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Introduction Of Clinical Pastoral Education In Ukraine: The Experience Of The Volyn Orthodox Theological Academy, Vladyslav Fulmes, Volodymyr Vakin, Oleksandr Khoroshko

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

Medical chaplaincy is an important component in many countries, as it helps to ensure a holistic approach to treatment, taking into account the spiritual needs of patients. The relevance of this direction was due to the invasion of russian troops on the territory of Ukraine back in 2014, and in the conditions of a full-scale war in Ukraine, the role of medical chaplaincy has increased significantly. This article reveals the experience of the Volyn Orthodox Theological Academy (Lutsk, Ukraine) in training medical chaplains, which was the first in Ukraine, responding to social challenges, in particular health care institutions, to develop …

Navigating The Paths To Justice: A Study On The Role Of Social Supports In Responding To Justiciable Events, Andrew Pilliar

Journal of Law and Social Policy

This article reports the results of an in-depth qualitative study of advice-seeking behaviours in a large Canadian city. Nine participants were recruited from neighbourhood houses in the Vancouver area to discuss their experiences in responding to one of two kinds of justiciable event: a personal injury or a government benefits problem. The paper offers a detailed discussion of nuances in how individuals experienced, characterized, and took action in response to their justiciable problem. Notably, many of the research participants spoke about the importance of social supports and the contingent nature of those supports, both in understanding what they had experienced …

Reform For "These" Kids: Neoliberal Reform, Theorized Target Populations, And Spatial Injustice, Matthew S. Mccluskey, Madhu Narayanan, Erin Milne

Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Charter schools were originally envisioned as laboratories of innovation, but we have scant empirical evidence of how charter policies and ideas have spread beyond charter walls into the wider educational landscape. The diffusion of knowledge reflects networks of power, and tracing diffusion can unearth the discursive and power dynamics at play. Using a systematic search of publicly-available documents, this study investigated the geographic diffusion of one Charter Management Organization (CMO)—Uncommon Schools—as a case of charter discursive diffusion. Grounded in Critical Policy Analysis (CPA), we found that artifacts were located disproportionately in higher poverty zip codes housing lower percentages of non-Hispanic …

Bird Richness As A Mediator Between Greenspace And Mental Health Relationships, Sihao Chena, Huaqing Wang, Wenyan Xu

Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Faculty Publications

Neighborhood greenspaces are widely known to benefit bird diversity and human mental health. However, whether bird richness mediates the relationship between greenspace and mental health is unknown. We ascertain such mediation effects in 294 census tracts in Los Angeles City. We obtained greenspace data from one-meter resolution satellite imagery, bird species data from eBird citizen science datasets, and prevalence of poor mental health from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mediation analysis combined with spatial error models was used to assess the mediating effects while controlling for geographic, demographic, and socio-economic factors. We found that the higher greenspace …

The Utah Statesman, March 31, 2025, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

An Aulete Takes Flight: The Iconography Of Music And Myth In A Myrina-Type Terracotta In The Mead Art Museum, Loren Isotalo

New England Classical Journal

A Myrina-type terracotta figurine of a flying aulete held in Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum exemplifies a new body of evidence relevant to the study of ancient Greek music. I propose that this coarse figurine indicates possible musical funerary practices of Myrina and that the aulete may be a depiction of the god Eros. As the aulos inhabits a complex space in Greek social thought, a connection between Eros and the aulos would open up new ways of understanding how the ancient Greeks received and understood Eros as a god through music and sound.

Operating Fund Budget/ Expenditure Summary Report 2024-25, Csusb Budget Office

University Budget Office records

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À Propos De « Cilama » (Hady Zaccak, 2024), Joseph Korkmaz

Regards

Cilama (2024) est un documentaire du réalisateur libanais spécialiste du genre Hady Zaccak. Le titre est une déformation de « cinéma » par le dialecte populaire de Tripoli, la deuxième grande ville et chef-lieu du nord du Liban. Des années trente et jusqu’à la guerre civile en 1975, Tripoli comptait une trentaine de salles qui attiraient une foule de spectateurs avides de divertissement, d’évasion, de rencontres et de découvertes. Aujourd’hui ces salles ont fermé leurs portes et, contrairement à celles du centre-ville de Beyrouth qui ont été rasées dans le cadre de la reconstruction et de la modernisation, elles sont …

The Urgency Of Instituting Systemic Cybersecurity Curriculum Within Stem At Secondary Educational Levels In Preparation For Postsecondary Institutions., Robert Spencer

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Over the last 20 years, many secondary institutions have made advances developing curriculum defined as “STEM (Science, Engineering and Mathematics)” in order to ensure secondary students are eligible to apply as well excel in technology degree programs at the college and university levels. Although various initiatives exist, there are studies however, which allude to a great possibility that there will be a lack of cybersecurity professionals filling present day and anticipated future positions. Despite a large number of federal and educational enhancements there is need for additional research regarding instituting overall systemic processes and curriculum which supports secondary student transition …

Crimes, Villes Et Caméras Dans Le Nouveau Cinéma Égyptien, Salma Mobarak

Regards

Khairy Bishara's Boat No.70 (1982), a seminal film representative of new Egyptian cinema from the 1980s, is the subject of this study, which aims to examine the camera and its status in the crime city.
The film is part of a new cinema that uses a neorealist style and a narrative that is free from traditional patterns. In the background, the social changes brought about by the liberal economic policies that shook Egypt during the reign of Anwar El Sadat: Socio-political corruption, the growth of organized crime networks, and the alienation of individuals within systems that oppress them.
Barge 70's …

Geo-Ai For Wetland Classification And Evolutionary Analysis, Lirong Yin

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Wetlands, as a crucial component of the Earth's ecosystem, play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance and preserving biodiversity. However, wetlands are currently facing severe challenges, as both natural and human-induced factors are contributing to their global degradation. Gaining a deep understanding of the species composition and biodiversity within wetland-covered areas and accurately analyzing their changing trends not only helps assess the current and future state of wetlands but also provides strong support for the formulation of scientifically sound wetland conservation strategies. In recent years, the rapid development of geospatial intelligence and remote sensing technologies has brought new opportunities …

Addressing Diabetic Retinopathy Prevalence In Low-Income Communities: Barriers To Quality Healthcare And Strategies For Equitable Treatment Access, Morkeia A. Mutchelknaus

Honors Thesis

Studies have shown a strong correlation between diabetes and individuals in low-income communities, which often lack access to equitable healthcare for a variety of reasons. This honors thesis will focus on diabetic retinopathy, its prevalence, prevention, and treatment strategies in both low- and high-income communities. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to define diabetic retinopathy, assess its prevalence, and review past and present approaches to its treatment and prevention. This paper aims to identify strategies to improve healthcare accessibility in low-income communities by analyzing current strategies in place to prevent and treat diabetic retinopathy and proposing potential solutions that will …

Precarity, Property, And Homelessness In Toronto, Alexandra Potamianos

Journal of Law and Social Policy

This article analyzes the relationship that unhoused people have to property, both public and private, in Toronto. It argues that in disputes over the use of certain city spaces by unhoused people their interests are subordinate to those of the state and the property- owning public. To advance this argument, this article uses the example of the conflict between unhoused individuals occupying a hotel leased by Toronto at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the surrounding residents of an affluent neighbourhood. This article concludes by showing that the presence of unhoused people in city spaces not only reveals their …

The Prillwitz Mammoth: Taxonomy, Sex, Age, & Delayed Skeletal Maturation Of A Geologically Young Mammoth, Anna Rybachek

Honors Theses

The Prillwitz mammoth, a nearly complete mammoth skeleton found in Southwest Michigan in 1962, is one of the geologically youngest mammoths from North America (AMS C-14 date: 11,300 ± 100 BP). Bones are well preserved; some long bones show post-mortem flaking, scratches, or grooves of unknown origin. All long-bone epiphyses remain unfused except the distal humerus, suggesting it was < 28 years old at death. In contrast, the skull and mandible preserve M3s and m3s, respectively, that are in mid-wear, indicating an Asian Elephant Year dental age of ~45-50 years. Long bone size and inferred shoulder height are consistent with the size of a large woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) or small to mid-sized Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi), but dental evidence is most consistent with M. columbi.

Pelvic dimensions suggest it is a male. The ≥ 17-year mismatch between age inferred from tooth progression and wear (~45 Asian Elephant Years) and age inferred from epiphyseal fusion (< ~28 Asian EY if male) may indicate either substantially accelerated dental progression or delayed skeletal maturation for this mammoth; we deem the latter more likely. Based on modern analogs, delayed maturation could have been due to severe malnutrition, hormonal imbalance, illness, or genetic factors. Given the geologically young age of the Prillwitz mammoth (likely near the time of mammoth extinction), we speculate that delayed skeletal maturation may have been attributed to environmental stressors near the end of the Pleistocene. Further work is warranted on very late mammoths.

Fogarty-Funded Research Ethics Education In Latin America And The Caribbean: Progress Despite Ongoing Challenges, Timothy Daly, Ignacio Mastroleo, Luis L García Valiña, Irene Melamed, María Florencia Santi, Theresa J Ochoa, Manuela Fernández Pinto, Paul J Cummins, Bernardo García Camino, Cheryl Macpherson, Elizabeth Heitman, Florencia Luna

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Ten years have passed since the last regional assessment of the state of Fogarty International Center-funded research ethics education and challenges facing research ethics in Latin America and the Caribbean basin. Program directors and faculty from four international research ethics education programs met in Spring 2024 to discuss their progress, challenges, and future priorities. The themes that emerged from these discussions were the structural difficulties faced by regional ethicists, the use of pedagogical innovations to mitigate different barriers faced by fellows, and the need to anticipate future challenges for the region including climate change.

Encountering Coasts: The Contested Geographies Of Young People's Coastal Citizenship[S], Mark Holton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

This paper examines the contested geographies of young people's citizenship practices and performances in marine and coastal environments. This is important in developing original knowledge of how encounters with new and different coastal places, practices, people, morals and ethics can affect young people's citizenship practices and performances and how young people relate meaningfully with[in] coastal environments. Using a novel digital scrapbooking technique and qualitative interviews, conducted with 22 young adults aged 18–30 in Plymouth, UK, this paper examines how and why young people's everyday engagements and encounters with coastal environments can shape their understandings of environmental and social care. In …

How Many Ways Are There To Measure A Tree? – An Experiment In Cross-Disciplinarity, Kate Pahl, Samyia Ambreen, Khawla Badwan, Simon Carr, David Cooper, Elizabeth Curtis, Ian Davenport, Abigail Hackett, Peter Kraftl, Peter Lawrence, Emily Lines, David CườNg Nguyễn, Caitlin Nunn, Steve Pool, Jennifer Rowntree, Ed Schofield, Johan Siebers, Jo Vergunst

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

This article takes a transdisciplinary approach to a relatively simple-sounding task – tree measuring. It asks the question, ‘How many ways are there to measure a tree?’, in order to provoke a discussion of our different ways of knowing. It attempts to engage a reader in thinking about disciplines and what they do. It does so by sharing insights from a project in which diverse scholars, practitioners and children came together for the common purpose of producing engaged knowledge. The experience of reading the article should prompt questions about whose knowledge counts and why, and the value of university research …

"En Clave" Tania León And Roberto Sierra: Autochthonous Music Of Cuba And Puerto Rico, Contemporary Music Composition And The 'Puente' In Between, Omar A. Ramirez

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This document is in two parts. The first examines selected works of Latin-American composers Tania León and Roberto Sierra. Both composers cite their cultural background as a force that shapes their artistic expression. Many of their works are titled in Spanish, with compositions referencing their homelands in subject and narrative, and incorporate the autochthonous music(s) of Cuba and Puerto Rico. Elements of these afrodiasporic musical traditions can be found in their works: Alegre, Batá, Stride, (Leon), Loiza, and Concerto for Viola (Sierra), each examined here.

Autochthonous musical elements are highlighted in score excerpts and described using …

Explaining "U-Shaped" Distributions Of Population Substance Use With A Simple Computational Approach, Jacob T. Borodovsky

Dartmouth Scholarship

Background: “U-shaped” distributions of past 30-day substance use frequencies are pervasive, yet no established model explains this phenomenon. Using probability functions to describe these distributions yields unintuitive, atheoretical results. This study introduces a simple computational model of individual-level, longitudinal substance use patterns to understand how cross-sectional U-shaped distributions emerge in populations. Model: Each independent computational object transitions between two states: not using a substance (“N”), or using a substance (“U”). The model has two key components: (1) each object has a unique risk factor probability governing the transition from N to U, and a unique protective factor probability governing the …

Reading Of A Walkable University Landscape In North Central Nigeria, Salawu Ahmed, Isa Bala Muhammad, Abubakar Danladi Isah

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)

Walkable landscapes are tied to people’s perception of their environment. Walking also constitutes the most equitable means of transport because it is available to all. Studies have shown that walking has inherent benefits to the environment as well as the health benefits to the partaker. Most University campuses are characterized by large landscapes within which movements are made to connect facilities located far apart from each other. It is therefore important to understand the constituents of what makes a university campus walkable. This study therefore examined the character of a walkable campus landscape through the lens of qualitative research paradigm. …

Correlation Of Socioeconomic Characteristics And Maintenance Level Of Houses In Mass Housing Scheme In Ilorin, Nigeria, Oladimeji Samuel Bolaji, Abubakar-Kamar Tayo Aishat, Adeyemi Olabanji Lukman, Arosanyin Mofeoluwa Victor

Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ)

It is a common belief that certain behaviors are influenced by a person's social level. This claim is taken to apply to housing maintenance in any society, whether it is owned or rented. The aim of this study is to identify the socioeconomic indicators that are most predictive of the maintenance level of houses in mass housing schemes in the metropolis of Ilorin, Nigeria. Both primary and secondary data were used in this investigation. Qualitative and quantitative data through structured questionnaires administered on 1125 household heads constituting 27% of the sample frame were collected from sixteen (16) mass housing schemes …

Child Malnutrition In Argentina: An Examination Of It Root Causes, Effects, And Innovations To Intervene, Brooklyn Richins

Journal of Nonprofit Innovation

Abstract:

Child malnutrition rates in Argentina have been on the rise, driven by factors such as income inequality, harsh climatic conditions, and geographic isolation, leading to an increased reliance on highly processed, nutrient-poor foods. This escalating issue has wide-ranging health and educational implications, including poor neurocognitive development, higher rates of hypertension, and greater risks of obesity and diabetes. Particularly in impoverished regions, like Jujuy, malnutrition exacerbates disparities in child health outcomes and educational achievement. Though international organizations like UNICEF and Bountiful Children’s Foundation are working to address malnutrition through supplements, education, and screenings, gaps in program implementation persist, especially in …

Applying Moral Foundations Theory To Examine Consumer Vulnerability: Evidence From Cash App, Atanas Nixon, Jiyoon An

AMTP Proceedings 2025

This study investigates how consumers' moral emotions can improve our understanding of their vulnerability in financial services from the perspective of Transformative Service Research (TSR). The study uses the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's archive of consumer complaints about Cash App, a peer-to-peer payment platform, as the empirical context. The Moral Foundation Theory, which includes five dimensions of moral concerns (care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, and purity/degradation), was applied to assess consumer vulnerability. Two analyses were conducted: spatial and discourse analyses. Whereas spatial analysis was used to examine aggregated levels of moral emotions across different states, discourse analysis was conducted on …

Advancing Methods For Comparative Urban Research: A City-Centric Protocol And Longitudinal Dataset For Us Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Jason R. Jurjevich, Katie Meehan, Nicholas M. J. W. Chun, Greg Schrock

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

Comparative urban research in the USA has an unacknowledged data and methodological problem at the metropolitan scale, rooted in geographic and definitional boundary changes of urban areas across time. In this article, we introduce a new spatial dataset, decision criteria, and methodological protocol for longitudinal and comparative research with US metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs)—known as ‘metros’—in a way that centers a ‘city-centric’ approach to comparison while significantly reducing spatial error and bias. First, we review gaps and limitations of existing approaches and identify three major but previously unacknowledged sources of error, including a new source of bias we call ‘spanning …

Cover And Forewords, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

Volume 21 Complete Issue, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 21 Complete Issue

Metrics, And How It All Came About, Harold E. Padelford

The Geographical Bulletin

Surveying? Just use the laser beam for a measuring device; accuracy of one mm to a range of eight km. But why the need for accuracy and what is a meter? The use of the meter as the basis of all linear measurement has been a matter of controversy for several centuries. Some few nations oppose the adoption of the metric system, most nations have adopted it wholly. No effort will be made here to analyze the controversy. However, the controversy leads one to wonder why and how the metric system came into existence. The purpose of this article is …

News From The Chapters 1980-81, Robert M. Ward

The Geographical Bulletin

News from the Chapters 1980-81

The St. Clair River Delta A Unique Lake Delta*, C. Nicholas Raphael, Eugene Jaworski

The Geographical Bulletin

Because of long-term and shortterm lake level changes, the geomorphology and vegetation patterns of the St. Clair River delta are unique. Marine delta studies and Late Quaternary chronology in the Great Lakes have progressed significantly in the past decade and the delta is investigated from the viewpoint of these developments. Although this delta has a shape similar to the Mississippi River delta, several forms and processes are different.

United States/Canada Electricity Exchange: The Case Of The Michigan/Ontario Border, Carl F. Ojala, Elwood J.C. Kureth

The Geographical Bulletin

The energy problem is the first of its kind to have repercussions throughout the world. Driven by unavoidable economic circumstances, it would have developed eventually regardless of the decisions of particular world leaders or consortiums. Energy supply and demand have created new tensions and uncertainties within and among countries. The problem has profound impact on the management of a nation's economy and affects relations between nations. It requires adjustments for all to make; it involves breaking old contacts and establishing new international ties.