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Geopolitics In Africa’S Great Lakes Region, Gilbert M. Khadiagala May 2025

Geopolitics In Africa’S Great Lakes Region, Gilbert M. Khadiagala

Journal of African Policy Studies

This paper examines the civil war in the Congo since the late 1990s through regional and national lenses. It contends that Congo's problems are not unique; instead, they reflect a larger phenomenon of the lack of synergy between geography and politics in the Great Lakes region. The stabilization of power in geographical spaces is the puzzle of building institutions not just in the Congo, but also among its equally weak neighbors.


Book Reviews, Okpete R. Kanu May 2025

Book Reviews, Okpete R. Kanu

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Repugnancy Test (Policy) And The Impact Of Colonially Imposed Laws On The Growth Of Nigeria’S Native Justice Systems, Nonso Okeresfoezeke May 2025

Repugnancy Test (Policy) And The Impact Of Colonially Imposed Laws On The Growth Of Nigeria’S Native Justice Systems, Nonso Okeresfoezeke

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Public Policy And Social Welfare Programs In Zimbabwe: An Evaluation Of Esap, Robert Dibie, Saliwe M. Kawewe May 2025

Public Policy And Social Welfare Programs In Zimbabwe: An Evaluation Of Esap, Robert Dibie, Saliwe M. Kawewe

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Public Policy, Domestic Politics And Foreign Policy In Africa, Kelechi A. Kalu May 2025

Public Policy, Domestic Politics And Foreign Policy In Africa, Kelechi A. Kalu

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


The Impact Of Globalization On Africa In The Twenty-First Century, Njujung Julius Bekong May 2025

The Impact Of Globalization On Africa In The Twenty-First Century, Njujung Julius Bekong

Journal of African Policy Studies

No abstract provided.


Hairy Kidneys: A Warning Sign Of A Rare Disease., Zeni Kharel, Arbab Iqbal, Prad Phatak May 2025

Hairy Kidneys: A Warning Sign Of A Rare Disease., Zeni Kharel, Arbab Iqbal, Prad Phatak

Advances in Clinical Medical Research and Healthcare Delivery

No abstract provided.


A Rare Case Of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus In An Elderly Male With An Incidental Lung Mass: A Case Report, Harshit Gupta, Rahul Singla, Mahyar Toofantabrizi May 2025

A Rare Case Of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus In An Elderly Male With An Incidental Lung Mass: A Case Report, Harshit Gupta, Rahul Singla, Mahyar Toofantabrizi

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology that affects multiple organ systems. This disease primarily affects women of childbearing age but can have severe outcomes and a rare incidence in males. The incidence of SLE in males peak at 45-60 years of age. In this case, we present a rare instance of SLE in a 70-year-old male who presented with progressive shortness of breath, generalized weakness, and weight loss. Laboratory tests revealed anemia, thrombocytopenia, increased creatinine levels, and urine proteinuria. Diagnostic imaging showed an incidental lung mass and bilateral pleural effusion, and serological investigations revealed positive …


Archaeology By The Book, But Which Book?: Archaeology And Nation Building In Germany And Israel, Verity C. Wray-Raabolle May 2025

Archaeology By The Book, But Which Book?: Archaeology And Nation Building In Germany And Israel, Verity C. Wray-Raabolle

Classical Mediterranean and Middle East Honors Projects

Archaeology is a powerful tool wielded by nations to tell their own stories. How can two countries in different situations harness archaeology to tell their own national narratives? Through investigation of the archaeological heritage of Israel and Germany, both by their individual archaeologists as well as institutions such as museums, I have discovered the different ways in which nation states can utilize archaeology to their advantage. By choosing to excavate well-known sites, only display certain artifacts, or claim modernity through the science of the discipline, each nation strengthens their national identity via archaeology and related artifacts. Individual archaeologists have more …


Hearing Caste: Dalit Resistance Through Folk Music In West Bengal, India, Antara Bhattacharyay May 2025

Hearing Caste: Dalit Resistance Through Folk Music In West Bengal, India, Antara Bhattacharyay

Music Honors Projects

Caste—a graded structure of hierarchy—has historically shaped identities in South Asia and persists to this day. In opposition, Dalits (caste-marginalized communities) have utilized diverse mediums to communicate their resistance. In this thesis, I analyze the role of music in Bengali Dalit resistance through the work of Dalit singer-songwriter Smritikana Howlader (b. 1960). Based on ethnographic research, I investigate how folk music becomes a mode of Dalit historiography. In particular, I explore how Howlader aims to transcend caste boundaries through song, evoking shared humanity. I argue that Howlader’s performances combat dominant caste discourse and Dalit erasure, furthering Bengali Dalit resistance.


Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 2025, Portland State University Faculty Senate May 2025

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 2025, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 2025 monthly packet includes the agenda, appendices, and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments given in the meeting held May 5, 2025.


Changes In Dialect Usage Across Generations In The Osaka Dialect Of Japanese, Chris Olson May 2025

Changes In Dialect Usage Across Generations In The Osaka Dialect Of Japanese, Chris Olson

Asian Languages and Cultures Honors Projects

Sociolinguistic research on Japanese regional dialects has generally found that regional dialects are assimilating to Standard Japanese, but that recently an increase in the popularity of dialects has led to reverse trends of “de-standardization” as well. This paper aims to utilize quantitative and qualitative analysis of a corpus of Osaka dialect interviews in order to observe how usage of the dialect differs across generations. The quantitative results find that some dialect features are falling out of use among younger generations, while others stay consistent, and some features are actually used more by younger speakers than middle-aged generations. The qualitative analysis …


Adding Libraries To The Equation: Mathematical Sciences’ Underutilization Of Academic Librarians, Jennifer L.C. Burke, Elizabeth C. Novosel, Daniel G. Kipnis, Rasitha R. Jayesekere May 2025

Adding Libraries To The Equation: Mathematical Sciences’ Underutilization Of Academic Librarians, Jennifer L.C. Burke, Elizabeth C. Novosel, Daniel G. Kipnis, Rasitha R. Jayesekere

Libraries Scholarship

Academic librarians do not engage with all disciplinary departments equally. Despite equal or even greater efforts, some departments are less responsive to librarian outreach. One such department is mathematics. To understand mathematics departments’ relationships with their academic librarians, three mathematics librarians created a 20-question survey that was disseminated to mathematics faculty, instructors, and instructional staff in the United States and Canada. Of the 188 survey participants, more than a third reported that they never engage with their librarians, approximately half only do so occasionally, and a mere eight percent of participants collaborated with librarians to provide information literacy instruction (IL) …


Faculty Senate Xxix 2024-2025 - May 5, 2025 Agenda, Faculty Senate May 2025

Faculty Senate Xxix 2024-2025 - May 5, 2025 Agenda, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.


Tnf-Α-Driven Changes In Polarized Egf Receptor Trafficking Facilitate Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Protein Kinase B Signaling From The Apical Surface Of Mdck Epithelial Cells, Syntyche Ngalula, Cathleen R. Carlin May 2025

Tnf-Α-Driven Changes In Polarized Egf Receptor Trafficking Facilitate Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Protein Kinase B Signaling From The Apical Surface Of Mdck Epithelial Cells, Syntyche Ngalula, Cathleen R. Carlin

Faculty Scholarship

This manuscript describes a novel unconventional secretory pathway that facilitates EGF receptor (EGFR) signaling from apical membranes in polarized epithelial cells responding to immune cell mediators. Epithelial tissues provide a physical barrier between our bodies and the external environment and share an intimate relationship with circulating and local immune cells. Our studies describe an unexpected connection between the proinflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) and EGFR typically localized to basolateral membranes in polarized epithelial cells. These two molecules sit atop complex biological networks with a long history of shared investigative interest from the vantage point of signaling pathway interactions. We …


Nonna Sorokina V. The College Of New Jersey May 2025

Nonna Sorokina V. The College Of New Jersey

2025 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


Democratic Debate: A Comparative Study Of Presidential And Parliamentary Systems In Southeast Asia, Alexander Lacourse May 2025

Democratic Debate: A Comparative Study Of Presidential And Parliamentary Systems In Southeast Asia, Alexander Lacourse

Honors Program Theses and Projects

With the rapid rise in democracies around the world, the debate over the structure of government has become increasingly relevant and more complex. The dominance of the presidential and parliamentary democratic systems has given rise to a dispute regarding public representation over governmental efficiency and vice versa. As the very essence of democracy is “rule by the people”, the effectiveness of a democratic state can theoretically be measured through factors that are conducive to the people’s ability to effectively give their opinion on political matters. These factors include the political rights that allow a person to vote and to what …


May 5 Elections, Census & Redistricting Update, Jeffrey M. Wice May 2025

May 5 Elections, Census & Redistricting Update, Jeffrey M. Wice

Elections, Census & Redistricting Updates

No abstract provided.


University Of New Hampshire 2024-2025 Faculty Senate Xxix - May 5, 2025 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate May 2025

University Of New Hampshire 2024-2025 Faculty Senate Xxix - May 5, 2025 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

No abstract provided.


Unh Faculty Senate Motion # Xxx-M1 Motion To Endorse The Shared “Statement In Support Of The Core Mission And Values Of Higher Education” With Preamble, Faculty Senate May 2025

Unh Faculty Senate Motion # Xxx-M1 Motion To Endorse The Shared “Statement In Support Of The Core Mission And Values Of Higher Education” With Preamble, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Motions

No abstract provided.


Unh Faculty Senate Motion # Xxix-M17 Constitutional Amendment For The Formation Of A New Shared Governance Committee, The University Undergraduate Education Committee (Uuec), Faculty Senate May 2025

Unh Faculty Senate Motion # Xxix-M17 Constitutional Amendment For The Formation Of A New Shared Governance Committee, The University Undergraduate Education Committee (Uuec), Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Motions

No abstract provided.


David Pryce, Iii V. Primecare Medical May 2025

David Pryce, Iii V. Primecare Medical

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Sean Burke V. Edward Bachert May 2025

Sean Burke V. Edward Bachert

2025 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania


Exploring The Benefits Of Expressive Arts Therapy With Spoonies: Building Connection In The Endometriosis Community, Samantha L. Dedian May 2025

Exploring The Benefits Of Expressive Arts Therapy With Spoonies: Building Connection In The Endometriosis Community, Samantha L. Dedian

Expressive Therapies Theses

The aim of this thesis is to explore, through expressive arts therapy and its techniques, the power of the arts to build community, dispel depression and anxiety in relation to social isolation, and combat the traumas of living with and in chronic pain; more specifically, this thesis explores the power of the arts and community to improve the mental health of those living with endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. Extensive research reveals a significant gap in the literature in relation to mental health care catered to those living with endometriosis, across continents, practices, and languages. By using theoretical frameworks from …


Practical Jokes: A Drama Therapy Process Between Comedians, Therapists, And Those Affected By Grief/Loss On The Ongoing Development Of Therapeutic Humor, Abby T. Michel May 2025

Practical Jokes: A Drama Therapy Process Between Comedians, Therapists, And Those Affected By Grief/Loss On The Ongoing Development Of Therapeutic Humor, Abby T. Michel

Expressive Therapies Theses

Previous studies on humor in therapy suggest that some types of humor are more beneficial than others. This author found humor to be an essential part of coping with the loss of her mother and wondered why humor is broken down into good and bad parts, when humor can be subjective and dependent on culture and context. Using Robert Landy’s Role Theory and Dintino’s theory of Playing with the Unplayable, the author aimed to neutralize humor by exploring the roles that humor plays in therapy and hoped to find a practical definition of humor that could be appropriate in a …


As If We Could Get Along: Dramatic Reality’S Influence On The Prosociality Of Adolescent Boys With Problematic Sexual Behavior, Joel David Bender May 2025

As If We Could Get Along: Dramatic Reality’S Influence On The Prosociality Of Adolescent Boys With Problematic Sexual Behavior, Joel David Bender

Expressive Therapies Theses

There is a strong need for novel treatment approaches for adolescents with problematic sexual behavior (PSB), considering that historically, treatment approaches for adult sex offenders have been blindly applied to youth. Adolescent boys with PSB are at risk for poor treatment outcomes when they engage in anti-social behaviors and group hostility. Dramatic reality, a core process in drama therapy, may assist in transforming the experience of boys in their capacity to exhibit prosocial behavior, given that dramatic reality inherently augments reality. This community arts workshop used purposive sampling in a day treatment center for adolescent boys with PSB and explored …


Communing With Lions: A Critical Literature Review Exploring Pan-Asian Lion Dance Traditions Through The Lens Of Expressive Arts Therapy, Sarah T. Ngo May 2025

Communing With Lions: A Critical Literature Review Exploring Pan-Asian Lion Dance Traditions Through The Lens Of Expressive Arts Therapy, Sarah T. Ngo

Expressive Therapies Theses

Lion dancing is a cultural art form practiced in numerous Asian and Asian diasporic cultures across the world. While the dance has been studied both in a historical and ethnographic manner, little research exists on its therapeutic benefits. This capstone thesis explores lion dancing through the lens of the expressive arts therapies to uncover the therapeutic factors underlying the practice. It applies the Chadian dance/movement therapy framework as well as various expressive arts therapy frameworks to the lion dance. The literature review indicates that lion dancing has the potential to be therapeutic in a number of ways, which include: 1) …


Eat The Rich? Eat The Poor: The Growing Disparity Between Corporate Greed, Ceo Pay, And Minimum Wage Stagnation, Kayla D. Ocallaghan, Uzoamaka Anakwe May 2025

Eat The Rich? Eat The Poor: The Growing Disparity Between Corporate Greed, Ceo Pay, And Minimum Wage Stagnation, Kayla D. Ocallaghan, Uzoamaka Anakwe

Honors College Theses

This paper analyzes the CEO to minimum wage compensation ratio between 2010-2023 in the United States. By assessing reported compensation of 30 certain disciplined U.S. publicly traded companies in the 2023 Fortune 500 and with total compensation for CEOs disclosed through the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings (DEF 14A), a comparative ratio and significance study adjusted for inflation occurs. While average CEO compensation remained consistent in real value, the average CEO to minimum wage compensation ratio was above 1,000:1 for a majority of the companies and over 2,000:1 for a select few by 2023. These results indicate that the …


Libby Hilsenrath V. School District Of The Chathams May 2025

Libby Hilsenrath V. School District Of The Chathams

2025 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey


Defining The Enemy Within: Examining The Case For A Federal Mechanism To Designate Domestic Terrorist Organizations In The United States, Evelyn Schneider May 2025

Defining The Enemy Within: Examining The Case For A Federal Mechanism To Designate Domestic Terrorist Organizations In The United States, Evelyn Schneider

College Honors Program

Domestic terrorist incidents are on the rise within the United States. Activities of domestic terrorism increased by 357% between 2013 and 2021. While the United States has experienced a dramatic growth in domestic terrorism from violent organizations, other countries have faced this similar problem with a different approach as they have created mechanisms to officially designate domestic terrorist organizations. In this thesis, I will answer the question: Could and should the United States create a federal proscription mechanism for domestic terrorist organizations? Chapter 2 explores whether the Proud Boys, a domestic organization within the United States, could be considered a …