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Difficulties Facing Jordanian University Postgraduate Students In Writing Theses And Dissertations From The Viewpoint Of Supervisors And Committee Members, Talal Zoabi, Ashraf Kan’An

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This paper has explored difficulties of Jordanian university postgraduate students in writing theses and dissertations, from the viewpoint of supervisors and discussion committees members. To that end, the researchers developed a nine-domain questionnaire: title, introduction, study problem statement and questions, findings and analysis, limitations and determinants, methodology, suggestions, recommendations, the relationship between student and supervisor, and references documentation. The researchers administered the questionnaire to faculty members in four public universities who have long experience in theses and dissertations discussion and supervision. The results have shown that the postgraduate students faced difficulties in nine areas in varying degrees, ranging from great …

Creative Thinking Level In Solving Future Problems And It’S Relation With Perceived Self- Efficacy For First Secondary Students In Jordan, Iyad Alsourb, Mo'en Nsraween, Fayiza Saadeh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between creative thinking in future problem solving and perceived self-Efficacy for first secondary student in Jordan, to achieve the purposes of this study, two inventories were developed first: creative thinking in future problem solving, second: a perceived self-Efficacy, their validity and reliability were assured. both inventory were deployed on a sample consisted of (403) student from first secondary in Aljamma Directorate, divided in (228) male student and (176) female student, after collecting data it was analyzed using means, standard deviations, and T-Test for independent samples. The finding of the study showed a moderate …

Identifying Music Interventions To Support Students With Adhd In The Classroom, Mandy Frantz

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Educators across the country are struggling to effectively manage disruptive behaviors associated with students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) while creating a productive learning environment. When classroom and music teachers work with special education teachers to understand the behaviors associated with ADHD and incorporate facets of music education and therapy proven beneficial to students with ADHD into their lesson plans, they should see a decrease in undesired behaviors as well as an increase in student engagement. The goal of this research is to determine how ADHD affects students’ learning and the classroom environment, examine studies which demonstrate the benefits …

Feelings Of Preparedness In First Career Versus Second Career Teachers, John Deemy

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

Second career teachers are a rapidly growing demographic within the teacher population. However, little research on second career teachers exists. Most of the available literature on second career teachers deals with their motivations for switching careers and the strengths they bring to the classroom. There is a particularly stark lack of research concerning the preparedness of second career teachers during their first year in the classroom. The goal of this research was to investigate preparedness of second career teachers relative to traditional career path teachers. Active teachers with Master’s degrees in education were surveyed to measure feelings of preparedness to …

Single-Valued Neutrosophic N -Soft Set And Intertemporal Single-Valued Neutrosophic N -Soft Set To Assess And Pre-Assess The Mental Health Of Students Amidst Covid-19, Chinnadurai Verappan, Bobin Albert

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems

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Teacher And Problem In Student With Adhd In Indonesia : A Case Study, Iriani Indri Hapsari, Aulia Iskandarsyah, Poeti Joefiani, Juke R Siregar

The Qualitative Report

Students with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) often experience academic and social problems at school because of their behavior problems. The teacher becomes one of the main figures who can help students with ADHD in the school. However, research about problem in students with ADHD from teachers’ perspective has limited empirical evidence in Indonesia. In the study, we explored the perception and experiences of teacher towards problem in students with ADHD and how teachers handle the problem in school. We conducted case study using semi-structured interview with purposive sampling technique for 38 elementary school teachers in Indonesia. We found that …

Insights From Academics Teaching International Students In Australia, Dawn Joseph Dr, Kay Hartwig Dr

The Qualitative Report

Australia continues to be an attractive destination in the world for international students. For higher education institutions to remain globally competitive there is a need to deliver high quality teaching and learning programs and adequate support structures. This paper forms part of a wider study on improving work placement for international students, their mentors and other stakeholders at Deakin University (Australia) and adds to the body of knowledge on international students as seen through the eyes of academic staff. It explores the lived experiences of seven academics as they navigate what is required of them when teaching international students in …

The Effect Of Social Distancing On The Utilization Of Open Spaces Case Study: "Open Social Spaces At Smash Academy Club"., Eslam Elsayed

Mansoura Engineering Journal

Open social space is a physical space such as social center, sports club, parks or other gathering places where people gather and interact. The aim of the research is to suggest design alternatives to deal with the negative impacts of social distancing to fulfil users' needs to perform their social activities in open social spaces during the spread of infectious viruses such as COVID-19. The research methodology was relied on an inductive approach to acknowledge the different levels of social spaces between individuals and the real reasons why applying social distancing is difficult to verify inside social open spaces to …

A Foundational "Survival Guide" Overview Of Sports-Related Head Injuries, Frank De Stefano, Brian Fiani, Tim Mayo

Student Publications

Around 3.8 million traumatic brain injuries (TBI) occur every year from athletic participation. The signs and symptoms of each specific head injury can be difficult to delineate. Further, treatment for each injury varies significantly. While most sports-related head injuries are not life-threatening, prompt recognition of acute head injury with expedited care leads to better outcomes. Current medical education lacks in awareness of common sports-related head injuries and the acute management of these injuries. Due to this, a literature review was originally crafted to provide medical students with a brief education in the recognition, diagnosis, and acute management of sports-related head …

Fem Or Foe?: Non-Communal Women Who Report Sexual Harassment Receive Fewer Career Advancement Opportunities, Katherine A. Werth, Larry R. Martinez, Heather A. Firestone, Timothy A. Carsey

University Honors Theses

Sexual harassment is an ever-important topic to organizations, but there is currently a gap in the literature regarding career outcomes for women who report sexual harassment. Past research has discovered that masculine women get harassed more than feminine women and that masculine women have a better chance at career advancement opportunities than feminine women, but there has yet to be any focus on how the gender personality of a sexual harassment survivor relates to organizational success after a sexual harassment report. This study aims to help address this gap by drawing from the stereotype content model (Cuddy, Glick & Fiske, …

Assesing The Transitional Services For Persons With Mental Disabilities From Parents And Teachers Perspective, Abdul-Latif Al-Ramamne, Mohammed Abeed, Obaid Sabayleh

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

The study aimed at identifying the reality of transition services for persons withmental disabilitiesfrom the point of view of parents and teachers, aged 15-25 years in private and public education centers in Jordan. A random sample of 99 parents was selected, (60) mothers and (39) fathers, in addition to a random sample of teachers (101) teachers. To achieve the objectives of the study was developed a questionnaire on the evaluation of transitional services for people with mental disabilities and verified its validity and stability; The field of life skills has the highest average and highest Psychological and emotional services received …

The Strategic Impact On Learning Concepts Among Second Grade Students In Science, Yousef Daoud, Mohmmad Sawalha

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aims to identify the impact of Analogystrategy on learning concepts among 2ndgradersin science. The researchers use the quasi-experimental approach for designing pre-post testing of two groups, they prepared lessonsplans based on analogy strategy, which include conducting mapping between the new and learned concept to facilitate and learn the new conceptin the experimental group.Whereas the students in the control group studying the lessons in the traditional way.To achieve the aim of the study the researchers made a test to measure the student's achievement of the mentioned concepts in "The Environment Unit". The study found out that there isa significant …

The Impact Of Proposed Educational Program For Enhancing Kinesthetic Perception Level On Learning Treading Deep Water In Swimming, Khitam Ay

An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

This study aimd to recognize the effect of suggested educational program for enhancing kinesthetic perception level on learning treading deep waterin swimming. The studyapplied on a sample of (26) studentsfromthe faculty of physical education at theUniversity of Jordan, Who were registered in swimming course level (1),in the second semester 2016/2017, The sample was divided into twogroups, control group and experimental group, the control group consist of(15) studentswho were taught treading deep water by traditional way,and the experimental groupconsist of(11) studentswho were taught treading deep water by traditional way supported with the suggested program for enhancing kinesthetic perception level(The differencein numberbetweenthe …

A Citation Analysis Of Chemistry Publications By Faculty Members And Research Scholars At University Of Mysore And Karnatak University, Kodandarama ., Chandrashekara M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose-The study aims to analyse the resources used in the citations of 1365 research publications of University of Mysore and Karnatak University in the field of chemistry and prepares the core journal list and prolific authors. For any research and academic institutional libraries, books and journals are considered as key resources. As the resources are more and diverse, collection building is a tough task for librarians. Citation analysis is one of the best methods to list the most used resources by the users. The paper highlights the extent of use of different sources in the research publications of chemistry

Methodology-References …

Village Library Capacity Building For Community Empowerment: A Case Study In East Java, Indonesia, Endang Fitriyah Mannan, Esti Anugrah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The development of information and communication technology makes the process of capacity building a necessity for libraries including those located in rural areas. The purpose of this study is to analyze the capacity building process of village libraries. The research method used is a case study with a qualitative research approach to obtain detailed and in-depth data. This research was conducted in 3 village libraries located in Karanglo Village, Podoroto Village, and Tondo Wulan Village in Jombang Regency, East Java. The results showed that the village libraries had conducted capacity building with the aim of community empowerment. The capacity building …

Phenomenological Study On The Impact Of Servant Leadership For Establishing A Culture Of High Performance As Perceived By Human Resource Administrators, Rebecca Toto

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and describe public school district human resource administrators’ perceived impact of servant leadership constructs developed by Patterson (2003) on establishing a culture of high performance.

Methodology: This qualitative phenomenological study explored and described human resource administrators’ perceived impact of Patterson’s (2003) servant leadership constructs on establishing a culture of high performance in public school districts in Northern California. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using an Interview Protocol developed by the thematic team. Responses from participants were organized coded, and emergent themes were identified.

Findings: The findings from this study show that …

An Analysis Of Growth Of The Community Integration Psychological Score In An Ethnically Diverse Population Experiencing Homelessness In A Permanent Supportive Housing Program Using Hierarchical Mixed Modeling, Leah Hollis Puglisi

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

Hierarchical models are becoming increasingly common in epidemiological and psychological research. When analyzing data from such studies, the nested structure of the data must be taken into account. Mixed modeling in conjunction with hierarchical mixed modeling allows researchers to ask broad questions about the population of interest. Modeling under restricted maximum likelihood estimation (REML), as opposed to full maximum likelihood estimation (ML), increases the accuracy of estimates for the random effects in the model. We use hierarchical mixed modeling under REML estimation to analyze which factors increase “community integration”, a concept and a construct developed and used in the mental …

2020 Fall Commencement, Harding University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Harding University Commencement on November 21, 2020.

Commencement Speaker: Bill Richardson

Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Project, Beatriz Agado

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are prevalent and responsible for an estimated 13,000 deaths annually in the United States. Reported cases of CAUTIs remain disproportionately high at a rehabilitation center located in South Texas.

PICOT: This evidence-based project answered the following question: In rehabilitation patients, what is the effect of a nurse-driven protocol (NDP) CAUTI bundle on the number of indwelling urinary catheter-related infections, compared to the current practice, over a 12-week time period?

Evidence: Twenty high-quality studies that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria recommended using an NDP CAUTI bundle, education, and champions to …

Reconceptualizing Criminal Justice Reform For Offenders With Serious Mental Illness, E. Lea Johnston

Florida Law Review

Roughly 14% of male inmates and 31% of female inmates suffer from one or more serious mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. Policymakers and the public widely ascribe the overrepresentation of offenders with serious mental illness in the justice system to the “criminalization” of the symptoms of this afflicted population. The criminalization theory posits that the criminal justice system has served as the primary agent of social control over symptomatic individuals since the closure of state psychiatric hospitals in the 1950s and the tightening of civil commitment laws. The theory identifies untreated mental illness as …

What If Artificial Intelligence Wrote This? Artificial Intelligence And Copyright Law, Victor M. Palace

Florida Law Review

The increasing sophistication and proliferation of artificial intelligence has given rise to a provoking question in copyright law: Who is the copyright owner of a work created by autonomous artificial intelligence? In other words, when a machine learns, thinks, and acts without human input, and it creates a work, what person should own the copyright, if any? This Note explains why this is a pressing question and why current laws and practices fail to address the issue. It then analyzes the arguments for and against the possible choices: the artificial intelligence, the user, the programmer, the company that owns the …

Civil Liability For Encouraging Bad Behavior: From Cheering At A Gang Rape To Promoting Opioid Abuse, James A. Henderson Jr.

Florida Law Review

This Article examines the civil liability of actors who encourage others to behave badly, thereby causing harm. The analysis distinguishes between individual encouragers and business-entity encouragers. Individuals most often intend for the bad behaviors and the consequential harms to occur—witness cheerleaders at a gang rape. This Article advocates stern treatment of such mean-spirited malcontents. On the one hand, if their encouragement is a but-for condition of the others’ harm causing bad behavior, they should be subject to liability based on traditional intentional tort. On the other hand, if their encouragement is not a but-for condition, this essay proposes an exception …

Tax Experimentation, Michael Abramowicz

Florida Law Review

Random experiments could allow the government to test tax policies before they are enacted into general law. Such experiments can be revenue-neutral, with the tax authority ensuring ex post that average tax revenues received from taxpayers in the treatment and control groups are equal. Taxpayers might thus volunteer even for experiments that would broaden the tax base, for example by eliminating deductions. Continued participation by taxpayers in such experiments would indicate that the proposed reforms are efficient at least if externalities are disregarded. Non-revenue-neutral experiments raise greater concerns about horizontal inequity, but they may be helpful in addressing questions about …

The Appearance Of Professionalism, Elizabeth B. Cooper

Florida Law Review

The dominant image of a lawyer persists: a neatly dressed man wearing a conservative dark suit, white shirt, and muted accessories. Many attorneys can conform to this expectation, but there are a growing number of “outsider” lawyers for whom compliance with appearance norms can challenge their fundamental identities. People of color, women, LGBTQ individuals, religiously observant persons, and those who inhabit intersectional identities are among those who disproportionately remain excluded from the dominant culture and centers of power in the legal profession.

Expectations of appearance conformity create profound concerns that go well beyond style preferences, raising questions of autonomy and …

A Threat Assessment Framework For Lone-Actor Terrorists, Melissa Hamilton

Florida Law Review

Lone-actor terrorist attacks are on the rise in the Western world in terms of numbers and severity. Public officials are eager for an evidence-based tool to assess the risk that individuals pose for terroristic involvement. Yet actuarial models of risk validated for ordinary criminal violence are unsuitable to terrorism. Lone-actor terrorists vary dramatically in their socio-psychological profiles and the base rate of terrorism is too low for actuarial modeling to achieve statistical significance. This Article proposes a new conceptual model for the terroristic threat assessment of individuals. Unlike risk assessment that is founded upon numerical probabilities, this threat assessment considers …

Can The State Proclaim Life After Death? Hellerstedt And Regulating The Disposition Of Fetal Remains, Thomas J. Molony

Florida Law Review

The United States Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to abortion opponents in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, but the 2016 ruling did not dampen their resolve. Just days after Texas lost the Hellerstedt battle, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) returned to the fight and proposed regulations requiring health care facilities to inter or cremate the remains of aborted and miscarried fetuses. Undeterred by a preliminary injunction entered against those regulations once they became final, the Texas legislature enacted a law with similar effect in June 2017.

The Texas law, however, proved to be good ground …

Coordinating Community Reintegration Services For “Deportable Alien” Defendants: A Moral And Financial Imperative, Amy F. Kimpel

Florida Law Review

Recidivism rates for individuals who are convicted of illegal entry and re-entry (U.S.C. §§ 1325 and 1326) are quite high despite post-sentencing deportations. The “holistic defense” model developed in New York City at the Neighborhood Defender Services and Bronx Defenders has been instrumental in achieving better outcomes for criminal defendants and their communities, in large part due to an emphasis on re-entry or reintegration services for defendants being released from incarceration. However, that model is difficult to implement when applied to noncitizen defendants who are to be deported. This Article argues that some attention to re-entry services for deportable non-citizen …

Taming Self-Defense: Using Deadly Force To Prevent Escapes, Robert Leider

Florida Law Review

The modern fleeing felon rule permits police officers to use deadly force when necessary to prevent the escape of a person who has committed a violent felony. To justify this rule, the Supreme Court has relied on self-defense and defense of others. This Article argues against the self-defense justification. Fleeing felons—even those suspected of violent crimes—are not imminent threats to others solely by virtue of their flight. Stretching self-defense doctrine to justify the fleeing felon rule undermines critical limitations on private self-defense and has not produced an effective set of rules to limit police violence.

This Article further argues that …

Conservation Easement Landowners’ Willingness To Thin The Forest: A Contingent Valuation Approach, Ana Lucia Gutierrez Castillo

LSU Master's Theses

After being subject to several decades of degradation, the bottomland hardwood (BLH) forests within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (LMAV) have undergone landscape-scale restoration regimes through conservation easement programs, such as the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP) and now the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program-Wetland Reserve Easement (ACEP-WRE). Reforested easements now require landowners' adoption of forest management practices to fulfill the program's long-term conservation goals and ecosystem services thresholds. Using a contingent valuation (CV) approach, we examine easement landowners' willingness to accept (WTA) to thin their forested easement to enhance forest health and wildlife habitat quality. Results from an interval regression model …

The Effects Of Health-Based Wellness Programs On Employee Productivity, Brittany Holcomb

The Corinthian

Purpose: Stress is an inevitable part of an employee’s life. A majority of employees do not know how to properly handle stress and keep it under control. Having high level of occupational stress can lead to detrimental physical habits, such as poor nutrition, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle and substance consumption. The purpose of this study will be to take an in depth look into how employees take advantage of wellness programs offered to them, whether or not these programs have a direct impact on productivity and the levels of employees that take advantage the programs. Methods: Participants of the study …