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Inequality And Climate Change: Two Problems, One Solution?, Francesco Nicolli, Marianna Gilli, Francesco Vona

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while accounting for nonhomotheticity in green preferences and nonlinearities in the impact of economic growth on GHG emissions. Theoretically, our research is motivated by the fact that if environmental quality is a need with low priority on the hierarchical scale, the effect of inequality on emissions should vary depending on the level of income per capita. Specifically, for a given level of income per capita, a richer median voter will be more likely to approve of more stringent environmental policies, and thus, lower inequality is beneficial …

Curricular Changes Proposed For 2023-2025 Morris Catalog Division Of Education, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Applying Retrieval Practice In Climate Change Education: How Retrieval-Based Learning May Enhance High School Students’ Conceptual Understanding On Climate Change Topics, Mengyu Wang

Dissertations

This dissertation explored ways to apply retrieval practice strategy on climate change learning at the high school level. Three studies presented that retrieval practice could be used broadly on different topics of climate change and in different learning scenarios. The first study focused on the effect of question placement on learning when students studied sea level rise from an educational video lecture. The results suggested that applying retrieval practice in a style of embedded short-answer questions in videos has clear advantage over restudying the video lecture in both immediate and delayed tests, but no difference in students' performance was found …

Umsl Magazine - Fall 2022, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Magazine and other UMSL Magazines

The University of Missouri–St. Louis publishes UMSL Magazine for alumni and friends. The magazine highlights excellence at the university. Circulation is 112,055 and the magazine is released twice a year.

Educational Policy Committee Meeting – Open Session Packet 11/17/2022, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2022 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

No abstract provided.

The Ideal Dual-Doctorates In Leadership, Larry M. Starr, Phd

School of Continuing and Professional Studies Faculty Papers

During 2014 and 2015 more than 100 stakeholders working with five facilitators applied the systems thinking-informed methodology of Interactive Planning and Idealized Design to create the prototype for an ideal doctoral program for working professionals at the request of Philadelphia University a professional university in Philadelphia. The result was the design of two leadership degrees to be located in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies: an applied research Doctor of Management (DMgt) in Strategic Leadership launched in 2016 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Complex Systems Leadership launched in 2019. Between Spring 2016 and Fall 2019 more than …

The Minority In The Minority, Black Women In Computer Science Fields: A Phenomenological Study, Blanche' D. Anderson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the lived experiences of Black women with a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, currently employed in the United States. The theory guiding this study was Krumboltz’s social learning theory of career decision-making, as it provides a foundation for understanding how a combination of factors leads to an individual’s educational and occupational preferences and skills. This qualitative study answered the following central research question: What are the lived experiences of Black women with a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in computer science, currently employed in the United States? …

‘We Call It Getting Your Eye In’: Policing Sexual Harassment On The London Underground Through The Lens Of Haraway’S Situated Knowledges And Cyborgs, Sian Lewis

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

This article explores police perspectives of sexual harassment on the London Underground. Drawing on 15 semi-structured interviews with the British Transport Police this article demonstrates how the police a) use their ‘situated knowledges’ to make sense of the dynamics of the London Underground and seek out offenders within the network, often without a report of harassment; and b) engage with technologies in order to (re)construct incidents of sexual harassment so that they can be investigated. The article argues that the BTP occupy a ‘soft cyborg ontology’, and claims the implications this has on epistemologies and methods of policing as significant. …

Decolonial Discourses And Practices: Geopolitical Contexts, Intellectual Genealogies, And Situated Pedagogies, Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán, James Jupp

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

Although decolonial thought from Latin America and the Caribbean is a multifaceted field of research and sociopolitical praxis, it is often interpreted monolithically. To refuse this tendency, we argue that it is imperative to trace decolonial theory’s intellectual genealogies and engage in transgressive decolonial hermeneutics to re-interpret texts (theories) according to their living socio-historical and geopolitical contexts. Following Stuart Hall’s lead, we first sketch out the geopolitical and sociocultural exigencies that allow for theoretical movements to unfold, paying more attention to the geopolitical implications of thinking “from” Latin America and the Caribbean. Second, we address the ethical imperative of thinking …

Imperialism In The Making Of U.S. Law, Nina Farnia

St. John's Law Review

(Excerpt)

This Article proceeds in two parts. In Part I, “U.S. Foreign Policy as Racial Policy,” I identify the four key policy pillars of U.S. imperialism: militarism, unilateral coercive measures, foreign aid, and the deployment of the dollar. I then pivot to a brief history of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East, highlighting the geographic and racial specificities that influence the ideological and legal contours of U.S. imperialism. I end this section with an analysis of The Public Report of the Vice President’s Task Force on Combatting Terrorism (1985), which was a defining document in the making of anti-terrorism law …

Suffolk Journal, Vol.86, No. 7, 11/16/2022, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

A Gis Analysis To Identify Historical, Contemporary, And Spatial Housing Discrimination In Denver, Colorado, Ian Sharkey

Geography and the Environment: Graduate Student Capstones

This study analyzes the relationship between housing discrimination and equity within the City of Denver. This study creates a discrimination index by combining (1) historical Discrimination, (2) contemporary segregation, and (3) housing inequity data into an index to compare the Denver Department of Health and the Environment (DDPHE) 2020 equity index using a local bivariate analysis. This study found a negative linear relationship between the created and Denver equity indexes. The variables used for the discrimination index can explain some of the relationships, but future studies should use more variables for a discrimination index.

Effect Of Dedicated Admission Medication Reconciliation On Patient Care In 100-Bed Acute Care Hospital, Judy Mcmanus

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Medication reconciliations are often completed inadequately or inaccurately when patients are admitted to the hospital. Findings at the study site identified an average of two pharmacy interventions necessary per admitted patient to correct home medication lists after completion of the medication reconciliation.

PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was “In adult patients admitted to a 100-bed acute care hospital (P), how does use of the MATCH toolkit for medication reconciliation process steps (I), compared to the current process of home medication reconciliation completed by the physician prior to nursing or pharmacy team review (C) affect accuracy …

Sustaining Communities Through Transformative Justice, Casey Bohrman

Sustainability Research & Practice Seminar Presentations

Professor Casey Bohrman, Graduate Social Work - Sustaining Communities through Transformative Justice

"We'll Probably All Be In Trouble For Hugging A Kid": Rural Teacher Radicalism In Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences, Catharine Biddle

The Rural Educator

There is a tension between the principles of global education reform, with its focus on fiscal efficiency, literacy and numeracy, and the increasing interest in meeting the needs of the whole child and addressing childhood adversity within schools. In rural communities, this tension may be heightened by fractured social service networks mediated by distance and the declining economic well-being of many communities perpetuated by decades of unfavorable social and economic policy. Drawing on focus group discussions with 110 rural Maine educators, this study examines how rural educators negotiate this tension in their day to day practice to address student needs …

Remote Sensing Evidence For Significant Variations In The Global Gross Domestic Product During The Covid-19 Epidemic, Bin Guo, Wencai Zhang, Lin Pei, Xiaowei Zhu, Pingping Luo, Weili Duan

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been spreading rapidly and is still threatening human health currently. A series of measures for restraining epidemic spreading has been adopted throughout the world, which seriously impacted the gross domestic product (GDP) globally. However, details of the changes in the GDP and its spatial heterogeneity characteristics on a fine scale worldwide during the pandemic are still uncertain. We designed a novel scheme to simulate a 0.1° × 0.1° resolution grid global GDP map during the COVID-19 pandemic. Simulated nighttime-light remotely sensed data (SNTL) was forecasted via a GM(1, 1) model under the assumption that there …

Visualisation Of Exhaled Breath Metabolites Reveals Distinct Diagnostic Signatures For Acute Cardiorespiratory Breathlessness, Michael J. Wilde, Wadah Ibrahim, Rebecca L. Cordell, Matthew Richardson, Robert C. Free, Bo Zhao, Amisha Singapuri, Beverley Hargadon, Erol A. Gaillard, Toru Suzuki, Leong L. Ng, Tim Coats, Paul Thomas, Paul S. Monks, Christopher E. Brightling, Neil J. Greening, Salman Siddiqui

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Acute cardiorespiratory breathlessness accounts for one in eight of all emergency hospitalizations. Early, noninvasive diagnostic testing is a clinical priority that allows rapid triage and treatment. Here, we sought to find and replicate diagnostic breath volatile organic compound (VOC) biomarkers of acute cardiorespiratory disease and understand breath metabolite network enrichment in acute disease, with a view to gaining mechanistic insight of breath biochemical derangements. We collected and analyzed exhaled breath samples from 277 participants presenting acute cardiorespiratory exacerbations and aged-matched healthy volunteers. Topological data analysis phenotypes differentiated acute disease from health and acute cardiorespiratory exacerbation subtypes (acute heart failure, acute …

Poverty In New York City: Social, Demographic And Spatial Characteristics, 1990-2019, Marco Castillo

Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies

Introduction:

This report analyzes trends in poverty in New York City over a period spanning from the year 1990 to 2019, including maps of poverty hot spots in the city.

Methods:

This report uses the American Community Survey PUMS (Public Use Microdata Series) data for all years released by the Census Bureau and reorganized for public use by the Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, IPUMSusa, (https://usa.ipums.org/usa/index.shtml). See Public Use Microdata Series Steven Ruggles, J. Trent Alexander, Katie Genadek, Ronald Goeken, Matthew B. Schroeder, and Matthew Sobek. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series: Version 5.0 [Machine-readable database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, …

Most Recent Rupture On The Boulder Creek Fault Triggered Bedrock Landsliding In The Nooksack Watershed, Whatcom County, Washington, Abigail Catherine Underwood

Dissertations and Theses

Catastrophic bedrock landslides with volumes ranging from 10⁶ to 10⁸ m³ contribute to rapid landscape evolution, often resulting in erosion rates that exceed the long-term average rates caused by tectonic uplift. Understanding the spatiotemporal trends of large bedrock landslides helps us understand previous drivers of landscape evolution as well as predict how the landscape will respond in the future. The Nooksack Watershed, Whatcom County, Washington, is particularly susceptible to large slope failures because of its high relief, seismic activity, local geology, and relatively abundant precipitation. Specifically, folded and faulted bedrock structures conducive to landsliding in addition to …

Counter-Mapping As Method: Locating And Relating The (Semi) Peripheral, Dr. Manuela Boatca

Duquesne Studies in Phenomenology

No abstract provided.

Editor's Introduction, Dr. James Haile Iii

Duquesne Studies in Phenomenology

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Of Efl Undergraduate Students' Performance In Cognitive Poetic Schema, Prof.Nahida Taha Majeed (Ph.D.), Prof.Shatha Kathim Al-Saadi (M.A.)

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

English cognitive poetics could help undergraduate students achieve a better understanding of what they do and why they are doing something. It also helps them find new ways of doing things and improving old ways that they have. Hence, this study intends to fill a gap of information about the way Iraqi college students process English poetry. This study aims at: 1. Pin-pointing the components of cognitive poetic schema (CPS) used by EFL undergraduate students for interpreting English poems. 2. Identifying students' level of performance in English CPS. 3. Finding whether there are any significant differences among students' performance in …

(رصد زحزحة نطاقات الزراعة الديمية باستخدام بيانات الامطار الفعلية فوق العَراق (دراسة في التغيرات المُناخية, أ.م.د. أياد عبد علي سلمان الشمري, م.د. عمر حمدان عبدالله الشُجيري

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يهدف هذا البحث إلى تحديد علاقة تزحزح النطاقات المكانية للزراعة الديمية في العراق باستخدام بيانات الأمطار الفعلية. إذ تم إجراء تحليل إحصائي باستخدام بيانات الامطار ل) 15 ( محطة مُناخية، وزعت مكانيا كنقاط ضبط أرضية جوية لمجمل الامتداد المساحي للعراق، ولأجل رصد تغير كمياتها حدد البعد الزماني لمجمل هذه البيانات ضمن سلسلة للمدة) 1952 - 2018 (، وقسمت إلى مدتان لتحقيق شواهد المقارنة. في التحليل العملي حاذى البحث استخدام أسلوب المتوسطات، واستخدام تقنية نظم المعلومات الجغرافية GIS لرصد التغيرات المكانية في زحف النطاقات خلال الزمن، وقد اتضح أن هناك علاقة بين ما تطلبه الزراعة الديمية من كميات الامطار في العراق)وفق …

تحليل مكاني ستراتيجي للتخفيف من الفقر في العراق, أ.م.د. وفاء كاظم عباس الشمري, أ.م.د. محمد جواد شبع

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The strategy of poverty alleviation is to set a road map with specific and realistic goals that can be implemented in Iraq, and the strategy aims to reduce the poverty rate until 2030 through the comprehensive development determined by the plan in the education, health and economic level, in order to convert the poor into producers and provide economic and social services However, the most important goal is to enhance the resilience of poverty towards economic growth, which requires increasing the proportion of supply, diversifying the national economy, eliminating poverty of all kinds, achieving food security and stability, and strengthening …

السياحة ودورها في الحد من الفقر, الأستاذ الدكتور عباس غالي داود الحديثي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

There are many perspectives about a complex and interconnected tourism phenomenon and its trends & functions. Here, we can say that there are three industries that will lead the new global economy: tourism, information, space. Also 80% of the poor people in the world settle in the 12 states, in 11 of these states the tourism has an important role. So, tourism become developmental tool for poverty reduction through many mechanisms. The problem of this research appears in the following questions: what is the role of tourism in poverty reduction? How tourism can achieve this role? What is the determents …

( Gis ) التحليل المكاني للمناحل في محافظة النجف باستعمال برنامج نظم المعلومات الجغرافية, أ.م. د. ظلال جواد كاظم, أم. م. منال شنين علي, م. رفل حسين نجم

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يعد التحليل المكاني للمناحل في محافظة النجف مؤشر مهم لمعرفة التوزيع الجغرافي لها وانماطها واتجاهاتها المكانية . فنحل العسل من الكائنات التي لا يمكن فصلها عن البيئة المحيطة بها لأنه يعتمد بالدرجة الاساس على ما تجود به لمتطلبات حياتها فهي تُحدد طبيعة الغطاء النباتي بأشكاله المختلفة من مراعي وإنتاج زراعي وما يتبع ذلك من عوامل طبيعية وبشرية تؤثر في إمكانات إنشاء المناحل وتوزيعها وكثافتها تبعا للظروف المناسبة لها لتوفير حاجته الغذائية التي تضمن للنحل البقاء وللنحال الإنتاج بمواسم مختلفة. محافظة النجف من المحافظات العراقية التي عرفت بتربية النحل وهي محافظة تتنوع فيها مظاهر سطح الأرض باختلاف تلك المظاهر وما تحويه …

التحليل الجغرافي لمقومات توطن مصافي تكرير النفط الصغيرة في العراق واثره في تحقيق التنمية المستدامة, أ.م.د أركان ريسان عباس

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تسهم العوامل الموقعية والموضعية بدور كبير ومهم في توزيع وتشغيل المصافي , وفي التأثير على اقتصاديات التكرير , وعلى سعة المصفى والتوسعات المستقبلية . أن العوامل المؤثرة في صناعة التكرير متعددة , وتشمل المادة الخام والسوق و أ رس المال ومصادر الوقود والطاقة والنقل والايدي العاملة وسياسة الدولة والارض والمياه" وعامل التلوث , ومن أهم العوامل التي تؤثر في موقع صناعة التكرير هي توفر المادة الخام ومصادر الوقود والطاقة والسياسة الحكومية , وينبغي أختيار موقع المصفى بصورة تضمن تجهيز النفط الخام الى المصفى بأنسيابية وامان وبتكاليف قليلة من ناحية وتوفير وسائط التجهيز)انابيب , سيا ا رت حوضية(" الى مواقع الاستهلاك …

اثر الحروب والاحداث الأمنية على تغير بنية التركيب العمري لسكان محافظة الانبار, ا.م.د أياد محمد مخلف الدليمي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

The research aims to investigate the extent of the impact of wars and security events on the change of the age structure of the population of Anbar province, and based on the problem of research, the study assumes that wars and security events besides economic, social, and political factors interacted with each other and interfered in their effects, It contributed to the change in the age structure of the population of the province, different from the age structure of the population of Iraq, because the province has suffered from the scourge swelled to a different degree from the rest of …

ابرز تأثيرات الكتّاب اليهود على وحدة العرب من خلال نشر افكارهم الهدامة بين المسلمين برنارد لويس انموذجاً, الدكتور: طالب جحيل دامج الصريفي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

No abstract provided.

دراسة العشوائيات في مراكز مدن الانبار باستخدام التقنيات الجيومكانية وستراتيجية المعالجة - مدينة الفلوجة (دراسة حالة), أ.م.د. ثائر شاكر بطاح, د.مشتاق احمد غربي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

اصبحت ظاهرة النمو العشوائي للتجمعات السكنية في مدن محافظة الانبار من المشاكل العمرانية، لذوى الدخل المنخفض، بالأراضي المفتوحة (الفضاء) داخل التجمعات السكنية بالمدينة وكذلك المناطق المجاورة والمتطرفة خارجها على تقسيمات أراضي غير معتمدة للسكن وغير مدرجة في خطط الدولة المستقبلية، فهي تفتقر للمرافق والخدمات الأساسية للسكان، و بعيدة عن اهتمام الدولة وعن الإحصاءات الرسمية، وغير مستوفاة للشروط الصحية ولا تطابق قوانين المباني، منذ الفترة التي سبقت عام ٢٠٠٣ ، ونتيجة تراكم مجموعة من الاسباب ذات علاقة بمشكلة السكن، منها ضعف دور الأجهزة التنفيذية الحكومية (البلديات والقائممقاميات) في منع حدوث التجاوزات أو إزالتها، وارتفاع الكثافة السكنية في بيوت المدينة وزيادة النمو …