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Weathering, Christian Jil R. Benitez

Filipino Faculty Publications

Short lyric poem meditating on "love... [and] uselessness of / its implications," considered from the scale of geological time, beside, for instance, a "boulder being itself on the face / of weathering."

"Digital-First Libraries" Developing And Managing Digital Platforms And Services In Smu Libraries, Salihin Mohammed Ali

Research Collection Library

Agenda:

SMU Background

Digital Transformation Areas

Platform Management

Trends & Challenges

Immigrant-Origin Students At Usm: Summary Of Report Recommendations, Marina Chakmakchi Mppm, Ll.M.

Global Talent Navigator

Table showing a summary of short-term, mid-term, and long-term recommendations from the 2024 Report on Immigrant-Origin Students at USM.

Immigrant-Origin Students At The University Of Southern Maine, Marina Chakmakchi Mppm, Ll.M.

Global Talent Navigator

Document providing an abbreviated version of the full report. Consists of 25 pages and shows the charts and bullet points.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Immigrants are a vital part of Maine's economy and population. By supporting immigrant-origin students in higher education, USM can help to ensure that Maine has a well-educated workforce and a thriving economy. USM graduates contribute to the State’s workforce, enrich communities with their cultural perspectives, and become leaders in their chosen fields. By investing in their success, USM is investing in the future of Maine.

Immigrant-Origin Students At The University Of Southern Maine [Report], Marina Chakmakchi Mppm, Ll.M.

Global Talent Navigator

Document providing the full report. Consists of 62 pages plus appendices.

Executive Summary and Highlights

The University of Southern Maine (USM) is uniquely positioned to serve as a regional educational hub for New Americans. USM helps New Americans to achieve their educational goals, become self-sufficient, and thrive in Maine’s communities. This report and its findings aim to guide future endeavors in attracting and retaining immigrant-origin students. The proposed recommendations will foster an inclusive campus, ultimately contributing to the well-being of the entire student population at USM. This report attempts to offer system improvements to effectively address the needs of immigrant-origin …

Effective Writing Supports For Multilingual Learners, Stephanie Englar

Graduate Teacher Education

This paper offers practical insights into how early elementary classroom teachers can effectively support and engage multilingual learners (MLL) throughout the writing process. Data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (2012) documents that many MLL students consistently struggle to develop reading and writing fluency skills at the same rate as their Native English-speaking (NES) peers. The studies selected for this review focused on MLL students from prekindergarten through third grade and how classroom teachers can utilize supports they already have in place, such as working in buddy pairs or teaching phonemic awareness (PA), while utilizing new strategies like …

Amazon’S Algorithmic Rents: The Economics Of Information On Amazon, Ilan Strauss, Tim O’Reilly, Mariana Mazzucato

UC Law Science and Technology Journal

Amazon’s maturing e-commerce platform has seen its business strategy evolve from growth at any cost to a “quest for profit”, underpinned by its burgeoning $37.7bn advertising business. Through advertising, Amazon compels its captive third-party merchant ecosystem to pay for one of its most valuable assets – customer attention. Advertising leverages Amazon’s unique position as a discovery platform. Discovery is governed by Amazon’s algorithms — the nerve centre of its conduct and a critical guide to market structure. Algorithms are the principal market institution coordinating exchange online, yet often escape market investigations.

Prevailing doctrine assumes that platform rent extraction, via algorithmic …

Noaa Nurdles/Pre-Production Plastic Pellet Spills In Coastal & Marine Environments-Workshop Report, Coastal Response Research Center

Coastal Response Research Center

NOAA Office of Response & Restoration’s Disaster Preparedness Program partnered with University of New Hampshire’s Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) to conduct a two day workshop at NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, MD. This workshop identifies overarching concepts, knowledge gaps, challenges, and research regarding Pre-Production Plastic Pellets (PPPPs), colloquially known as nurdles. The resulting conversations explored state of the art technologies deployed during a spill event and complications introduced to response and recovery efforts by the physical properties and fate and transport of PPPPs.

Cross-Exchange Crypto Risk: A High-Frequency Dynamic Network Perspective, Yifu Wang, Wanbo Lu, Min-Bin Liu, Rui Ren, Wolfgang Karl Hardle

Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics

Cross-exchange crypto trading presents inherent risks, particularly for centralized exchanges. Investors observe exacerbating crypto volatility and counterparty risk and would like to quantify these elements of crypto trades. The multiple exchanges require a multivariate view on the structures of risk spillover across exchanges. Here, a Multivariate Heterogeneous AutoRegression (MHAR) model is designed and analyzed, accommodating the stylized facts of crypto markets, including 24/7 trading and the long-memory effect on return variations. The proposed MHAR approach clearly reveals the intensity of interconnectedness among exchanges during extreme events, e.g., the Bitcoin market. Additionally, one observes extremely volatile eigenvector centralities of Futures Exchange …

Spring 2024 General Education Assessment Report, Lindenwood University

General Education Assessment

Lindenwood University Spring 2024 General Education Assessment Report

Summer 2024, Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.

Rockingham County, State Of New Hampshire, Annual Report For The Fiscal Period Ending June 30, 2024, Rockingham County Representatives

Rockingham County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Love Of Creation: Exploring Diversity And Commonality Among Religious And Philosophical Traditions, Tim Lomas, Brendan W. Case, Matthew T. Lee, Jayanti Basu, Lindsie Bear, Richard G. Cowden, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, Tayyab Rashid, Tyler J. Vanderweele

Faculty Publications

Love is widely recognized as one of the most important, desired, and consequential aspects of the human condition, and thus has rightly been the focus of much academic attention. However, this interest has tended to concentrate on specific forms of love—especially romantic and familial forms—to the exclusion of others. One such overlooked form is love of “creation”—of the world and the wider cosmos in which human beings find themselves. Throughout history and across cultures, this kind of love has been developed and articulated by religious and philosophical traditions in diverse ways. This article showcases a selection of ten such traditions, …

Daily Alarm Rounds: Enhancing Interdisciplinary Communication And Reducing Perceived Alarm Burden In Bedside Nurses., Shelby Mangeot

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Purpose: The Joint Commission established alarm management as a national patient safety goal in 2013 and has continued this goal through 2023 (2022). This goal mandates hospitals to prioritize alarm system management and establish evidence-based techniques to manage and reduce nuisance alarms. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to provide bedside nurses with education about excessive alarm burden and evidence-based alarm management techniques, then implement a daily bedside alarm rounding tool to enhance interdisciplinary communication and address patient alarm limits during daily rounds.

Methods: After extensive review of the literature, prompts discussing daily alarm limits were added to …

Benjamin Lewis Interviewed By Juliann Mackiewicz, Benjamin Lewis, Juliann Mackiewicz, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Juliann Mackiewicz interviews Benjamin Lewis, an active Milledgeville community member, about growing up as a young man during segregation and his family's connection to Milledgeville.

Listen to the podcast version here:

YouTube

https://youtu.be/fjXhZ6P6dkc

Spotify

To be posted

Rebecca "Becky" Brock Interviewed By Charlotte Aexel, Rebecca "Becky" Brock, Charlotte Aexel, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Charlotte Aexel interviews Becky Brock about being the first in her family to attend college and what Georgia State College for Women was like in 1965.

Listen to the podcast version here:

YouTube

https://youtu.be/XgFDYm092tU

Spotify

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/By5r78iRgMb

Valuing Trans Lives After Suicide: Rituals Of Commemoration In Digital Social Media Culture, Joe Edward Hatfield

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

In 2014, a trans teenager named Leelah Alcorn posted a suicide letter to her public Tumblr account. Almost a decade later, in 2023, Eden Knight, another young trans woman, posted a suicide letter to her public Twitter account. Both suicide letters went viral and inspired memorial hashtags on the platforms where they initially circulated. In this article, I identify similarities between the cases, conceptualizing both as rituals of commemoration aimed toward restoring value to trans lives lost too soon. My analysis shows how ordinary users leverage the connective affordances embedded within popular social media platforms to sustain structured, value-laden acts …

Fixed Income Fund Report, July 2024, Archway Investment Fund

Archway Investment Fund

No abstract provided.

Equity Fund Monthly Report, July 2024, Archway Investment Fund

Archway Investment Fund

No abstract provided.

Intersectional Marxism And The Dialectic: Interpreting Marx For Our Times, Lilia Monzó, Cristal B. Flores

Education Faculty Articles and Research

"Many on the radical left are increasingly seeking a humanist alternative to the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy that has produced immeasurable suffering and destruction. Amidst the fascism ignited within this era’s supra-conservatism, many of us turned to the Democratic Party to ensure Trump’s defeat only to be reminded that both major political parties in the United States have always moved to the tune of capitalist interests.¹ Thus, at this time, especially, we must remain hopeful in order to continue our struggle to develop a viable alternative to the current system.

This new PM Press edition of Karl Marx’s Critique …

An Analysis Of Employment Status Determinants Among Immigrants, Edina Tahirovic

Proceedings of the Jepson Undergraduate Conference on International Economics

When examining the United States economy, it is crucial to consider the immigrant population within the labor force. This paper analyzes the determinants of employment status among immigrants. A logistic regression analysis was conducted using data collected across the United States to identify possible explanations for the observed variations. In this model, I selected variables based on past research and theories that indicated their significance. To explain immigrant employment status, I tested variables including sex, age, race, citizenship, years in the United States, English proficiency, and educational attainment. The results show that some variables are statistically significant; however, there are …

Addressing Caregiver Burden Among Oncology Caregivers: An Educational Intervention., Alexandria Salois

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

The incidence of cancer is on the rise, the number of cancer diagnoses are increasing at an alarming rate with advanced technologies and available evidence. Cancer care has also shifted from the inpatient setting to mostly outpatient. With this, a large portion of the responsibility has been transferred to the caregiver of that patient (Kent et al., 2019). Historically, caregivers have not been at the forefront of research, however, the concept of caregiver burden is beginning to emerge. A gap exists in addressing the needs of caregivers in both evidence-based data and with the local community cancer support group, Gilda’s …

A Parenting-Skills Intervention To Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences For Children Of Parents In Substance Use Disorder Recovery., Makayla S. Haas

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Abstract

Background: Parents recovering from substance use disorder (SUD) are prone to neurobiological alterations that affect parental emotional regulation, increasing occurrence of harsh parenting, heightened stress, and relapse. Children with parents who suffer from SUD experience adverse childhood experiences (ACE), predisposing them to negative health and lifestyle risks. Implementing a parenting-skills intervention for parents in recovery can promote positive-parenting, reduce parenting stress, improve the parent-child relationship, and mitigate the effects of ACEs.

Setting: ChooseWell Communities (CWC), a sober-living community, in Louisville, KY served as the project site. Participants at CWC are sober parents with primarily young children under 5 years …

Improving Pressure Injury Nurse Awareness And Decision-Making In The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Project., Sarah G. Moreno

Doctor of Nursing Practice Papers

Abstract

Background/Significance: Hospitalized patients with pressure injuries have 5 times greater death compared to a patient without a pressure injury. A needs assessment identified the problem of pressure injuries in the CVICU with the goal to improve nurse awareness and decision-making to decrease pressure injuries in the CVICU.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to increase nurse awareness of pressure injury prevention via an education workshop and evidence-based pressure injury decision tree in the Cardiovascular ICU.

Methods: A MeSH search was conducted to identify pressure injury interventions and nurse awareness of pressure injuries which resulted in 17 …

“There Is A Woman Concerned In This”: Female Gender Roles In The Novels And Adaptations Of Agatha Christie, Carrie Y. Hess

Waldo Library Student Exhibits

Throughout my dissertation, I analyze what Agatha Christie's 1934 Murder on the Orient Express and 1937 Death on the Nile and their 1970s and 2000s feature film adaptations suggest about the roles of mothers, female friends, and lovers. The underlying issue I speak to is how these texts, working off of a similar storyline, speak differently to these roles, especially when analyzed across time. Several key questions guiding my research and writing include: What does it mean to be a mother? Is she a savior, an avenger, or both? How does the violence associated with the one reconcile with the …

Using Machine Learning To Determine A Functional Classifier Of Reward Responsiveness And Its Association With Adolescent Psychiatric Symptomatology, Robert James Richard Blair, Johannah Bashford-Largo, Ahria Dominguez, Matthew Dobbertin, Karina S. Blair, Sahil Bajaj

Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior: Faculty Publications

Background. Machine learning (ML) has developed classifiers differentiating patient groups despite concerns regarding diagnostic reliability. An alternative strategy, used here, is to develop a functional classifier (hyperplane) (e.g. distinguishing the neural responses to received reward v. received punishment in typically developing (TD) adolescents) and then determine the functional integrity of the response (reward response distance from the hyperplane) in adolescents with externalizing and internalizing conditions and its associations with symptom clusters.

Methods. Two hundred and ninety nine adolescents (mean age = 15.07 ± 2.30 years, 117 females) were divided into three groups: a training sample of TD adolescents …

Second Language Learning In Older Adults Modulates Stroop Task Performance And Brain Activation, Douglas H. Schultz, Alison Gansemer, Kiley Allgood, Mariah Gentz, Lauren Secilmis, Zoha Deldar, Cary R. Savage, Ladan Ghazi Saidi

Center for Brain, Biology, and Behavior: Faculty Publications

Introduction: Numerous studies have highlighted cognitive benefits in lifelong bilinguals during aging, manifesting as superior performance on cognitive tasks compared to monolingual counterparts. Yet, the cognitive impacts of acquiring a new language in older adulthood remain unexplored. In this study, we assessed both behavioral and fMRI responses during a Stroop task in older adults, pre- and post language-learning intervention.

Methods: A group of 41 participants (age: 60–80) from a predominantly monolingual environment underwent a four-month online language course, selecting a new language of their preference. This intervention mandated engagement for 90 minutes a day, five days a week. …

Communicating Justice...With Comics, Roger V. Skalbeck

Law Comics Collection

This mini-comic was created for a presentation at the SubTech 2024 conference, hosted by Northwestern Law in Chicago, Illinois. It explains why and how comics can help improve access to justice. It also includes tips on using Artificial Intelligence and recommendations for finding cartoon artists..

Summer 2024 Otterbein Connections Newsletter, Institutional Advancement

Otterbein Connections

In this issue:

• Plan for Your Future With Otterbein University's Office of Development by Michael R. McGreevey and Kathleen Bonte
• Endowment Overview by Kathleen Bonte
• The Opportunity Scholarship: Making a Cardinal Education Affordable by Alexis Sheets '23
• Ron Woolard Golf Tournament by Stephanie Clark
• Loyal Alumna by Stephanie Clark
• The Class of 1974 Golden Reunion is This Fall
• Otterbein Fund for Today by Carley King '22

York County Rural Communties Opioid Response Implementation Iv Grant: Interim Evaluation Report, Katie Rosingana Ba, Evelyn Ali Bs, Gordon Mcintire Ba, Sarah Mclaughlin Mph, Mary Lindsey Smith Phd

Substance Use Research & Evaluation

This interim evaluation report has been developed for the York County Rural Communities Opioid Response Program, an RCORP-Implementation IV grant awarded to MaineHealth and funded by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA). A main goal of this grant project is to understand the needs of individuals impacted by substance use disorders who have faced structural inequalities to access, in both correctional and heath care settings. The project utilizes a collaborative coalition that is community based, the Rural York Community Coalition (RYCC). For more information, please contact Lindsey Smith at [email protected]