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Project Portfolio: That We May Be One...Unifying As The Body Of Christ In A Divided World, Colleen Hurley-Bates

Doctor of Ministry

This project was born in response to the following NPO: Because the church often has difficulty talking about divisive issues in a healthy or constructive way, there is an opportunity to create new patterns of relating, which could lead to greater listening and understanding, deepened community, being more formed in Jesus’ likeness, and becoming compelling witnesses for Him.

A key insight emerging from research was how there is a true need for God’s people to come together in order to be vulnerable and truly hear one another. This takes a fair amount of trust and self-awareness. Another insight which arose …

Theology On A Plate: A Gamified Discipleship Experience, Silas Sham

Doctor of Ministry

“Theology on a Plate: A Gamified Discipleship Experience" reimagines spiritual development by merging communal dining with theological exploration and gamification. Unlike traditional groups curriculums and Bible studies, this innovative project offers a fresh approach to cultivating spiritual growth through semiotic readings of food in Scripture, coupled with unique learning mechanisms. By employing a platform-based pedagogical approach, this project is not primarily about receiving information from an expert source using a pipeline-based approach. Instead, this project is designed so that participants will predominantly learn from each other as they elevate each other’s stories.

Drawing from my ministry experience in a large …

Harmful Algal Bloom Lake Management Guidance, Mike Danko, Jason Adolf, Chris Doyle, Nicole Fahrenfeld, Bob Kortmann, Fred Lubnow, Ling Ren, Nathan Ruhl, Stephen Souza, Meiyin Wu

New Jersey Center for Water Science & Technology Reports

Executive Summary: In 2021, the Division of Water Monitoring and Standards and Pesticide Control (DWMSPC) and the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) recruited a team of lakes management and cyanobacterial HAB experts to address the second component of the Governor’s HAB initiative focusing on enhancing scientific expertise and building the state’s capacity for HAB response. The HAB Expert Team’s primary objective is to provide guidance to DEP on HAB prevention, mitigation and management for NJ lakes and other waterbodies. The team has compiled a comprehensive literature review as a resource guide available here: NJDEP | Harmful Algal Blooms | …

Ce 633 Syllabus: Ethical Practice & Social Change, Mitch Moore

Counselor Education Syllabi

This course introduces students to the legal, professional and ethical issues that affect the practice of counseling and psychotherapy and the methods and ethical basis for counselors to be agents of social change. Students will become familiar with law and ethical codes related to the counseling profession. A model for ethical decision-making will be presented. Also, students will be presented with models for social change in their function as leaders, change agents, collaborators, and risk takers. Providing outreach and advocacy services in the school and community settings, students will expand their role as counselors to include the social contexts of …

Ce 534 Syllabus: Multiculturalism And Diversity, Mitch Moore

Counselor Education Syllabi

The purpose of this course is to: (1) promote student growth and development through the learning and practice of basic communication and helping skills; (2) study cultural diversity as it relates to human relations and communication; (3) examine gender and sexual orientation in terms of human relations and communication; and (4) address human relations and communication as they relate to special populations (persons with disabilities, older adults, economically disadvantaged individuals, children, etc.) Grade only. This course will also cover substance abuse issues as relates to diverse cultures, specifically as addressed by the SAMHSA Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) 59.

Ce 622 Syllabus: Family Systems Counseling, Anquinetta V. Calhoun

Counselor Education Syllabi

This course introduces students to the theory, assessment techniques, and intervention strategies used in the practice of family systems counseling. The focus of the course will be on building a theoretical base for understanding and applying family systems counseling strategies and techniques. Didactic and experiential learning will provide students with the opportunity to apply and integrate knowledge and skills.

High Purity Silver Nano- And Micro Particles With Controllable Shapes By Polymeric Stabilizers, Natsuda Muankhajorn

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This work presents a rapid, sustainable, and efficient technique for both recovering silver microstructures from spent button batteries and fabricating flexible conductive materials. In the first phase, a green recovery method was developed using H2O2 as a reducing agent to convert silver sources into high-purity silver microstructures. The morphology of the recovered silver was controlled using polymeric stabilizers (PVP and PVA) whose molecular weights significantly influenced particle shape and aggregation. PVP promoted the formation of uniform silver microplates, while PVA yielded isotropic microspheres. The silver microstructures from the spent button batteries were converted into highly pure silver microstructures (>98%), …

ผลของการฝึกรำไทยสมาธิต่อการควบคุมระดับน้ำตาลในเลือดและการทำงานของไตในผู้สูงอายุโรคไตจากเบาหวาน, ศุภลักษณ์ จันคำ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษานี้มีวัตประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาผลของการฝึกรำไทยสมาธิต่อการควบคุมระดับน้ำตาลในเลือด การทำงานของไต สมรรถภาพทางกาย ตัวบ่งชี้ทางชีวเคมีในเลือด และคุณภาพชีวิตของผู้สูงอายุที่เป็นโรคไตจากเบาหวาน กลุ่มตัวอย่างเป็นผู้สูงอายุโรคไตเรื้อรังจากเบาหวาน อายุระหว่าง 60-75 ปี ถูกสุ่มแบ่งออกเป็น 2 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ 1) กลุ่มที่ไม่ได้รับการฝึก (CON) จำนวน 19 คน และ 2) กลุ่มฝึกรำไทยสมาธิ (TDM) จำนวน 17 คน ที่ได้รับการฝึกรำไทยสมาธิ ที่ความหนัก 40-60 เปอร์เซ็นต์ของอัตราการเต้นหัวใจสำรอง ครั้งละ 50 นาที จำนวน 3 ครั้งต่อสัปดาห์ เป็นระยะเวลา 12 สัปดาห์ ทำการทดสอบตัวแปรด้านสรีรวิทยา สารชีวเคมีในเลือด สมรรถภาพทางกาย การทำงานของหลอดเลือด ความแปรปรวนของอัตราการเต้นของหัวใจ ความเครียดและคุณภาพชีวิต ทำการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลเปรียบเทียบก่อนและหลังการฝึก และเปรียบเทียบระหว่างกลุ่มด้วยการทดสอบความแปรปรวนสองทางแบบวัดซ้ำ (2 กลุ่ม x 2 เวลา) และเปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างแบบรายคู่โดยใช้วิธีการทดสอบแอลเอสดี ภายหลังการฝึก 12 สัปดาห์ พบว่ากลุ่มรำไทยสมาธิมีน้ำหนักตัว ไขมันในช่องท้อง ความดันโลหิตช่วงหัวใจบีบตัวและคลายตัวลดลงอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 ระดับไกลโคซิเลทฮีโมโกลบิน ยูเรียไนโตรเจน มาลอนไดอัลดีไฮด์ ทูเมอร์ เนโครซิส แฟกเตอร์-อัลฟา และ อินเตอร์ลิวคิน-6 ลดลง ในขณะที่ค่าอัตราการกรองของไต ซูเปอร์ออกไซด์ดิสมิวเทส และไนตริก ออกไซด์ เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 นอกจากนี้ ค่าการขยายตัวของหลอดเลือดหลังการปิดกั้นการไหลเวียน ซึ่งเป็นการวัดการขยายตัวของหลอดเลือดที่ขึ้นอยู่กับเอนโดทีเลียมเพิ่มขึ้น ความแข็งของหลอดเลือดแดงและดัชนีความต้านทานของไตลดลงอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 อีกทั้งกลุ่มรำไทยสมาธิยังมีค่าความแปรปรวนของอัตราการเต้นของหัวใจความถี่สูงเพิ่มขึ้น ระดับความเครียดและความวิตกกังวลลดลง และมีคุณภาพชีวิตที่เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 สรุปได้ว่า การฝึกรำไทยสมาธิมีประโยชน์หลากหลายด้านต่อผู้สูงอายุที่เป็นโรคไตจากเบาหวาน อันได้แก่ส่งเสริมการทำงานของไตและหลอดเลือด ควบคุมระดับน้ำตาลในเลือด เพิ่มการทำงานของสารต้านอนุมูลอิสระ และลดสารอนุมูลอิสระ ความเครียด และความวิตกกังวล

"The Feminist Coven Did It": Nigerian Women's Feminist Leadership And Coalition Against Police Brutality During The 2020 #Endsars Protests, Bright Alozie

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

The 2020 #EndSARS protest—a movement against police brutality and state violence in Nigeria—is an excellent locale for the historical study of African women’s activism and contributions to social movements. Young Nigerian women actively spearheaded this movement. Employing oral history methods, social media, and other primary sources, I place these women at the center of the narratives surrounding the #EndSARS protest. Their exceptional leadership and coordination contributed to the success of the most extensive youth-led protests in Nigeria’s contemporary history. In locating their individual and collective activism, I argue that history provided the roadmap for how they did effective activism since …

Providence Library Services 2024 Annual Report, Providence Library Services

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

No abstract provided.

Providence Library Services 2024 Annual Report, Providence Library Services

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

No abstract provided.

The D.C. Circuit As A Conseil D'Etat, Andrew Hammond

Articles by Maurer Faculty

A storm is brewing in American administrative law. More and more federal judges, including a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Court, openly question longstanding doctrine. A throng of academics profess skepticism of the same. This formalist turn among judges, lawyers, and academics challenges the very legitimacy of the administrative state. But what does this tempest portend for the D.C. Circuit?

The D.C. Circuit is often described as the nation’s second highest court, but its precise role in the federal judiciary is only fifty years old. As a member of that appellate court, now-Chief Justice John Roberts once admitted …

Parting Thoughts Xxx: My Struggle With Disney And Cognitive Dissonance, Robin Lizzo

Faculty Publications - Kinesiology and Recreation

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An Llc By Any Other Name Is Still Not A Corporation, Samantha J. Prince, Joshua P. Fershee

Faculty Scholarly Works

Business entities have their own unique characteristics. Entrepreneurs and lawyers who represent them select an entity structure based on the business’s current and projected needs. The different needs of each business span myriad topics such as capital requirements, taxation, employee benefits, and personal liability protection. These choices present advantages and disadvantages, many of which are built into the type of entity chosen. It is critically important that people, especially lawyers, recognize the difference between entities such as corporations and limited liability companies (LLCs). It is an egregious, nearly unforgivable, error to call an LLC a “limited liability corporation.” This is …

Prophetic Dissent In Dark Times: The New Poor People’S Campaign And The Rhetoric Of National Redemption, Stephen E. Rahko, Byron B. Craig

Faculty Publications - Communications

In this paper, we offer an analysis of an important social movement challenging the fantasy of Christian nationalism: the new Poor People’s Campaign, and specifically the rhetoric of the Bishop Dr. William J. Barber II. We argue that Barber’s rhetoric represents a source of dissent against Christian nationalism through his strategic use of the jeremiad. Barber’s progressive jeremiad offers a distinctively moral narrative that recovers the radical Christian legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Ultimately, we argue that Barber’s jeremiad advances a distinctive narrative of American national redemption through democratic renewal and reconstruction.

Remembering Redlining: Trauma, Anti-Blackness, And Afro-Pessimistic Affect In Them, Byron B. Craig, Stephen E. Rahko

Faculty Publications - Communications

Scholars of public memory have long recognized the importance of popular culture as a site in America’s memory infrastructure. In this paper we seek to contribute to this bourgeoning scholarship by advancing an analysis of the way the Amazon Prime series Them strategically remembers the traumatic violence of America’s racial past. Through its skillful use of allegory and the Black horror genre, Them offers an Afro-pessimistic rebuke of America’s post-racial fantasy. Ultimately, we argue that popular culture remains a crucial site for the politics of memory, especially given the growing threat of censorship of America’s racial history in education as …

We’Re Going Streaking!: Associations Between The Gamification Of Mediated Communication And Relational Closeness, Caleb T. Carr, Sarah F. Rosaen

Faculty Publications - Communications

Communication technologies have long been used to develop and maintain relationships; but recently, channels have increasingly sought to gamify interactions among users. The present study explored if individuals’ interpersonal and entertainment use motives were associated with interpersonal interactions and message composition, as well as subsequent relational outcomes (i.e., closeness). A survey of 156 collegiate Snapchat users revealed that interpersonal and entertainment motives were significantly related to Snapchat behavior (Streak count and Streak Snaps, respectively) and relational closeness. However, those using Streaks for entertainment motives sent impersonal Snaps more frequently and reported lower relational closeness with their partner.

Stakeholder Governance As Governance By Stakeholders, Brett H. Mcdonnell

Articles

Much debate within corporate governance today centers on the proper role of corporate stakeholders, such as employees, customers, creditors, suppliers, and local communities. Scholars and reformers advocate for greater attention to stakeholder interests under a variety of banners, including ESG, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, and stakeholder governance. So far, that advocacy focuses almost entirely on arguing for an expanded understanding of corporate purpose. It argues that corporate governance should be for various stakeholders, not shareholders alone.

This Article examines and approves of that broadened understanding of corporate purpose. However, it argues that we should understand stakeholder governance as extending well …

Populist Politics And International Business Policy: Problems, Practices, And Prescriptions For Mnes, Paul Vaaler, Christopher Hartwell, Barclay James, Thomas Lindner, Jakob Müllner

Articles

In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue on populism, we discuss different approaches to defining populism in ways relevant to multinational enterprise (MNE) strategy and organization. In addition, we demonstrate how populist host-country government policies often target MNEs in ways that give rise to distinctly new forms of discriminatory treatment. This theoretical background sets the stage for the papers of this Special Issue, explaining the origins of these populist host-country government policies and the impact of such policies on FDI and international trade. We conclude with various suggestions for advancing IB policy research on populism, including building a better …

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility": Improving Your Feedback And Hallmarks Of Effective Feedback, Randall Ryder

Articles

Effective feedback can change a law student’s trajectory in law school and beyond. The feedback-centric nature of experiential learning courses allows law students to both develop their skills and personal lawyering style. However, many experiential instructors are from a different generation, with different expectations and communication styles than today’s law students. This article highlights hallmarks of effective feedback for the modern law school classroom. As the field of law continues to evolve, law schools will need to as well.

This article discusses four key hallmarks: (1) provide feedback in multiple formats,(2) help each student develop their personal style, (3) explain …

Platform Unions, Charlotte Garden

Articles

How should we regulate social media platforms to prevent harmful treatment of users? Regulators, advocates, and scholars have grappled with this problem for years. Many proposed solutions, ranging from improving privacy disclosures, to promoting competition between platforms, to requiring platforms to pay users for their data, are at best incomplete.

This Article begins from the premise that platform problems are collective problems and proposes a collective solution: empowering users to organize platform unions. Much like labor unions give employees a say in in their working conditions even when they lack individual bargaining power, platform unions would facilitate collective bargaining over …

The Conservative Case For Esg, Richard Painter

Articles

There is a growing consensus across the political spectrum that corporations should not just make money for shareholders but also advance the public good. Conservatives and liberals often disagree about what the public good is, or what the priorities of corporate governance should be, but both sides are discontent with corporations focusing only on profits.

This Article discusses reasons why political conservatives should support efforts to include environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in corporate governance. Conservatives do not embrace contemporary ESG rhetoric which they associate with liberal social and economic viewpoints, but conservatives nonetheless oppose corporations maximizing profits at …

Fatherhood, Family Law, And The Crisis Of Boys And Men, June Carbone, Clare Huntington

Articles

Boys and men in all racial and ethnic groups and across most socioeconomic groups are struggling on many fronts, including education, employment, physical and mental health, and social integration. In these areas and more, boys and men are much worse off than they were only a few decades ago. The crisis—which is concentrated among men without college degrees—is rooted in large-scale structural changes to the economy that have decimated jobs for this group and policy choices that emphasize incarceration while doing little to address economic inequality.

The decline in male well-being is not just a problem for boys and men. …

Presidential Investment In The Administrative State, Nicholas Bednar, David E. Lewis

Articles

In this paper, we explain how presidents strategically invest in administrative capacity, noting that presidents have few incentives to invest effort in capacity building in most agencies. We test our account with two analyses. First, we examine the time it took for the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations to nominate individuals to appointed positions. We find that presidents prioritize appointments to policy over management positions and that nominations occur sooner in agencies that implement presidential priorities. Second, we examine the responses of federal executives to the 2020 Survey on the Future of Government Service to see whether perceptions of …

Conducting Research With Highly Portable Mri In Community Settings: A Practical Guide To Navigating Ethical Issues And Elsi Checklist, Francis X. Shen, Susan Wolf, Frances Lawrenz, Donnella S. Comeau, Barbara J. Evans, Damien Fair, Martha J. Farah, Michael Garwood, S. Duke Han, July Illes, Jonathan D. Jackson, Eran Klein, Matthew S. Rosen, Efraín Torres, Paul Tuite, J. Thomas Vaughan

Articles

Highly portable and accessible MRI technology will allow researchers to conduct field-based MRI research in community settings. Previous guidance for researchers working with fixed MRI does not address the novel ethical, legal, and societal issues (ELSI) of portable MRI (pMRI). Our interdisciplinary Working Group (WG) previously identified 15 core ELSI challenges associated with pMRI research and recommended solutions. In this article, we distill those detailed recommendations into a Portable MRI Research ELSI Checklist that offers practical operational guidance for researchers contemplating using this technology.

Ethical, Legal, And Policy Challenges In Field-Based Neuroimaging Research Using Emerging Portable Mri Technologies: Guidance For Investigators And For Oversight, Francis X. Shen, Susan M. Wolf, Francez Lawrenz, Donnella S. Comeau, Kafui Dzirasa, Barbara J. Evans, Damien Fair, Martha J. Farah, S. Duke Han, Judy Illes, Jonathan D. Jackson, Eran Klein, Karen S. Rommelfanger, Matthew S. Rosen, Efraín Torres, Paul Tuite, J. Thomas Vaughan, Michael Garwood

Articles

Researchers are rapidly developing and deploying highly portable MRI technology to conduct field-based research. The new technology will widen access to include new investigators in remote and unconventional settings and will facilitate greater inclusion of rural, economically disadvantaged, and historically underrepresented populations. To address the ethical, legal, and societal issues raised by highly accessible and portable MRI, an interdisciplinary Working Group (WG) engaged in a multi-year structured process of analysis and consensus building, informed by empirical research on the perspectives of experts and the general public. This article presents the WG’s consensus recommendations. These recommendations address technology quality control, design …

Returning Individual Research Results From Digital Phenotyping In Psychiatry, Francis X. Shen, Matthew L. Baum, Nicole Martinez-Martin, Adam S. Miner, Melissa Abraham, Catherine A. Brownstein, Nathan Cortez, Barbara J. Evans, Laura T. Germine, David C. Grady, Ingrid A. Holm, Elisa A. Hurley, Sara Kimble, Gabriel Lazaro-Munoz, Kimberlyn Leary, Mason Marks, Patrick J. Monette, Jukka-Pekka Onnela, P. Pearl O'Rourke, Scott L. Rauch, Carmel Shachar, Srijan Sen, Ipsit Vahia, Jason L. Vassy, Justin T. Baker, Barbara E. Bierer, Benjamin C. Silverman

Articles

Psychiatry is rapidly adopting digital phenotyping and artificial intelligence/machine learning tools to study mental illness based on tracking participants’ locations, online activity, phone and text message usage, heart rate, sleep, physical activity, and more. Existing ethical frame-works for return of individual research results (IRRs) are inadequate to guide researchers for when, if, and how to return this unprecedented number of potentially sensitive results about each participant’s real-world behavior. To address this gap, we convened an interdisciplinary expert working group, supported by a National Institute of Mental Health grant. Building on established guidelines and the emerging norm of returning results in …

The Rise Of Counter-Terrorism And The Demise Of Human Rights, Fionnuala Niaolain

Articles

This lecture addressed the consolidation and expansion of counter-terrorism norms and institutions since 9/11. The rise of counterterrorism has enabled the consolidation of autocracy, sustained democratic backsliding and undermined the capacity of civil society to function across the globe. The impact on human rights has been extensive and highly detrimental to the most vulnerable individuals and groups across the world. Drawing on my work as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights since my 2017 appointment, the lecture shows the hard choices that must be made nationally and globally to reverse these trends.

Advancing Global Equity And Justice Through Evidence And Innovation—Annual Report 2022–2023, Population Council

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

From Policy Sources To Research Information Management Sources: Incorporating Multiple Bibliographic Data Sources Into Dashboard Analytics, Rachel Miles

Research Analytics Summit 2024

As the availability of bibliographic data becomes more diverse and unique, so do the complexities of those sources. As a result, it can be challenging and daunting to analyze such data, especially from a single research analytics service request. In this session, the presenter will demonstrate examples of building dashboards to analyze data for research outputs of a college using data from a research information management system, a policy database, and a bibliographic database. Attendees will learn about the advantages of using RIM systems to perform analytics as well as their shortcomings; they’ll also learn how to export data from …