evaluating NLR’s unique methodological and substantive contributions, we explore the movement's relationship to other interdisciplinary theories and empirical approaches to law. NLR approaches show a commitment to a comparative, crossnational exploration of legal phenomena while allowing for grounded generalizations about the relationship between law and society. NLR approaches embrace a diverse range of methods and emphasize the importance of “looking up, down, and sideways.” Notably, NLR embraces both “top-down” and “bottom-up” methods, providing comprehensive insights into the intricate interactions …


From Constitutional Law To Constitutional Change, Steven D. Schwinn Dec 2024

From Constitutional Law To Constitutional Change, Steven D. Schwinn

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.


Impossibility Of Artificial Inventors, Matt Blaszczyk Dec 2024

Impossibility Of Artificial Inventors, Matt Blaszczyk

UC Law Science and Technology Journal

Recently, the United Kingdom Supreme Court decided that only natural persons can be considered inventors. A year before, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a similar decision. In fact, so have many of the courts all over the world. This Article analyzes these decisions, argues that the courts got it right, and finds that artificial inventorship is at odds with patent law doctrine, theory, and philosophy. This Article challenges the intellectual property (IP) post-humanists, exposing the analytical and normative perils of their argumentation, and recommends against getting rid of the nominally central place of humans …


Broadband Access And Digital Skills Case Studies Project, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Anna M. Kleiner, Roseanne Scammahorn, John J. Green Dec 2024

Broadband Access And Digital Skills Case Studies Project, Lionel J. Beaulieu, Anna M. Kleiner, Roseanne Scammahorn, John J. Green

Digital Access

No abstract provided.


Designing A System-Level Architecture Of A Wireless User Terminal Using Pdsch, Auruba Islam Dec 2024

Designing A System-Level Architecture Of A Wireless User Terminal Using Pdsch, Auruba Islam

2024 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

With the ever-growing demand for faster and cleaner wireless communication systems, designs for such systems are becoming more and more complex as they account for hardware limitations, modulation techniques, and Rician fading. This project is aimed at developing a system-level architecture for specifically a mobile-wireless user, focusing on the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH). With requirements and constraints already specified by the advising faculty, a simulation reference system has been implemented on MATLAB for PDSCH subject to Rician flat fading, while a demodulator with QPSK modulation has been designed. Existing designs of considerably similar focuses were referred to setting it …


Designing An Advanced Gui For A Laser Harp, Matthew Moran Dec 2024

Designing An Advanced Gui For A Laser Harp, Matthew Moran

2024 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

This project presents the design and development of a laser harp, an innovative digital instrument that combines music and technology to inspire interest in STEM education. The harp uses laser beams and phototransistors to simulate the strings of a traditional harp, producing sound when the beams are interrupted. The primary focus of the honors section of this work is a custom-built software interface developed with a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to easily adjust settings like note range, volume, and the central part of the show, looping notes. The GUI is designed to be intuitive, making it easy …


Examining The Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Among African American College Students At The University Of Texas At Arlington, Esha Kashyap Dec 2024

Examining The Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease Among African American College Students At The University Of Texas At Arlington, Esha Kashyap

2024 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Many studies examine the risk of cardiovascular disease in the general population of African Americans adults compared with other racial and ethnic groups; however, there is limited research that explores the risk factors, discrimination, and food behavior that impact this group. Cardiovascular disease develops over time and certain practices or experiences can increase the risk of this disease; thus, studying the behavior and perceptions of college students is important. Therefore, this research examined whether food behavior and perceived discrimination was higher in African American college students than in other racial or ethnic student groups. Utilizing a survey containing both qualitative …


Effect Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (Hbot) On The Proportion Of Splenic Leukocytes During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration, Hetvi Patel Dec 2024

Effect Of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (Hbot) On The Proportion Of Splenic Leukocytes During Skeletal Muscle Regeneration, Hetvi Patel

2024 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can accelerate the regeneration of skeletal muscle after injury and improve overall recovery. Certain cells of the spleen are increased during muscle regeneration; however, the effect of HBOT on splenic cells during muscle regeneration is not well understood. In other experimental models, HBOT proliferates the proportion of splenic cells. In this study, eight male and nine female mice sustaining crush muscle injuries underwent HBOT at 1.5 atmospheres absolute for 60 min or normobaric hyperoxia (100% O2) for 60 min within 2-6 hours of injury for 4 days. The mice were then euthanized at 4- …