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Bankers As Immoral? Some Parallels And Differences Between Aquinas’S Views On Usury And Marxian Views Of Banking And Credit, Thomas E. Lambert

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Since ancient times the practices and ethics of bankers and banking in general have undergone a great deal of criticism. While lending is motivated by profit, and while households are not explicitly coerced into borrowing money, the justice of a system which exploits workers and at the same time encourages them to borrow money in order to maintain a certain standard of living can be viewed as sometimes unfair and perhaps immoral. The value of goods, according to St. Thomas Aquinas and Karl Marx, should mostly reflect the value of labor embodied in them, and for that reason, labor should …

Exploring The Effects Of Cannabidiol On Psychological Health, Cognitive Function, Neural Health, And Natural Killer Cells, Arjun Ramani

Dissertations

Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychotropic cannabis sativa derivative, is gaining attention as a potential promotor of neurological function and cognitive health and as a potential anti-inflammatory compound, although these claims lack evidence-based support from the scientific community. The purpose of this study was to determine whether 8 weeks of 2 doses, 40 mg (CB40) or 20 mg (CB20), of CBD containing beverages will improve psychological health, cognitive function, neural health as well as NK and NKT cell quantity and NK cell function when compared to a control vehicle beverage (CBDV) and a calorie-matched placebo beverage (PLAC) in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, …

Central American Saints: The Formation And Preservation Of Latter-Day Saint Community And Identity In El Salvador And Guatemala, 1960–1992, Hovan T. Lawton

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

After World War II, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grew dramatically throughout Latin America, with much of this growth happening after 1960. My thesis studies how the growing numbers of Latter-day Saints in Guatemala and El Salvador (between 1960 and 1992) developed strong and meaningful religious community and became more and more committed to their new Latter-day Saint identity. Being a Latter-day Saint in these two countries was similar in many ways to the experience of being a Latter-day Saint in the U.S., but there were also some important differences. My thesis considers what made the Salvadoran …

Satellite-Based Shoreline Detection Along High-Energy Macrotidal Coasts And Influence Of Beach State, Aikaterini Konstantinou, Tim Scott, Gerd Masselink, Kit Stokes, Daniel Conley, Bruno Castelle

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Earth observation coupled with novel image analysis techniques now present a unique and powerful tool for the historical study of shoreline change at local to global scale. However, satellite-derived shoreline (SDS) data is limited in certain areas and is associated with large uncertainties relating to environmental factors, tidal range, and wave action. We use 14 years of monthly topographic surveys at two macrotidal sites in the UK representing end members of beach type (reflective, dissipative) to investigate the influence of tidal elevation and wave action on SDS accuracy. We find that applying appropriate water level corrections can significantly improve SDS …

The Influence Of Climate And Landscape On Allocapnia Mohri Distribution In Arkansas, Brianna Leigh Annaratone

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Stoneflies are a globally threatened aquatic insect order. In Arkansas, a diverse group of winter stonefly (Capniidae: Allocapnia) have not been surveyed since the 1980s, likely because species-level identification requires the rarely-collected adult form. Allocapnia mohri, a regional endemic, was previously commonly found in mountainous, intermittent streams from the Ouachita Mountains ecoregion north to the Ozark Highlands, but no species distributional models including land use or climate variables exist to our knowledge. We collected adults from 70 stream reaches from the historic Arkansas range from November to April 2020 and 2021. We modeled distributions using random forest (RF) models populated …

The Role Of The Women's Organization Of Nahdlatul Ulama (Nu) In Efforts To Control Cigarette Consumption In Indonesia, Salsabila Nadya, Isranalita Madelif Sihombing

Cities and Urban Development Journal

Background: The protection of the nation's next generation from the dangers of smoking cannot be separated from the role of women/mothers as educators and as influencers in creating a safe and comfortable environment from exposure to cigarette smoke for children to grow and develop healthily.

Aims: To analyze the role of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) women's organization, namely NU Young Women's Organization (Fatayat NU) and NU Female Student Association (IPPNU) in efforts to control tobacco in Indonesia.

Methods: This research is descriptive research with a method of collecting data on the results of activities owned by the Center for Social …

Selected Bibliography In Canadian Lutheran History, Karen Kuhnert, Gordon A. Jensen

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Traversing The Inner Courtyard To The Public Sphere: Exploring Lalithambika Antharjanam’S Short Stories As Narratives Of Protest In Early Twentieth Century Kerala, Revathy Hemachandran, Maya Vinai

Journal of International Women's Studies

This essay analyzes women writing about their experience in the changing socio-cultural and political context of the early twentieth century and especially in the face of the global, national, and regional transformations that Kerala underwent. The essay argues that the short stories of Lalithambika Antharjanam subverted the popular representation of antharjanams in the early 20th century as impassive, oppressed, and vulnerable subjects and provided alternative ways to conceptualize an antharjanam as a feminist trailblazer with a strong voice of protest. Her writing exposes her first-hand experiences of gender discrimination practiced in families as related to her caste and family lineage. …

(دوافع اللصوصية وقطاع الطرق في بلاد المغرب الاسلامي من القرن السابع الهجري وحتى القرن العاشر), ا.د. عماد تالي مهدي الناصري, الباحثة/ انعام مشعان محجوب

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تعد الدراسة التاريخية في المواضيع التي تسلط الضوء على الظواهر السلوكية من سمات الكتابة التاريخية الحديثة ذلك لأهمية معرفة دوافع وأسباب ظهور هذه السلوكيات عبر التاريخ وبالتالي العمل على التقليل والحد من ظهور هذه السلوكيات قدر المستطاع وبهذا تكون المهمة الأولى للتاريخ هو الاستفادة من ماضي الشعوب وخبراتهم السابقة ،ومن هذه السلوكيات هي ظاهرة اللصوصية وقطاع الطرق، التي ظهرت بشكل واسع في بداية القرن السابع حتى نهاية القرن العاشر الهجري/١٣_١٦م) وذلك لدوافع عديدة كان في مقدمتها اضطراب الاوضاع السياسية في بلاد المغرب الاسلامي، فتلازم هذه الازمات انحرافا سلوكيا عدائيا من قبل بعض ضعاف النفوس، فتصبح اللصوصية وقطاع الطرق أمرا اعتياديا …

Survival With Axicabtagene Ciloleucel In Large B-Cell Lymphoma, Jason R Westin, Armin Ghobadi, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: In an analysis of the primary outcome of this phase 3 trial, patients with early relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma who received axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), an autologous anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, as second-line treatment had significantly longer event-free survival than those who received standard care. Data were needed on longer-term outcomes.

METHODS: In this trial, we randomly assigned patients with early relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma in a 1:1 ratio to receive either axi-cel or standard care (two to three cycles of chemoimmunotherapy followed by high-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem-cell transplantation in patients who had …

Writing Trauma At Home: The Poetics Of Testimony In Iraq’S Literary And Cultural Production, Imran Alkhalifah

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation explores the unconventional forms of testimony to trauma in Iraq. Due to a long history of war and/or sectarian violence, Iraq’s literary and cultural production provide unique ways of representing traumatic experience. These representations, I argue, challenge the predominate western notions of representing trauma. The unique ways of writing/expressing trauma examined in this dissertation offer a new perspective of reading trauma as opposed to the postmodern trauma aesthetics that highlights fragmentation, repetition, and dissociation as symptoms of traumatic experience. This hegemonic approach has led to a deprived investigation of the unique social and historical contexts in which trauma …

Abul Kalam Azad And His Political Role In India (1905-1922), Naim Kadhim Abed Hammadi, Asaad Hameed Abu Shanna

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Abu Al-Kalam Azad was considered one of the prominent political figures in India. He began his political activity after the partition of Bengal in 1905 AD, organizing secret Hindu organizations against British colonialism. However, his political philosophy changed after he traveled to the Arab and Muslim countries in 1908 AD, and informed him about their revolutionary ideas, so he took the path of the press. He established the two magazines (Al-Hilal and Al-Balagh) in the Urdu language, which had a prominent role in mobilizing the Indians (Hindu and Muslims) together against Britain, which disturbed the latter, and they had to …

The Influence Of The Liberal Party On British Politics 1906-1935 "Historical Study", Nour Saadi Issa

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Thereweretwo parties has succeeded the rule of Britain which are; conservatives party and liberal party. These parties were sharing most of the Parliament seats in Britain and they were alternating in holding power by getting one of them the majority even though there were other parties could get some few seats in Parliament.

Textbook Resistance: Texas’ Ban On Critical Race Theory Fails The Education Standards Mandated By International Law, Noah C. Nix

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Cosmic Hamartiology: Using An Apocalyptic Paul Hermeneutic To Exposit Chaos Monster Passages, Peter Terrell Bingham Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Ancient mythology, precisely that of the Ancient Near East, includes the treacherous characters of chaos monsters who cause disorder due to their destructive supernatural influence in the natural world. Scripture includes chaos monsters of various sorts that cause the same destruction in the wake of their cosmic work. While an array of methodologies has been developed to study chaos monsters in the Ancient Near East considering their sources—i.e., Mesopotamian, Babylonian, Akkadian, etc.—there is a lack of a Biblical hermeneutic to adequately exposit chaos monster passages in Scripture. In the Apocalyptic Perspective on Paul, scholars have sought to develop a way …

The Leadership Effectiveness Of The Judean Kings/Queen, Charles H. Gaulden

PhD in Organizational Leadership

In this study, the leadership effectiveness of the Judean kings/queen during the divided kingdom was examined. The research methodology utilized was a multi-case study of the Judean rulers through an exegetical analysis of 2 Chronicles 10-36. A multifaceted method was utilized for genre inquiry to explore the unique properties of the book of Chronicles. The study placed biblical literature into the history genre through the Chronicler’s varied conveyance methods. The textual units linked with the narrative analysis of the discovered location, repetition, and themes. Some intertextual engagement overlapped with archaeology, Kings’ records, and prophetic literature. The researcher identified seven leadership …

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2023 Summer, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Summer 2023.

A Tribal Chief And A Colonial Legislation: The Excluded Areas Act Of 1846, Amrita Tulika

Socio-Legal Review

This article explores the nature of colonial sovereignty from a Hobbesian lens of ‘state necessity’ by taking the example of the Excluded Areas Act of 1846. This Act was a special law that placed the Bhil tribes of the Khandesh and Ahmadnagar districts (in present-day Maharashtra) outside the purview of the general laws in the Bombay Presidency. By drawing from archival sources, including records of the East India Company and legislative proceedings, the paper contrasts pre-colonial tribal autonomy with authoritarian and paternalistic colonial rule by a British Agent under the Act. First, the paper locates its argument on colonial rule …

Etiologies And Predictors Of 30-Day Readmission In Heart Failure: An Updated Analysis, Akhil Jain, Shilpkumar Arora, Viral Patel, Maharshi Raval, Karnav Modi, Nirav Arora, Rupak Desai, Behnam Bozorgnia, Raphael Bonita

Einstein Health Papers

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Readmissions in heart failure (HF), historically reported as 20%, contribute to significant patient morbidity and high financial cost to the healthcare system. The changing population landscape and risk factor dynamics mandate periodic epidemiologic reassessment of HF readmissions.

METHODS: National Readmission Database (NRD, 2019) was used to identify HF-related hospitalizations and evaluated for demographic, admission characteristics, and comorbidity differences between patients readmitted vs. those not readmitted at 30-days. Causes of readmission and predictors of all-cause, HF-specific, and non-HF-related readmissions were analyzed.

RESULTS: Of 48,971 HF patients, the readmitted cohort was younger (mean 67.4 vs. 68.9 years, p≤0.001), had …

Conducting Oral History: Background And Methods, Katrine Barber

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter-length essay describes the practice of oral history through real world examples: the steps to conducting oral history interviews, things to consider when developing a project or an interview plan, and ethical considerations. How oral history has enlarged the historical record and changed scholarly interpretation of the past are highlighted.

Make All The Laws You Want: The Catholic Left Against Legal Liberalism, Circa 1968, Sara Mayeux

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In this article, I bring the history of Catholic radicalism into conversation with legal history. Although there is an extensive historical literature on Catholic responses to the Vietnam War and other 1960s upheavals, this historiography has remained siloed from legal scholarship. Legal scholars (particularly outside of Catholic legal circles) have devoted little attention to figures like Merton, Furfey, and participants in the Catholic “ultraresistance” against the Vietnam War. In scholarly accounts of how social movements remade and reacted to constitutional law, Catholic activism is typically discussed, if at all, in the context of contraception and abortion debates. In broad outlines, …

Vulnerability To Climatic And Environmental Disaster And Change In The Indian Ocean World, Philip Gooding, Fiona Williamson, Julie Babin

Research Collection College of Integrative Studies

At the time of writing (Autumn 2022), extreme weather is devastating large swathes of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). In Pakistan, especially around the Indus River in Balochistan and Sindh, floods are causing severe distress. So far, more than 1,300 people have been killed, half a million more have been left homeless and there has been around $30 billion worth of damage to infrastructure. Nevertheless, even as the floods are projected to worsen during the second half of the south-west monsoon season, there are already fights on multiple spatial scales to shape the narratives about the root causes of the …

Arthropod Diversity In Phytotelmata Of Calathea Capitata (Zingiberales; Marantaceae) Host Plants From Peru, Divya Dendi, Timo Förster, Caroline S. Chaboo

Department of Entomology: Faculty Publications

Cryptic habitats are often overlooked in biodiversity surveys. Phytotelmata, or plant pools, are one type of cryptic habitat that supports diverse fauna in a miniature ecosystem. This study surveys the arthropod community of two types of phytotelmata, bracts and leaf rolls, on a single species, Calathea capitata (Ruiz and Pav.) Lindl. (Zingiberales: Marantaceae), from one Amazon site in Peru. Specimens were collected from eight bracts and eight leaf rolls. A total of 55 arthropods (36 adults, 19 juveniles) were found in both phytotelmata types. In the bract samples were found: spiders (Araneae: Corinnidae), beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Erotylidae, Staphylindae), flies (Diptera: …

Historiographical And Legal Narrative Of The Hukbalahap And Hukbong Magpapalaya Ng Bayan (Hmb) Movement (1942-1956), Allen Louis P. Gacutan

DLSU Senior High School Research Congress

Upon the instance of historical studies’ inclination to being event-based and substantive regarding such historical figures and events. This study aims to provide the overviewing narrative, historiographical and legal narratives towards shedding light on the Hukbalahap and Hukbong Magpapalaya ng Bayan movement from the year 1942 - 1956. In line with this, a historical narrative was first sought upon to provide a nuanced perspective on whether or not the said movements are to be inclined with a communist, guerilla, or agrarian movement. Furthermore, the study utilized a historiographical research in line with textual analysis of the primary and secondary sources, …

Why Atlas Hasn't Shrugged: Review Essay, Ajay K. Mehrotra

Florida Tax Review

Review of Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United State and Europe. By Kenneth Scheve & David Stasavage. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2016. Pp. xv, 266.

(Special Section) The Hymn As Protest Song In England And Its Empire, 1819–1919, Oskar Cox Jensen

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Hymns played a role in envoicing the politics of protest in England long before their integration in the established Church – and do so to this day. Yet it was nineteenth-century radical movements that embraced the hymn as in many ways the ideal musical form. From the bloody field of Peterloo to the secularising South Place Society, from the mass meetings of Chartists to the top-down productions of the Fabian socialists, the century resounded with this increasingly familiar music.

Many writers laid claim to the rhetoric of the hymn to advance causes from abolitionism to solidarity with Poles exiled to …

Reviving The Gobbet: Venerable Sophistication For Contemporary Media Literacy, Kevin Hora

Irish Journal of Academic Practice

This paper suggests that a technique for close textual reading used in history, the classics and theology for two almost two centuries, the gobbet, can be repurposed as a method of developing media literacy in higher education students in other disciplines. The gobbet is a bite-sized extract from a longer set text learners have studied that acts as an entry to the whole text, permitting critical, contextualised evaluation to take place. As a pedagogical tool, the gobbet can be a counterweight to discontinuous reading practices and abstracted information sources. It is highly effective for analysing contemporary media and discourse, in …

Second Opinion: Health, Faith, And Ethics, 1993, V19 N2, October, Advocate Aurora Health

Historical Documents - Combined

Park Ridge Center, Park Ridge, IL: The October 1993 issue of "Second Opinion" (ISSN 0890-1570) includes:

• Initial Comment: The Chronic (Martin E. Marty) p. 8
• Women and the Work of Caring (Debbie Ward) p. 11
• Response: An Alternative for Miss B. (Gloria Miller) p. 27
• Response: Not Gender but Economics (Raymond J. Lawrence, Jr.) p. 31
• Response: Who Will Care? (Frances Leonard) p. 35
• Response: Honoring Identity (Claudia George) p. 39
• Response: Recognizing the Caregiver (Joyce Blackwell) p. 45
• Response: No Room for Hierarchy (Deborah Flemister Mullen) p. 55
• Our Bodies, Our Families: The Family's Role in Organ Donation (Charles …

Dancers Of The Book: Yemenite, Persian, And Kurdish Jewish Dance, Quinn Bicer

Anthós

Despite the cultural significance of dance in Jewish communities around the world, research into Middle Eastern Jewish dance outside of the modern nation-state of Israel is sorely under-researched. This article aims to help rectify this by focusing on Yemenite, Persian/Iranian, and Kurdish Jewish dance and explores how these dancers have functioned and been received within the societies they have been a part of. The methods that have gone into this article are a combination of analyzing primary source recorded dances and existing secondary source research into the dance of these communities. Through these methods, this article reveals how Yemenite, Iranian, …

Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument For A Presentist Approach To Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Sharon Smith

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

This essay outlines a presentist approach to teaching Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688), in which a white woman witnesses a Black man’s brutal execution at the hands of enslavers. This approach explores the capacity of Behn’s novel—a colonialist narrative scholars frequently identify as troubling or frustrating—to generate discussions about “white witnessing,” particularly white people’s consumption of images of Black people in peril. This includes recent videos of Black people killed by police or white citizen vigilantes. Many Black individuals identify these videos as traumatizing, frequently noting how they have failed to spur structural reform. Of central concern in the classroom discussion …