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Disease And Disparities: The Structural Violence In The Time Of Our Covidized Lives, Aurelio S. Agcaoili Nov 2024

Disease And Disparities: The Structural Violence In The Time Of Our Covidized Lives, Aurelio S. Agcaoili

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

The paper argues that when a country’s social structures— political, economic, and cultural—are arranged such that the arrangement results in a dichotomy between the class of the privileged and the class of the less privileged, any act of addressing a pandemic such as the COVID-19 will always end up in another pandemic: the pandemic of government neglect and ineptitude. There is only one way out in ensuring that this double pandemic can be addressed: a return to the foundations of a good life for all—a democracy that secures that the good of collective life is for all.


The Cabin, Moraine Park, Sharon White Nov 2024

The Cabin, Moraine Park, Sharon White

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books Of Note Nov 2024

Books Of Note

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Accidents Nov 2024

Accidents

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Multi-Temporal Analysis Of Urbanization-Driven Slope And Ecological Impact Using Machine-Learning And Remote Sensing Techniques, Zhang Hao, Muhammad Haseeb, Zheng Xiangtian, Zainab Tahir, Syed Amer Mahmood, Aqil Tariq, Rana Waqar Aslam, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, Hesham El-Askary Nov 2024

Multi-Temporal Analysis Of Urbanization-Driven Slope And Ecological Impact Using Machine-Learning And Remote Sensing Techniques, Zhang Hao, Muhammad Haseeb, Zheng Xiangtian, Zainab Tahir, Syed Amer Mahmood, Aqil Tariq, Rana Waqar Aslam, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, Hesham El-Askary

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

Rapid urbanization in Lahore, Pakistan, has led to significant ecological and thermal challenges, particularly the intensification of Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects and increased thermal stress as measured by the Urban Thermal Field Variance Index (UTFVI). This study employs a multi-temporal evaluation of Landsat satellite imagery and GIS-based analysis to investigate the Spatio-temporal trends in land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes from 1994 to 2024. We detected substantial changes in urban growth, vegetation cover, and barren areas using supervised classification (Random Forest) methods and remote sensing indices such as NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), NDMI (Normalized Difference Moisture Index), NDBI (Normalized …


The Role Of Open Education And Faculty Gender In Shaping Student Perceptions, Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Alison E. Kelly Nov 2024

The Role Of Open Education And Faculty Gender In Shaping Student Perceptions, Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Alison E. Kelly

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

Student perceptions of open education, both open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy, are typically reported as positive in research studies. However, there is a need for controlled research to better understand the specific effects of open education. Furthermore, it is not understood how faculty gender, often noted to be influential in student perceptions of courses, interacts with open education. The current study addressed these issues in a controlled experiment in which college students (N = 413) were randomly assigned to read vignettes of course descriptions that varied based on textbook type (OER or commercial), pedagogy (open or closed), and …


Home Births Among Ethnic Minority Communities In Bokeo Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Jukkrit Wungrath, Rungrasami Sriwongphan, Krissana Kapheak, Wanchalerm Ritthimon Nov 2024

Home Births Among Ethnic Minority Communities In Bokeo Province, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Jukkrit Wungrath, Rungrasami Sriwongphan, Krissana Kapheak, Wanchalerm Ritthimon

Kesmas

Home births among ethnic minorities in developing countries pose significant risks to maternal and neonatal health. In Lao PDR, the government has taken steps to manage home births through training traditional birth attendants, improving transportation, and establishing referral systems. However, high home birth rates in regions like Bokeo remain concerning. This review emphasized the need for more skilled birth attendants and better access to emergency obstetric care in rural, ethnic minority areas. This review used 40 articles published between 2000 and 2023 and highlighted gaps in research regarding healthcare access, cultural practices, socioeconomic barriers, and the role of traditional birth …


Social Determinants Of Neonatal Health Outcomes In Indonesia: A Multilevel Regression Analysis, Rooswanti Soeharno, Amal Chalik Sjaaf Nov 2024

Social Determinants Of Neonatal Health Outcomes In Indonesia: A Multilevel Regression Analysis, Rooswanti Soeharno, Amal Chalik Sjaaf

Kesmas

Indonesia’s neonatal mortality rate remains alarmingly high. This study addressed the determinants of neonatal outcomes in Indonesia, including the effects of a decentralized health system, socioeconomic disparities, and geographic variations. The analysis used 2018 national survey data across 34 provinces, 513 cities/districts, and 300,000 households, with a sample of 73,864 women aged 10-54 years who have given birth in the preceding five years. The multilevel regression was used to assess the impact of social determinants and systemic inequalities on neonatal health. Key findings revealed a neonatal mortality rate that, despite being preventable in many cases, remained high with significant disparities. …


Human Capital Assessment In Indigenous Regions To Enable Sustainable Futures, Victoria N. Sharakhmatova, Elena G. Mikhailova Nov 2024

Human Capital Assessment In Indigenous Regions To Enable Sustainable Futures, Victoria N. Sharakhmatova, Elena G. Mikhailova

Faculty Publications

This study is dedicated to the economic valuation of human capital (HC) in the regions where the Indigenous peoples of Kamchatka reside. The entire Kamchatksky Krai is considered an Indigenous people’s ancestral territory. However, in this study, only municipalities whose population is more than one-third Indigenous were chosen for the assessment. This includes six municipal districts and one urban district (Aleytsky, Bystrinsky, Karaginsky, Olyutorsky, Penzhinsky, and Tigilsky municipal districts and Palana urban district). The study employs statistical analysis and integrated, situational approaches: the investment approach was deemed the most appropriate tool for the economic assessment of HC in Indigenous territories. …


Measuring Human Label Consistency By Cross-Batch Ratings Comparisons, Yongzhe Wang, Jeff Rubin Nov 2024

Measuring Human Label Consistency By Cross-Batch Ratings Comparisons, Yongzhe Wang, Jeff Rubin

Defensive Publications Series

Evaluating the consistency of human ratings is important for developing and improving machine learning algorithms. For example, such algorithms can be used to identify trends in online video content, including short-form videos. Human-provided ratings are used to calculate metrics that are useful for reporting and algorithm development. However, the human rating process is complex, involving factors such as instruction development, onboarding and training of human raters across different geographies/markets and languages, and obtaining ratings for a diverse set of video content. In all obtained ratings, there is always potential for human error. This disclosure describes techniques to obtain consistency measurements …


Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael Nov 2024

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords


News From The Chapters 2000-2001, C. Nicholas Raphael Nov 2024

News From The Chapters 2000-2001, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 2001-2002 GTU


Book Reviews, C. Nicholas Raphael Nov 2024

Book Reviews, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Book Reviews


Volume 43-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael Nov 2024

Volume 43-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 43-2 Complete Issue


Historical Development Of The Pipeline As A Mode Of Transportation, M. O. Lawal Nov 2024

Historical Development Of The Pipeline As A Mode Of Transportation, M. O. Lawal

The Geographical Bulletin

Historical Development of the Pipeline as a Mode of Transportation


The Possible Effect Of Global Warming On The Frequency Of Significant Snowfall Events Along The Eastern Coast Of The United States, Brent R. Skeeter Nov 2024

The Possible Effect Of Global Warming On The Frequency Of Significant Snowfall Events Along The Eastern Coast Of The United States, Brent R. Skeeter

The Geographical Bulletin

The Possible Effect of Global Warming on the Frequency of Significant Snowfall Events Along the Eastern Coast of the United States


Geographer At Work, Kurt P. Kowalski Nov 2024

Geographer At Work, Kurt P. Kowalski

The Geographical Bulletin

Geographer at Work


The Omai Disaster In Guyana, Robert Ramraj Nov 2024

The Omai Disaster In Guyana, Robert Ramraj

The Geographical Bulletin

The Omai Disaster in Guyana.


Improved Health At The United States-Mexican Border: A Case Study, Janet B. Snyder Nov 2024

Improved Health At The United States-Mexican Border: A Case Study, Janet B. Snyder

The Geographical Bulletin

Improved Health at the United States-Mexican Border: A Case Study


Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comment: The Big Picture, Harm J. De Blij Nov 2024

Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comment: The Big Picture, Harm J. De Blij

The Geographical Bulletin

Projections and Perceptions-Editorial Comment: The Big Picture


North Branch Of The Big Thompson River, Sharon White Nov 2024

North Branch Of The Big Thompson River, Sharon White

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


The White Mountains, By Train: Lower Speeds, Longer Vacations, Andrew Riely Nov 2024

The White Mountains, By Train: Lower Speeds, Longer Vacations, Andrew Riely

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Parks Or Parking Lots? Hikers Should Vote With Their Feet, Robert Manning Nov 2024

Parks Or Parking Lots? Hikers Should Vote With Their Feet, Robert Manning

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Appalachia Summer/Fall 2009: Complete Issue Nov 2024

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2009: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2009 - Volume LX, Number 2 - issue #228. Our carbon footprint: Old and new pathways to the mountains.


The Whites-Only Immigration Regime, Kelly Lytle Hernández Nov 2024

The Whites-Only Immigration Regime, Kelly Lytle Hernández

Rondel V. Davidson Endowed Lecture Series

After the U.S. Civil War, federal authorities slowly built a whites-only immigration regime that targeted Black and other non-white immigrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal. By 1930, the regime was complete, making it nearly impossible for Black, Mexican, and Asian immigrants to enter the United States. During the Civil Rights Movement, Congress amended the regime's admission system, making it possible for nonwhite immigrants to begin entering and settling in the United States in large numbers. But federal authorities have yet to fully repeal and replace the whites-only immigration regime, leaving intact the enforcement tactics designed to target nonwhite immigrants for …


Addressing Grand Challenges Through The Bottom-Up Marketing Approach: Lessons From Subsistence Marketplaces And Marketplace Literacy, Madhubalan Viswanathan, Arun Sreekumar, Srinivas Sridharan, Gaurav R. Sinha Nov 2024

Addressing Grand Challenges Through The Bottom-Up Marketing Approach: Lessons From Subsistence Marketplaces And Marketplace Literacy, Madhubalan Viswanathan, Arun Sreekumar, Srinivas Sridharan, Gaurav R. Sinha

Marketing & Business Law Faculty Works

We present a bottom-up marketing approach as a pathway to addressing the grand challenge of poverty and inequality for the marketing discipline. We derive this approach from the research stream on radically different contexts of subsistence marketplaces. Research on subsistence marketplaces has typically explored micro-level phenomena but also traversed upward and explained aggregate phenomena at higher levels. We present a conceptual framework to encapsulate general and granular elements of the bottom-up marketing approach. Study 1 demonstrates general elements of the framework through a retrospective examination of the global diffusion of a marketplace literacy program. Study 2 demonstrates the more granular …


Learning By Refraction: A Practitioner's Guide To 21st Century Ignatian Pedagogy. Fr. Johnny C. Go, Sj And Rita J. Atienza, Von Karl M. Katindoy Nov 2024

Learning By Refraction: A Practitioner's Guide To 21st Century Ignatian Pedagogy. Fr. Johnny C. Go, Sj And Rita J. Atienza, Von Karl M. Katindoy

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Learning by Refraction: A Practitioner's Guide to 21st Century Ignatian Pedagogy. Fr. Johnny C. Go, SJ and Rita J. Atienza


Japanese Philosophy Of Moral Education: From Watsuji Tetsurô To Mori Akira, Anton Sevilla-Liu Nov 2024

Japanese Philosophy Of Moral Education: From Watsuji Tetsurô To Mori Akira, Anton Sevilla-Liu

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

This article builds on the ethics of Watsuji Tetsurô (1889 1960) through a comparison with Mori Akira’s (1915–1976) the philosophy of education to show how Watsuji’s “ethics of emptiness” can be concretely manifested in human formation. While keeping Watsuji’s ethics in view, this article examines Mori Akira’s early philosophy of moral education in the 1950s, which can be found in his philosophy book, his teacher’s manual, and his moral education student textbooks. This article begins with Watsuji’s idea of “human existence” and its similarities with Mori Akira’s idea of “human becoming,” which adds a developmental angle to Watsuji’s tensional view …


Circum-Navigating The World Island, Among Enemies, John T. Giordano Nov 2024

Circum-Navigating The World Island, Among Enemies, John T. Giordano

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Everyday our vision travels across time and space. We see images in the media about atrocities, disruptions, crises, famine, and wars. And in each case, our sense of injustice is awakened. We feel outrage and indignation based upon our ideals and value systems, which were formed through our traditions and religions. But in this age where the power of media and information is so powerful, what we see is often manufactured to appeal to our values. While these values circulate among the images we see in cyberspace, these manipulations are rooted in certain realities: geography, natural resources, and power relationships. …


Sanut, Wayawaya, And The Naimbag A Biag In Ilokano Philosophy, Aurelio S. Agcaoili Nov 2024

Sanut, Wayawaya, And The Naimbag A Biag In Ilokano Philosophy, Aurelio S. Agcaoili

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

The essay articulates the fundamental connection of some of the basic concepts in Ilokano ethos as lived in the everyday in order to understand the basic contradictions of the Ilokano way of being in the world (Ilokano ontology), of being in a society marked by good intentions but evil practices. The notion of the good life as a political concept is explored, and its connection to knowledge (Ilokano epistemology) and freedom is established.