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My Pilgrimage In Church Growth, Gary L. Mcintosh

Great Commission Research Journal

A short autobiography by Gary McIntosh focusing on his role in the Church Growth Movement

Psychiatric Consequences Of Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients In Iraq: A Preliminary Report, Hussein Meften, Rafid Al Zaidy, Marwa Ahmed, Lubna Naji, Mushtaq Hashim, Nesif Al Hemiary, Jawad Al-Diwan

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT:BACKGROUND:World Health Organization (WHO) termed coronavirus disease 2019 COVID-2019, then declared it as a pandemic. It was documented that survivors of COVID-19 were at risk of developing anxiety, depression, and insomnia. This study was carried out to report on prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and identifying some determinants.PATIENTS AND METHODS:A total of 120 patients with COVID-19 were included in this study. Their age was 22 to 91 years giving male to female ratio of 1.6:1. They were selected conveniently (they were hospitalized in  Al-Shafa center). The hospital anxiety and depression scale was used.RESULTS:Out of the total, 66% and 52.9% were showing …

An Autoethnographic Journey To Critical Consciousness: How A White Faculty Member At A Hispanic Serving Institution Moves From Ally To Accomplice By Learning Student Struggles, Benjamin Mercer Drury

Dissertations

This study serves to document my transition into critical consciousness – or conscientização – through interactions with my students. I utilize narrative autoethnographic methods, content analysis, qualitative interviewing, and personal reflection to document my transformation from objectively interested faculty member to accomplice by learning about how the life of my students outside of school affected their performance inside of school. Significant findings fall into two categories: personal and professional. Personally, this study was cathartic. By using a scholarly lens to analyze and reflect on my experience, I was able to process my experience in the context of existing research and …

Native American Studies Apr 2023 Self-Study Report & Documents, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

Native American Studies APR self-study report, review team report, response report, and initial action plan for Spring 2022, fulfilling requirements of the Higher Learning Commission.

Personal Brand Equity In Linkedin: Impression Management As An Antecedent And Behaviors As Consequences, Carlos Valdez, Jorge Villegas, David Penn

AMTP Proceedings 2023

This research explores how Personal Brand Equity in professional social media is influenced by impression management and the online behaviors of users of this social media platform. Using a path analysis, the relationship between Impression Management and Personal Brand Equity was, as expected, strong and positive. The paths between brand equity and frequency of behaviors such as use of LinkedIn to network were significant and strong while other behaviors such as frequency of use of LinkedIn to ask for recommendations were not significant. The contribution of this paper is to be the first to analyze this relationship to understand better …

Examining The Product And Service-Centric Website Features And Functions Offered By European Fashion Retailers Following The Covid-19 Pandemic, Richard Heiens, Ravi Narayanaswamy

AMTP Proceedings 2023

Considering the significant pressures faced by fashion-oriented e-commerce retailers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand what modifications, if any, these retailers may have made to their online retail stores, and the impact that these changes may have had on their effectiveness during this time frame. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to examine the various product-centric and service-centric features and functions found on the websites of European fashion retailers both before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also examined the conversion rates, the average ticket values and customer demographics for …

Prospective, Early Longitudinal Assessment Of Lymphedema-Related Quality Of Life Among Patients With Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: The Foundation For Building A Patient-Centered Screening Program, Anusha Gandhi, Tianlin Xu, Sarah M Desnyder, Grace L Smith, Ruitao Lin, Carlos H Barcenas, Michael C Stauder, Karen E Hoffman, Eric A Strom, Susan Ferguson, Benjamin D Smith, Wendy A Woodward, George H Perkins, Melissa P Mitchell, Desmond Garner, Chelain R Goodman, Melissa Aldrich, Marigold Travis, Susan Lilly, Isabelle Bedrosian, Simona F Shaitelman

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

BACKGROUND: We examined how breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) affects health-related quality of life (HRQOL), productivity, and compliance with therapeutic interventions to guide structuring BCRL screening programs.

METHODS: We prospectively followed consecutive breast cancer patients who underwent axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) with arm volume screening and measures assessing patient-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and perceptions of BCRL care. Comparisons by BCRL status were made with Mann-Whitney U, Chi-square, Fisher's exact, or t tests. Trends over time from ALND were assessed with linear mixed-effects models.

RESULTS: With a median follow-up of 8 months in 247 patients, 46% self-reported ever having …

The Duality Of Variance Among Esg Assessments, Sung Eun (Summer) Kim

Missouri Law Review

As more attention is given to environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) considerations of firms, ESG data and ratings providers are serving an increasingly important function in the corporate discourse. It is reported that there were more than 160 ESG data and ratings providers in 2020, and more than 600 ESG ratings and rankings products available globally as of 2018. Even as the ESG provider and product markets have grown exponentially, however, the lack of ESG data has been cited as an impediment to a broader embrace of the ESG movement. One source of this perception of inadequacy originates from the …

Humans Of Nyls: Spring 2023 Collection, Student Bar Association

NYLS Community News

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Identity Conflict And Identity Salience On Job Satisfaction And Vocational Connectedness In Minority Law Enforcement Officers, Kityara James

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Law enforcement agencies are having trouble recruiting, hiring, and maintaining ethnic minority officers. Although the Department of Justice identified multiple issues minorities face while pursuing and engaging in the profession, there have been few efforts to determine the source of these problems and how to overcome them. In a stressful profession that doesn't historically align with being a minority, the difference between staying with that job or going to another one may lie in how connected to the job and how satisfied with that job minority law enforcement feel. The current study explores how ethno-racial and police identity salience and …

Covid Time: How Quarantine Affects Feelings Of Elapsed Time, Minju Han, Guy Voichek, Gal Zauberman

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly upended people's lives and daily structure. In this survey of 1,506 Americans conducted in June 2020, we test how quarantine affects feelings of elapsed time (the subjective temporal distance from an event). We find that feelings of elapsed time are determined either by how people spent their time in quarantine or by how much time since an event was spent in quarantine, depending on whether people are still in quarantine at the time of evaluation. Specifically, whether people quarantined alone and the extent to which they maintained a temporal structure …

The Accountable Bureaucrat, Anya Bernstein, Cristina Rodriguez

Faculty Scholarship

Common wisdom has it that bureaucrats are unaccountable to the people they regulate and must therefore be closely supervised by elected officials or (perhaps ironically) the federal courts. For many detractors of the administrative state, as well as many proponents, agency accountability hangs on the concentrated power of the President in particular. This Article presents a different vision. Drawing on in-depth interviews with officials from numerous agencies, we show that everyday administrative practices and relationships themselves support accountability of a kind that neither elections nor judicial review alone can achieve.

Our interviews reveal that agency officials work within structures that …

Giving The Green Light: Corporate Environmental Crimes, The Treadmill Of Production, And Environmental Justice, Matthew J. Greife

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

In addition to legal considerations, what other factors correlate with and seem to affect fines companies are assessed when they commit an environmental crime? Relying upon the treadmill of crime theoretical framework we hypothesize that companies committing environmental crimes in poor and minority dominated communities will receive lower relative fines because the harms are viewed as less serious by prosecutors and judges, thus resulting in environmental injustice. In addition, from a green criminological framework, a company’s economic situation may be considered in setting fines so as not to slow down the treadmill of production. Using a unique dataset of firms …

Caring For Children With Mental Health Concerns: The Experience Of Being A School Nurse, Jeannine Kaskoun

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Mental health issues have for years been on the rise among our nation’s schoolchildren, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to aggravate what can now be called a crisis. Researchers agree that timely assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental health concerns in children are critical to maintaining their growth and development and could potentially aid in decreasing serious mental health events as they move into adulthood. While in an ideal world, each child would have a family medical provider, the fact is that for many children, the school nurse is the child’s sole provider of health care. Many times, …

Wild Women Of Anatolia: The Critical Construct Validity Of The Liberation Of Women In Turkey, Sedef Ozoguz

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Feminist, sexuality and social psychology researchers studying women’s liberation in Turkey have solely focused on freedoms denied, outlining freedoms from gendered political, institutional and intimate constraints such as domestic violence, without much attention to freedoms desired, such as freedom to dream. Following Fromm’s (1941) conceptualization of freedom as freedom from restrictions placed on one and freedom to do what one wants to do authentically, my work engages in the critical construct validity (Fine & Torre, 2019) of the liberation of Turkish women, troubling, questioning and critiquing the assumptions typically made about the construct and offering an alternative way of studying …

Reproductive Health In America: A History Of Patriarchal Control, Hailey Mccool

Undergraduate Research Conference

The United States is often referred to as the land of opportunity and the home of the free, yet today, those who challenge the patriarchal system are not treated fairly or equitably. Historically, from owning land to voting women have fought for the same rights enjoyed by men. The effort of early feminist movements paved the way for the Supreme Court to protect women’s reproductive rights through Roe v. Wade. For decades, women were able to make a choice regarding their reproductive health. However, in just the past year (2022), the Supreme Court ruled to strike down Roe v. …

Scholarly Writing Resources, Daniel M. Jenkins Phd, Lisa Walker Phd, Ali Unal Phd

USM Research and Scholarship Symposium

No abstract provided.

Bm-01 Marketing Research Tutoring Center, Roger Brian Herrera, Zachary Jennings, Shamarion C. Tubbs, Christina A. King-Johnson

SC Upstate Research Symposium

Marketing Research Tutoring Center

Spartanburg Methodist College is interesting in determining the perceived effectiveness of their tutoring center from both the students and faculty perspectives. There is a focus on ude the integration of drop-in tutoring, commuter culture and involvement, invested time results, students with time conflicts, and Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Altogether, these subjects represent attributing factors that can help better understand the research question: Are there any issues that exist with our tutoring center that need to be addressed to increase attendance? For instance, with topics such as drop-in tutoring it was stated that attendance rates were increased and …

Hi-03 Cultivated Words Of Chen Hongmou, Joe W. Stone, Professor Birney

SC Upstate Research Symposium

During the Qing dynasty, the Chinese Government appointed officials based on a man’s education and how he passed the imperial examinations. Chen Hongmou stands out among the many officials chosen during the eighteenth century.

Born October 10 1696 in Lingui, Guangxi, China, Chen spent his career as an official for several provinces. Based on his own experiences, Chen wrote texts on leadership and the duties of officials. He not only wrote to promote a system of good governance, he did so while espousing progressive ideals.

For example, he stated that women and “non Chinese” tribes should partake in the same …

The Beacon, March 31, 2023, Beacon Staff

The Beacon, 2022-2023

Unsung Heroes: Sherry Lang; The best of NW campus pranks; Cyrus's artistry not an endless trip; Film depicts America's spiritual awakening; A celebration of a century of theatre; Annual dance concert shows students' creativity; Environment importance in April: Earth Month; Using teaching experiences to serve with NEXT; Students enjoy the places of Orange City; The lovely pranks of NW; Should Women Be Pastors?; Why Hockey is the Best Sport; Dykstra and Vandersall Lead NWC Athletics; NW and Mayhem in the Middle of March; Double Trouble and Single Swingle on the Court; Engaging illusion show wows audiences; Battle continues for bragging …

Influence Of Poverty Simulation On Educators' Social Empathy And Education Practices, Rebecca K. Davison

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the Ernst and Sara Lane Volgenau College of Education at Morehead State University by Rebecca K. Davison on March 31, 2023.

Physician Workforce In The Mountain West, Hira Ahmed, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Health

Using data from the Association of American Medical College’s State Physician Workforce Data Report, this fact sheet synthesizes Mountain West data on the numbers of active physicians and active physician demographics in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. This fact sheet focuses on active physicians in the Mountain West region by gender, race and ethnicity, as well as the number of students pursuing medical and premedical education.

Research Trends In Cybercrime And Cybersecurity: A Review Based On Web Of Science Core Collection Database, Ling Wu, Qiong Peng, Michael Lembke

International Journal of Cybersecurity Intelligence & Cybercrime

Studies on cybercrime and cybersecurity have expanded in both scope and breadth in recent years. This study offers a bibliometric review of research trends in cybercrime and cybersecurity over the past 26 years (1995-2021) based on Web of Science core collection database. Specifically, we examine the growth of scholarship and the expanded scope of subject categories and relevant journals. We also analyze the research collaboration network based on authors’ affiliated institutions and countries. Finally, we identify major topics within the fields, how each topic relates to – and diverges from – one another, and their evolution over time. Overall, we …

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, April 6, 2023, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Approval of Minutes – March 2, 2023
• Program Proposals
• Semester Course Approval Reviews:
• Other Business
• Adjourn: 2:29 pm

A Recent Case Concerning Article 9 Of The Japanese Constitution, In Which Plaintffs’ Allegations Were Denied On The Basis Of Lack Of Violation Of Legally Protected Rights Were Not Violated, Thomas Makoto Naruse

Japanese Society and Culture

This note introduces a case in Tokyo district court. In which case, plaintiffs alleged actions of cabinet and legislature were against Constitution. Plaintiffs claimed their rights (right to live in peace, personality rights, etc.). However, the court denied plaintiffs claim, because plaintiffs legally protected rights were not infringed. In the course of the judgment, the courts’ view on judicial power is shown. This note introduce the case from the perspective of elements of judicial power, especially requirement of concreteness of rights.

Are Deficit Perspectives Thriving In Trauma-Informed Schools? A Historical And Anti-Racist Reflection, Cora Palma, Annmary S. Abdou, Scot Danforth, Amy Jane Griffiths

Education Faculty Articles and Research

Mental health research concerning adverse childhood experiences and neurocognitive trauma has prompted many school districts to pursue the development of trauma-informed schools that attend specifically to the emotional and instructional needs of affected students. Researchers and practitioners are fast proliferating trauma-informed professional practices. Given research findings indicating disproportionate impacts of trauma on students of color and those living in poverty, in this article, we examine the risks of trauma-informed educational programs reanimating cultural deficit theories from the 1960s about marginalized students and families. Educators are challenged to thoughtfully fortify trauma-informed schooling by increasing awareness of deficit perspectives and incorporating critical …

Maritime Trade And The World Picture: Exploring Shiga Shigetaka's Map Of Global Trade, Chinying Lee

Japanese Society and Culture

Shiga Shigetaka (志賀重昂, 1863-1927) was a Japanese geographer of the mid-Meiji period, one of the Southern Expedition theorists, a conservative, and a Classical Chinese poet. At that time, he was one of the very few scholars who had knowledge of geography and Classical Chinese poetry and cultural arts, as well as had many experiences in Europe, Asia, the United States and Oceania.

Through his own geographical knowledge and foreign experience, Shiga constructed a world map with global trade as the main constituent. Here are some examples: Japanese-made round paper fans (uchiwa, 団扇) and parasols can be sold to Australia; New …

The Policy Of Plastic Waste Reduction: A Case Of Kanagawa Zero Plastic Waste Declaration, Yoshiyuki Nobusawa

Japanese Society and Culture

Marine plastics and microplastics become the global problem. In Japan the mandatory charge for a plastic bag was introduced as the plastic measure. Kanagawa Prefecture, located in Japan's metropolitan area, has implemented advanced plastic measures. Therefore, this paper considers Kanagawa zero plastic waste declaration and the efforts of local governments concurring with the approved. Therefore, this paper considers Kanagawa zero plastic waste declaration and the efforts of the local government approving．Kanagawa is divided into four areas: urban areas, coastal areas, inland, and mountainous region. This paper analyzes the method for zero plastic waste.

Organizing The Development Of The High-Speed Railway Network And Measures Taken On Parallel Conventional Railways In Japan Since The 1990s, Daisuke Fujii

Japanese Society and Culture

Japan’s nationwide railway network is narrow gauge (1067 mm). By contrast, the high-speed railway, which started service in 1964, is standard gauge (1435 mm). Narrow-gauge railway lines, or “conventional lines,” and standard-gauge high-speed railway lines, or “Shinkansen,” are independent of each other and do not connect directly or mix. However, as railway technology has advanced and the Japanese government has expanded the high-speed railway network throughout Japan, limited sections of the Shinkansen and conventional lines now operate interconnectedly. Deteriorating market share and labor-management relations led to the Japanese National Railways (J.N.R.), which had operated Japan’s high-speed railway system, being declared …

Essay On The Revitalization Of Local Communities, Hiroshi Saito

Japanese Society and Culture

It is difficult to theorize regional revitalization due to the differences in the characteristics of each local government. However, it may be possible to generalize its basic features: “regional management” and “financial surplus.” The problem of regional revitalization is conventionally discussed from a perspective of public administration. However, this paper reexamines the problem from a management theory perspective. Considering the starting point of regional revitalization is the surplus of public finances, attention is focused on the local tax law, especially on the importance of inhabitant tax, fixed property tax, and resident population policy. The paper also shows that the attraction …