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Chronic Pain Through Covid, P. Schofield

School of Nursing and Midwifery

Objectives: To identify good practice in the community management of chronic pain, and to understand the perspective of a group of healthcare service users towards the management of chronic pain using technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Forty-five people, recruited via social media and Pain Association Scotland, participated in three focus groups hosted over Zoom. Focus groups were conducted using semi-structured questions to guide the conversation. Data were analysed using Ritchie & Spencer’s Framework Analysis. Results: The participants shared observations of their experiences of remotely supported chronic pain services and insights into the potential for future chronic pain care provision. …

State Institutions And Democratic Opportunity, Miriam Seifter

Duke Law Journal

The burgeoning commentary on democratic decline in the United States focuses disproportionately on the national level. And seeing a national problem, reformers understandably seek to bolster democracy through large-scale federal solutions. Although their efforts hold popular appeal, they face strong institutional headwinds. As scholars have extensively documented, the Senate, the Electoral College, and the Supreme Court today are skewed against majority rule. Despair grows.

This Article urges legal scholars and reformers to turn their gaze to state-level institutions. State institutions, the Article shows, offer democratic opportunity that federal institutions do not. By design, they more readily give popular majorities a …

A Qualitative Inquiry Into The Socio-Economic Implications Of Land Grabs Among The Nuer People In The Gambella Region Of Ethiopia, Mehari Fisseha, Godswill Makombe, Vusilizwe Thebe

The Qualitative Report

The paper analyses the socio-economic implications of land grabbing among the Nuer people in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. To achieve its goals, the study is underpinned by two interrelated questions. The first question is: what are the socio-economic implications of land grabs in the Gambella Region of Ethiopia? The second question reads: what are the contestations and perceptions of the Nuer peoples in terms of gains and losses from the land grabs? The study was carried out among a Nilo-Saharan group known as the Nuer which traces its roots from Sudan within the qualitative research methodology. Findings from the …

Identity Composition: A Qualitative Study Of Community College English Composition And Lgbtq-Inclusive Pedagogical Practices, Lucas Michel Gassen

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This research investigates the identity-based practices and experiences of English composition instructors who teach at community colleges and assesses the extent to which LGBTQ-inclusive pedagogical approaches are undertaken to meet the needs of sexual and gender minority students. The participant pool was comprised of community college instructors within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) who have taught English composition courses within the past five years. This study aims to answer the following research questions: 1. In what ways and to what extent is identity-based instructional content incorporated in community college English composition courses? 2. In what ways and …

النشاط التجاري في المغرب الأوسط وأثره في تطور الحركة التجارية, م.د.مصطفى كامل محم د الشباني

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

ان موضوع النشاط التجاري في المغرب الأوسط، ودوره في تطور الحركة التجارية في هذا الاقليم الجغرافي المهم ، يعد من المواضيع المهمة التي يجب أن تنال مجالا واسعة في الدراسة والاهتمام ، لأهميته البالغة في التعريف بتاريخ هذه المنطقة اقتصادية ، كما وأن اختيارنا لهذا الموضوع لم يتأتى من العدم ، وإنما لقناعتنا بأن التجارة في المغرب الأوسط (الجزائر) كانت مميزة ، من خلالها نتعرف على اتجاه مسار التاريخ لهذه المنطقة من خلال عصورها الاسلامية الزاهرة ، كما للموضوع صبغته المتمثلة في أن الطرق التجارية ربطت المغرب الأقصى وافادته على كافة الأصعدة (تجارية وفكرية وسياسية وحتى حضارية) ولم تجعله حبيسة …

The, Effect; Of Using Interactive Whiteboard Technique In Grammar Learning, Hamsa Kadhum Taha

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

يعتبر القواعد واحدا من المهارات المهمة ويحتل هدفا مهما في تدريس اللغة الانكليزية كلغة أجنبية . حيث ان تدريس اللغة كلغة أجنبية لا يعد تدريسا مهارة القراءة ؤالكتاية ؤالكلام ؤالاصغى بل ان تدريس القواعد هو تدريس اللغة ككل.

ونتيجة لما تشير إليه المعطيات التربوية من إن هناك ضعفا في قدرة متعلمي اللغة الانكليزية على استخدام القواعد , لذا فأن الدراسة الحالية تهدف إلى معرفة أثر أسلوب الصبورة التفاعلية في تدرسي القواعد على تحصيل طلاب في اللغة الانكليزية.ومن اجل تحقيق هذا الهدف تم افتراض الفرضية الصفرية الآتية :-

انه لا يوجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية بين درجات للطلبة للمجموعة التجريبية ذات …

Smokejumper Obituary: Beaty, Chester Broommell “Chip” (Mccall 1951), National Smokejumper Association

Smokejumper Obituaries

No abstract provided.

October 18, 2022, Csusb

Coyote Chronicle (1984-)

No abstract provided.

L’Italia, L’Altrove Luoghi, Spazi E Attraversamenti Nel Cinema E Nella Letteratura Sulla Migrazione, Simone Brioni Dr.

Department of English Faculty Publications

This monograph is a meditation on how transnational migrations have influenced how the sense of place and the politics of space are represented in literature and film about migration to, from and within Italy. It examines work produced in Italian and English, and it emphasizes how culture and national identity can be reconsidered in a more inclusive way within a world marked by increased mobility. The text is divided into three main sections – “Places”, “Spaces” and “Crossings” – each of which contains two chapters. Chapter 1 argues that bridges, as they are represented in literature, movies and paintings about …

Daphnia As A Sentinel Species For Environmental Health Protection: A Perspective On Biomonitoring And Bioremediation Of Chemical Pollution, Muhammad Abdullahi, Xiaojing Li, Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, William Stubbings, Norman Yan, Marianne Barnard, Liang-Hong Guo, John K Colbourne, Luisa Orsini

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Despite available technology and the knowledge that chemical pollution damages human and ecosystem health, chemical pollution remains rampant, ineffectively monitored, rarely prevented, and only occasionally mitigated. We present a framework that helps address current major challenges in the monitoring and assessment of chemical pollution by broadening the use of the sentinel species Daphnia as a diagnostic agent of water pollution. And where prevention has failed, we propose the application of Daphnia as a bioremediation agent to help reduce hazards from chemical mixtures in the environment. By applying “omics” technologies to Daphnia exposed to real-world ambient chemical mixtures, we show improvements …

Intercultural Content Reuse And Social Justice: Comparing Chinese And U.S. Media Coverage Of Anti-Asian Racism During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Chenxing Xie

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

The outbreak of COVID-19 as a global pandemic has brought human society tremendous pressure and significant changes. Asian Americans suffered from both the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-Asian racism. Organizations were established to fight against anti-Asian hate and related crimes. An organization named Stop AAPI Hate publishes yearly reports regarding anti-Asian hate, and the content is reused by mass and social media worldwide. This study adopts theories of content reuse, intercultural communication, immaterial labor, and social justice to conduct a qualitative content analysis of the content reused by mass and social media in China and the United States. The results show …

Introduction To Special Issue On Intercultural And Participatory Risk Communication About Covid-19: Using Immaterial Labor To Promote Social Justice In A Pandemic, Huiling Ding, Yeqing Kong

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

No abstract provided.

Rpcg - Special Issue, 2022

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Population Structure And Introgression Among Recently Differentiated Drosophila Melanogaster Populations, Jenn M. Coughlan, Andrius J. Dagilis, Antonio Serrato-Capuchina, Hope Elias, David Peede, Kristin Isbell, Dean M. Castillo, Brandon S. Cooper, Daniel R. Matute

Nebraska Cooperative Extension: Faculty and Staff Publications

Despite a century of genetic analysis, the evolutionary processes that have generated the patterns of exceptional genetic and phenotypic variation in the model organism Drosophila melanogaster remains poorly understood. In particular, how genetic variation is partitioned within its putative ancestral range in Southern Africa remains unresolved. Here, we study patterns of population genetic structure, admixture, and the spatial structuring of candidate incompatibility alleles across a global sample, including 223 new accessions, predominantly from remote regions in Southern Africa. We identify nine major ancestries, six that primarily occur in Africa and one that has not been previously described. We find evidence …

Could Canada Lead The Formation Of A New Global Geoengineering Regime?, Elizabeth L. Chalecki

Political Science Faculty Publications

As the effects of climate change continue to worsen, nations will have the opportunity to develop and deploy climate manipulation techniques known as geoengineering to forestall the worst effects. Indeed, some have argued that the nations of the world cannot meet their Paris Agreement goals without them. However, these technologies can be global in their effects, ecologically uncertain, and potentially prejudicial to non-deploying nations. Canada is well suited to lead the formation of an anticipatory governance regime due to its technological knowledge, the proximity of the Arctic as a potential testing ground, and its role as an internationally respected middle …

The Utah Statesman, October 17, 2022, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

Vol. 63, No. 08 (October 17, 2022)

Indiana Law Annotated

No abstract provided.

Journal Of Communication Pedagogy, Complete Volume 6, 2022

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

No abstract provided.

Middle-Class “Chavs” From Working-Class Areas? Habitus, The Attainment Gap, And The Commodification Of Higher Education Among Communication Students In England, Martina Topić, Audra Diers-Lawson, Christian Goodman

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

The purpose of the article is to compare and contrast higher education and research among public relations and journalism students of middle-class and working-class origin. The paper applied Bourdieu’s theory of habitus to analyze prejudices against the working class, explores whether working-class students express an anti-education view, and whether the appreciation of education (and research in particular) is a predominantly middle-class attitude. Focus groups and an online questionnaire were used to obtain views of students at a university in Northern England. Triple coding (open, axial, selective) was used and the data was then analyzed and presented using thematic analysis. Findings …

A Pedagogy Of Consilience And Renewal, Carolyn Calloway-Thomas

Journal of Communication Pedagogy

This essay calls for a pedagogy of consilience and renewal as a dynamic fusion of research and practices in order to provide a more coherent way of examining some of the keen, interlaced variables that trouble the academy and society. The project challenges scholars to study five key scholarship of learning variables that should help transform the way we look at pedagogy for the betterment of North American society and beyond. The variables—a quintile—are knowledge, geography, critical thinking, civic engagement, and empathy.

The Degree To Which Secondary School Students In Jordan Possess Digital Citizenship Skills, Dareen Abdelhadi, Youssef Arouri

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The purpose of this study was to identify the degree to which secondary school students in Jordan possess digital citizenship skills and to identify the extent of statistically significant differences attributed to variables: gender, family monthly income, education system. The researcher used the descriptive survey analysis approach to conduct the study; the study tool (A test) was prepared consisting of (52) items and they were classified according to the nine elements of digital citizenship as follows: digital literacy, digital etiquette, digital laws, digital health and wellness, digital access, digital communications, digital security, digital commerce, digital rights and responsibilities. After verifying …

Analysis Of The Flood Hazrad Of A Selected Sample Of The Northwest Valley Basins In Jordan Based On The Morphometric Matrix Variables, Ghazi Al-Serhan, Ali Al-Ananzeh, Samer Al-Nawaieseh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study dealt with the role of morphometric characteristics and their effect on the probability of floods' occurrence. The study relied on sixteen variables distributed on the main units of the morphometric characteristics, these variables forms the main nucleus for creating a morphometric matrix in order to help in classifying the floods occurring in the northwestern basins in Jordan. The study concludes that the basin length and size variable is one of the most effective variables which has an effect on the probability of flooding for the study sample basins, in addition to that 16% of the study sample from …

Water Importance And Conservation From Islamic Perspective, Abdelfattah Abdallah

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The aim of this study was to recruit Islamic religious faith in promoting positive Muslim ethics by practicing water conservation and rationalization and not to spoil the water quality. Given the importance of water conservation in addressing water shortages in many Arab and Islamic countries, the change of negative behaviors related to the use of water and reduce wastage and pollution will contribute to the achievement of the objectives of a study through raising the efficiency of water use. In order of achieving the study's main goal, an analytical approach was employed for the purpose of raising the efficiency of …

Paul Marlin Tucker Papers, 1940s-2000s, Paul M. Tucker, M. Timothy Tucker, Marcus Shira, John Mark Tucker

Center for Restoration Studies Archives, Manuscripts and Personal Papers Finding Aids

No abstract provided.

Forest Cover And Geographic Distance Influence Fine-Scale Genetic Structure Of Leaf-Toed Geckos In The Tropical Dry Forests Of Western Mexico, Connor M. French, Casey-Tyler Berezin, Isaac Overcast, Fausto R. Méndez De La Cruz, Saptarsi Basu, Roberto Lhemish Martínez Bernal, Robert W. Murphy, Michael J. Hickerson, Christopher Blair

Publications and Research

The biodiversity within tropical dry forests (TDFs) is astounding and yet poorly catalogued due to inadequate sampling and the presence of cryptic species. In the Mexican TDF, endemic species are common, and the landscape has been continually altered by geological and anthropogenic changes. To understand how landscape and environmental variables have shaped the population structure of endemic species, we studied the recently described species of leaf-toed gecko, Phyllodactylus benedettii, in coastal western Mexico. Using double-digest restriction site-associated DNA sequencing data, we first explore population structure and estimate the number of ancestral populations. The results indicate a high degree of …

Digital Dissemination Of Islam Among Dubai Expatriates, Uae: A Mixed Methods Study, Urwa Mohammed Tariq

CoHSS Faculty Work

Dubai is a metropolitan city that attracts many foreigners due to its growing economy and tourism. When many non-Muslims observe the Islamic culture and lifestyle, they become interested in learning more about the faith. This research focuses on non-Muslims and new Muslims in Dubai and how information about Islam is disseminated to them. It also examines the challenges they encounter when searching for information. Though the researcher employed a mixed-methods approach, this study highlights the quantitative analysis. A total of 541 survey responses were collected from expatriates residing in Dubai, UAE; their demographic profile was analysed, especially in relation to …

Speech Markets & Web3: Refreshing The First Amendment For Non-Fungible Tokens (Nfts), Tanner Dowdy

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

Racecraft And Identity In The Emergence Of Islam As A Race, Cyra Akila Choudhury

University of Cincinnati Law Review

Can a religion, over time and through its social and legal resignification, come to be a race? Drawing on Critical Race Theory (“CRT”), Critical Discourse Theory, the work of Karen E. and Barbara J. Fields and Cedric Robinson, this article argues that Islam has emerged as a race and Muslims as a racial group. To support the claim, Part I examines the theoretical basis for the argument. Applying the concept of “racecraft,” the article theorizes that racism produces both the racial group and race. As many have already argued, race is not based in biology; it is not a fact …

Developing An Anti-Racist Practice In Occupational Therapy: Guidance For The Occupational Therapist, Justin E. Lerner, Angie Kim

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

A strong anti-racist practice is critical for occupational therapists who represent an overwhelmingly white and female workforce yet serve people from all ethnic and racial backgrounds. These therapists are commonly unprepared to work with a racially diverse clientele because of a lack of reflective and critical practice grounded in anti-racism. This article provides some critical literature about race and racism in occupational science. We present important concepts for therapists to deepen their understanding of anti-racist practice, including intersectionality, agent and target groups, and equity and equality. We then explore some critical theoretical frameworks that can help conceptualize anti-racist practice, such …

Three-Dimensional Motion Analysis For Occupational Therapy Upper Extremity Assessment And Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review, Stephen W. Hill, Samantha Mong, Quyen Vo

The Open Journal of Occupational Therapy

Background: Three-dimensional (3D) human motion analysis provides objective, quantitative, and reliable kinematic data that are valuable in rehabilitation. Clinicians, including occupational therapists and other specialists, can apply this technology to quantify patients’ upper extremity (UE) motion during functional tasks. A better comprehension of altered body mechanics serves to guide clinical reasoning, develop evidence-based interventions, and monitor patients’ progress through follow-up. However, the scientific literature has yet to emphasize the practicality of using 3D motion analysis as a clinical measurement tool.

Method: This scoping review appraised 20 articles that used 3D motion analysis to quantify UE movements for individuals …