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The 'Land Of Opportunity' Or The Land That Makes Us The Opportunity: An Examination Of Latinx For-Profit Choice Within The Central San Joaquin Valley, Joe A. Vasquez

Doctoral Dissertations

The San Joaquin Valley in Central California is known as an abundant agricultural epicenter with an extensive history of farming, migration, and political movements. Though this geography holds a rich representation of agricultural economy, it is also the site of major inequalities and underrepresentation, especially with regard to post-secondary education within its overrepresented Latinx population. Further amplifying the inequalities around post-secondary education and Latinx’s is the increasing occurrence of post-secondary enrollment into for-profit institutions by this population. Inequities associated with for-profit enrollment, such as high student loan debt and lack of career attainment, further stratify this geography classified as being …

Evaluation Of Soybean Genotypes For Root Morphology, Hardpan Penetrability, Water Use Efficiency, And Yield, Harrison Gregory Fried

All Theses

Drought stress has been identified as the major environmental factor limiting soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) yield in the United States and other parts of the world. Water use efficiency (WUE) that results in greater yield per unit of rainfall is an important parameter in determining crop yields in rain-fed production systems, and is often related with crop drought tolerance. Even though roots are major plant organs that perceive and respond to drought stress, their utility in improving soybean yield and WUE under different environmental and management conditions are largely unclear. The objectives of this research were to evaluate …

Vulnerability Of Tri-Colored Bats (Perimyotis Subflavus) To White-Nose Syndrome In The Southeastern United States, Pallavi Sirajuddin

All Theses

Tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) have experienced significant population declines in the southeastern United States due to white-nose syndrome (WNS). The lack of information on the torpor patterns and winter activity in conjunction with the rapid decline from the disease has led to an increased effort in researching the hibernation physiology and wintering activity of P. subflavus and their response to WNS in southern hibernacula. To address this growing concern, we used temperature sensitive radio transmitters to examine torpor patterns in three geographically distinct states and acoustic detectors to monitor bat activity within a WNS-positive hibernaculum. Our specific objectives …

Knowledge Of Mental Health Disorders And Resources By Military Personnel, Savanna Taylor

All Theses

With more soldiers returning home to the United States than any war era before, there is a need for research to understand military personnel’s mental health and how they use resources, like the Veteran’s Affairs and non-profit organizations. This study serves to further our understanding about service members’ knowledge on this subject. This study adds to the literature by conducting semi-structured interviews with 15 service members who had deployed on either United States military bases or ships, or peace-keeping missions, overseas after 9/11. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and thoroughly analyzed using a narrative approach. Five important themes emerged from …

Panel Discussion: Oer: Lessons Learned, Jessica Bastian, Dave Braunshweig, Anne Chernaik, Raymond Lawson, Christine Monnier, Ali O'Brien, Page Wolf

Illinois Community Colleges OER Summit

No abstract provided.

Scaling Oer For Impact, Nicole Finkbeiner

Illinois Community Colleges OER Summit

Nicole discussed what Rice University has learned about creating OER that impacts over 2.2 million students per year and how to create an effective institutional initiative that increases OER use by an average of 150% per year while still protecting academic freedom.

Terrence Chong, Ed. Pentecostal Megachurches In Southeast Asia: Negotiating Class, Consumption And The Nation. Singapore: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018, 243 Pp., Ia Denise Arnette Marañon

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Excerpt: When the term “megachurch” is employed in works regarding the sociology of religion, the discussion typically revolves around the church’s efficient growth. This growth-centric perspective is often explored at length when considering the contributions of the megachurch as a method of organization for typically Christian churches. However, in understanding the megachurch, much more needs to be examined. Edited by Terence Chong, the Pentecostal Megachurches in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Class, Consumption and the Nation ingeniously characterizes the megachurch. Chong together with the contributors to this book captured a distinct scholarly gap in understanding the megachurch.

Albert Tzeng, William L. Richter And Ekaterina Koldunova, Eds. Framing Asian Studies: Geopolitics And Institutions. Singapore: Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018, 289 Pp., Hansley Juliano

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Excerpt: To presume to write the history of an entire discipline—particularly one as massive as Asian Studies—would be rightfully characterized as ambitious (if not even presumptuous). If only because of the real challenges Asia as a subject of study itself poses, attempting to characterize Asia by a “unifying” logic tends to be a frustrating (if not ultimately misguided) exercise. Hence, it is quite normal for books about the field of Asian Studies to specialize and segment specifically on which region of Asia the contributors to a volume focus on—if only to facilitate the multiplicity of questions and possible discursive concerns …

The Las Vegas Rescue Mission, Shyla Ann Mariano

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The Las Vegas Rescue Mission invests in many relationships and expresses enough concern with root causes of poverty and hunger (Morton 21). LVRM provides many supportive services and strengthens their bonds with the people. In particular, the coordinators and workers would serve enjoyable food for anyone to eat and communicate with the people.

The Ethics Of Play And Participation In A Tween Virtual World: Cheating Practices And Perspectives In The Whyville Community, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, Estee Ellis

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Much attention has been paid to young people’s increased participation in digital publics and its potential impact on their development and learning. However, few studies have examined the ethics in online play and their interactions as a critical aspect in the development of youth digital culture. In this paper we turn to the issue of cheating, a widely accepted practice in many online communities, including Whyville.net, a virtual world with over 5.5 million registered players ages 8-16. Our analyses focused on culturally-relevant examples such as player-written articles on cheating and player-produced YouTube cheating videos associated with Whyville from 2000 to …

Sexual Harassment In N.H. Workplace, Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Women Empowerment Or Disempowerment?: A Case Study Of A Social Microfinance’S Activities And Gender Relations In Rizal Province, Héritier Raphaël Mesa

Social Transformations Journal of the Global South

Women’s empowerment has been at the center of the development discourse as one of the eight declared Millennium Development Goals. To date, an increasing number of development organizations are focusing on helping poor women achieve economic sustainability, and social enterprise in its microfinance scheme is playing a leading role in providing women with needed capabilities to increase their agency in the development process. The success of microfinance in empowering women today has been a debatable subject in the economic and development realms, thus leading to a need to reassess some of the microfinance claims. How does it really empower women? …

Deviancy, Dependency, And Disability: The Forgotten History Of Eugenics And Mass Incarceration, Laura I. Appleman

Duke Law Journal

Three widely discussed explanations of the punitive carceral state are racism, harsh drug laws, and prosecutorial overreach. These three narratives, however, only partially explain how our correctional system expanded to its current overcrowded state. Neglected in our discussion of mass incarceration is our largely forgotten history of the long-term, wholesale institutionalization of the disabled. This form of mass detention, motivated by a continuing application of eugenics and persistent class-based discrimination, is an important part of our history of imprisonment, one that has shaped key contours of our current supersized correctional system. Only by fully exploring this forgotten narrative of long-term …

Social Media Big Data Integration: A New Approach Based On Calibration, L Dalla Valle, Ron Kenett

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Geographic Information Systems For Display Of University Of Calabar Use Statistics And Functional Areas., Obia Inyang

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

ABSTRACT.

The purpose of this study is to present University of Calabar statistics and functional areas using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The process of using a GIS is faceted and involves different methods of presentation. Being that University of Calabar Library has not yet been geo-mapped, author traced in-use statistics in the different divisions for a 3-years period especially to show that the library, in whatever format is useful for Information services. The summed in –use statistics gave a total data for study in all the functional areas. Analysis was presented using three different types of GIS charts------ Lines with …

Undergraduates’ Preference Between Web Search Engines And Reference Sources For Research Activities In Two Universities In South West Nigeria, Olawale Oyewole, Gabriel 'Bunmi Alegbeleye Prof.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The development of web search engines has provided an alternative for undergraduates to access the needed information for their research activities without utilising library resources, especially reference sources. This avenue created by web search engines is viewed by some as detrimental, as undergraduates now display apathy towards the use of reference sources, even though web search engines have their own limitations. Based on this, the main objective of this study was therefore to examine undergraduates’ preference between web search engines and reference sources for research activities. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and the study population consisted of …

Looking Past The Images: Art And Film As Propaganda Apparatuses, Alexander Schumm

Theses

This paper aims to show that art and film can operate as propaganda in subtle and unintentional ways. Jacques Ellul called such propaganda “sociological propaganda.” Recent work in philosophy has relied on the notion of intention in defining how propaganda works to affect the beliefs and attitudes of its recipients. This paper argues that intention is not a necessary condition for messages to be propagandistic and works to decouple propaganda from intention. Because our current models rely on intention in defining propaganda, recent work in philosophy cannot account for sociological propaganda. Ellul’s gestures toward defining propaganda explicitly feature intention as …

Review Of Judith A. Merkle, Beyond Our Lights And Shadows: Charism And Institution In The Church, Daniel P. Rhodes

Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Cox Cofacilitates Workshop For Women And Crime Professional Development Series, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 108 [109], No. 13 (Nov. 29, 2018), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 108, but it is the 109th volume in the series.

Keep Your Distance: People Sit Farther Away From A Man With Schizophrenia Versus Diabetes, Ryan Thibodeau, Heather M. Principino

Psychology Faculty/Staff Publications

Although concrete behavior—such as avoidance, discrimination, rejection—is foundational to most definitions of stigma, knowledge of psychiatric stigma has been constructed mostly on the basis of measurement of self-reported attitudes, beliefs, and feelings. To help fill this gap, the current study examined avoidance behavior in psychiatric stigma. That is, we predicted that people would seek more physical distance from a man with a psychiatric problem than a man with a medical problem. One hundred fourteen undergraduates expected to meet a man with either Type II diabetes or schizophrenia. After completing several measures of self-reported stigma, participants eventually moved to an adjacent …

Segregation Academies Then And School Choice Configurations Today In Deep South States, Marilyn Grady, Sharon C. Hoffman

Contemporary Issues in Educational Leadership

In the following article, we present a brief historical review of segregation academies and their impact on students and public schools. Based on the review, we provide a portrait of the vestiges of segregation academies that appear to be currently re-emerging in different educational configurations throughout the U.S. and particularly in Deep South states.

The purpose of a historical study is to provide a descriptive overview of specific social problems confined within a predetermined timeframe (Danto, 2008). This historical review’s purpose was to address the following inquiry: What were the characteristics of Deep South segregation academies designed to circumvent Brown …

New Book Examines What Happens When Modern Families Meet Old Age, Matt Windsor

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Seven Factors That Influence The Effectiveness Of International Development, Jaylyn Perry

Senior Honors Theses

This literature review analyzes the global issue of poverty and the various factors that are influencing the ability of nations to effectively achieve development. The many interpretations of what development is, as well as the categories and forms of poverty, are examined to show the scope of the issue. Seven factors: politics, economics, institutions, culture, geography, aid, and globalization are explored as to their impact on the effectiveness of development around the world. The review of the literature found that effective development is influenced by each one of these factors and it is necessary to consider them when planning and …

Volunteering With Project 150, Eric Gonzalez

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Student homelessness is a large problem, as the students’ financial hardships heavily affect their education. This ultimately ruins several opportunities that the average student usually has such as going to college or pursuing a career. Without their education, they are less likely to get out of their predicament. They also more likely to be exposed to dangerous activities, such as crimes and sex trafficking

Light The Hope Of Reading, Yingying Meng

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Spread the Word Nevada’s mission is dedicated to advancing childhood literacy within low-income communities by changing lives one book at a time.

Dash - Delivering & Serving Hope, Sayeda Zaidi

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

The mission of DASH is to help poor and homeless people by serving them free food. By making, packing, and delivering meals, students get to interact with poor people and get a glimpse of the plight of disenfranchised populations.

Spread The Word Nevada, Langyue Zhong

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Spread the Word Nevada makes sure every child in elementary school has books at home, so they could read and share books with their families and friends.

Applying Task Force Recommendations On Integrating Science And Practice In Health Service Psychology Education, Timothy P. Melchert, Sharon Berry, Catherine Grus, Prerna Arora, Andres De Los Reyes, Tammy L. Hughes, Bruce Eugene Moyer, Jennifer Moye, Frederick L. Oswald, Ronald H. Rozensky

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

The proper role of research skills and training to conduct research in professional psychology education has been controversial throughout the history of the field. An extensive effort was undertaken recently to address that issue and identify ways the field might move forward in a more unified manner. In 2015, the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Educational Affairs convened a task force to address one of the recommendations made by the Health Service Psychology Education Collaborative in 2013. That recommendation stated that the education and training of health service psychologists (HSPs) include an integrative approach to science and practice that …

Feeding The Homeless, Doralee Nunez-Escamilla

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada begun its concept in 1941 by Bishop Thomas K. Gorman. Decades later, it has formed into one of the largest, private, nonprofit, social service in the sate. They offer tons of services, helping those from infants to seniors.