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Spectrum, Volume 53, Issue 6, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: SHU Receives $3 Million Grant for Education Program - ZTA Thinks Pink - SHU “Thrive(s) Together” at First Annual Event - WGSS Program Advances SHU’s Course Offerings - Puck Drops on New Season for Women’s Ice Hockey - Women’s Bowling Finishes Second in First Tournament

How Can Nature-Based Early Childhood Learning Environments Support Whole Child Development?, Greta Miller

Graduate Teacher Education

Learning experiences and environments have a profound influence on young children’s learning and development (National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2022; Zosh et al., 2022). When young children are afforded inadequate opportunities to engage with and explore a nature-based outdoor learning environment, children’s growth, learning, and development can be negatively impacted (Louv, 2008; Suttie, 2016). Current research and literature regarding how nature-based early learning environments support whole child development was analyzed. Research indicated that when children spent more time exploring nature, children had improved learning outcomes (American Academy of Pediatrics, 2022). Outdoor play promoted creativity, curiosity, and critical …

Qualified But Not Good Enough: The Perspectives And Barriers From Black Women In Educational Leadership Roles, Jeanetta Searcy-Cooper

Doctorate in Education

From teachers to principals to superintendents, Black women continue to struggle for opportunities to lead in the educational setting. This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the lived experiences of eight Black women who achieved educational leadership positions in K-12 education to understand how their race and gender have informed their personal lives and professional journeys. Participants were obtained via a convenience sample and individually interviewed on four main topics: their perceptions of the impact of race and gender on the availability of contemporary educational leadership positions, their own experiences attempting to secure leadership roles, how stereotypes and biased ideology have affected …

Mitigating The Impact Of Remote Work Challenges On Employee Productivity, Michael Gamble

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Challenges encountered in remote working during and after the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affect the performance and productivity of employees as they are not familiar with remote working strategies. The rapid shift brought about difficulties for business leaders to manage a remote workforce and need for solutions or effective strategies. Grounded in the self-determination theory, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore and identify strategies business leaders use to mitigate the negative effects of remote working environments. Participants were 11 business leaders from software companies who adopted remote working models in their business strategies. Data were collected through …

Gender Ideology And Gender Equality Policy Adoption, Wendell Christopher Lewis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Gender-based violence threatens the social and economic security of countries. Gender equality policies, which address the ideological and material relations of gender equality that support gender-based violence, are being stymied by antigender coalitions. Little is known of the concept called gender ideology used by this coalition to facilitate policy intractability of gender equality policies. This mixed-method study was intended to fill the theoretical and methodological gaps in the literature using the narrative policy framework to explore the concept of gender ideology and policy intractability during the National Gender Policy debate in Trinidad and Tobago between 2010-2018. The research questions focused …

Winonan, Winona State University

The Winonan - 2020s

This issue of the Winonan, the Winona State University student newspaper, was published on October 23, 2024.

University Students Speak Out: Suggestions To Improve The Move To Emergency Remote Education, Pauline Howes, Justine E. Pettigrew

Faculty Articles

The 2020 COVID-19 crisis forced universities to make a dramatic shift to emergency remote education (ERE). While the urgency of the pandemic is gone, schools continue implementing ERE, but more often on a short-notice, short-term basis in response to various situations. This research examines students’ suggestions for improving university transitions to ERE and applies them to post-pandemic use of ERE. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to analyze responses to an open-ended survey question answered by 2,751 students at a large Southeastern U.S. university. Responses identified main concerns as Grades and Grading (38%), Better University and Instructor Preparation (23%), Improved Learning …

Getting To Home: Understanding The Collateral Consequences Of Negative Records In The Rental Housing Market, Sara Sternberg Greene, Barbara Kiviat, Hesu Yoon

Duke Law Journal

The United States faces a rental housing crisis marked by a scarcity of housing supply, leading to intense competition among prospective tenants. This crisis is a particular challenge for the more than one hundred million U.S. residents burdened with negative records such as criminal records, debts in collections, and evictions. Landlords have more access than ever to applicants’ information, yet little is known about how landlords process and think about these records to make housing decisions. This Article draws on theories of cultural sociology to provide a data-driven understanding of how landlords conceptualize the value of several types of personal …

(Ctrl + F)Ourth Amendment Searches Of Digital Storage Devices: A Novel Framework, James Mullen

Duke Law Journal

Judges frequently analogize physical precedents when applying Fourth Amendment law to searches of digital storage devices. But these analogies do not map well from physical to digital spaces because they overlook fundamental structures of digital storage. And the stakes are high—courts’ errors lead to oversearches that irreparably harm device owners regardless of the suspects’ guilt or innocence. This Note examines the structure of common digital storage devices and courts’ erroneous attempts to apply Fourth Amendment law to them.

This Note also proposes a novel two-phase framework that would curb oversearch. The framework uses a forensic program to conduct a limited …

Gec Meeting Minutes For October 23, 2024, A-State General Education Committee

General Education Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

How To Make A Theologian: Theological Education And The Life Of Discipleship, Andrew C. Stout

The Christian Librarian

No abstract provided.

Efsher, Llc V. Hall

All Decisions

The landlord initiated a holdover proceeding against the tenant, alleging various acts of nuisance. The tenant requested a bill of particulars and, when that was denied, moved for discovery. The landlord argued that discovery was unnecessary in a summary proceeding and that the tenant should be aware of his own conduct. The court granted the tenant's motion in part, allowing discovery of specific information necessary to prepare a defense, while limiting the disclosure of the identities of complaining neighbors to those the landlord intends to call as witnesses.

Understanding And Mitigating The Impact Of Race With Adversarial Autoencoders, Kathryn Sarullo, S Joshua Swamidass

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence carries the risk of exacerbating some of our most challenging societal problems, but it also has the potential of mitigating and addressing these problems. The confounding effects of race on machine learning is an ongoing subject of research. This study aims to mitigate the impact of race on data-derived models, using an adversarial variational autoencoder (AVAE). In this study, race is a self-reported feature. Race is often excluded as an input variable, however, due to the high correlation between race and several other variables, race is still implicitly encoded in the data.

METHODS: We propose building a …

Synthesis Of Neuronal Network Dynamics For Optimal Stimulus Encoding And Retention, Bethanna Thompson

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

A central goal in neuroscience is to understand the relationship between the structure and activity of the brain and the resulting experience of thought and behavior that the brain underpins. Within this goal is the specific study of working memory: the process of storing, managing, and integrating incoming sensory information in the context of ongoing tasks. The process of working memory is foundational to higher cognition and reasoning, determining how we comprehend and interact with the world around us. The neural circuits responsible for working memory are seemingly able to store and process afferent stimuli with other recent or relevant …

Synthesis Of Neuronal Network Dynamics For Optimal Stimulus Encoding And Retention, Bethanna Thompson

McKelvey School of Engineering Graduate Student Theses & Dissertations

A central goal in neuroscience is to understand the relationship between the structure and activity of the brain and the resulting experience of thought and behavior that the brain underpins. Within this goal is the specific study of working memory: the process of storing, managing, and integrating incoming sensory information in the context of ongoing tasks. The process of working memory is foundational to higher cognition and reasoning, determining how we comprehend and interact with the world around us. The neural circuits responsible for working memory are seemingly able to store and process afferent stimuli with other recent or relevant …

Readiness Of Cybersecurity In The Usa Energy Industry, Aaron Cavanaugh

Dissertations and Theses

Cybersecurity Readiness shows an organizations ability of applicant and application to be able to fully utilize computing resources through behaviors (e.g., training employees), practices, and processes, while managing risk through efficient controls in order to prevent, detect, and respond to outage scenarios using audit and assessment techniques. An evaluation of cybersecurity readiness for the USA energy industry assists industry decision makers to comprehensively assess readiness gaps for prioritizing a risk-based cybersecurity implementation plan. There is a currently a lack of a Multi-Criteria Decision Model (MCDM) to assist decision makers to comprehensively assess Readiness of Cybersecurity in the USA Energy Industry. …

Umn Morris, Baitursynuly University Launch Partnership, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

Landwer Finds Worldwide Experiences Begin At Umn Morris, Communications And Marketing

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

The Growing Divide Between Teaching Empathy And Being Empathetic, Arindam Sarkar

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

No abstract provided.

The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-4 (Adni-4) Engagement Core: A Culturally Informed, Community-Engaged Research (Ci-Cer) Model To Advance Brain Health Equity, Mónica Rivera Mindt, Alyssa Arentoft, Amanda T. Calcetas, Vanessa A. Guzman, Hannatu Amaza, Adeyinka Ajayi, Miriam T. Ashford, Omobolanle Ayo, Lisa L. Barnes, Gladys Maestre

School of Medicine Publications

Introduction: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-4 (ADNI-4) Engagement Core was launched to advance Alzheimer's disease (AD) and AD-related dementia (ADRD) health equity research in underrepresented populations (URPs). We describe our evidence-based, scalable culturally informed, community-engaged research (CI-CER) model and demonstrate its preliminary success in increasing URP enrollment.

Methods: URPs include ethnoculturally minoritized, lower education (≤ 12 years), and rural populations. The CI-CER model includes: (1) culturally informed methodology (e.g., less restrictive inclusion/exclusion criteria, sociocultural measures, financial compensation, results disclosure, Spanish Language Capacity Workgroup) and (2) inclusive engagement methods (e.g., the Engagement Core team; Hub Sites; Community-Science Partnership Board).

Results: As …

Reception, University Of Northern Iowa. Rod Library.

Open Access Week Events

Reception - Join us for some light refreshments following our sessions.

[Panel Presentation] Adapting & Creating Affordable Custom Textbooks, Anne Marie Gruber, Erika Bass, Gabriela Olivares Cuhat, Jayme Renfro

Open Access Week Events

Learn how and why UNI faculty are adapting and creating affordable textbooks.

[Panel Presentation] Scholarworks: Demonstrating Global Reach, Ellen Neuhaus, Roy R. Behrens, Kellen Schmidt

Open Access Week Events

This session will give you an understanding of what UNI ScholarWorks is, the variety, and how to submit work.

[Panel Presentation] Quality Of Open Access Journals: Mythbusting, Janet Croft, Lane Forsman, Wendy Hoofnagle

Open Access Week Events

Learn about Open Access publishing

• What are Article Publication Charges (APCs)?
• Ethics re: Open Access publishing

[Keynote Presentation] Why Open Access & What Is It?, Abbey Elder

Open Access Week Events

Attend this keynote presentation to learn about what Open Access is and why it’s important.

Ai And The Future Of Work: Legal Perspectives On Disability Acommodation And Employment Equity, William D. Goren J.D., Ll.M.

Ohio Northern University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ai Legal Innovations: The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Chat-Gpt And Generative Ai In The Legal Industry, Laura A. Lorek

Ohio Northern University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ai In Robes: Courts, Judges, And Artificial Intelligence, Gary E. Marchant

Ohio Northern University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Circular Buffer For Video Capture With Enhanced Privacy, Shivam Agrawal

Defensive Publications Series

Some wearable devices such as augmented/mixed reality (AR/MR) glasses include cameras that enable capturing photos or videos of the user’s field of view. In some cases, AR/MR glasses may be set to a mode where video is captured continuously. Such capture is useful to determine relevant real-time information and provide it to the user as an overlay. However, when a user wearing such glasses navigates in the world, it is possible that the glasses capture video of other individuals or in locations. This disclosure describes techniques to limit storage of video captured via wearable devices. A circular buffer capable of …

Open Access Week Poster Session, Uta Libraries

Open Access Week

Join the UTA Libraries' OER & Digital Scholarship department for a poster session highlighting recent digital scholarship projects created at UTA. The posters will include recent open access journal publications, digital exhibits, and open educational resources. Learn more about the great work being published by UTA faculty, staff, and students, and how the Libraries can support your Open projects.

Breakfast will be provided.

Poster Presenters:

Creative Commons Licensing

Lainie Allen, OER & Digital Scholarship

Fast Capitalism

Dr. David Arditi, Sociology Professor

MavMatrix Overview

Vanessa Garrett, OER & Digital Scholarship

Stimulus: A Medical Humanities Journal

Mavericks for Medical Humanities Student Organization …