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Commonwealth Times 2025-12-03

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Talinghaga At/Ng Pakikibaka: Pagsusuri Sa Mga Pahayag Ng All Up Academic Employees Union - Los Baños, 2019-2020, Cris Lanzaderas, Jennifer Cruz Delfin, Rowell Madula

Dalumat: Multikultural at Multidisiplinaryong E-Journal sa Araling Filipino

Mahalaga sa anomang organisasyong panlipunan ang mabisang pakikipag-ugnayan sa mga pinagsisilbihan nito. Sa kaso ng mga unyon, tungkulin nito ang regular na pakikipagkomunikasyon sa mga miyembro at hindi miyembro nito hinggil sa iba’t ibang usaping may kaugnayan sa sariling kagalingan at kagalingan ng mga kapwa manggagawa. Isa na sa mga paraang ito ang paglalabas ng mga pahayag o statement. Nagagamit din ang pahayag bilang isang kasangkapan sa paglalatag ng tindig at paniniwala ng mga kasapi nito sa isang partikular na isyu. Para sa papel na ito, sinuri ng mga mananaliksik ang dalawampu’t anim (26) na pahayag o statement ng All …

Sa Madaling Sabi: Rebyu Ukol Sa Plain Language, Ariel U. Bosque

Dalumat: Multikultural at Multidisiplinaryong E-Journal sa Araling Filipino

Layunin ng rebyu ng literaturang maisakasaysayan ang plain language (PL), matalakay ang mga global na praktika nito, at masarbey ang ambag ng mga Pilipinong iskolar sa larangan. Makikita sa dulo ng rebyu ang sintesis ng mga natuklasan at direksiyon para sa kalagayan ng PL. Mauugat ang kasaysayan ng PL mula sa mga pagsisikap na gawing malinaw ang teknikal na pagsulat noong ika-16 siglo hanggang sa patuloy na pagsigla nito sa iba’t ibang panig ng daigdig. Kabilang naman sa mga prominenteng praktika ng plain language sa ibang bansa ang: Klarspråk (Sweden), Le Langage Clair (France), Lenguaje Claro (Spain), Leichte Sprache at …

Student Senate Meeting Minutes December 3, 2025, Student Senate-Winona State University

Student Senate Meeting Minutes

This document is the official Winona State University Student Senate Minutes for December 3, 2025.

Ella Cate Downing Art 399 Portfolio, Ellen C. Downing

Professional Practices (ART 399)

Artist Statement

Ella Cate Downing

Rooted in subjects such as Faith, growth, and Biblical truth, while incorporating child development and how a child interprets certain subjects, is found throughout my work. Drawing from narratives that come from the Bible, and how children learn and understand these topics. My work draws directly from scripture and utilizes symbolism to help children learn and deepen their Faith. Intertwining both how a child learns and my Faith is ultimately what my works are about.

Soft, vibrant colors and a more simplistic style are what viewers see within my work. Using a more illustrative minimalist …

The Lumberjack, December 03, 2025

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The College Voice, Vol. 62, No. 7 [December 3, 2025], Connecticut College

2025-2026

No abstract provided.

A Life Raft In The Storm: An Arts-Based Self-Study Of Teacher Burnout And Renewal In Special Education, Rebecca Snyder

Theses and Dissertations from DePaul University

No abstract provided.

How Does The Intersectionality Of Race, Gender, And Organizational Culture Influence The Utilization And Consequences Of Code-Switching Among Black Men In Executive-Level Positions Within Nonprofit Settings?, Lepra George

Dissertations (1934 -)

Black men in executive roles within U.S. nonprofit organizations lead under racialized and gendered expectations that shape when and how they are perceived as leader-like. This qualitative study examines how these leaders interpret their lived experiences of code-switching, across speech and broader self-presentation, within White-normed nonprofit cultures. Guided by intersectionality and informed by impression-management theory, the study employed an interpretivist, phenomenological design and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) of in-depth, semi-structured interviews with six Black male executives. Four themes emerged: (1) Black Male Leaders Consciously Navigate Authentic Identity, balancing cultural self-expression with perceived professionalism; (2) Confronting the Race–Gender Double Bind in …

Design & Control Of High-Power Density Gan-Based Immd For All-Electric Aircraft Application, Armin Ebrahimian

Dissertations (1934 -)

Transportation electrification has been a major focus of research across both academia and industry over the past few decades. In recent years, the rapid growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market share has demonstrated a paradigm shift, with consumers increasingly adopting EVs due to benefits such as lower operational costs, enhanced safety, and reduced environmental impact. While EVs continue to gain popularity, the electrification of aerial transportation has emerged as a promising and impactful extension of this trend. A round-trip flight from Chicago to New York burns approximately 72,000 gallons of fossil fuel—roughly equivalent to one-eighth of the annual carbon …

Elementary Reading Teachers’ Experiences Implementing Individualized Instruction, Laura E. Ellis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Second-grade through fourth-grade teachers face challenges associated with implementing individualized reading instruction to address learning differences. A deeper understanding of teachers’ experiences can help inform future educational policies targeting educators who instruct struggling readers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of elementary reading teachers who use individualized instruction to support diverse learners. The study was grounded in Tomlinson’s model of differentiated instruction, which served as the guiding conceptual framework. Using a basic qualitative design, this study’s central research question explored elementary teachers’ experiences with individualized instructional practices. Data were collected through open-ended semistructured interviews with …

Medical Education Conference 2025, Sultan Qaboos University

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Building A Data-Driven Security Ai Framework Using Machine Learning Models, Christopher Chan Vi

Master's Theses

This research project explores a modern approach to Intrusion Detection System (IDS) anomaly detection by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Large Language Models (LLM), and Explainable AI (XAI). The purpose is to assess the effectiveness of these technologies in enhancing the understanding of intrusion events. This research study addresses the challenges of threshold determination and the interpretability of anomaly detection results. The proposed solution involves an LLM-based framework with XAI capabilities, integrated with a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, to provide clear explanations for detected anomalies, utilizing both custom and pre-trained datasets. The study navigated inherent challenges, including …

Towards Resilient Data Governance: An Industry Study On Practitioner Perspectives On The Current State Of Data Governance, Anthony Mazzarella Iii

Theses and Dissertations

Experts agree that data governance is crucial for managing data as an asset, yet in practice, it remains inconsistently defined, unevenly implemented, and poorly understood. Earlier industry studies offered valuable descriptive benchmarks of governance adoption and professional roles, but provided limited theoretical insight and little empirical evidence explaining how governance functions within organizations. Building on this foundation, the current research offers a more substantial and analytically rigorous contribution by transforming descriptive observations into empirical explanations. Through a collaborative academic–industry partnership, the study utilizes a global survey of 565 respondents (348 valid cases) to analyze governance structures, motivations, challenges, and the …

Incivility In Graduate Nursing Online Environment, Karen M. O'Connell

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Incivility is rampant in nursing. The most frequent targets are student nurses, newly graduated nurses, or nurses moving into a new area. Authors suggest faculty should role model civil behaviors for nursing students. Unfortunately, incivility also occurs in nursing education. Much has been written about faculty targeting students. Recently, incivility from students has been identified. In our graduate nursing program, faculty identified an increase in uncivil student behavior. We sought to determine if faculty and student perceptions of incivility were the same and if differing generations were a factor in the perception of uncivil behavior.

Students enrolled in online graduate …

Redesigning Byu Arts Partnership’S Educational Web Resource To Meet The Needs Of Diverse Users Connecting Educators, The Arts, And Culture, Ana F. Gonzales Paz Soldan

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

No abstract provided.

Lindenwood Digest, December 3, 2025, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

December 3, 2025 issue of The Lindenwood Digest.

Campus Events & Announcements: Call for volunteers for Winterfest and the "Late Night Breakfast Rewind" event (December 8). The Office for Research and Creative Activity announced the opening of the PRIDE Fund mini-cycle for student-centered projects.

Administrative & Faculty Updates: Fall 2025 final grades are due December 15; includes specific instructions on entering special grades (AF, N, I, AH, BH). Marketing and Communications announced a freeze on new website/digital requests until January 5, 2026.

Faculty & Staff Recognition: "Q2 Moments" recognition for Dr. Travis McMaken (Communications), Lis Ziegenfuss (Financial Aid), Jim Bosnick …

Integrating Synaptic Transistors With Perovskite Photodetectors For Neuromorphic Applications, Sydney Zhu, Shuoyan Liu, Yiheng Zhang

Electrical and Systems Engineering Undergraduate Student Research

The convergence of neuromorphic electronics and optoelectronic materials offers a pathway toward next-generation artificial vision systems. Synaptic transistors, which emulate the adaptive plasticity of biological synapses, can process information in an energy-efficient and parallel fashion. Perovskite photodetectors, on the other hand, provide tunable band gaps, high responsivity, and facile fabrication, making them excellent candidates for light sensing. Integrating these two device classes enables direct photoresponsive computation, where optical signals are not only detected but also weighted, filtered, and stored in a single element. My research explores the electrical and optical coupling mechanisms in such hybrid devices, examining how ion migration, …

Understanding Medical Information And Emotional Support Needs In Mental Health Questions With Large Language Models, Chen Liu, William Yu Chung Wang, Gohar Khan

All Works

Purpose – This study seeks to bridge the gap between users’ multidimensional needs and the single-task capabilities of existing Mental Health Question Answering (MHQA) systems by tackling the underexplored challenge of jointly understanding medical informational needs and emotional support needs within complex consumer mental health inquiries. Design/methodology/approach – Grounded in Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST), the proposed Multi-Needs and Context Recognition (MNCR) framework decomposes mental health question understanding task into four interrelated subtasks: Medical Needs Recognition (MNR), Medical Needs-related Context Extraction (MNCE), Emotional Needs Recognition (ENR) and Emotional Needs-related Context Extraction (ENCE). A new benchmark dataset, MHQ-MedEmo, was constructed through multi-layered …

Efficient Routing For Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks: A Naïve Bayes Approach, Amine Tcherak, Samia Loucif, Mohamed Ould Khaoua

All Works

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) form the backbone of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging networking paradigm that extends the lifetime of WSNs by transferring the resource-intensive routing task from sensor nodes to a centralized controller. However, many SDN-based routing schemes for WSNs employ inefficient algorithms at the controller. Traditional shortest-path methods often create traffic imbalances across neighboring nodes, while Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically generate excessive control traffic. Both issues accelerate energy depletion and reduce network lifetime. Moreover, existing algorithms frequently overlook critical factors, such as buffer occupancy, when selecting relay nodes, which can lead …

Examining The Impact Of Social Media On The Nutrition Decisions Of College Students And Their Attitudes Toward Nutritional Guidelines, Katlyn Neibaur

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Social media is becoming an increasingly popular platform used by young people to garner information, but this information is not always accurate. Understanding the degree of influence social media has on college students’ dietary habits and attitudes toward nutritional guidelines is vital for improving nutrition literacy efforts and creating policies to protect against nutritional misinformation. This study examined the associations between the social media habits of college students, their attitudes toward nutritional guidelines, and their ability to detect nutritional misinformation. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 457 undergraduate students at Brigham Young University. The content validity of the survey was …

X Versus Reality: Data Suggests Political Posts On X Are Inconsistent With Voter Behavior, Bond Benton, Yi Luo, Jin-A Choi

College of Communication and Media Scholarship and Creative Works

This study from Montclair State University researchers in the Joetta Di Bella and Fred C. Sautter III Center for Strategic Communication in the College of Communication and Media shows that the volume of political posts on X (formerly Twitter) may not reflect actual voter behavior. The gap between post volume about candidates and real election votes was nearly 40% in the analyzed case of the New Jersey gubernatorial election. Contributing factors to this gap may include the volume of ostensibly “American” political accounts that are foreign sourced, bot-based activity, and overall platform infrastructure/algorithms. Results identified 108,640 posts for Mikie Sherrill …

Bridging The Gap: Designing A Vertically Aligned 5–12 Instrumental Music Curriculum For Comprehensive Literacy And Musicianship, Philip D. Deyoung

Masters Projects

This project aims to address the widespread issue of vertically misaligned curriculum in secondary instrumental music programs. Students frequently encounter inconsistent expectations, repeated or skipped content, and uneven literacy development when transitioning from one ensemble to another. These gaps can reduce achievement, hinder persistence, and heighten inequities for students with fewer resources. To solve this problem, the project develops a vertically aligned 5–12 instrumental music curriculum grounded in constructivist learning theory and self-regulated learning, emphasizing active knowledge building and student independence. The framework includes ten Priority Standards, grade-band proficiency scales, rehearsal routines aligned with the National Core Arts Standards (NCAS), …

Strategies For Improving Supported Employment Services For Adults With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Janelle Latoya Bailey

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is a growing need for supported employment services and improved programming among people with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD). The research question for this study was; what are human service staff and administrators’ experiences and perceptions of what is working well in supported employment programs, and how to improve the services offered to adults with I/DD in a northeastern county? The tenets of Kurt Lewin’s change model form the theoretical framework for the study, to serve as a foundation for effective change. A force field analysis approach was used to gather narrative written data from open ended questionnaire responses to grasp …

Narratives Of Sexual Self-Esteem As A Domain Of Sexual Well-Being In Cisgender Women’S Long-Term Intimate Relationships, Lisa Criswell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Only within the last few decades has female sexual health become a topic of focus for researchers and practitioners to begin focusing on, leading to a gap in research between female sexual health and male sexual health. This has led to lack of knowledge and understanding on female sexual dysfunction and how interventions can effectively address it. An identified gap in knowledge of female sexual health and self-esteem is the lack of understanding of female narratives. This study was developed with the purpose of filling that gap and addressing domains within sexual health and self-esteem through exploration of the narratives …

Hidden Threats In Water: The Global Rise Of Emerging Contaminants, Baljit Singh, Abhijnan Bhat, Gayathree Thenuwara, Kamna Ravi, Azza Silotry Naik, Christine O’Connor, Furong Tian

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

The general spread of water safety awareness and enforcement often masks the escalating risks of emerging contaminants (ECs) that evade standard detection and monitoring techniques. Traditional monitoring infrastructures depend heavily on localized laboratory-based testing, which is expensive, time-consuming, and reliant on specialized infrastructure and skilled personnel. While specific types of ECs and detection technologies have been examined in numerous studies, a significant gap remains in compiling and commenting on this information in a concise framework that incorporates global impact and monitoring strategies. We aimed to compile and highlight the impact ECs have on global water safety and how advanced sensor …

Facilitating Timely Initiation Of Hiv Care Through An Interdisciplinary, Algorithm-Guided Approach, Courtney Harris

DNP Projects

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) within twenty-four hours of an HIV diagnosis is safe, shortens time to viral suppression, improves retention in care, and contributes to reduced HIV transmission at the community level (Bacon et al., 2021). Despite this evidence, patients across the United States do not universally receive timely HIV care (Bertolino et al., 2023). Barriers to early ART initiation include lack of staff buy-in, logistical challenges, and socioeconomic factors affecting patients (Doshi et al., 2023).

LOCAL PROBLEM: A small HIV care clinic in the southern United States observed a similar discrepancy, noting inconsistent timely initiation of …

Influence And Excess: A Study Of Alcohol’S Governmental, Societal, Biochemical, And Enzymatic Impact In The U.S And Other Countries Around The World, Thomas W. Snider

Senior Honors Theses

The conduct of the thesis is to explore the intricacies of alcohol consumption. The thesis will outline the history of alcohol and the societal pressures and conduct of drinking with relation to the government. After the history of alcohol has been defined, the thesis will move into the chemistry portion, delineating the absorption, digestion, metabolism, and excretion of alcohol. This is the portion of the thesis that will contain the quantitative data and source material as much research has already been conducted regarding these components of alcohol consumption. The condition of the research is that the data will be collected …

Evaluation Of A Nurse-Led Echo® Education Series: Telementoring Priority Equitable Primary Care, Bettina H. Riley, Emily S. Bentley, Misty Guy, Pam Johnson, Shannon Powell-Lewis, Joyce Pittman, Jo Ann Otts, Katherine Bydalek, Caleb Howard

Biennial Convention (CONV)

An Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO®) evidence-based global model provided the framework for a nurse-led professional education series focused on priority topics supporting equitable primary care. A Nursing Recruitment and Education to Expand Access to Culturally-Aligned Healthcare (Nursing REEACH) ECHO® was a goal of a Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services grant. The grant provided resources to increase nursing workforce and capabilities in rural and underserved communities through deployments of graduate nurses in mobile clinics. A grant sub-goal was to expand access to evidence-based services in the community through …

Legal Considerations On Predictive Policing Based On Italian ‘Algorithmic Administration’ Principles, Stefano Rossa

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

In Beck’s current risk society, the State is faced with a dilemma. To fail before the risk but to keep the sphere of citizens’ rights intact; or not to fail but to restrict fundamental rights? This payoff turns out to be the main issue that juridical reflections on the use of predictive technology tools in the public sector must consider. Policing is an administrative function that is mainly composed of acts of a preventive nature. By using ICT, it is possible to employ AI systems with a very high rate of certainty to ‘predict’ future crime scene. But is it …