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Unveiling The Paradox: How Abusive Supervision Can Stimulate Employee Creativity, Tahmineh Borhani, Sina Eslamdoust, Zahra Yamin, Minoo Karandish

Business Analytics Faculty Publications

In today's dynamic organizational landscape, understanding the interplay between leadership behavior and employee creativity is essential for fostering innovation and maintaining competitive advantages. While extensive research has examined various leadership styles and their impact on employee performance, there is a notable gap regarding the effects of abusive supervision on employee creativity and perceived competence. Drawing on the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this paper investigates how abusive supervision influences employee creativity and perceived competence. We propose a framework that integrates the negative impact of fear of abusive supervisors as a key factor influencing creativity and employees' perceived competence. By examining …

Bridging The Gap Between Occupational Therapy And Therapeutic Horseback Riding: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Further Engagement In Childhood Occupations, Veronica Smith

Honors Theses

My name is Veronica Smith and I have been a CTRI (certified therapeutic riding instructor) since 2022. I began volunteering at a therapeutic riding program center in elementary school and have accumulated 5000+ hours of experiences that instilled this passion in me. With these experiences, I recognized a gap and developed my thesis project with a clear vision.

With a passion for occupational therapy, and a special interest in equines, I focused my undergrad honors thesis project that also served as my baccalaureate project for the occupational therapy assistant program around these values. I created an activity book that can …

World Delirium Wareness And Quality Survey In 2023- A Worldwide Point Prevalence Study, Heidi Lindroth, Keibun Liu, Laura Szalacha, Giuseppe Bellelli, Mark Von Den Boogaard, Gideon Caplan, Chi Ryang Chung, Muhammed Elhadi, Mohan Gurjar, Gabriel Heras-La-Calle, Magdalena Hoffman, Marie-Madlen Jeitziner, Karla Krewulak, Tanja Mailhot, Alessandro Morandi, Ricardo Kenji Nawa, Esther S. Oh, Marie Oxenboell Collet, Rebecca Von Haken, Peter Nydahl, For The Wdad Study Team

Publications

Background

Delirium, an acute brain dysfunction, is proposed to be highly prevalent in clinical care and shown to significantly increase the risk of mortality and dementia.

Objectives

To report on the global prevalence of clinically documented delirium and delirium-related clinical practices in wards caring for paediatric and adult patients in healthcare facilities.

Design

A prospective, cross-sectional, 39-question survey completed on World Delirium Awareness Day, 15 March 2023.

Participants

Clinicians or researchers with access to clinical data.

Main Outcome and Measure

The primary outcome was the prevalence of clinically documented delirium at 8:00 a.m. (4 h) and 8:00 p.m. (±4 h). …

The 2024 Imf-World Bank Meetings And Their Recommendations For Asia: An Assessment, Jesus Felipe, Jacobe Joaquin M. Sevilla

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of The Impact Of Government Audit On Quality Management, Based On Neutroalgebra Generated By The Prospector Function, Alexander Santos Silva Bernardo, Jeri Gloria Ramón Ruffner, David Sánchez Cruz, Patricia Padilla-Vento

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The present study focuses on the evaluation of the impact of government audit on quality management, using a novel approach based on the neutralalgebra generated by the PROSPECTOR function. The central question of the research lies in the need to improve the effectiveness of government audits to ensure more efficient and transparent quality management in public institutions. The relevance of this issue is accentuated in the current context, where the pressure to optimize government processes is crucial to guarantee efficiency and public responsibility. Although there are various studies on government auditing, a significant gap has been identified in the literature …

Sentiment Analysis And Neutroalgebra To Evaluate Organizational Strategies And Performance Levels Of Basic Education Teachers, Erick Félix Quesquén Alarcón, Hermenegildo Chaccara Huachaca, Luz Marina Sito Justiniano, Yessika Madelaine Abarca Arias, Mary Liz Mendoza Hidalgo, Dante Manuel Macazana Fernández

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

The study addresses the problem of evaluating the organizational strategies and performance levels of basic ed-ucation teachers through an innovative approach in sentiment analysis. In the current context, there is a growing need for accurate and reliable methods to measure the impact of organizational strategies on educational per-formance, especially given the importance of educational quality for social development. The existing literature has shown limitations in integrating methods that can handle the complexity and subjectivity of teachers' emo-tional and attitudinal perceptions, creating a gap that this study aims to fill. Using the neutrosophic sentiment analysis method based on neutroalgebra, the study …

Guest Editors’ Comments

Professional Agricultural Workers Journal

No abstract provided.

Black Women Farming Sustainably: Carrying Their Legacy In The Deep South Through Crisis And Beyond, Natilee M. Kyle, Yawah Awolowo, Felicia Bell, Sheila Martin, Ruth Bacayana

Professional Agricultural Workers Journal

An African proverb underscores the role of women in communities: If you teach a man, you educate an individual, but if you teach a woman, you educate a nation. Women play a crucial role in maintaining family farms and community ecosystems in the Deep South. This case study explores the history and roles of two Southern Black women farmers. The study seeks to amplify women’s voices by examining the cultural context from which they operated, the families and generations they influenced, and the obstacles they navigated while operating in a male-dominated industry. Their collective experiences highlight the need for shared …

Meeting Farmer-Member Challenges During The Covid-19 Pandemic Through Direct-Resourcing And Agroecological Work Brigades, Noah R. Mcdonald

Professional Agricultural Workers Journal

The Southeastern African American Farmers Organic Network (SAAFON) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Black farming and rural lifeways in the Southeast and U.S. Virgin Islands. The COVID-19 pandemic created unique challenges for SAAFON’s members, exacerbating the existing structural conditions that make farming challenging for Black farmers. These conditions include climate-related disasters, economic disparities, lack of political investment, racism, and related discrimination. In this paper, the author presents the activities that SAAFON has undertaken to address the impact of the pandemic on its members. It provided funding for its members and launched a series of farmer brigades to build …

In Times Of Need The Land Always Provides, And Being Queer Don’T Hurt, Alsie Parks, Lindsey Lunsford

Professional Agricultural Workers Journal

In uncertain times, Black and Brown folks look to each other for mutual aid because they cannot rely on societal structures and governments to support their communities. The necessity of self-reliance is especially true for those located in rural areas. This paper engages the theme of queerness as a lens to explore Black survival strategies used regarding the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper further explores the narrative of Alsie Parks, a Black Southern agrarian native, and her non-nuclear family as they embraced non-traditional ways of being, land-based practices, and the importance of crafting kinship to find both nourishment …

An Assessment Of Agricultural Cooperatives: Historical Perspectives, Challenges And Opportunities For Socially And Historically Disadvantaged, Minority, And Small-Scale Farmers, Lila B. Karki, Raymon Shange, Walter A. Hill, Jerry Pennick

Professional Agricultural Workers Journal

A cooperative is an economically attractive model that allows its members to be owners and users who share profits equally. Thus, the cooperative is considered a successful model to use for socially and historically disadvantaged, minority, and small-scale farmers. An agricultural cooperative empowers such farmers to increase their bargaining power in the marketplace, reduce production and transaction costs, expand current marketing opportunities, and establish new markets that may not be otherwise accessible to an individual producer. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to assess agricultural cooperatives. It discusses nine items that closely examine the appertaining issues related to agricultural …

The Federation Of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund: An Advocate For Equity In Disaster Relief Programs, Chawnn Redden

Professional Agricultural Workers Journal

The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund has a history of assisting predominantly Black farmers and rural communities, especially the rural South. It also supports farmers during disasters and advocates for equitable distribution of resources, especially from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to Black farmers. For instance, the Federation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic provides evidence of how the impact of disasters in the rural South can be mitigated if Black farmers are an integral part of the relief process. This paper provides a history of the role the Federation has played in several disasters, including hurricanes as well as …

European Wasp Information For Local Government, Department Of Primary Industries And Regional Development, Western Australia

Biosecurity factsheets

The department’s European wasp surveillance and eradication program is a yearly campaign, aimed at detecting the presence of this destructive pest as early as possible so that nests can be found and eradicated.

The continued success of European wasp surveillance and eradication program relies on surveillance in metropolitan Perth and regional areas, strong community awareness, and participation between residents, business owners, community groups, industry, and government.

The Anchor: November 2024, Issue Two, Hope College

The Anchor: 2024

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

The Consequences And Constitutionality Of Training Police To Blame Victims, Margareth Etienne, Richard H. Mcadams

William & Mary Law Review

A common technique in American interrogations is “moral minimization,” in which investigators excuse or justify the suspect’s criminal behavior on moral grounds. A surprising type of moral minimization is explicit victim-blaming, which includes blaming the victim by endorsing negative stereotypes on the basis of gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation, what we call victim-blaming-bystereotype. No one has previously considered the policy wisdom or constitutionality of this technique. We explore the unintended consequences. One cost is the secondary victimization of those who suffer from crime, especially when they discover how detectives have disparaged them. The second is the effect on the …

A Transformative Standard For Transformative Times: Protecting Student-Athlete Speech In The Era Of Name, Image, And Likeness, Kyle Saxon

William & Mary Law Review

As an entirely new and developing area of the law, NIL [name, image, and likeness] further complicates the existing struggles in determining how NCAA student-athletes should be viewed by the law in the employment context. Such a determination is crucial to understanding the extent of student-athletes’ First Amendment protections. Even as NIL drives the law further in the direction of student-athletes becoming employees of the university, student-athletes are still undeniably enrolled students of the university, and scholastic achievement is still a primary consideration for college athletics.

This unique relationship between student-athletes and their institutions necessitates an entirely new standard for …

Recalibrating Interbranch Bargaining, Emily Berman

William & Mary Law Review

To fulfill its constitutional functions, Congress must have access to information from within the executive branch. Whether it is assessing the need to amend the authorities of administrative agencies, determining whether to fund executive branch programs, or investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and abuse, Congress can act responsibly only if it is able to compile an accurate picture of executive branch activities. When executive branch officials resist these requests—for either legitimate or problematic reasons—the resulting conflict is traditionally resolved amicably through interbranch negotiations, not inter-branch litigation. Indeed, courts heard a total of four congressional-executive information disputes in the nation’s first …

Safety-Centric Analysis Of Grounding Systems For Substations In Distribution Grids, Fazel Mohammadi, Mahmood Mirhashemi

Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

The safety of grounding systems for substations in distribution grids is paramount to ensuring operational reliability, protecting personnel and equipment, and maintaining the stability of distribution grids while complying with regulatory standards. This paper explores essential safety aspects of grounding systems, including fault current handling strategies, the interdependence between protective devices and grounding systems, and maintenance practices. The integration of grounding systems design with overall substation layout and design considerations by focusing on mitigating Ground Potential Rise (GPR) and optimizing bonding techniques, is examined. Additionally, advanced techniques, such as high-frequency grounding and Transient Ground Potential Rise (TGPR) management, are presented …

Seals And Society: Considerations For Urban Waterway Navigation By Harbor Seals (Phoca Vitulina) And Gray Seals (Halichoerus Grypus) In New York City, Kristy L. Biolsi, Kevin L. Woo, Bjoern Kils

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

As marine mammals navigate their environment, they may likely encounter areas that are both sparsely and heavily populated with human activity. For the latter, marine mammals are increasingly entering urban populated areas where the marine landscape has been significantly transformed both physically and ecologically. At select locations in New York City (NYC), Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) and gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) frequent the NYC waterways during the winter months. Due to the public interest in these species, and the growing human population with its consequent development of shared habitats, it is critical that we understand the …

Editor's Review Of "Muddy Thinking... An Immersive Account Of Urban Reclamation", Mallika Sardeshpande

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

No abstract provided.

Building Services Engineering November/December 2024

Building Services Engineering

No abstract provided.

Evaluation Of Antibiofilm And Cytotoxic Activity Of Microalgae Isolated From Different Sites Of Betwata- Erbil/Iraq, Sewgil Saaduldeen Anwer, Ayad Kareem Ali, Nur Bozbeyoglu Kart, Dogukan Mutlu, Refika Ceyda Beram, Volkan Kuzucu, Sevki Arslan, Nazime Mercan Dogan

Baghdad Science Journal

This in vivo study is aimed to assess the antibiofilm and cytotoxic potential of selected microalgae isolates. Different concentration of microalgal isolates used for each of antibiofilm and cytotoxic studies. A total extract of 10 μL MTT was added to each well with LB broth, plates were read using microtiter plate spectrophotometer at 490 nm and 630 nm, respectively. The cell viability was determined in CCD-18℃ cells (3x10^3 cells/well) by MTT assay at 590 nm. The microalgae isolates showed antibiofilm affect after 48 hrs on Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 and this effect was observed to be higher than those of S. …

Trips At Thirty: The Evolving Interactional Law Of Public Health Exceptions To Intellectual Property Protection, Geraldo Vidigal, Pramiti Parwani

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

No abstract provided.

Addressing Barriers To Post-Graduate Research Training In Low Resource Settings: An Innovative Approach In An Institution Of Higher Learning In Kenya, Eunice Muthoni, Rosebella Iseme, Roselyter Riang’A, James Orwa, Ken Njenga, Anthony Ngugi

Population Health, East Africa

Background: Numerous barriers hinder health research training in Post-Graduate Medical Education Programs, especially in developing countries. Research training is pivotal for medical residency, providing essential knowledge and skills for dissertation completion, fostering evidence-based medical practice, and nurturing future independent clinical researchers. A holistic approach to research education is imperative to surmount these barriers. We describe here a dissertation-centric research curriculum, delivered longitudinally, an innovative strategy undertaken by Aga Khan University's Medical College in East Africa (AKU-MCEA) to deliver postgraduate research.

Methods: A review of AKU-MCEA post-graduate research methods curriculum was conducted based on implementing Departments' experience, institutional policies, and residency …

Central Nervous System Manifestations Of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: A Single Centre Experience In Qatar, Munira Aden, Mahmoud O. Fawzi, Debra Prosser, Muhammad Ather, Mehak Raja, Moegamad A. Ederies, Khalid Al-Kharazi, Ata U. Maaz

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To review the clinical and radiological correlation of the central nervous system manifestations of tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Methods: All patients under the age of 18 years with TSC seen at the Department of Pediatrics, Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar, between January 2003 and February 2021 were included in this retrospective study. Severity of epilepsy was determined using the early childhood epilepsy severity score (E-CHESS) tool. Results: The study sample included 38 patients (50% male), 8 (21%) of whom were native to Qatar. The median age at diagnosis was 4 (range: 0-72) months. A family history of TSC was present …

Development And Cultural Adaptation Of The Saudi Pediatric Speech Intelligibility Test, Medhat Yousef, Tamer Mesallam, Yassin Abdelsamad, Sara Alkhamiss, Tahani Alotaibi, Shahad Alsanosi, Ayna Almasaad, Abdulrahman Alsanosi

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To report the development and administration of the Saudi pediatric speech intelligibility (SPSI) test. Methods: This study was carried out at King Abdullah Ear Specialist Center, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between 2021 and 2023. A pilot study was carried out in 5 regions of Saudi Arabia including 100 normal hearing children aged 7-11 years old, with 20 children from each region. The final test materials were voice-recorded by a native Saudi radio announcer, and a software-based application for administering the SPSI was developed. Results: During the pilot study, minor adjustments were carried out to the test for …

Ai And Creativity: Effects Of Culture And Task Emotiveness In Human-Ai Collaboration, Choon Ngee Tan

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Creativity is the driving force behind innovation, propelling individuals and societies toward progress by generating novel ideas and groundbreaking solutions. The emergence of generative AI models, exemplified by GPT-3, offers opportunities to enhance human creativity. This paper explores the potential for unprecedented breakthroughs through the synergy between human intuition and AI-driven creativity, providing practical guidance on leveraging AI to amplify creative capacities. Study 1 finds that AI models trained on data from the U.S. and Chinese cultures exhibit cultural norms, values and cognition of those cultures. Study 2 finds that when humans and AI models of the same culture collaborate …

Liderando Juntos Y Revueltos: A Collectivistic Leadership Approach To Address Latinx Immigrant Health And Psychological Needs, Oswaldo Moreno, Luz M. Garcini, Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez, Alfonso Mercado, Amanda Venta, Thania Galvan, Michelle Silva, Oscar F. Rojas Perez, German Cadenas, Manuel Paris

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

Psychologists are positioned to help address societal and public health crises in beneficial ways, including collectively working with public sectors to serve marginalized communities. This article highlights the relevance of helping to address societal and public health crises with collectivistic psychological leadership approaches and uses Latinx psychology leaders for addressing the current immigrant needs among Latinx communities. We draw attention to the domains needed for collectivistic psychological leadership that are culturally nuanced and equity, diversity, and inclusion-focused to advance the well-being of historically marginalized immigrant communities. Finally, the article highlights how our collectivistic approach operates in the public sector by …

Integrating Ecophysiology And Omics To Unlock Crop Response To Drought And Herbivory Stress, Insha Shafi, Manish Gautam, Rupesh Kariyat

Entomology and Plant Pathology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article is part of the Research Topic: Plant Ecophysiology: Responses to Climate Changes and Stress Conditions

Connecting Compassion: Empathy's Role In Stem And Literacy Integration, Leah R. Cheek, Vinson Carter, Michael K. Daugherty, Christian Goering

Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications and Presentations

Empathy, an unsung, yet critical element of learning, can be strategically interlaced with literacy instruction and engineering design to create a rich and authentic learning experience for students. Integrated STEM education rests on the promise of engaging students and providing deep understandings through the intentional practice of delivering science and math content through the application of technology and engineering skills. Using children's literature to activate empathy and design thinking can help students become better problem-solvers, critical thinkers, and caring members of society. Empathy facilitates a deeper connection to the human experience, ensuring that solutions not only meet the design requirements, …