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From Research Findings To Decision Tools: Supporting Local Choices, Margo Gustina

Library Research Seminar 8: Telling Library Stories

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Sharing The Story Of Public Library Programming For Young Children With Disabilities Or Developmental Delays, Denice Adkins, Maria Cahill, Alicia Long, Bobbie Sartin Long, Derek Daskalakes

Library Research Seminar 8: Telling Library Stories

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Measuring Library Co-Production With Mediation Models, Margo Gustina

Library Research Seminar 8: Telling Library Stories

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Beyond Covid: Towards A Transdisciplinary Synthesis For Understanding Responses And Developing Pandemic Preparedness In Alaska, Taylor P. Van Doren, Ryan A. Brown, Guangqing Chi, Patricia Cochran, Katie Cueva, Laura Eichelberger, Ruby Fried, Stacey Fritz, Micah B. Hahn, Ron Heintz, Davin Holen, Andrey N. Petrov

Faculty Publications

Pandemics are regularly occurring events, and there are foundational principles of pandemic preparation upon which communities, regions, states, and nations may draw upon for elevated preparedness against an inevitable future infectious disease threat. Many disciplines within the social sciences can provide crucial insight and transdisciplinary thinking for the development of preparedness measures. In 2023, the National Science Foundation funded a conference of circumpolar researchers and Indigenous partners to reflect on COVID-19-related research. In this article, we synthesise our diverse social science perspectives to: (1) identify potential areas of future pandemic-related research in Alaska, and (2) pose new research questions that …

Purple Glass, Madyson Nicole Reynolds

All ETDs from UAB

Purple Glass is a fiction novel that compiles themes of high school, family expectations, twin sibling rivalries, and the significance of historical landmarks through the environmental fantasy genre. The story takes place in the author’s hometown of Springville, Alabama, and is inspired by real events that happened at the former Springville Lake. This work is a testament to the power of nature and its unseen magic that remains present, even amidst environmental tragedy. This work is also about self-discovery and the examination of one’s place within their personal and natural environment.

Insights Into The Diet And Feeding Behavior Of Immature Polar Cod (Boreogadus Saida) From The Under-Ice Habitat Of The Central Arctic Ocean, The Mosaic Team Eco, Fokje L. Schaafsma, Hauke Flores, Carmen L. David, Giulia Castellani, Serdar Sakinan, André Meijboom, Barbara Niehoff, Astrid Cornils, Nicole Hildebrandt, Katrin Schmidt, Pauline Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, Julia Ehrlich, Carin J. Ashjian

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Polar cod (Boreogadus saida) is an endemic key species of the Arctic Ocean ecosystem. The ecology of this forage fish is well studied in Arctic shelf habitats where a large part of its population lives. However, knowledge about its ecology in the central Arctic Ocean (CAO), including its use of the sea-ice habitat, is hitherto very limited. To increase this knowledge, samples were collected at the under-ice surface during several expeditions to the CAO between 2012 and 2020, including the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. The diet of immature B. saida and the taxonomic …

Social Media, Technology, And The Higher Education Classroom, Brian F. Mcfadden, Nicole R. Clarity, Susan J. Drucker

Proceedings of the New York State Communication Association

This paper reflects on the ways that media technology infiltrate, push, and pull educators in the 21^st century. The authors write about the importance of including new technology in our courses to better prepare students for their future careers and lives while also acknowledging the challenges that inclusion can present. By highlighting how technology serves as a facilitator for classroom participation and the ways the emergent technology can enhance a journalism curriculum, the paper points to some of the ways that emergent technology in our classes can have an enduring positive effect on our students in the future. However, …

The Effect Of Rainy Seasons On Water Harvesting In The Abu Kreisha Valley Basin, Southeast Of Wasit Governorate, Using Modern Geographical Techniques, Feraqid Ubaid Kazim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Basin the valley Abu Kreisha is one of the river valleys with modern developments. To determine the measurement of morphometric characteristics, which include the characteristics (area, shape, and topography) and hydrological characteristics in the Abu Kreisha Valley Basin, northeast of Ali Al-Gharbi district in Maysan Governorate, the program and the satellite visual sensor (Landsat) were used. 8-7), dated (2021-2023) and the digital elevation model for the year (2021) with a height of (8) m and using the program (ARCGIS-(HEC-GIS)-WMS-HEC-HEC-HAS4). The area of the basin was (79.2 km2), the length was (18.2 km), and the average width was (5.9 km), while …

Olaf: An Assessment Of Online Learning Outcomes Among Forestry And Natural Resource Management University Students, Krista Merry, Pete Bettinger, Taeyoon Lee

Journal of Extension

Online learning has become an important advance in education in the last decade. We developed an online learning system related to land and tree measurements. University students were given pre- and post-exposure surveys for two courses offered within the online system. Surveys were designed to assess whether the knowledge level and confidence of students increased through interaction with the online system. A final assessment was conducted to understand user experiences with the online technology. Statistically significant increases in knowledge and confidence concerning land measurement concepts and tree measurement topics were evident among survey participants. Survey participants agreed that the course …

Assessment Of Relative Humidity Trends In The Troposphere Over Iraq, Ahmed Lafta Hamad Al-Budeiri

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Water vapor is one of the most important variables that affect the thermal balance of the Earth and the hydrological cycle, and the hydrological cycle and relative humidity are key measures of atmospheric moisture. Therefore, the current study aims to assess the temporal and spatial trends of relative humidity variations on an annual and seasonal scale for twelve stations over the period (1971–2020) at six levels (surface, RH1000, RH850, RH700, RH500, and RH300). This study relies on observed data from the General Authority for Meteorology at the surface level and reanalysis data for upper levels in the troposphere from the …

A Comparative Study Of The Female Character As The ‘Other’ In Doris Lessing’S The Fifth Child And Belgheis Soleimani’S Khale Bazi, Ahmad Gholi, Fatemeh Dargahi Kafshgarkolaie

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abstract

This study tries to explore and examine two female characters from different cultural contexts in terms of the women’s issue which is never bound to geography, culture, race, or nationality. This study attempts to compare Belgheis Soleimani’s Khale Bazi and Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child in the light of Butler's concept of “performativity.” Leaning toward the theory of “performativity”, it is revealed how human beings are being shackled by gender binaries, gender norms, and heterosexual hegemony. Each individual is born within such limitations and is raised in a way to reproduce them in a cyclical pattern to guarantee heterosexuality. …

Spatial Patterns Of Agricultural Land Investment In Gammas Distric, Manaf Muhamad Zarzur, Ali Jabber Sultan

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The agricultural pattern is a classification process of agricultural phenomena, which share natural and human facts within the cadastral units represented by the administrative units represented here in the districts of the study area in the district of Ghammas, and that the large increase in population requires a corresponding increase in the agricultural aspect to achieve a balance between food and housing through land reclamation and raising the productivity of one acre of agricultural land, whether it is grain crops, vegetables or palm fruits, as well as the use of agricultural mechanization (modern) in agricultural land in addition to the …

Muslim Scholars In China(Radwan Liu Lin Roy Is A Model), Leqaa Shaker Khatar Sharifi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study of personalities is one of the important topics in writing history, especially those personalities who had a pivotal role in political, economic, social and cultural life, as the scholar Ridwan Liu Lin Rui (1917-1995 AD) is considered one of the Chinese Muslim scholars who played a major role in spreading science. Arabic and Islamic in China by extending the roots of communication and knowledge between the two cultures. This is in addition to being one of the founding pioneers who officially transferred the teaching of the Arabic language from the ancient mosque education to formal higher education in …

An Application Of The Sustainable Transformational Leadership Dimensions On Teacher’S Performance: A Social Network Analysis, Aymen Al Qaradaghi, Razan Kerkukli, Riazuddin Ahmed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Teacher’s performance is one of the arguable issues in the organization. Sustainable Transformational leadership and its dimensions play a big role to change the nature of teacher’s performance in the organization. In this study, sustainable transformational leadership dimensions were discussed and examined through social network analysis SNA as a tool to analyze and understand results. Data collection were conducted and 30 respondents participated in the questionnaire. Organizations are educational sectors and they are 3 organizations and mentioned as symbols in the study. This study, shows that both sustainable occupational training SOT and sustainable social training SST as dimensions of sustainable …

Evaluating The Performance Of Social Studies Teachers In The Secondary Stage According To The Comprehensive Quality Standards, Muhammad Sadiq Muhammad Abu Daka

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Abstract

The current research aims to identify "evaluating the performance of social studies teachers in the secondary stage according to the comprehensive quality standards" To achieve the research goal, the researcher followed the descriptive approach (survey study). The original research community consists of all social studies teachers in the secondary stage (middle and preparatory schools) for the academic year 2023/2024 AD, numbering (722) male and female teachers, at a rate of (20%) of the original research community (Directorate of Education of Rusafa / 3), with (105) male and female teachers in middle schools and (39) male and female teachers in …

The Effect Of The Hot Seat Strategy On Female Students’ Achievement And Attitudes Towards Geography, Thiqa Ali Abadul Wahid Aalabadi

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the hot seat strategy on female students’ achievement and attitudes towards geography. A quasi-experimental experiment was designed and implemented, specifically a pre test post test- control-group design with a quantitative approach. The study sample consisted of 50 second middle school students, Bagdad, Iraq . According to the T-test analysis, there were differences between treatment and control groups in academic achievement as well as in attitudes towards Geography in post- test mean scores in favor of the treatment group. This shows the effectiveness of the hot seat strategy intervention.

Brown V. Board Of Education: Enduring Caste And American Betrayal, Sheryll Cashin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This article reflects on the role of residential caste in reproducing school segregation and how the Supreme Court betrays the equality principles of Brown by applying a colorblind constitutionalism that renders so-called de facto residential caste, and subsequent school segregation, acceptable.

During the seven-decade Great Migration of the 20^th century, northern cities deployed policies to create an architecture of inequality in which African Americans and white Americans did not live in the same neighborhoods. While the Fair Housing Act of 1968 rendered intentional discrimination in housing markets illegal, and the Court also ruled against forms of intentional housing discrimination, …

انعكاسات العولمة الإجتماعية على الوطن العربي, Tala Jamal Manna Obaide, Abdul-Majeed A. Al-Azzam

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدف المقال إلى إلقاء الضوء على ملامح وآثار العولمة الاجتماعية في الوطن العربي، وذلك بالتعريف بمفهوم العولمة الاجتماعية، واستعراض أهم أدواتها المتمثلة بالإعلام والمنظمات الدولية، إذ وضحت أهم الآثار التي خلفتها العولمة الاجتماعية على الوطن العربي في مجال الأسرة والمرأة والتعليم وغيرها، كما استعرضت الدراسة مؤشرات العولمة الاجتماعية وفقاً لمؤشر كوف KOF. وتوصلت الدراسة إلى عدد من النتائج، أهمها أن العولمة الاجتماعية أذابت الحدود بين الدول ومكنت من انتقال الأفكار والعادات من مجتمع إلى آخر، كما أنها أسهمت في تعزيز هيمنة الدول الغربية على الدول العربية، مما غيّر من منظومة القيم والعادات التي ميزت المجتمعات والأسرة العربية. وعليه قدمت مجموعة …

Pilgrimage: A Journey To Witness Climate Change In The National Parks, Elise Wallace

Appalachia

A writing teacher considers climate change in New Hampshire, where she lives, and in Acadia National Park and Yellowstone National Park, which she visited in a van. A runner-up in the 2023 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.

An Ocean Walk In The Ocean State: A Couple Covers The Full Width Of Rhode Island, Stephen S. Hale

Appalachia

A couple walked most of the Rhode Island coast over 29 day trips, including a road race on the Jamestown Bridge.

Human Capital At Home: Evidence From A Randomized Evaluation In The Philippines, Noam Angrist, Sarah Kabay, Dean S. Karlan, Lincoln Lau, Kevin M. Wong

Education Division Scholarship

Children spend most of their time at home in their early years, yet efforts to promote human capital at home in many low- and middle-income settings remain limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3 and 5, with a focus on math and phonics skills. Children gain 0.52 and 0.51 standard deviations relative to the control group on math and phonics tests, respectively (p<0.001). A year later effects persist, but math gains dissipate to 0.15 (p=0.06) and phonics to 0.13 (p=0.12). Effects appear to be mediated largely through instructional support by parents and not other parent investment mechanisms, such as more positive parent-child interactions or additional time spent on education at home beyond the intervention. Our results show that parents can be effective conduits of educational instruction even in low-resource settings.

The Environment Of Glaciovolcanic Caves And Their Value As Planetary Analogues, Christian Stenner, Lee J. Florea, Linda Sobolewski, Andreas Pflitsch, Morgan Cable, Roberto Anitori, Richard E. Davis, Kathleen Graham, Glyn Williams-Jones

FRONTIERS UNBOUND: Exploring Extreme Environments

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Bomani Jones, Deesha Philyaw

PoemMemoirStory (literary magazine)

pp. 156-161

Deciphering Above-Treeline Vegetation Greenness Trends: Insights From The Carpathian Mountains, Pavel Dan Turtureanu, Arthur Bayle, Nicoud Baptiste, Olimpiu Traian Pop, Mihai Pușcaș, Philippe Choler

FRONTIERS UNBOUND: Exploring Extreme Environments

No abstract provided.

The Social Aspects Of Sustainable Development: Transit-Oriented Development And Gentrification In Washington, D.C., Vincent C. Hanrahan

The Gettysburg Journal for Public Policy

Since the early-1970s, Transit oriented development (TOD) has been touted as a solution to a variety of urban problems, including traffic congestion, air pollution, and urban poverty. Subsequently, urban scholars have scrutinized “green” development like TOD to measure potential social costs – like the displacement of incumbent neighborhood residents. However, the methodological approach of these empirical studies has come under scrutiny recently, questioning the connection between gentrification and TOD. Following critics’ calls for a better understanding of who may be impacted by TOD, my project addresses previous studies’ methodological shortcomings by focusing on the socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhood residents rather …

Trends From 20 Years Of Artificial Intelligence In Financial Services In Africa, Nthabiseng Moela, Lerato Matlala, Jackie Ma, Dipuo Maphutha, Hossana Twinomurinzi

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

The need for financial inclusion in Africa, particularly for marginalised groups like women and small businesses, highlights the importance of leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI). This study provides a bibliometric analysis of AI's integration into African financial services from 2003 to 2023. The key results show a significant increase in AI use, particularly in fraud detection, credit risk prediction, and stock market volatility forecasting, with 49% of the research coming from South Africa, Nigeria, and Tunisia. However, areas like financial development management, inflation control, and gender disparities in loan access remain underexplored. The emphasis has been on the technical implementation of …

The Language Of Suffering: A Review Of Ghost Words And Invisible Giants By Lheisa Dustin, Jill Darling

Criticism

Ghost Words and Invisible Giants by Lheisa Dustin. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021. Pp. 308. $133.00 hardback.

Pms 7 (End Matter), Poemmemoirstory Staff

PoemMemoirStory (literary magazine)

pp. 130-135

Prevailing Issues And Actions In Urban Best Practices Across Latin America And The Caribbean, Fabio Capra-Ribeiro

Faculty Publications

This research examines urban best practices (BPs) across Latin America and the Caribbean to illuminate the prevalent issues and actions associated with these locally implemented initiatives. An analysis of 45 BPs from the UN-Habitat repository was conducted using both quantitative and qualitative methods, organized into three phases. The first phase focused on collecting data such as BP sources, countries of origin, and years of implementation. The second phase identified common problems and actions within the BPs. The third phase involved a cross-sectional analysis to identify significant patterns and trends. The study found that many BPs originated from the Dubai International …

2024-09-13 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University

Board of Visitors Meeting Minutes 1964-

No abstract provided.