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Perceptions Of Experiences Of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals On Community Reentry Programs To Reduce Recidivism, Kelly Sieger

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study was conducted to identify the perceptions of experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals who have been actively involved in community-based reentry programming (CBRP). Utilizing a qualitative interview approach with previously incarcerated persons, the study’s focus was to identify the differences in literature, lived experiences, and the connection between CBRP and recidivism through the perceptions of formerly incarcerated persons who have completed CBRP. A key goal was to identify difficulties in the reentry process through the perception of lived experience and offer suggestions for improvements through the lens of actuarial justice. Using a qualitative, phenomenological approach, data was collected through …

Social Support, Employee Engagement, And Turnover Intention Of Hybrid Working Leaders In The Pharmaceutical Industry, Victoria Terrell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Retaining leaders in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry is a challenge, and leadership attrition can negatively impact a company. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work arrangements are used to retain leaders in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, yet challenges exist with social support and employee engagement within hybrid work. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine the relationships, if any, between social support, employee engagement, and turnover intentions among hybrid working leaders in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. The job demands-resources model and the social exchange theory provided the study’s foundation. The study sample consisted of 245 leaders in middle-management …

Perceptions Of Experiences Of Formerly Incarcerated Individuals On Community Reentry Programs To Reduce Recidivism, Kelly Sieger

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study was conducted to identify the perceptions of experiences of formerly incarcerated individuals who have been actively involved in community-based reentry programming (CBRP). Utilizing a qualitative interview approach with previously incarcerated persons, the study’s focus was to identify the differences in literature, lived experiences, and the connection between CBRP and recidivism through the perceptions of formerly incarcerated persons who have completed CBRP. A key goal was to identify difficulties in the reentry process through the perception of lived experience and offer suggestions for improvements through the lens of actuarial justice. Using a qualitative, phenomenological approach, data was collected through …

Modulation Of Energetic And Lipid Pathways By Curcumin As A Potential Chemopreventive Strategy In Human Prostate Cancer Cells, Michele Pellegrino, Maria Antonietta Occhiuzzi, Fedora Grande, Ilaria Stefania Pagani, Stefano Aquaro, Paola Tucci

Staff and Researcher Publications

In Western industrialized countries, prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common malignant disease and prevalent cause of death for men. Epidemiological studies have shown that curcumin (CUR) either prevents PCa initiation or delays its progression to a more aggressive and treatment-refractory form, thus reducing related mortality. Our previous studies have proven the anticancer, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties of CUR on PCa cells. However, there are few reports of the effect of CUR on energy and lipid pathways in PCa. Herein, we show that CUR can modulate the two metabolic energy pathways, increasing glycolytic reserve and reducing oxidative phosphorylation. Moreover, …

Heroic Virtues In Space Exploration: Everydayness And Supererogation On Earth And Beyond, John N. Nielsen

Heroism Science

The space environment poses significant dangers and difficulties for human explorers—difficulties so great that it has been argued that space exploration should be exclusively conducted by automated spacecraft. The possibility of space science conducted by human astronauts in spite of these dangers presents the opportunity for individuals to exhibit traditional heroic virtues—presumably, supererogatory forms of prudence, temperance, fortitude, and justice—in the pursuit of science. In particular, the difficulties of pursuing science in the hostile conditions of extraterrestrial environments will call for physical courage in the face of personal danger, patience with the painstaking procedures of technically difficult scientific experiments performed …

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MAGIS: Student Development Journal

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Hope’S Legacy: Thoughts On The Lessons Barack Obama Offers Tomorrow’S College Student, Michele Murray

MAGIS: Student Development Journal

The 2008 presidential election gave the nation not only its first Black president but also a new vision of leadership. Campaigning on the promise of change and a message of hope, Barack Obama won the hearts of a people, especially the young. College students of today and tomorrow can look to Obama’s example for a new model of character and for effective approaches to leadership, diversity, power, and privilege. The lessons they learn, with the help of student affairs professionals who mentor them, with help them transform the hope Obama espouses into a new reality.

Sharing Stories, Understanding Selves:A Glimpse Into The Values Of Ethical Decision Making, Robert Kelly

MAGIS: Student Development Journal

This manuscript is an excerpt from a larger study regarding what senior student affairs administrators (SSAOs) identify as critical values in ethical decision-making. Through an interpretive approach, narrative inquiry, SSAOs were invited to share professional stories about ethical decision-making. There are two dimensions of ethical decisions. The public side that is shown to others and the private side that silently tests the individual. This private side, through the dialogue of data collection, was exposed and summarized in this study. This interpretive study explored the values, not often discussed openly or shared with others, ten SSAOs considered in ethical dilemmas. The …

Social Capital, Post-Industrial Society, And Faulty Industry Experience: Higher Education’S Engagement Opportunity In Applied Disciplines, Asa B. Wilson, Steven A. Stovall, Edward Crowley

Journal of the North American Management Society

Higher education faces two currents - declining social capital support and the post-industrial transition. Both impact the academy and its students. The associated challenges are discussed as engagement opportunities for the academy in applied disciplines. Also, the instructional value of faculty industry experience (IE) is defined as an attribute of social capital. It fosters student engagement while building an experiential learning bridge from the classroom to the workplace. A composite case based on faculty social capital backgrounds illustrates how faculty IE augments program development, academic rigor, student readiness, research creativity, industry linkages, and community impact. Follow-up research opportunities are identified.

The Importance Of Creativity As A Leadership Trait In Times Of Uncertainty, Niall C. Hegarty, Gerald Cusack

Journal of the North American Management Society

The purpose of this article is to illustrate that in times of uncertainty and crisis leadership creativity is the key ingredient in ensuring the survival of the firm. In such times there is no stock solution - one size does not fit all. Hence, the important trait of creativity is a crucial component needed in organizational leadership. The article progresses through the various types of creativity and challenges to survival of organizations that require the presence of creativity and develops a creative LOOP system to promote continued organizational creativity. Triggered by the presence of Covid-19 and the natural exploration of …

Building A Better Future For Christian Higher Education, Maria Ll Lam

Journal of the North American Management Society

This paper is an exploratory study concerning the perceptions of 16 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officers at nine Protestant evangelical Christian universities and six Catholic universities. Among these 16 DEI officers, 15 are people of color. 13 possess Ph.D. degrees and hold the highest administrative positions at their institutions. They are often required to address justice issues in their diversity initiatives if they don’t want to reproduce systematic institutional injustices in historically white-dominated Christian universities. They are working across multiple boundaries (i.e., boundary spanners) for institutional-level diversity changes. They all voice motivations to make institutional changes and 11 DEI …

Early Career Nurses' Attitudes Toward Climate Change And Its Relationship To Nursing Practice And Education: A Qualitative, Descriptive Exploratory Study, Ongelique Conflenti

Theses

Background: Climate change is accelerating rapidly, and its adverse effects on human health are expected to worsen in the coming decades. Nurses have a professional and ethical responsibility to address climate change and help the healthcare sector adapt to its challenges. Due to a lack of education on the topic, however, many nurses are not aware of the relevance of climate change to their nursing practice. Little is known about the attitudes of early career nurses (ECNs) toward climate change or their perspectives on integrating it into their continuing education.

Aims: This research will aim to explore the attitudes of …

Life Experiences Of Limited English Proficiency Patients With Established Cardiovascular Diseases Living In The Us-Mexico Border, Cristina Dominguez De Quezada, Crystal Brown, Enrique Barrientos

Sigma Foundation for Nursing Research Grant Reports

The proposed study aimed to explore the life experiences of Limited English Proficiency Hispanic/Latinos with established cardiovascular conditions when interacting in a predominantly English-speaking healthcare environment in the US-Mexico border.

Through Their Eyes, Austin Dixon, Ty-Ie Fuller

Journal of Access, Retention, and Inclusion in Higher Education

This qualitative case study explored the perceptions of success and experiences of nine minority male participants in a men-of-color-themed first-year learning community (MCLC) at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Focus groups and individual interviews revealed four major themes: the importance of strong instructor relationships, the subjective nature of success, the value of affinity spaces, and the positive impact of the learning community on development and motivation. Participants emphasized the role of instructor rapport, defined success through the lens of personal empowerment, and highlighted the significance of culturally relevant peer connections. The findings indicate that MCLCs can foster a sense of community, identity …

Counseling Center Collaboration To Bridge The Gap For College Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Stephanie Sibley Psy.D., Kristen Mehr Ph.D.

Journal of Access, Retention, and Inclusion in Higher Education

As more individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) enter college, increased efforts should be made by university counseling centers to provide support and help ensure the success of these students. This article reviews the unique needs of college students with ASD and highlights the benefits of proactive, collaborative, and individualized mental health support. An existing outreach relationship between a university counseling center and that university’s Autism support program is described, and recommendations for how other counseling centers can develop similar programming are discussed. It is believed that efforts to effectively address the mental health needs of college students with ASD …

Stable Heterogeneous Traffic Flow With Effective Localization And Path Planning In Wireless Network Connected And Automated Vehicles In~Internet Of Vehicular Things (Iovt), Ahmed N. Rashid, Ahmed Mahdi Jubair

Iraqi Journal for Computer Science and Mathematics

The increasing complexity of networks comprising both Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and Human-Driven Vehicles (HDVs) presents substantial challenges in achieving accurate positioning, efficient communication, and optimal route planning. Current methodologies fall short in enhancing vehicular network efficiency and reliability due to noise interference, inefficient data transmission, and unstable data transfer. This study aims to improve localization accuracy, reduce communication noise, and enhance path planning efficiency in mixed CAV and HDV environments through the Stable Heterogeneous Traffic Flow using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Effective Path Planning (SHTDR-EPP) approach. The primary goals are to ensure dependable localization, efficient communication, and reliable route …

Pilapil On The Theory And Praxis Of Recognition, Paolo A. BolañOs

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Pilapil on the Theory and Praxis of Recognition

Why Should Universities Contribute To New Utopias?, Geert Bouckaert

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

What would the ideal society look like, and its university? In 1516 the English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island. His Utopia was first published in the Flemish town of Leuven, home of a university that was established almost a century earlier in 1425. Five hundred years later, university scholars revisit More’s exercise in an interdisciplinary range of science-based utopias.1 Like More’s Utopia, later and new utopias have to be read in the light of their own times. Utopias are connected to and embedded in their social realities. They belong to …

Christianity's Paradox: Chesterton After Kierkegaard, Peter Murphy

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

A convert to Catholicism, G.K. Chesterton was a leading intellectual of the British Edwardian age and one of the important social and religious thinkers of the twentieth century. His trademark was paradox. He wrote in defense of the imagination and the corralling of opposites, oppositions, contradictions, and bountiful inconsistencies. The article explores Chesterton’s views on faith, religion, God, Christianity, Islam, modernity, change, and progress. It locates him in a philosophical stream that sees laughter and comedy as a religious disguise, paradox as a creative force, and the imagination as a necessary complement of reason. This is framed by a discussion …

Helen De Cruz And Ryan Nichols, Eds. Advances In Religion, Cognitive Science, And Experimental Philosophy, Jovino G. Miroy

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Helen de Cruz and Ryan Nichols, eds. Advances in Religion, Cognitive Science, and Experimental Philosophy

Paul Ricoeur's Anthropology Of Forgiveness, Guillermo R. Dionisio

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

In his philosophical anthropology Paul Ricoeur sees man’s innate goodness, despite his propensity for evil, ramifying into many capacities, among them, forgiveness. The capacity to forgive, for Ricoeur, lies between the paralysis of the power to act due to human fault, and the possible lifting of this incapacity through the separation of the offending agent from his or her evil deeds. But if forgiveness obtains in isolating offenders from their evil deeds, their self-understanding, sense of responsibility, and identity might become distorted and inaccurate, and would make us question whether forgiveness should be horizontal, that is, conditional; or vertical, that …

The Practice Of Hermeneutics: The Legal Text And Beyond, George H. Taylor

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

This article attempts to show the continuing practical relevance of hermeneutics through the example of legal interpretation. The article begins with the very concrete nature of legal hermeneutics that forms everyday legal practice—the interrelation of meaning and application— and expands at a more theoretical to show how legal hermeneutics, and hermeneutics more generally, offers what Ricoeur calls an interpretive “choice in favor of meaning.” The choice in favor of meaning underscores the restorative character of hermeneutics that legal hermeneutics can epitomize. The article concludes with some of the challenges facing contemporary legal hermeneutics.

Between Struggle And Peaceful Dialogue: An Overture To Honneth And Ricoeur On Recognition, Paolo A. BolañOs

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

In this article I offer an overture to further discussions about the relationship between the German critical theorist, Axel Honneth, and the French philosopher of dialogue, Paul Ricoeur, specifically on their insights on the ethics of recognition. First, I define critical theory through the three normative resources suggested by Max Horkheimer in order to contextualize my reading of Honneth and Ricoeur, both of whom adhere to the politico-practical content of critical theory. Second, I briefly outline the Honneth–Ricoeur debate/dialogue in order to show the philosophical link between them. Third, in separate sections, I schematically discuss the basic features of their …

Exemplarity And The "Law Of Superabundance", Roger W. H. Savage

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Paul Ricoeur’s critique of social emancipatory projects that claim to be absolutely radical sets the stage for my investigation into the exemplary value of esteemed moral and political acts. Like works of art, such acts reform or revolutionize praxis through refashioning the world from within. By placing textual hermeneutics under the theme of the increase in being evinced by the work of art, Ricoeur’s analysis on the way that metaphor as a work in miniature iconically augments reality forges a link between the imagination’s productive power and the “law of superabundance.” This law inheres in the logic of hope. The …

“How Come I Don’T Look Like That”: The Negative Impact Of Wishful Identification With Influencers On Follower Well-Being, Ruonan Zhang, Trinideé Mercado, Yu Chen, Nicky Chang Bi

Faculty Publications

Purpose Building on Social Comparison Theory and Parasocial Relationship Theory, this study is designed to investigate how followers’ wishful identification with YouTube influencers is associated with their psychological well-being and how parasocial relationships with influencers moderate this association. Design/methodology/approach Influencer-fan data (N = 504) is collected through a Qualtrics survey in collaboration with a real-life influencer on YouTube. Hayes Process Modeling was used to conduct mediation and moderation analyses. Findings Results indicate that enjoyment of influencers’ videos positively leads to followers’ wishful identification, which negatively impacts their well-being. The parasocial relationship with the influencer was found to be a significant …

The Utah Statesman, November 25, 2024, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Brown, Brandy, Atlantis Martin

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

In this interview with Brandy Brown, a queer social worker originally from Georgia, they discuss such topics as family of origin, education (including getting a GED and later a doctorate), religious conversion therapies, overcoming estrangement with their family, parenting, and queer youth. Dr Brown also discusses their important role in creating the first gender clinic for trans youth at Maine Health in the Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital.

The Challenges That Nontraditional Early Childhood Educators Face When Completing Higher Education, Polixeni Pantelidou

Dissertations

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The Challenges that Nontraditional Early Childhood Educators Face When Completing Higher Education by Polixeni Pantelidou

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore the challenges that non-traditional Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers face as they pursue higher education. The study aimed to identify key barriers, motivators, and strategies that influence their educational progression and completion. It aims to identify the motivators that drive these individuals to pursue further education, the challenges they encounter once enrolled, and the strategies they employ to overcome these barriers.

Methodology: This study employed a qualitative descriptive method, engaging a select group …

Resilience Of A Palestinian University Instructor Surviving War: A Grounded Theory Study, Hassan El-Nabih, Sadek Firwana

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

This qualitative study addressed the devastating impacts of war on civilians by giving voice to a Palestinian university instructor who had a life-threatening experience during the Israeli aggressive war on the Gaza Strip in 2014. The data for the study were gathered from two different sources: (i) a narrative written by the instructor shortly after his recovery and (ii) a semi-structured interview conducted with him three years after this harrowing event. In order to explore and theorize the salient themes in the data, we adopted a three-phase grounded theory methodology. The initial coding phase yielded 30 important codes, which were …

The Effects Of Personality Type On Decision Making, Meghan Cemke, Kya Cousino, Aubrey Kelly, Mckenna Prouty

Science University Research Symposium (SURS)

A person’s personality encompasses many aspects of their life including how they act and how they think. It is common for people to fail to recognize that their personality is at work, or even that it could have an effect on their cognitive decision-making. Particularly, moral decision-making and the effects of personality on their collectivist or individualist mindset. Previous research has shown that certain aspects of a person’s Big Five personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) have the ability to impact the way that people make decisions that benefit themselves or others (Saha, 2018). The goal of the current …