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Results Of The Experimental And Use-Wear Studies Carried Out In The Archaeological Summer School In Bulgar (Republic Of Tatarstan), Natalia Skakun, T Shulga, M Galimova, T Bostanova, Alfred Pawlik, M Zhilin, V Terekhina, B Mateva, C Gutierrez, P Munoz Moro, I Gorashuk

Sociology & Anthropology Department Faculty Publications

Traceology is one of the main methods for identifying the functions of ancient tools, characteristics of production activities, reconstructions of the features of paleo-economic systems. Books by S.A. Semenov, the founder of this direction in archaeology, as well as works by his students and followers in Russia and abroad, also made a signifi cant contribution to the discussion of the issues of adaptation to the natural environment, cultural and cognitive development of man. At present, the possibilities of traditional integrated experimental and traceological research have expanded signifi cantly due to digital technology, 3D-scanning, an increase in the experimental reference base, …

เหยื่อจากศัลยกรรมความงามและกระบวนการเยียวยาเหยื่อในประเทศไทย, ศิริรัตน์ พรหมหิตาธร

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษาเรื่อง "เหยื่อจากศัลยกรรมความงามและกระบวนการเยียวยาเหยื่อในประเทศไทย" นี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษาสถานการณ์การตกเป็นเหยื่ออาชญากรรมเกี่ยวกับศัลยกรรมความงาม 2) ศึกษากระบวนการเยียวยาผู้ตกเป็นเหยื่อการทำศัลยกรรมที่เกิดความผิดพลาด และ 3) ศึกษาแนวทางป้องกันและเยียวยาการตกเป็นเหยื่อศัลยกรรมความงาม งานวิจัยนี้เป็นการวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพ ทำการศึกษารวบรวมข้อมูลจากเอกสารวิชาการและข่าวที่นำเสนอในปี 2558-2562 ที่ปรากฏในสื่อ เก็บข้อมูลโดยวิธีการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกจากผู้ที่ตกเป็นเหยื่อจากการทำศัลยกรรมความงาม ซึ่งผู้ให้ข้อมูลสำคัญ คือ ผู้ที่ได้รับความเสียหาย ญาติและผู้ใกล้ชิดกับผู้ที่ได้รับความเสียหายจากการศัลยกรรมความงามจากหมอกระเป๋าและคลินิกศัลยกรรมความงาม จำนวน 5 คน รวมทั้งผู้เกี่ยวข้องกับกระบวนการเยียวยาผู้เสียหายจากการทำศัลยกรรมที่มีประสบการณ์ในการทำงานไม่น้อยกว่า 5 ปี รวมทั้งหมด 9 คน ในพื้นที่กรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล ผลการศึกษาพบว่า สถานการณ์ความรุนแรงที่ผู้ตกเป็นเหยื่อได้รับผลกระทบที่ปรากฏให้เห็นภายนอกทั้งทางร่างกายและจิตใจตั้งแต่บาดเจ็บเล็กน้อย เสียโฉม พิการและเสียชีวิต อีกทั้งพบว่ารูปแบบการทำศัลยกรรมกับหมอกระเป๋าได้รับความนิยมในกลุ่มสาวประเภทสอง เพราะความต้องการตอบสนองด้านความงาม ต้องการเหมือนผู้หญิง เป็นส่วนสำคัญที่ผลักดันให้ทำศัลยกรรมความงาม ปัจจุบันความนิยมเหล่านี้ขยายวงกว้างในกลุ่มผู้หญิง เกือบทุกช่วงอายุ เนื่องจากอิทธิพลของกระบวนการสร้างอัตลักษณ์โดยใช้สื่อทางสังคม การโฆษณา การรีวิว และการบอกกันแบบปากต่อปาก การเยียวยาผู้ตกเป็นเหยื่อจากการศัลยกรรมความงามพบว่ามีการเยียวยาโดยสังคมผ่านทางสื่อโซเชียลมีเดีย องค์กรต่างๆที่ไม่หวังผลกำไร, การเยียวยาโดยคู่กรณีที่ก่อให้เกิดความเสียหายผ่านกระบวนการไกล่เกลี่ย และการบังคับตามคำพิพากษาของศาล ประกอบกับการเยียวยาโดยภาครัฐผ่านพระราชบัญญัติค่าตอบแทนผู้เสียหายและค่าทดแทนและค่าใช้จ่ายแก่จำเลยในคดีอาญา พ.ศ. 2544 และ การเยียวยาตามพระราชบัญญัติหลักประกันสุขภาพ พ.ศ.2545 ในมาตรา 41 ที่นำหลักการชดเชยความเสียหายโดยไม่ต้องพิสูจน์ความผิดมาใช้ แต่ยังไม่ครอบคลุมความเสียหายจากการทำศัลยกรรมความงาม ข้อเสนอแนะจากงานวิจัยเพื่อเป็นแนวทางป้องกันการตกเป็นเหยื่อศัลยกรรมความงาม คือ ควรเพิ่มช่องทางตรวจสอบใบอนุญาตประกอบกิจการสถานเสริมความงาม, การมีข้อกำหนดเกี่ยวกับคุณลักษณะของแพทย์ที่จะทำศัลยกรรมความงาม, การทำความเข้าใจระหว่างแพทย์และผู้รับบริการถึงขั้นตอนและวิธีการรักษา การผ่าตัด และผลกระทบ, มีการควบคุมข้อความที่ใช้โฆษณาของคลินิกศัลยกรรมให้มีความเหมาะสม, การประชาสัมพันธ์ให้ความรู้แก่ประชาชนถึงผลดีและผลเสียที่อาจเกิดขึ้นภายหลังการทำศัลยกรรมความงาม และการตรวจสอบแพทย์และคลินิกศัลยกรรมความงาม รวมทั้งการผสานการทำงานเชิงรุกของหน่วยงานภาครัฐและมีหน่วยงานกลางกำกับดูแลเฉพาะเรื่องศัลยกรรมความงาม และแนวทางการเยียวยาความเสียหายจากการทำศัลยกรรมความงาม คือ เพิ่มเติมข้อกำหนดในพระราชบัญญัติพระราชบัญญัติหลักประกันสุขภาพ พ.ศ.2545 ในมาตรา 41 ให้มีการชดเชยที่ครอบคลุมความเสียหายจากการทำศัลยกรรมความงาม, จัดให้มีการประกันภัยความรับผิดทางการแพทย์ หรือกองทุนเพื่อเยียวยากรณีเกิดความผิดพลาดจากการทำศัลยกรรมความงาม

Increasing Nonprofit Effectiveness By Fundraising In Diverse Communities., Celia Hagerman

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Nonprofit organizations are faced with the need to evaluate their current business model, in order to survive and even flourish in the future. Nonprofits are impacted by a number of external forces that are currently undergoing systematic changes and will therefore have a strong impact on the effectiveness of these types of organizations. The state of the economy, the reach of globalization, changes in population demographics and socio-cultural changes in traditional giving, are some of those external forces that have an extreme impact for nonprofit organizations.

Most nonprofits are financed mainly by a donor base that provides stable and continuous …

The Ever-Changing World Of The Paiute, Joseph Lent

Eastern Sierra History Journal

In this important article, Joseph Lent offers a counter-narrative to settler-colonial conceptions of what we now call the Eastern Sierra that derives its power from the oral histories of the Paiute nation.

From The Editor, Robert Danielson

The Asbury Journal

No abstract provided.

Collectivism And Uncertainty Avoidance In Narrative Oral Histories Of Resettled Syrian Refugees, Suzy S. Ismail

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Emotional resilience among resettled refugees is an indicator of cultural integration and adaptation into a host country which in turn impacts schools, resettlement agencies, and refugee service organizations in how they can best meet the needs of refugees. The documented decline in emotional resilience among resettled Syrian refugees during the past decade is linked to the problem of cultural value disparities causing a resultant decline in mental health and socioemotional wellbeing. The purpose of this narrative qualitative study was to explore expressions of cultural value dimensions such as collectivism and uncertainty avoidance in oral histories of resettled Syrian refugees. Applying …

It’S Just Muzak: Music, Activism, And Advertising., Avery Brzobohaty

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis builds on recent scholarship explaining the relationships between music, advertising, and society through a series of focused case studies in the clothing industry. Globally ubiquitous and reaching all socioeconomic strata, the fashion industry offers a useful focus because, in addition products, it also sells identity. Fashion is a means for individuals to create and express identity by associating themselves with certain brands and styles that help express social, political, economic, and ethical standings as well as gender, sexuality, race, and religion. This thesis considers the ways that sound and music influence the aesthetic and mood of recent fashion …

The Effects Of Gentrification On Residents’ Sense Of Place And Group Cohesion: A Study Of Pittsburgh Neighborhoods, Bernard Digregorio

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Many researchers have studied gentrification. Much of the existing research on gentrification has focused on the extent of population displacement and changes in the community economic profile. Others have focused on the experiences of residents during and after gentrification. In this paper, I take the latter approach. Using data from the 2018 Pittsburgh Quality of Life survey, I examine the effects of gentrification on a range of community-related attitudes (e.g. sense of place and group cohesion). Specifically, I compared residents who reside in gentrifying or gentrified neighborhoods with those who live in neighborhoods that have not gentrified. My two main …

'Making It' Through Migration: Success (Im)Mobility And 'Development' In The Gambia, Martin J. Aucoin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Contemporary scholarly and journalistic literature consistently represents migration from and through The Gambia using the lens of “crisis”. While these representations normally focus on Gambian migration to European states – a movement that is highly politicized – this thesis presents a case study of Gambian migration to a less-politicized destination, North America, in order to explore the relationship between lived experiences and representations of migration absent the discourse of crisis that pervades other scholarly and journalistic works. Drawing on the mobilities paradigm, feminist geographies of migration, critical race theory, transnationalism, and literatures on bordering, humanitarianism and development, I examine, through …

Experiences Of Arts And Humanities Students Engaging In Undergraduate Research, Carinna F. Ferguson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Deemed an important pedagogical tool by the Boyer Commission Report more than 20 years ago, undergraduate research (UR) has been found to increase students’ academic performance, retention, and pursuance of higher degrees. However, much of the existing literature on UR has focused primarily on student participation outcomes in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields while disregarding those in other concentrations. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of arts and humanities students participating in UR by describing (1) their research activities, and (2) the meaning and value they assign to research. Two sets of interviews were …

Music And Politics In Figure Skating: American And Soviet Nationalism, Cultural Diplomacy, And Identity At The Winter Olympics, 1968–1988, Mary Bridget Golden

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis situates figure skating, music, and Cold War politics during three separate Winter Olympic Games held in 1968, 1976, and 1988, examining the impact of this intersection on the sport of figure skating. Through a survey of seven Olympic medal-winning figure skating programs in the men’s and women’s single divisions and the pairs’ division, evidence of the relationship between politics and music is examined in the musical selections of the skaters’ programs. This thesis also explores the overwhelming prominence in skating programs of musical selections that appealed to the tastes of an elite majority during the Cold War, while …

"Treading On The Footprints Of History": American Catholic Pilgrimage As Public History, Charlotte Vester

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In this thesis, I demonstrate how Catholic pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon. I define public history as public engagement, understanding, and use of the past. While I assert that pilgrimage is a public history phenomenon both in the past and in the present, my thesis will focus on American Catholic pilgrimage at the turn of the twentieth century. Each individual chapter will demonstrate that through pilgrimage, the faithful are engaged in public history in its various forms. Catholics actively took part in past-making and identity-construction in their roles as pilgrims. Through pilgrimage, Catholics were involved in the preservation and …

Palmprint Gender Classification Using Deep Learning Methods, Minou Khayami

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Gender identification is an important technique that can improve the performance of authentication systems by reducing searching space and speeding up the matching process. Several biometric traits have been used to ascertain human gender. Among them, the human palmprint possesses several discriminating features such as principal-lines, wrinkles, ridges, and minutiae features and that offer cues for gender identification. The goal of this work is to develop novel deep-learning techniques to determine gender from palmprint images. PolyU and CASIA palmprint databases with 90,000 and 5502 images respectively were used for training and testing purposes in this research. After ROI extraction and …

Hispanic Nursing Students’ Perspectives On Student-Clinical Instructor Relationships And Learning, Inela Brito

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Non-Hispanic students are more likely to be successful in their nursing school studies than Hispanic students. Facilitators and barriers to classroom success for Hispanic students has been studied; however, few studies have addressed the academic clinical experience and the clinical instructor’s role in Hispanic students’ success. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to explore the perspectives of undergraduate senior Hispanic nursing students regarding how student-instructor interactions in the clinical setting influenced students’ ability to learn and succeed in completing their studies. The research questions were guided by an adapted institutional support model and were used to explore how …

Use Of Managerial Epidemiology By Healthcare Leaders In Ambulatory Settings, Chantelle Schenning

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite many health reforms, the United States continues to struggle with limited healthcare access, exponential healthcare costs, and poor quality of care. Overcoming these challenges requires healthcare leaders’ effective navigation of industry transformation towards population health and a shift in patient volume to ambulatory healthcare settings. Research has demonstrated that the use of managerial epidemiology, an application of epidemiology tools and principles to management decision-making within healthcare organizations, can better serve the health of the population and could improve the triple aim of inadequate access, high costs, and poor quality. However, the adoption of this practice is weak and its …

Washington University Magazine, November 2020

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Across The Divide, James D. Garrison

Wraparound South (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Regional Variation On Loanword Adaptation In Japanese, Yuki Hattori

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis examines the variations of loanword abbreviations in Japanese dialects. When adopting foreign words into Japanese, phonological grammar is applied creating loanwords. When loanwords are introduced, Japanese phonological rules determine how to pronounce the new words; Japanese truncation styles are applied to shorten and abbreviate loanwords. Much like native Japanese words, regional variations can be observed in loanword abbreviations. In order to discover how variations are created, this study compares two dialects: the eastern Japanese dialect (standard dialect) and the western Japanese dialect (Kansai dialect). Despite a recent decrease in popularity, the Kansai dialect is still one of the …

The Spatial Historian: Creating A Spatially Aware Historical Research System, James P. Schindling

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The intent of this study is to design a geospatial information system capable of facilitating the extraction and analysis of the fragmentary snapshots of history contained in hand-written historical documents. This customized system necessarily bypasses off-the-shelf GIS in order to support these unstructured primary historical research materials and bring long dormant spatial stories previously hidden in archives, libraries, and other documentary storage locations to life. The software platform discussed here integrates the tasks of information extraction, data management, and analysis while simultaneously giving primary emphasis to supporting the spatial and humanistic analysis and interpretation of the data contents. The premise …

Revisiting The Epistemic Terrains Of Gender, Sex, And Empowerment Through Four Sites Of Engagement In India: Introducing A Conversation, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Richa Nagar, Amanda Gilbertson, Ahonaa Roy, Annie Mccarthy

Study of Women, Gender, & Sexuality: Faculty Publications

Knowledges that claim to end oppression and marginaliza- tion frequently end up feeding the same hierarchies that produce those oppressions. In the academy and in the development industry, it is not uncommon for ‘local’ or ‘subaltern’ knowledges to be positioned as ‘raw data’ to be utilised by the formally certified intellectual or expert, and even presented sometimes as obstacles to development goals that may have been imported from elsewhere . This introduction serves as an opening to a ‘conversation’ among five scholars who have different yet overlapping engage- ments with the complex terrain of knowledge-making on sex and gender, based …

Shifting The Gaze Of The Physician From The Body To The Body In A Place: A Qualitative Analysis Of A Community-Based Photovoice Approach To Teaching Place-Health Concepts To Medical Students, Lauri Andress, Matthew P. Purtill

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Medical practitioners, trained to isolate health within and upon the body of the individual, are now challenged to negotiate research and population health theories that link health status to geographic location as evidence suggests a connection between place and health. This paper builds an integrated place-health model and structural competency analytical framework with nine domains and four levels of proficiency that is utilized to assess a community-based photovoice project’s ability to shift the practice of medicine by medical students from the surface of the body to the body within a place. Analysis of the medical student’s photovoice data demonstrated that …

The Ten Mats Of Sintang Dalisay; Or, How Romeo And Juliet Became Rashiddin And Jamila, Ricardo G. Abad

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Based on Romeo and Juliet and a 1901 awit adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, the theater production Sintang Dalisay deploys, as its movement motif, the igal, a dance tradition of the Sama Bajau of the southern Philippines. The use of the motif influences other elements in the production, specifically, the music, the decision to set the play in a Muslim community, the set and costume designs, and the change of the characters’ names into more local appellations. The localized production adopts a collaborative intercultural approach to theater-making, with Muslim and Christian artists working together to teach the dance to performers, help …

Funds Of Knowledge And Early Literacy: A Mixed Methods Study, Ami Butler, Debra Miretzky

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

When teachers are charged with educating students who are racially, culturally, or economically different from them, they may have little information on the culture and the expectations for family involvement, of their students. This lack of information may lead to perceptions of working-class families, in particular, as socially disorganized and intellectually deficient. Research embodying the theoretical framework of Funds of Knowledge (FoK) attempts to counter this deficit model through its assertion that all families possess extensive bodies of knowledge that have developed through social, historical, political, and economic contexts. The purpose of this study was to carefully examine one Hispanic …

Best Practices For Student-Led Publishing, Victoria Corwin

Dartmouth Library Staff Publications

The Dartmouth Library engages with student writers and editors to support and advise publications. This guide was written by Victoria Corwin, Edward Connery Lathem Digital Library Fellow, in June 2020 after extensive literature reviews, interviews, and personal experience as a student Editor in Chief for three years.

This document covers some best practices for many aspects of student publishing at Dartmouth, including starting a publication, finding support, securing funding, publishing content, increasing visibility, copyright advice, and much more. The resources listed here apply to all types of publications, such as literary magazines, science journals, newspapers, blogs, and zines. This guide …

Using Qualitative Methods To Supplement Quantitative Research: A Case Study In Evaluating Student Usage Of Facilities, Thom Gerrish, Matthew M. Benzing, Susan Hurst

Libraries Faculty and Staff Scholarship and Research

Quantitative research is an important tool in understanding library users; quantifiable data is objective and can be processed and analyzed in ways that bring about new insights. Unfortunately, it is better at telling us where and when than it is at telling us the whys. Our library, the Business, Engineering, Science, and Technology library at Miami University, did a headcount study to see how many people were using which rooms at what times of the day and night. There were many things we learned from that data, but in order to flesh it out and make it more of a …

The Influence Of Connecting Funds Of Knowledge To Beliefs About Performance, Classroom Belonging, Dina Verdín, Jessica Smith, Juan Lucena

School of Engineering Education Graduate Student Series

First-generation college students in engineering accumulate bodies of knowledge through their working-class families. In our ethnographic data of first-generation college students, we identified tinkering knowledge from home and from work, perspective taking, mediational ability, and connecting experiences as knowledge sources brought to engineering. The purpose of this paper was to understand how first-generation college students’ accumulated bodies of knowledge (i.e., funds of knowledge) support their beliefs about performing well in engineering coursework, feeling a sense of belonging in the classroom, and certainty of graduating. Data for this study came from a survey administered in the Fall of 2018 from ten …

Exploring Virtual Worlds With Cultural Algorithms: Ancient Alpena-Amberley Land Bridge, Thomas Joseph Palazzolo

Wayne State University Dissertations

In this thesis the Land Bridge system (DEEPDIVE) is described. The goal of the project is to use Artificial Intelligence technology to aid Archaeologists in the discovery of ancient prehistoric sites, now underwater. The example used here is the Alpena-Amberley Land Bridge that stretched across Lake Huron from Alpena in Michigan to Amberley in Ontario. During the Ice Age (around 10,000 years ago) it was above water for several thousand years. It was postulated that during that time it was used as a migration pathway for caribou, a major food source then. AI techniques were used to create a virtual …

Empathy Through Inquiry: The Weaving Of (Post) Qualitative Inquiry Into Design, Preston Tyler Kelly

Wayne State University Dissertations

Learning design is moving toward more human-centered design methodologies. One key component of human-centered design is empathy. To have empathy, designers must understand their learners as people and “how they show up as learners” within our learning experiences. To do this, designers need to do learner research. One way to do this inquiry work might be to take up post qualitative inquiry because so many of the key tenets of design thinking and post qualitative methodologies are similar.

Through interviews within a post qualitative framework, this project looks at how designers go about this design research to understand their learners. …

Coming Out As Complex: Understanding Lgbtq+ Community Writing Groups, Hillary E. Weiss

Wayne State University Dissertations

Though composition studies has increasingly studied writing spaces outside of the classroom and workplace, LGBTQ+ community writing groups have received little focus in composition research. This dissertation studies four LGBTQ+ community writing groups across North America to find why people choose to join these groups and how power and conflict function in these spaces. I argue that LGBTQ+ writing groups improve writing and offer emotional support, friendship, and community, as other writing groups do, but these particular spaces also provide group members with opportunities to improve one’s self, publish, and educate the community about LGBTQ+ issues. I also find that …

Defoe’S Robinson Crusoe: “Maps,” Natural Law, And The Enemy, Ala Alryyes

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.