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“I’M Not Gonna Be Able To Do This For Much Longer:” Perspectives Of Parochial School Principals On Their Role In Operational Vitality And The Educational Marketplace, Kris Brough

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Catholic schools have confronted a complex array of challenges, including declining enrollments, shifting demographics, and financial strains affecting all stakeholders. Establishing effective leadership has been a persistent practical hurdle, particularly in parish-based schools operating within the local-executive model. This qualitative study delved into the experiences and perspectives of parochial school principals, focusing on their leadership role in operational vitality. Additionally, it examined how these principals navigate the evolving educational landscape and respond to emerging challenges. By gathering and analyzing narratives from principals, the study shed light on issues impacting operational vitality and institutional growth and calls for further exploration within …

The Impact Of Liberia’S Post-War Public Housing Policy On Homelessness, Bofor Rahim Toh, Ii

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There is an inadequacy in strategies to address homeless and vulnerable youth “Zogos” in post-war Liberia. Homelessness among youth is a severe problem in post-war Liberia, with many sleeping in Palm Groove Cemetery and other informal housing settings in Monrovia and other parts of the country. This qualitative study explored post-war Liberia’s public housing program policy roles that professional competency and human capacity play in effectively mitigating homelessness of youth in Monrovia. Glasser’s choice theory was the theoretical framework used for this study. The research question explored how human capacity, selection eligibility, and professional competency at the National Housing Authority …

Pulmonary Osteoclast-Like Cells In Silica Induced Pulmonary Fibrosis, Yoshihiro Hasegawa, Steven L Teitelbaum, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The pathophysiology of silicosis is poorly understood, limiting development of therapies for those who have been exposed to the respirable particle. We explored mechanisms of silica-induced pulmonary fibrosis in human lung samples collected from patients with occupational exposure to silica and in a longitudinal mouse model of silicosis using multiple modalities including whole-lung single-cell RNA sequencing and histological, biochemical, and physiologic assessments. In addition to pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis, intratracheal silica challenge induced osteoclast-like differentiation of alveolar macrophages and recruited monocytes, driven by induction of the osteoclastogenic cytokine, receptor activator of nuclear factor κΒ ligand (RANKL) in pulmonary lymphocytes, and …

Monoallelic De Novo Ajap1 Loss-Of-Function Variants Disrupt Trans-Synaptic Control Of Neurotransmitter Release, Vita Sereikaite, Li-Yuan Chen, Diego Fernandez-Fernandez, Pascal D Rem, Daniel Ulrich, Jochen Schwenk, Ziyang Chen, Elodie Le Monnier, Thorsten Fritzius, Sabrina M Innocenti, Valérie Besseyrias, Luca Trovò, Michal Stawarski, Emanuela Argilli, Elliott H Sherr, Bregje Van Bon, Erik-Jan Kamsteeg, Maria Iascone, Alba Pilotta, Maria R Cutrì, Mahshid S Azamian, Andrés Hernández-García, Seema R Lalani, Jill A Rosenfeld, Xiaonan Zhao, Tiphanie P Vogel, Herda Ona, Daryl A Scott, Peter Scheiffele, Kristian Strømgaard, Mehdi Tafti, Martin Gassmann, Bernd Fakler, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Bernhard Bettler

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Adherens junction–associated protein 1 (AJAP1) has been implicated in brain diseases; however, a pathogenic mechanism has not been identified. AJAP1 is widely expressed in neurons and binds to γ-aminobutyric acid type B receptors (GBRs), which inhibit neurotransmitter release at most synapses in the brain. Here, we show that AJAP1 is selectively expressed in dendrites and trans-synaptically recruits GBRs to presynaptic sites of neurons expressing AJAP1. We have identified several monoallelic AJAP1 variants in individuals with epilepsy and/or neurodevelopmental disorders. Specifically, we show that the variant p.(W183C) lacks binding to GBRs, resulting in the inability to recruit them. Ultrastructural analysis revealed …

An Evaluation Of Marginalized Student-Athlete Mental Health, Access To And Utilization Of Support Services, Ashley Boles

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

NCAA student-athletes (SAs) face unique challenges as they simultaneously navigate sports, adulthood, and academic demands. Research indicates that SAs experience mental health issues at rates similar to or higher than their non-athlete peers, yet they are often less likely to seek help as they experience possible contributing factors including lack of knowledge on how and where to seek services, and stigma, which can both discourage service utilization. This study examined the mental health concerns of 145 NCAA SAs, focusing on the impact of biopsychosocial (BPS) factors influenced by division, injury, and marginalization status. Using Engel’s BPS framework, which considers biological, …

Enhancing Content, Pedagogy, And Student Achievement: An Examination Of Professional Development Through The Lens Of Middle School Social Studies Teachers, Presley Shilling

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This study aimed to investigate middle school social studies teachers’ perceptions of professional development and its relation to the teacher's knowledge of the subject, teaching methods, and improving student outcomes. The primary questions addressed in this study focused on middle school social studies teachers perceptions of current professional development offerings, content-knowledge, pedagogy, and student achievement. The participants of this study included nine middle school social studies teachers selected through nonrandom purposeful sampling. A qualitative case study method, utilizing semi-structured interviews, investigated four research questions: (a) What are middle school social studies teachers' perceptions of professional development? (b) What are middle …

Two Essays On Auditor Ostracism And Authenticity, Kehinde Mayokun Ogunade

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The first essay investigates whether auditor race and voice have an impact on perceived ostracism. Drawing on social identity theory, I hypothesize that race and auditor voice could lead to feelings of ostracism and that authenticity will moderate the relationship between auditor race, voice, and ostracism. Using a 2×2 between-subject design, my findings indicate that auditor race does not have a significant impact on feelings of ostracism, whereas auditors feel more ostracized if they do not speak up. Additional analysis using the Hayes process model finds that authenticity moderates the relationship between auditor race and ostracism, even though race does …

Essays On Health, Labor, And Development Economics, Md Mohsan Khudri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In the first essay, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I estimate the impact of breastfeeding initiation and duration on multiple cognitive, health, and behavioral outcomes spanning early childhood through adolescence. To mitigate the potential bias, I employ a doubly robust (DR) estimation method, addressing misspecification in either the treatment or outcome models while adjusting for selection effects. My novel approach is to use and evaluate a battery of supervised machine learning (ML) algorithms to improve propensity score (PS) estimates. I demonstrate that the gradient boosting machine algorithm removes bias more effectively and minimizes other prediction errors …

Essays In Empirical Finance And Fintech, Nirmol Chandra Das

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Chapter 1 sheds light on how vote trading affects voting outcome. Decentralized autonomous organization design implies that stakeholders vote to express their individual opinions. Nonetheless, this design is disrupted by vote trading. We take advantage of the blockchain data transparency and explore how vote trading affects voting outcome. Our findings indicate that vote trading facilitates the decision-making by better informed stakeholders. Specifically, informed stakeholders use purchased votes to signal the quality of their contributions to the platform and thereby attract the non-purchased votes of uninformed stakeholders. Vote buying typically attracts 51% more non-purchased votes, and the reputation of vote buying …

A Study Of Bozza's Eighteen Etudes In The Form Of Improvisation For Horn And New Preparatory Etudes On The Works Of Bozza, James Austin Currence

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This document serves as an analysis of Eugene Bozza's Dix-Huit Études en Forme d'Improvisation pour Cor (1961), translated to Eighteen Etudes in the Form of Improvisation for Horn for the purposes of this document. I found and documented all motifs within the eighteen etudes, and categorized connections between them and Bozza's compositional ouerve as displayed in Dr. Lois Kuyper-Rushing's A Thematic Index of the Works of Bozza. My research takes inspiration from Dr. Kuyper-Rushing's work as well as Dr. Hsing-Fang Liu's research involving Bozza's use of “Adoptive Transcription”, or taking old melodies from previous works and using them in new …

The Imposter Phenomenon In Graduate Students: A Social Constructionist Perspective Using Narrative Inquiry, Colin Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

A narrative inquiry study explored six graduate students’ experiences of "imposter syndrome” during their graduate studies. Semi-structured interviews occurred with each participant at two time points: one initial interview and a follow-up interview to discuss the impact of the initial interview and to perform member checking. Each interview was analyzed individually to create summative narrative of their unique experiences of imposter feelings. Interviews were also analyzed on a study-wide level to explore common threads of the “imposter syndrome” in graduate school. Results suggested imposter feelings in graduate students were related to the ability to discuss imposter feelings with others, program …

A Historical, Rhetorical And Prescriptive Analysis Of The Iconic Black Eulogy As Prophetic Rhetoric, Pierre Louis Vincent

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

While the rhetorical structure of the Black eulogy is rooted in the Aristotelian genre of eulogy in the Greek tradition, it continues to develop beyond that tradition in response to American socio-cultural exigencies that shape it. The Black eulogy has matured rhetorically through the hardships of slavery, structural oppression, and institutionalized violence to develop a prophetic rhetorical path to succor and give hope to a community weary from the diurnal inequities of oppression made palpable at the death of African American icons. Using a close reading, this study establishes the Black eulogy’s rhetorical foundation in the Aristotelian rhetorical genre, while …

Experiences Of Black Males With Generalized Anxiety Disorder During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Cynthia Lynn Williams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This qualitative research dissertation involved exploring the intersection of race, gender, and mental health via lived experiences of Black males who were diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide a comprehensive understanding of how the unique sociocultural context of the pandemic influenced their experiences with anxiety. Using a qualitative Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis research design and semi-structured interviews with a diverse sample of seven Black males living in various regions of the United States the interviews involved their personal experiences, coping mechanisms, and perceptions of societal and systemic factors that affected their mental health during the pandemic. …

A Dream Deferred: Communism, Secession, And The Decline Of Hardrock Unionism, Dominic Alexander Treadwell

History ETDs

This thesis examines how the changing conditions after World War II impacted organized labor, focusing on secession movements within the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Secessions in Connecticut and Alabama and the differing responses by the CIO Executive Board highlight how external pressures from postwar dynamics and increasing anticommunism undermined the left-liberal alliance in the Congress of Industrial Organizations. World War II increased labor’s reliance on government mediation, reducing the effectiveness of militant strategies. Following the war, assertive capital, restrictive labor legislation, the Cold War, and the rise in anti-Communism exacerbated tensions in the CIO, leading to …

Diagnostic Evaluation Of Palpitations In Obstetric Triage, Annslee J. Lowe, Anna Shields

InterProfessional Education Research and Scholarship

Palpitations are a common reason for pregnant patients to pursue medical evaluation. The range of etiologies that can contribute to palpitations is broad and includes life-threatening causes, while the physiologic changes in systemic hemodynamics that occur in pregnancy add further complexity to medical decision making in obstetric (OB) triage. While the literature suggests that diagnostic evaluation of palpitations in pregnant patients does not meaningfully differ from that of non-pregnant patients, many OB triage providers experience uncertainty in working up palpitations in pregnancy. Within University of New Mexico Hospital (UNMH) OB Triage, underlying causes for uncertainty were assessed and found to …

Sand, Ice, And X-Rays: Developing Xct Methods For Frozen Samples And Refining Siliciclastic Facies Models For Perennially Ice-Covered Lakes, Utilizing Cores From Lake Fryxell, Mcmurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, Holly M. Levett

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Sedimentation in perennially ice-covered lakes (PICLs) is proposed to be bi-modal, with mud deposited by stream inflow and sand deposited on the ice cover by aeolian processes and then melting through by absorption of solar radiation. Here, we consider Lake Fryxell, a PICL in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, and several lake bed cores about 30 cm in length, to better understand PICL facies through time, using micro X-ray CT (XCT). Using XCT images along with sieve and laser granulometry data, we constrained the grain-size of PICL deposits to dominantly medium / fine sand with a coarse component. The presence of …

Diagnostic Evaluation Of Dizziness In Obstetric Triage, Annslee J. Lowe, Anna Shields

InterProfessional Education Research and Scholarship

Dizziness is a non-specific term used to describe various sensations of spinning, disequilibrium, imbalance, or near-syncope. The differential diagnosis for this symptom is rather extensive and includes potentially dangerous etiologies, which contributes to the significance of diagnostic evaluation. Dizziness is a frequent concern prompting pregnant patients to seek medical care, and the hemodynamic changes that occur in pregnancy further complicate clinical assessment in obstetric (OB) triage. While often familiar with dizziness as a symptom of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, many OB triage providers experience uncertainty in working up other causes of dizziness. Root causes for uncertainty and the potential for …

A Rehabilitation Of The Body As Home: Reconstructing Young’S Feminist Phenomenology, Amanda Nicole C. Collantes

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

This essay investigates Iris Marion Young’s account of female bodily experience and reconstructs her feminist phenomenology with the aim of reinterpreting and enriching the tradition of embodiment using feminist critique. It offers a clearer, more cohesive reconstruction of Young’s phenomenology by referencing three essays where she considers a particular aspect of women’s lived bodily experiences. It considers three recurring themes that appear in and are developed in the three main essays by Young referred to throughout the study. It presents personal, lived experience as political, thus encouraging social cooperation and women’s solidarity through collective meaning-making and a recovery of our …

Immanuel Kant’S Transcendental Idealism: On The Possibility Of Freedom In A Deterministic World, Anamarie R. Avecilla

Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture

Freedom is a central question in Philosophy. It has always been asked: How do determinism and freedom cohere in a human being? How can the fact that humans exist and undertake life projects in a thoroughgoingly deterministic world be reconciled with the claim that human acts remain free and efficacious? This work explores the problem of freedom and determinism using Kant’s answer in the Third Antinomy in the Kritik der reinen Vernunft, and using Transcendental Idealism as epistemological framework for a possible resolution to this problem. If one could assume with Kant that what we know are not things in …

Incivility In Accelerated Bachelor Of Science In Nursing Programs Post-Covid-19: A Faculty Perspective, Kimberly A. Burrows

Doctor of Education Program Dissertations

This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of nursing faculty who taught in accelerated Bachelor of Science in nursing (ABSN) programs and their perceptions of incivility in nursing programs, particularly in the aftermath of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) restrictions. This researcher defined incivility as rude, discourteous, disruptive, or threatening speech or action within the nursing academic environment. Drawing upon the literature highlighting the existence of incivility in nursing programs, this researcher aimed to understand faculty perceptions following the pandemic. The data was collected through eight semi-structured interviews with eight nursing faculty members in New Jersey-based hybrid and in-person …

Implicit Bias And Least Restrictive Environment: Perceptions Of Certified Educators, Christen Papallo

Doctor of Education Program Dissertations

This narrative inquiry study explored the lived experiences of Connecticut’s certified educators related to implicit bias and student placement. The theory of intersectionality suggests that implicit bias is present within all individuals (Crenshaw, 2017). Thus, there is a natural propensity for implicit bias, specific to ability, among school personnel. The problem to be addressed is the need for a greater understanding of how the natural existence

of implicit bias among certified educators impacts their view of student capabilities and

achievement, thus impacting placement decisions in the classroom. Eight participants completed individual, semi-structured interviews, which were transcribed, re-storied and member checked. …

It's Your Law (Charles P. Curtis, 1954), John R. Starrs

Florida Law Review

No abstract provided.

French Foreign Policy In The Middle East During President Macron's First Term: Researcher's Curriculum Vitae, Eman Safouri

Jordan Journal of Applied Science-Humanities Series

The Middle East plays a crucial role in France's foreign policy. This study examines France's approach to the Middle East during Macron's first term, aiming to uncover the motives behind Macron's policies in the region and how he manages them. The significance of the study lies in analyzing how France maintains a traditional balancing approach with international actors. The hypothesis is that France adopts a traditional and reassuring approach and has close relations with Middle Eastern powers, assisting the president in achieving his goals. The study raises several questions, including how Macron's foreign policy in the Middle East has evolved …

Vol.51 N.51 July 11th 2024, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Inclusion4eu: Towards A Framework Of Inclusive Software Design Processes And Practices, Damian Gordon, Andrea Curley, Emma Murphy, John Gilligan, Anna Becevel, Dympna O'Sullivan

Articles

This research is based on a trans-European research project aimed at enhancing software design and engineering practices to promote inclusivity, involving stakeholders from academia, industry, and disability advocacy services. To explore the nature and meaning of inclusion, a number of different approaches to inclusion are outlined, including models of equitable design (Accessible Design, Inclusive Design, Universal Design, and Design for All), User Design processes (Co-Production, Co-Creation, User-Centred Design, Co-Design, and Participatory Design), and Software Engineering Methodologies (Linear, Spiral, and Agile). These three categories of models are combined to form a three-dimensional environment in which software development projects can be mapped …

A Hodrick-Prescott Filter With Automatically Selected Jumps, Paolo Maranzano, Matteo M. Pelagatti

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

The Hodrick-Prescott filter is a popular tool in macroeconomics for decomposing a time series into a smooth trend and a business cycle component. The last few years have witnessed global events, such as the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, that have had abrupt structural impacts on many economic time series.Moreover, new regulations and policy changes generally lead to similar behaviours. Thus, those events should be absorbed by the trend component of the trend-cycle decomposition, but the Hodrick-Prescott filter does not allow for jumps. We propose a modification of the Hodrick-Prescott filter that contemplates jumps …

Anastasios Smalis V. Home Depot Usa Inc

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Inter-Kingdom Communication And The Sympoietic Way Of Life, Scott F. Gilbert

Biology Faculty Works

Organisms are now seen as holobionts, consortia of several species that interact metabolically such that they sustain and scaffold each other’s existence and propagation. Sympoiesis, the development of the symbiotic relationships that form holobionts, is critical for our understanding the origins and maintenance of biodiversity. Rather than being the read-out of a single genome, development has been found to be sympoietic, based on multigenomic interactions between zygote-derived cells and symbiotic microbes. These symbiotic and sympoietic interactions are predicated on the ability of cells from different kingdoms of life (e.g., bacteria and animals) to communicate with one another and to have …

The Use Of Preprints In Doctorate Programs: A Citation Analysis Study Of Trends In Chemistry And Physics Dissertations, Amanda Mccormick, Elizabeth Brown, Kathleen Flynn, Clara Tran

Law Librarian Journal Articles

Preprint articles are available on servers, such as arXiv and ChemRxiv, at no-cost to benefit the movement toward open access of research. However, the use of preprint research articles as a reference source in academia is not heavily documented. To examine if researchers are utilizing preprint articles, this paper examines citation trends in the dissertations of chemistry and physics PhD candidates who studied at four University Centers in the State University Of New York system (SUNY). Using citation analysis methodology, references cited in PhD dissertations published between 2018–2021 were analyzed. Key findings showed that PhD candidate authors cited preprint articles …

Ralph Johnson V. The National Collegiate Athletic Association

2024 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania