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A Comparison Of Informal Choral Singing Experiences, Christopher Powell Jan 2025

A Comparison Of Informal Choral Singing Experiences, Christopher Powell

Theses and Dissertations--Music

A traditional choir relies on the interest and participation of the population in communal singing. However, drawing willing participants into a traditional choir program can often prove challenging to music educators, community choir directors, and leaders of religious music programs. One of the most prevalent informal singing groups in the USA is Sacred Harp. Sacred Harp “singings” have been around since the early years of The Sacred Harp itself. These singings occur regularly in multiple locations across the country and around the world. These events have an open atmosphere and, despite the mostly Christian material, have no expectation of a …


Secondary String Students’ Perceptions Of The Role Of Self-Efficacy In Mitigating Their Musical Performance Anxiety: A Collective Case Study, Mary E. Henton Jan 2025

Secondary String Students’ Perceptions Of The Role Of Self-Efficacy In Mitigating Their Musical Performance Anxiety: A Collective Case Study, Mary E. Henton

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) is a multifaceted psychological condition that arises before, during, or after musical performance and presents a significant obstacle for young musicians, particularly secondary string students. Closely linked to the spotlight effect and social anxiety, MPA has worsened among youth following the COVID-19 pandemic due to decreased social interaction, both of which have had adverse effects on students’ mental health. Despite teachers’ awareness of MPA’s prevalence, music education programs often lack instruction in specific coping mechanisms to address it, and many students do not seek support or treatment.

The purpose of this study was to describe the …


A Twenty-First Century Approach To Darius Milhaud's Saudades Do Brasil, Paige H. Crain Jan 2025

A Twenty-First Century Approach To Darius Milhaud's Saudades Do Brasil, Paige H. Crain

Theses and Dissertations--Music

French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from February 1917 to November 1918. Milhaud’s experience in Rio was overwhelmingly positive, and several of his works were influenced by this period of his life, one being a suite for solo piano titled Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67. Inspired by Brazilian popular music, this piece is an example of exoticism, a trend of writing music based on cultures other than the composer’s own. Considering that exoticism historically has the potential to perpetuate harmful stereotypes or generate false information, this research delves into Saudades do Brasil, exploring …


Professional Experiences Of Disabled Music Therapists: An Adapted Multiple Case Study, August Lily Tuggle Jan 2025

Professional Experiences Of Disabled Music Therapists: An Adapted Multiple Case Study, August Lily Tuggle

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Literature about disability often focuses on disabled people as recipients of professional services and there is scant literature about disabled professionals. Although music therapists work primarily with disabled individuals, there is little research on or from the perspectives of disabled music therapists. A growing body of qualitative research, grey literature, and media platforms provides perspectives from the disability community regarding music therapy. Disabled individuals both within and outside the profession critique common music therapy attitudes and practices that conflict with the expressed needs of the disability community. However, much of this literature contains the perspectives of one individual or a …


The Richness Of Perception: Dynamic Visual Representations From Static Images, Kimberly Wong Jan 2025

The Richness Of Perception: Dynamic Visual Representations From Static Images, Kimberly Wong

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

What is the purpose of visual perception? The most common explanations suggest that “seeing” is for answering the question ‘What’s out there?’ — giving us information about the features and objects in the current local environment. This dissertation, in contrast, suggests a different approach: seeing is also for answering the question ‘What’s happening?’ — and the related questions ‘What just Happened?’ and ‘What’s about to happen?’. The critical difference is that while the more common answer seems implicitly static, these newer answers are intrinsically dynamic. This dissertation proposes that visual processing represents even certain static images …


Quakerism At Whittier College: Faded But Still Ever-Present, Damian Garcia Jan 2025

Quakerism At Whittier College: Faded But Still Ever-Present, Damian Garcia

Whittier City & College Historical Research

No abstract provided.


Exploring Research And Tools In Ai Security: A Systematic Mapping Study, Sidhant Narula, Mohammad Ghasemigol, Javier Carnerero-Cano, Amanda Minnich, Emil Lupu, Daniel Takabi Jan 2025

Exploring Research And Tools In Ai Security: A Systematic Mapping Study, Sidhant Narula, Mohammad Ghasemigol, Javier Carnerero-Cano, Amanda Minnich, Emil Lupu, Daniel Takabi

School of Cybersecurity Faculty Publications

With the pervasive integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various facets of modern technology, the importance of AI security has been thrust into the spotlight. The field is rapidly evolving, with new challenges and solutions emerging at a swift pace. However, the breadth and depth of AI security research have not been comprehensively mapped in recent times, presenting a crucial need for an extensive review and synthesis of existing literature. Given the increasing reliance on AI in critical domains such as healthcare, finance, and national security, ensuring the resilience and trustworthiness of these systems is imperative. This survey fulfills the …


A New Simulation Framework For Analyzing Neutrosophic Data In Experimental Design, Muhammad Aslam, Nasrullah Khan, Florentin Smarandache Jan 2025

A New Simulation Framework For Analyzing Neutrosophic Data In Experimental Design, Muhammad Aslam, Nasrullah Khan, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

A recent simulation-based classical analysis has been developed for interval data. However, a review of the literature indicates that these existing simulations have notable limitations and fail to conform to the neutrosophic statistical framework. In this paper, we propose a novel simulation process designed to analyze neutrosophic data within an appropriate and rigorous neutrosophic framework. We demonstrate that the proposed simulation is more comprehensive and aligns closely with the principles of neutrosophic theory. The results will be obtained through simulation and compared with those of existing methods, with the expectation that the proposed approach provides substantial improvements and is better …


The Many Faces Of Christ: Understanding ‘Trifacial Trinity’ By Gregorio Vasquez Arce Y Ceballos, Analisa Maria Peña Jan 2025

The Many Faces Of Christ: Understanding ‘Trifacial Trinity’ By Gregorio Vasquez Arce Y Ceballos, Analisa Maria Peña

2026 Award Winners

No abstract provided.


Methods Appendix For Early Explorations Of Holistic Review In Graduate Medical Education, Gena C. Dunivan, Jonathan D. Eldredge, Marlene P. Ballejos, Melissa Gonzales, Valerie L. Romero-Leggott Jan 2025

Methods Appendix For Early Explorations Of Holistic Review In Graduate Medical Education, Gena C. Dunivan, Jonathan D. Eldredge, Marlene P. Ballejos, Melissa Gonzales, Valerie L. Romero-Leggott

Publications

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Collections As Data: A Data Literacy Tool For Community Engagement, Daria Orlowska, Lynn Houghton Jan 2025

Collections As Data: A Data Literacy Tool For Community Engagement, Daria Orlowska, Lynn Houghton

University Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications

The Collections as Data initiative begun by Thomas Padilla strives to reframe digital objects as data that is community-oriented, contextualized for easy reusability, and empowering reimagination in creative ways. In an effort to increase the accessibility of University Libraries archival collections to researchers and students, we began investigating the feasibility of this initiative on our campus using the digitized South Haven Lighthouse Log Collection as a starting point. The lighthouse logs are a series of digitized journals originally compiled at South Pierhead Light in South Haven, Michigan, recording passing vessels, weather remarks and lighthouse expenditures between 1878-1892. A collection assessment …


Acceptance Remarks For The 2025 Distinguished Service Award For Lifetime Achievement, Jay Lawrence Westbrook Jan 2025

Acceptance Remarks For The 2025 Distinguished Service Award For Lifetime Achievement, Jay Lawrence Westbrook

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

No abstract provided.


The Nightmare Loophole: Circumventing Section 365(N) And Erasing A Non-Debtor Licensee’S Intellectual Property Rights, Grant Marshall Jan 2025

The Nightmare Loophole: Circumventing Section 365(N) And Erasing A Non-Debtor Licensee’S Intellectual Property Rights, Grant Marshall

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

In today’s knowledge-driven economy, the significance of intellectual property licenses cannot be overstated. Nevertheless, a loophole within the Bankruptcy Code allows a non-debtor’s license agreement to be erased, stripping them of their right to utilize the intellectual property without any avenue for recourse. Selling intellectual property “free and clear” of encumbrances before the debtor rejects the license agreement could deprive the non-debtor licensee of the opportunity to continue using the intellectual property. This loophole not only undermines the policy goals of both intellectual property and bankruptcy, but also subverts the clear intentions of Congress and the Supreme Court to protect …


Virtual Personalities And Smart Analytics In The Digital Environment: Legal And Applied Framework For Big Data And Financial Transaction, Hazim Akram Sallal, Faris Kamil Mihna, Lobna Abdalhusen Al-Seedi, Mustafa Abdulfattah Habeeb, Yahya Layth Khaleel Jan 2025

Virtual Personalities And Smart Analytics In The Digital Environment: Legal And Applied Framework For Big Data And Financial Transaction, Hazim Akram Sallal, Faris Kamil Mihna, Lobna Abdalhusen Al-Seedi, Mustafa Abdulfattah Habeeb, Yahya Layth Khaleel

Mesopotamian Journal of Big Data

The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has altered the very nature of the digital systems that ground today's legal and financial institutions. This study is cross-discipline research that constructs an integrated framework that connects digital identity, AI-based digital wallets, and information governance across a singular legal-technological approach. It considers the consequences of AI reshaping economic exchange, digital identity management, and communication and its mediation by autonomous virtual identities that can carry out actions characteristic of observable real-world social and economic experiences. The study uses a comparison of the regulatory mechanisms in Iraq, Europe, and the US context to convey …


Assessing Reproductive Health In Zoo-Managed African Elephant Bulls (Loxodonta Africana), Kaitlyn Marie Campbell Jan 2025

Assessing Reproductive Health In Zoo-Managed African Elephant Bulls (Loxodonta Africana), Kaitlyn Marie Campbell

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Populations of zoo-managed African elephant (Loxodonta Africana) exhibit substantial individual- and population-level variation in reproductive success, yet research has largely focused on females, leaving male fertility poorly understood. Subfertility in bulls, characterized by low libido and inconsistent semen quality, poses significant challenges to genetic management and long-term population sustainability. This study a) systematically evaluates semen quality, b) identifies physiological, behavioral, social, and environmental determinants of fertility, and c) advances ex situ conservation through the expansion of the African elephant sperm bank. Between January 2023 and July 2025, 209 semen collection events were conducted from 13 sexually mature bulls …


Leaf-Based Varietal Categorization Of Sweetpotato (Ipomoea Batatas L. Lam.), A Potentially Healthful Vegetable, Using Image Processing And K-Means Clustering, Shahidul Islam, Md Towfiqur Rahman, Md Hamidul Rahman, Abdul Momin Jan 2025

Leaf-Based Varietal Categorization Of Sweetpotato (Ipomoea Batatas L. Lam.), A Potentially Healthful Vegetable, Using Image Processing And K-Means Clustering, Shahidul Islam, Md Towfiqur Rahman, Md Hamidul Rahman, Abdul Momin

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas Lam) leaves contain higher concentrations of phenolic compounds, flavonoids, and carotenoids that are remarkable in health promotion. However, the nutrient content in sweetpotato leaves varies from variety to variety, and leaf shape and color are the key identifying factors for the varietal classification of sweetpotatoes. So, detecting sweetpotato leaves is essential for the in-situ identification of sweetpotato varieties and for developing intelligent agricultural systems. This study aimed to create a leaf-shape-based varietal classification technique for sweetpotato using image processing techniques coupled with a K-means clustering algorithm. 38 leaf images (RGB) of two sweetpotato cultivars were collected …


Backdoor Nepa Proceduralization: Less Environmental Substance Begets More Environmental Procedure, Cade Mallett Jan 2025

Backdoor Nepa Proceduralization: Less Environmental Substance Begets More Environmental Procedure, Cade Mallett

Natural Resources Journal

The National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) tasks the government with fully analyzing the environmental consequences of the actions it plans to take before those actions can be performed. This procedural function of NEPA is much maligned by the development community for imposing paralyzingly high costs on government action. At the same time, the statute is disparaged by environmentalists as a toothless and ineffective tool which cannot compel the government to conform its actions to the environment’s best interests. So, which side is right? Arguably, both are. By interpreting NEPA to be a purely procedural statute, the Supreme Court’s holdings on …


Debbie Alicen Reclaimed Her Voice And Started The Human Rights Campaign In Lincoln, Nebraska, Morgan Grey, Debbie Alicen, Moni Usasz Jan 2025

Debbie Alicen Reclaimed Her Voice And Started The Human Rights Campaign In Lincoln, Nebraska, Morgan Grey, Debbie Alicen, Moni Usasz

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

A story about Debbie Alicen's efforts in the early 1980s to have an amendment added to Lincoln, Nebraska's Human Rights Ordinance that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual preference.


Endoscopic Management Of Third Ventricular Colloid Cysts: Efficacy, Safety, Technique, Result, And Limitations, Mohammad Abdulsalam Soliman Jan 2025

Endoscopic Management Of Third Ventricular Colloid Cysts: Efficacy, Safety, Technique, Result, And Limitations, Mohammad Abdulsalam Soliman

Journal of Medicine in Scientific Research

Background: Colloid cysts of the third ventricle are rare, benign lesions that may cause life-threatening obstructive hydrocephalus. Full-endoscopic resection has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative to microsurgical approaches. This study evaluates the surgical outcomes and safety profile of the trans-frontal endoscopic technique, with emphasis on the swiveling technique for capsule excision. Methods: This retrospective and prospective cohort study included 24 patients who underwent full-endoscopic trans-frontal resection of third ventricular colloid cysts at Al- Ahrar Teaching Hospital, a tertiary neurosurgical center in Egypt, between January 2016 and December 2024. All procedures were performed using a 6° angled rigid neuroendoscopy with …


Propositional Conditioning Of Direct Religious Perception In John Wesley's Epistemology Of Salvation, Kenny Johnston Jan 2025

Propositional Conditioning Of Direct Religious Perception In John Wesley's Epistemology Of Salvation, Kenny Johnston

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.


Student Affairs Professionals' Sensemaking Following Student Disclosures Of Mental Health Concerns, Andrea L. Meluch, Alison Doehring, Maria Hannah Jan 2025

Student Affairs Professionals' Sensemaking Following Student Disclosures Of Mental Health Concerns, Andrea L. Meluch, Alison Doehring, Maria Hannah

Iowa Journal of Communication

Based on semi-structured interviews with 23 participants, this study explores how student affairs professionals in higher education make sense of the role-related and communication-related challenges that they face when students disclose mental health concerns. Study results indicated that participants construct their role as student affairs professionals as advocates and sources of support for students struggling with mental health. However, despite framing their role as “helpers” to students, participants noted that they must navigate mental health resources within and beyond their institution, manage constraints on their role, and grapple with external factors that inhibit students’ ability to receive mental health support. …


Congestion Mitigation For Foraging Robot Swarms Using Spiral Path Strategies, Arturo Gonzalez, Qi Lu Jan 2025

Congestion Mitigation For Foraging Robot Swarms Using Spiral Path Strategies, Arturo Gonzalez, Qi Lu

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Swarm robotics offers robust and scalable solutions for tasks such as foraging, but congestion near central collection zones remains a critical challenge, especially with increasing swarm sizes. Traditional solutions, such as static path planning or local repulsion-based methods, often fail to prevent interrobot collisions or bottlenecks near the collection zones. This research presents a comparative study of three strategies to mitigate congestion when returning resources to the central collection zone. The research herein focuses on tightly packed environments where, in theory, robots should follow a preplanned spiral, either ad-hoc, square, or circular, with congestion detection as described in the first …


Teasing In Romantic Relationships: The Roles Of Attachment Dimensions, Relational Uncertainty, And Interpersonal Attraction, Nathan Miczo Jan 2025

Teasing In Romantic Relationships: The Roles Of Attachment Dimensions, Relational Uncertainty, And Interpersonal Attraction, Nathan Miczo

Iowa Journal of Communication

Drawing upon DiCioccio’s interactionist model of teasing, this study examined positive and negative teasing in romantic relationships, with relational uncertainty and interpersonal attraction as mediators. Participants completed measures of teasing, attachment, relational uncertainty, and interpersonal attraction. Affectionate teasing was positively predicted by anxious attachment, physical attraction, and social attraction, and negatively predicted by avoidant attachment. Social attraction mediated the relationship between anxiety and affectionate teasing, while physical attraction and social attraction were mediators between avoidance and affectionate teasing. There were no significant results for relational uncertainty as a predictor or for aggressive teasing as an outcome.


Ceo Social Media Activity And Insider Trading, Zhichuan Li, Claire Y.C. Liang, Zhenyang Tang Jan 2025

Ceo Social Media Activity And Insider Trading, Zhichuan Li, Claire Y.C. Liang, Zhenyang Tang

School of Business

This article studies the relationship between CEOs' social media activity and their insider trading behavior. Drawing on psychological evidence linking online activity to risk-taking, we find that active CEOs on social media exhibit higher risk preferences and engage more in insider trading—particularly in terms of incidence, intensity, and profitability. The effects are primarily driven by insider buys (rather than sells), which are more likely to involve material non-public information, and such opportunistic trades may increase firm reputational risk. Further analysis reveals that certain corporate governance mechanisms, such as blackout policies and compensation structures, help mitigate the negative impact. © 2025 …


Do Active Sustainable Equity Funds Outperform Their Passive Peers? Evidence From The Covid-19 Pandemic, Fei Fang, Sitikantha Parida Jan 2025

Do Active Sustainable Equity Funds Outperform Their Passive Peers? Evidence From The Covid-19 Pandemic, Fei Fang, Sitikantha Parida

School of Business

Sustainable investing has grown rapidly, but it remains unclear whether actively managed sustainable funds outperform passive ones. This study compares the performance of high-sustainable active U.S. equity mutual funds and their index peers from September 2018 to April 2022, dividing the period into pre-crash, crash, and post-crash phases around the COVID-19 market downturn. On average, both active and index funds underperform, with the sharpest losses occurring during the crash. High-sustainable funds outperform low-sustainable ones, particularly during the crash. However, high-sustainable active funds do not outperform their passive counterparts in any period. These results suggest that active management does not offer …


The Effect Of Distance On Persuasion In International E-Mail Marketing Campaigns, Peter Magnusson, Stanford A. Westjohn Jan 2025

The Effect Of Distance On Persuasion In International E-Mail Marketing Campaigns, Peter Magnusson, Stanford A. Westjohn

Marketing Faculty Publications

We investigate the relative effectiveness of different persuasive appeals in international e-mail customer acquisition marketing campaigns. We conducted three separate experiments, including two lab experiments and one field experiment, to examine the impact of different persuasive appeals on customers. Our research specifically focuses on consensus and authority-focused persuasive appeals. Our findings consistently show that when there is a small cultural distance between the seller and potential buyer, consensus appeals are more effective. On the other hand, when there is a large cultural distance, authority appeals are more effective.


Hayek And Tawney: A Forgotten Conversation On Economics And Christian Ethics, Roger J. Newell Jan 2025

Hayek And Tawney: A Forgotten Conversation On Economics And Christian Ethics, Roger J. Newell

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

The dramatic British election of 1945 and an unlikely best-seller on economic philosophy provides the setting for a respectful conversation, rather than an acrimonious debate, between two long-time colleagues of the London School of Economics, the economic theorist F.A. Hayek and the economic historian R.H. Tawney. Their dialogue highlights divergent approaches to key moral issues embedded in economic thought, including the nature of freedom, the role of the state, and the reasons for poverty. The article examines the way in which Christianity underpins Tawney's approach to these questions and how, for Hayek, a network of secular beliefs performs a parallel …


Review Of Steven Nemes, Theological Authority In The Church: Reconsidering Traditionalism And Hierarchy, Isaac Choi Jan 2025

Review Of Steven Nemes, Theological Authority In The Church: Reconsidering Traditionalism And Hierarchy, Isaac Choi

Faculty Publications - George Fox School of Theology

Nemes correctly identifies the key difference between Protestantism and its Catholic and Orthodox siblings as not being about justification, transubstantiation, or the Marian dogmas, but as rooted in the question of theological authority: are there individuals or groups in the church who have “the standing to tell other persons (not) to do or believe something for the sake of friendship with God” (xiii)? Nemes’s contention is that only God has such authority, and he makes the case for this claim in this book primarily by appealing to the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. The analysis of the New Testament …


The Horizontal Privity Requirement: For And Against, Michael Lewyn Jan 2025

The Horizontal Privity Requirement: For And Against, Michael Lewyn

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.


Defeating Antisemitism In The World’S First Democratic Republic: The American Revolution And Jewish Legal And Political Equality, Paul Finkelman, Lance J. Sussman Jan 2025

Defeating Antisemitism In The World’S First Democratic Republic: The American Revolution And Jewish Legal And Political Equality, Paul Finkelman, Lance J. Sussman

Touro Law Review

At a moment when antisemitism is on the rise in the United States, we believe it is useful to consider how the American Revolution led to the first nation in the world where antisemitism was fundamentally contrary to the national constitution and Jews were entitled to full rights as citizens of the national government. As we explain in this article, during and after the Revolution, Jews were free to participate in all professions and general civic life, naturalize (if immigrants), vote, serve on juries, become lawyers and judges, become military officers, and attend universities. Jews had almost none of these …