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Public Intellectuals In The Age Of Viral Modernity: An Epat Collective Writing Project, Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Steve Fuller, Alexander J. Means, Sharon Rider, George Lăzăroiu, Sarah Hayes, Greg William Misiaszek, Marek Tesar, Peter Mclaren, Ronald Barnett

Education Faculty Articles and Research

No abstract provided.

Eyewitness Identification, Alley Chan

Honors Theses

Eyewitness identification often plays a crucial role in the criminal justice system. It can be used to make an arrest, both exonerate and convict suspects, fuel police interrogation, and influence a plea bargaining decision. In the meantime, eyewitness misidentification has contributed to approximately 69% of the wrongful convictions, making it the leading factor in wrongful convictions nationwide. Hence, the central question that will be explored in this thesis is: Why eyewitness testimony is so powerful despite it is prone to error? To answer this question, this thesis will examine the role of eyewitness identification played in the criminal justice system …

Academic Coping Mechanisms Among Learners With Hearing Impairment In Inclusive Public Secondary Schools In Tanzania, Vincent J. Cosmas, Mwajabu Possi

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This study sought to explore academic coping mechanisms against educational challenges among learners with hearing impairment (HI) in inclusive public secondary schools in Tanzania. Specifically, it was guided by two research questions: (i) What coping mechanisms are employed by learners with HI in inclusive public secondary schools to cope with academic challenges? (ii) How often do learners with HI seek academic help within the school environment? The study was informed by the critical theory (CT) to facilitate the understanding of educational barriers and coping mechanisms. Being a qualitative study, it drew on purposive and convenient sampling strategies to obtain 108 …

Billions In Covid-19 Rental Assistance Fails To Reach Tenants, William Clay Fannin

Population Health Research Brief Series

COVID-19 exacerbated existing problems with housing affordability in the United States, particularly for Black and Hispanic renters. To curb these financial hardships, Congress created the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, but ERA rollout has been slow and inconsistent. This brief describes geographic differences in ERA spending across the U.S. and encourages states and localities to adopt policies that increase program eligibility and streamline fund disbursement.

Luck, Love And Legitimation: First-Generation College Graduates’ Attributions For Success In The Context Of Unequal Educational Outcomes, April Burns

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

No abstract provided.

Interrogating Systems That Cause Disparities: Testing The Social-Ecological Model In Low- Versus High-Density African American Communities, Kaprea F. Johnson, Lauren B. Robins, Chelsea Derlan Williams, Tiffany G. Townsend

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

This study utilized the four-level social-ecological model to provide a better understanding of the disparities in health-related outcomes in high- and low-density African American (AA) communities. The current research sought to understand the relationships between mental and physical health, social-economic factors, and physical environment within this community. The goal of this study was to understand the relationship between these indicators of health, to better inform health-care strategies. The results highlight the significant difference between high- and low-density AA communities and socio-economic factors, physical environment, poor physical days, and poor mental health days. Implications for behavioral health providers are explored.

Peran Dan Sinergitas Antar Aktor Badan Usaha Milik Desa (Bumdes) Tirta Mandiri, Desa Ponggok, Kabupaten Klaten Dalam Perspektif Governance, Nastasya Aisya Putri, Aidinil Zetra, Roni Ekha Putera

Jurnal Wacana Politik

Salah satu nawacita Jokowi dan Jusuf Kalla dalam membangun Indonesia adalah membangun Indonesia dari pinggiran dengan memperkuat daerah dan desa. Tujuannya adalah memajukan perekonomian masyarakat desa dan mengatasi kesenjangan pembangunan nasional, yang dapat diwujudkan melalui Badan Usaha Milik Desa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat bagaimana peran aktor dan sinergitas aktor dalam membentuk dan menjalankan BUMDes Tirta Mandiri. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan tipe study kasus, agar dapat memberikan pemahaman yang lebih mendalam tentang makna (arti subjek dan penafsiran) dan konteks tingkah laku serta proses yang terjadi pada faktor-faktor yang berkaitan dengan tingkah laku tersebut dan juga mengungkapkan proses …

Élaboration Du Contenu D’Un Site Web Portant Sur L’Incapacité Et Le Retour Au Travail, Christian Larivière, Iuliana Nastasia, Marc Corbière, Manon Truchon, Daniel Côté, Annie Mathieu, Clermont Dionne, Andrea Gragnano, Patrizia Villotti, Alessia Negrini, André Bussières, Marc-Antoine Busque, Martin Lebeau, Marie-France Coutu

Rapports de recherche scientifique

Le corpus de connaissances portant sur l’incapacité au travail est exhaustif et ne cesse de croître. Toutefois, l’appropriation des connaissances par les différents acteurs de la réadaptation et du retour au travail (RT) n’est pas optimale. Une étape essentielle pour faciliter le transfert de ces connaissances est l’accès rapide à de l’information probante et pertinente, centralisée par l’intermédiaire d’un site Web. À notre connaissance, aucune ressource électronique de ce type n’est accessible, sans frais, aux acteurs du Québec. Afin de pallier cette lacune, cette initiative vise à rassembler l’information scientifiquement valide (données probantes) sur l’incapacité au travail et le RT …

Sociology Between The Gaps Volume 6 (2021)

Sociology Between the Gaps: Forgotten and Neglected Topics

No abstract provided.

Finding A Home Through The Screen: A Glimpse Into Student Experiences In A World Of Remote Admissions Processes, Megan Carmen

Honors Projects

The college search process is an important time in the life of any student, and feeling a sense of belonging and inclusion through the admissions process is vital to ensuring student success in higher education. With COVID-19 forcing all admissions communications online, student connections were changed and student’s perception of belonging was altered. This confidential survey project used demographic, quantitative, and open-ended questions to understand student perceptions of belonging and inclusion during the online admissions process. Of 750 students contacted, 57 students responded to the demographic questions, 50 to the quantitative questions, and 17 students left in-depth responses about their …

Remote Teaching In Nepalese Higher Education During Covid-19: Teachers' Perspectives, Suman Laudari, Sojen Pradhan, Sanjay Lama

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objectives: The purpose of the study was to examine the factors that supported or inhibited teacher participation in remote teaching. Teaching and learning in Nepal was predominantly face-to-face prior to the pandemic, and the previous studies showed that the use of educational technology in higher education was limited.

Method: This exploratory case study draws on data derived from focus group discussions with teachers in higher education. Thematic analysis was employed to explore the impacts of different factors in sudden transition to remote teaching.

Findings: Findings show that personal factors such as teachers’ sense of duty and their attitude towards technology …

Library Services For Students With Disabilities: Barriers And Way Forward., Tania Farooq, Shazia Manzoor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Libraries form an integral part of any society and provide an impetus for the academic and intellectual growth of the society. They are considered as the repositories of knowledge and should provide information to all without any discrimination on any grounds. Yet, students with disabilities form a vulnerable group who face discrimination and restrictions while accessing the library services. In this paper we have focused on some of the barriers that students with disabilities face while accessing the library services. These have been identified as a) Inaccessible Formats, Materials and Web-Pages b) Inaccessible Libraries c) Lack of Trained Staff in …

Linking Inequalities Of Race And Class To Drug Abuse, Asuzena Flores

Culture, Society, and Praxis

No abstract provided.

Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

This list shows the amount and variety of Florida history research and writing currently underway, as reported to the Florida Historical Quarterly. Doctoral dissertations and masters theses completed in 1977 are included. Research in Florida history, sociology, anthropology, political science, archeology, geography, and urban studies is included.

The White Springs Post Office Caper, Jerrell H. Shofner

Florida Historical Quarterly

With the 1885 constitution ratified and the state’s poll tax law about to become effective, the 1888 election was the last in which large numbers of blacks voted and was the last in which the Republican party posed a serious threat to the predominance of the Democrats for many decades. Even then the Democrats carried the state races by comfortable majorities. But the 1888 race had been an exciting election in which some Conservative-Democrats in the black belt counties had left themselves vulnerable to charges of violating federal election laws. This caused concern among them when Democrat Grover Cleveland was …

"Claiming The Mad": Implications Of The Introduction Of The Mental Asylum In Colonial Egypt, Samar Gamal Nour

Archived Theses and Dissertations

What was colonial about colonial psychiatry in Egypt? Recent scholarship on colonial psychiatry opens a new window into this important historical problem and offers significant, if ambiguous, evidence about the practice of what we can call colonial psychology and what was considered pathological (mental) in the colonial context, thereby shedding light on the normal as well and hence elaborates on the proclivity of colonial psychiatry to provide a "naturalized" and pathologjzed accounts of the colonized subjects. The introduction of the modern European asylum in 1884 significantly changed the definition and perception of mental illness and madness in Egypt, as it …

Between Politics And Procreation: Examining The Role Of Integration In Ethiopian Israeli Fertility Transition, Annice Young

Archived Theses and Dissertations

Both ominous and apocalyptic, Israel's fertility regime is fraught with demographic paranoia that its Jewish majority won't survive natural Palestinian growth. To remedy this â demographic threat,â Israel has implemented the most active immigration and fertility policies in the world, boasting the highest number of fertility clinics per capita while opening its borders to all Jews regardless of national origin. This paper will examine the social impact of Israel's immigration policy, using the fertility practices of Ethiopian Jewish migrants as a case study. I aim to explore how latent discourses of racial hygiene, cloaked in national security, are reflected in …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (December 6, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, December 6, 2021

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on December 6, 2021

Front Matter And Table Of Contents

University of Miami Business Law Review

No abstract provided.

Canada’S Right-Wing Extremists: Mapping Their Ties, Location, And Ideas, Bessma Momani, Ryan Deschamps

Journal of Hate Studies

Canada has often been seen as a progressive country that is welcoming to immigrants, promotes multiculturalism, and generally as a kind and tolerant society. This study used a two-month close examination of Canada’s RWE online presence surrounding the 2019 federal election. Using social network analysis, this study fills a needed empirical gap in current understanding of this network that are known to produce and sustain domestic terrorism and extremist hate crimes in Canada. Then using both discourse and correspondence analysis, we find that Canada’s Right-Wing Extremists (RWEs) galvanize around the following key ideas: leftist-propensities towards violence, projecting especially views against …

Kenneth S. Stern’S, The Conflict Over The Conflict: The Israel/Palestine Campus Debate [2020 Toronto And Buffalo: The New Jewish Press/University Of Toronto Press. $29.95], Steven Leonard Jacobs

Journal of Hate Studies

The Conflict Over the Conflict is an important contribution to the overall literature regarding the (seeming) turmoil on many of our college and university campuses—but not all, including my own where controversial issues surface rarely if at all—vis-à-vis the Israel/Palestine conflict, free speech and controversial speakers, and the like. Stern brings to the discussion not only his lawyerly training and his skill set, but, as of late, his directorship of the academic Bard College Center for the Study of Hate and thus combining both with a singular focus. Even more importantly, perhaps, his firm commitment to the campus as the …

The Challenges, Risks, And Concerns Perceived By Iraqi Medical Doctors: A Cross Sectional Study: The Challenges, Risks, And Concerns Perceived By Iraqi Medical Doctors: A Cross Sectional Study, Alaa Abed, Basim Abdul-Hassan, Dhurgham Abdulwahid

Iraqi National Journal of Medicine

Background: The current situation of the health system in Iraq, under the difficult conditions the country has been experiencing, generates great pressures on doctors because they are in the field of confrontation between the growing needs of patients day after day and the dilapidated capabilities and government neglect of the health sector with the absence of security and stability and weak law enforcement.The imposition of state authority has led to an increase in violence in the country in general and against doctors in particular. Moreover, there are other pressures that doctors are subjected to, such as security, economic, professional, social, …

Burden Of Care Among Caregivers Of Patients With Schizophrenia In Baghdad City: Burden Of Care Among Caregivers Of Patients With Schizophrenia In Baghdad City, Jamal Muzil, Numan Ali, Aqeel Alsabbagh, Zainab Kammad

Iraqi National Journal of Medicine

Background: The family members of schizophrenic patients frequently report that caring for the patient imposes a great burden on them and hampers the typical structure and functioning of the family to the detriment of its members.Objectives: To assess the level of the burden of care (objective and subjective) shouldered by the primary caregivers of schizophrenic patients and to determine the relationship between the objective and subjective level of such burdens.Method: A descriptive analytical study was conducted on a purposive sample of 50 primary caregivers of schizophrenic patients who were hospitalized in Ibn-Rushd Psychiatric Teaching Hospital in Baghdad. The data were …

Religious Persecution & Oppression: A Study Of Iranian Baha’Ís’ Strategies Of Survival, Naghme Naseri Morlock

Journal of Hate Studies

Members of the Baha’í faith in Iran have been ongoing targets of systematic oppression, persecution, and extreme hate since the religion was founded in 1844. Despite there being a large diaspora as a consequence of their persecution, Baha’ís remain a thoroughly underexplored population in the field of hate studies, in addition to being neglected in most other fields as well. The Baha’ís’ experiences and unique positionality as ethnic insiders and religious outsiders in their home country provide important and distinctive insights into their survival and response strategies in the face of violence, trauma, and persecution. Drawing on fifty in-depth interviews …

The Paideia Program Is Worth Another Look, Jessica Richardi

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Educational opportunity is unequally distributed in the United States, most notably by race and economic status. Commonly practiced in K–12 schools across the country, tracking and ability grouping serve to exacerbate those existing inequities. Recent renewed activism for racial and economic justice, coupled with concerns over learning loss due to COVID-19 school closures, makes this an ideal time for educators to reconsider a formerly well-known and ambitious whole-school reform system called the Paideia Program. The system itself is described and a comprehensive review of research and literature follows. This review demonstrates Paideia’s potential to improve educational outcomes and thus help …

An Examination Of Research Agency And Its Practical Applications, Abeni El-Amin Ph.D.

Management Faculty Publications

The goal of this evaluation is to offer instructive practice on how to improve researcher agency. Indicated are how the literature review is an investigative process providing context to research studies and overall scholarship. Further, practical connection exhibits how exceptional research skills improve the body of information, structure, and quality needed to investigate global issues. Researchers provide a comprehensive analysis of phenomena to convey conceptual, theoretical, and empirical analysis of studies. Further, substantive feedback from collaborative research teams allows for corroboration and a refined final product. Likewise, the content of a research study must align to reflect objectivity and continuity. …

Improving Academic Success: Creating A College Planning Resource For Students, Hannah Grunden

Honors Projects

Academic performance of students is a major concern for colleges, especially with the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Research has shown that active involvement, the development of self-regulation skills, and improved mental health all have a considerable impact on college students’ academic success. Colleges like Bowling Green State University need to consider how they can use these factors and leverage resources to improve student performance. In this project, a solution is proposed in the form of a college/personal planner which is directly based off research on early academic success. While further, more specific research is needed to fully understand the issue and …

Environment Degradation And Security, Rasha El Gohary

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Child Labor In Egypt, Rawia Al Shater

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.