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October 1, 2026

The Breeze, 2020-

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Spartan Daily, October 20, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications Oct 2026

Spartan Daily, October 20, 2026, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2026

Volume 167, Issue 25


A Pick-The-Winner Design Framework For Two-Arm Randomized Clinical Trials, Wanni Lei, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Xi Kathy Zhou Oct 2026

A Pick-The-Winner Design Framework For Two-Arm Randomized Clinical Trials, Wanni Lei, Vernon M. Chinchilli, Xi Kathy Zhou

COBRA Preprint Series

We propose a general pick-the-winner design framework for two-arm randomized clinical trials with binary and continuous endpoints that meets prespecified type I error rate and power requirements for winner selection. Traditional two-group comparison tests often require sample sizes that are impractical in early phase trials. Existing pick-the-winner designs offer an efficient alternative but generally emphasize the probability of correct selection rather than explicit control of type I and II error rates for winner selection. Our framework comprises four components: pick-the-winner-based hypotheses, winner selection strategies, definitions of type I error rate and power for winner selection, and design calibration. It accommodates …


Book Review: Vigil: A Novel, Stephen Woodgeard Oct 2026

Book Review: Vigil: A Novel, Stephen Woodgeard

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

George Saunders’s Vigil is presented as a sharp, unsettling novel about climate ethics, corporate power, and the stories people use to excuse harm. The review argues that the book’s magical-real realist structure turns a dying oil executive’s final night into a moral reckoning, while also showing how family myth, corporate language, and public discourse shape denial. It also notes that the novel’s allegorical design can feel heavy-handed at times, but its central strength is its forceful critique of complicity and the difficulty of moral awakening.


The Use Of Google Translate In Arabic Language Learning Among Grade X Students At Mas Mutiara Aulia Medan, Mutia Rakhma Anwar, Zulfahmi Lubis Oct 2026

The Use Of Google Translate In Arabic Language Learning Among Grade X Students At Mas Mutiara Aulia Medan, Mutia Rakhma Anwar, Zulfahmi Lubis

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

This study aims to describe the use of Google Translate in Arabic language learning among Grade X students at Madrasah Aliyah Mutiara Auliya Medan, to analyze students' perceptions of its effectiveness as an assistive medium, and to examine its contribution to the development of four language skills namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This study employs a qualitative approach with a descriptive method. Data were collected through passive participatory observation, semi-structured in-depth interviews with six students and one Arabic language teacher, and documentation. Data analysis used the interactive model of Miles and Huberman, comprising data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion …


Development Of The 'Shaidul Kalimat' (Word Scavenger Hunt) Game To Improve Vocabulary Mastery, Hanafiah Nur Aqlina, Nurhidayati Nurhidayati, Moch Wahib Dariyadi Oct 2026

Development Of The 'Shaidul Kalimat' (Word Scavenger Hunt) Game To Improve Vocabulary Mastery, Hanafiah Nur Aqlina, Nurhidayati Nurhidayati, Moch Wahib Dariyadi

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

This research was motivated by the low vocabulary mastery (mufradat) of students in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah, caused by learning activities that still focus on rote memorization and the minimal use of engaging media. The purpose of this study is to develop the Shaidul Kalimat (Word Scavenger Hunt) game to improve vocabulary mastery, to describe the feasibility level of the game based on the validation results of material experts, media experts, and practitioners, and to describe the effectiveness of the Shaidul Kalimat game in enhancing students’ vocabulary mastery. This study employed the Research and Development (R&D) method using the ADDIE model, which …


Mapping The Theme Of The Undergraduate Thesis Of Arabic Language Education Students Using The Analysis Of The Linguistic Corpus Of Uin Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung, Alvian Izzul Fikri, Halimi Zuhdy Oct 2026

Mapping The Theme Of The Undergraduate Thesis Of Arabic Language Education Students Using The Analysis Of The Linguistic Corpus Of Uin Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung, Alvian Izzul Fikri, Halimi Zuhdy

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

This research aims to map the dominant themes of undergraduate theses in the Arabic Language Education Study Program at UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung from 2021 to 2024 using corpus linguistic analysis. Employing a mixed methods approach with an explanatory sequential design, the abstracts of student theses were collected from the e-thesis repository, converted to text files, and analyzed using AntConc to identify keyword frequency and thematic distribution. The quantitative findings were then interpreted through literature review to contextualize the trends. The results reveal seven major themes aligning with the official thesis writing guidelines: Instructional Design, Learning Materials, Teaching Methods, …


Development Of Reading Skill Material Using Book Creator For Eighth-Grade Students At Ma'had Al-Harby Batusangkar, Partomuan Harahap, Muhammad Yusuf Salam, Maratul Husna Oct 2026

Development Of Reading Skill Material Using Book Creator For Eighth-Grade Students At Ma'had Al-Harby Batusangkar, Partomuan Harahap, Muhammad Yusuf Salam, Maratul Husna

Al-Arabi: Journal of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

تتمثل مشكلة البحث في ضعف إتقان التلاميذ لمهارة القراءة بسبب غياب الوسائل التعليمية التفاعلية، واعتماد المدرّسين على الأساليب التقليدية كالمناقشة والسؤال والجواب. وتهدف هذه الدراسة إلى: (١) معرفة الحاجة إلى تطوير مادة مهارة القراءة باستخدام منشئ الكتاب Book Creator، (٢) تقييم صلاحية المادة المطوّرة، و(٣) قياس مدى عمليتها في الصف الثامن.اعتمدت الباحثة منهج البحث والتطوير (R&D) وفق نموذج 4D الذي يشمل: التحديد، التصميم، والتطوير. تم جمع البيانات باستخدام استمارات للتحقق من الصلاحية والعملية، وحُلِّلت كمياً بمعامل "أيكِن V"، ونوعياً بالتحليل الوصفي الكمي.أظهرت النتائج أن المادة المطوّرة باستخدام Book Creator حققت مستوى صلاحية عالياً، حيث بلغت النسبة المئوية العامة ٩٢.٥%، كما …


Constructing The Cyber Workforce Gap: Measurement And Its Consequences, Ryan Straight Oct 2026

Constructing The Cyber Workforce Gap: Measurement And Its Consequences, Ryan Straight

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Cyber workforce-gap figures steer federal strategy, industry advocacy, and the growth of educational programs. Rather than estimating the U.S. gap, this review examines how the estimates are made: through job-posting analytics, survey-based estimation, and federal accounting, each of which must assume its way from instrument to labor market. A census of this journal's complete run illustrates what those figures underwrite in one venue: of 176 items published across eleven years, 51 invoke a labor-market workforce claim, 46 treat it as settled fact, and only one, an editorial, interrogates it. Meanwhile, the producers and auditors of those figures have diverged. Between …


Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia: A Discussion, Adam Omelianchuk Phd, Ma, Clinical Ethicist, Oct 2026

Physician-Assisted Suicide And Euthanasia: A Discussion, Adam Omelianchuk Phd, Ma, Clinical Ethicist,

History of Medicine Seminar

No abstract provided.


Leading The Way: Dsws In Organizational And Social Work Leadership, Lisa A. Street, Rebecca S. Beeler Oct 2026

Leading The Way: Dsws In Organizational And Social Work Leadership, Lisa A. Street, Rebecca S. Beeler

Journal for Social Work Scholar-Practitioners

Social workers are often overlooked for positions in organizational leadership. Although social workers dominate the workforce in many human services organizations, leadership positions are commonly held by those with general management or other degrees. The lack of educational preparation and formal training in leadership and a lack of leadership presence in the field have been deemed a social work leadership crisis. Yet, social workers possess unique skillsets that can translate well into strong organizational leadership—if properly cultivated, promoted, and pursued. With the resurgence of the Doctor of Social Work (DSW) degree, now is a prime opportunity for more social workers …


Lost On The Moon: A Classroom Activity For Bringing Group Processes To Life, Christin L. Munsch, Allison Lena, Kay Sassan Oct 2026

Lost On The Moon: A Classroom Activity For Bringing Group Processes To Life, Christin L. Munsch, Allison Lena, Kay Sassan

Feminist Pedagogy

This teaching activity reviews key concepts in group processes and introduces students to Expectation States Theory (EST) and Status Characteristics Theory (SCT), two micro-sociological frameworks that explain how inequality of opportunity emerges in task-oriented small groups with consequences for unequal outcomes. The activity is built around a team-building exercise “Lost on the Moon” in which participants rank 15 survival items individually and then in small groups. We adapt this exercise by taking field notes on group interactions and drawing on these notes to facilitate a discussion in which students critically reflect on their interactions with one another. We close the …


"Two Different Histories": Lgbtq Educator Identity In An Era Of Policy Precarity In Further Education, Liberty Heath-Tavener Oct 2026

"Two Different Histories": Lgbtq Educator Identity In An Era Of Policy Precarity In Further Education, Liberty Heath-Tavener

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In Zadie Smith’s debut novel White Teeth (2000) she writes: ‘every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.’ (p. 532) Although this notion related to the struggles of global majority people in Britain after decolonisation, I liken it to the concept of identity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ) educators within further education, where their internal thoughts, feelings and reality are often in conflict with external norms, ideals and policies, all of which are geared towards heteronormativity and cisnormativity. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) argue that metaphors transcend rhetorical devices and are an essential …


The Shadows Of Wealth, David Mcclough Oct 2026

The Shadows Of Wealth, David Mcclough

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.


How The Labor Movement And Labor Strife In Northwest Ohio In The 1930s Shaped The Structure Of American Labor, David M. Savino Oct 2026

How The Labor Movement And Labor Strife In Northwest Ohio In The 1930s Shaped The Structure Of American Labor, David M. Savino

The Journal of Economics and Politics

The labor disputes of the 1930s involved more than just the traditional relationship between management and labor. In a way, these disputes were more about long-term gains and the realization of industrial labor achieving real power and influence versus gaining short-term outcomes such as wage increases and better working conditions. For over a century, craft unionism dominated the American system regarding representation, influence, and immense control over the economy, society, and the political system. At about the same time, many industrial-type unions were forming and evolving. Many of the monumental struggles of industrial and agricultural unions took place within the …


The Profitability Of Racial Diversity And Gender Balance In Modern Hollywood, M. Garrett Roth, William Mcandrew Oct 2026

The Profitability Of Racial Diversity And Gender Balance In Modern Hollywood, M. Garrett Roth, William Mcandrew

The Journal of Economics and Politics

This paper investigates the effects of racial and gender diversity in modern Hollywood. The primary objective is to determine if an objectively measurable increase in diverse casting over the last two decades has had a positive or negative impact on profits, and a secondary objective to measure diversity’s impact on critic scores. The study utilizes data focusing on the fifty most expensive films from 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, and 2023. The findings indicate that profit is neither positively nor negatively affected by diversity, whether in ethnicity or gender. However, movie critic ratings are negatively affected by ethnic diversity when using …


The Concept Of Reason In Economics: Smith And Sen Versus Neo-Classicism, Kevin Quinn Oct 2026

The Concept Of Reason In Economics: Smith And Sen Versus Neo-Classicism, Kevin Quinn

The Journal of Economics and Politics

Economics, for the most part, has adopted and promoted an instrumental and internalist view of reasons, grounding reasons in preferences. Exceptions have been few and far between, but they include, significantly, Adam Smith and Amartya Sen. Sen's idea of "counter-preferential choice," adumbrated in his brilliant article, "Rational Fools," has had almost zero influence in the profession, alas. Smith's differences with Hume on practical reason have been ignored (by economists at any rate). The idea that one can have an external reason, a reason to act counter to one's preferences, has had no purchase in our discipline.


Social Justice Fallacies, David Mcclough Oct 2026

Social Justice Fallacies, David Mcclough

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.


Green Rush: The Rise Of Medical Marijuana In The United States, Dominic Wells Oct 2026

Green Rush: The Rise Of Medical Marijuana In The United States, Dominic Wells

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.


Where’D You Go, Ohio: Progressive Ohio Ballot Initiative Passage In A Republican Aligned State, Colin D. Swearingen, Elizabeth Stiles, Barrett Scheatzle Oct 2026

Where’D You Go, Ohio: Progressive Ohio Ballot Initiative Passage In A Republican Aligned State, Colin D. Swearingen, Elizabeth Stiles, Barrett Scheatzle

The Journal of Economics and Politics

We investigate the effects of cosmopolitan and traditional county features on the opposition to three successful liberal state-wide initiatives on abortion and recreational marijuana using county-level data. Cosmopolitan/traditional variables include urban/rural living patterns, college graduates, average income and religiosity while control variables include turnout, poverty, race, region, and union support. We observe the results of these three elections to see the relationship between vote shares and factors such as income, education, rural/urban, and religiosity, controlling for other factors. Utilizing OLS and GAM regression models, our results provide support for our hypothesis that there is a relationship between cosmopolitanism and votes …


A Broken Pipeline: Women Running For Public Office In Ohio, Barbara Palmer, Liana Gonzalez, Madelyn Pyles, Christina Vitakis Oct 2026

A Broken Pipeline: Women Running For Public Office In Ohio, Barbara Palmer, Liana Gonzalez, Madelyn Pyles, Christina Vitakis

The Journal of Economics and Politics

In Ohio, where are women more – or less – likely to serve in public office? The pipeline theory suggests that we should see a pyramid shape in women’s representation, with more women at lower levels of the political career ladder, particularly in local and county-level offices, and fewer women as we move up the hierarchy. With original data for over 6500 seats, we explore the presence of women serving in legislative office at the local, state, and federal level in Ohio. Our analysis suggests that the pipeline theory does not help us understand the presence of women in elected …


21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve From The Great Inflation To Covid-19, Greg Arburn Oct 2026

21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve From The Great Inflation To Covid-19, Greg Arburn

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.


Profit Shifting And Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Us Multinational Enterprises, Dimitris Giakoulas, Kostas Gemenis, Nikolaos Daskalakis Oct 2026

Profit Shifting And Tax Avoidance: Evidence From Us Multinational Enterprises, Dimitris Giakoulas, Kostas Gemenis, Nikolaos Daskalakis

The Journal of Economics and Politics

In this paper, we investigate tax avoidance of MNEs through profit shifting to tax havens. Using macro data from US MNEs, we analyze at the host country level where US affiliates book their profits and where their actual production activities take place. We find that the effect of the corporate tax on excess profits is conditional on whether the host country is considered to be a tax haven. Among tax haven host countries, a difference of 1% in the corporate tax is associated with a change of 8-15% in excess profits, while the relationship between corporate tax and excess profits …


A Tale Of Two States: Abortion Referenda In The Aftermath Of Dobbs, Shauna Reilly, Ainsley Boggs, Tanner Freeman Oct 2026

A Tale Of Two States: Abortion Referenda In The Aftermath Of Dobbs, Shauna Reilly, Ainsley Boggs, Tanner Freeman

The Journal of Economics and Politics

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned the access to abortion that had been established with Roe v Wade. As a result, states had autonomy to make statewide policies on this issue. Some states chose complete bans, some partial bans, and others provided continuing access to abortion. This article explores the dueling referenda of 2022 and 2023 in Kentucky and Ohio, respectively, following the Dobbs decision in 2022. Voters in both states voted to continue to permit abortion access in their states, yet access in each state is different. Using case studies, we examine the political nuances and electoral aftermath …


Billion Dollar Whale, David Mcclough Oct 2026

Billion Dollar Whale, David Mcclough

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of Poverty Convergence: Evidence From Pennsylvania Counties, Angel Alcantara, Stephanie M. Brewer, James J. Jozefowicz Oct 2026

An Analysis Of Poverty Convergence: Evidence From Pennsylvania Counties, Angel Alcantara, Stephanie M. Brewer, James J. Jozefowicz

The Journal of Economics and Politics

This paper extends applications of unconditional and conditional β-convergence and σ-convergence analysis to poverty rates in a panel data sample of Pennsylvania counties during the period 1990-2019. Spatial structural breaks between rural and urban counties in Pennsylvania plus the possibility that Philadelphia County is an outlier are acknowledged to avoid spurious inferences. The findings support the existence of unconditional β-convergence in the pooled, urban, and rural samples with non-metropolitan areas exhibiting the greatest convergence. However, the largest conditional β-convergence is observed for urban counties, and this outcome is robust to the exclusion of Philadelphia County. Graphical evidence evinces a greater …


The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign And The Challenge To American Democracy, Zachary Morris Oct 2026

The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign And The Challenge To American Democracy, Zachary Morris

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.


The Political Divergence Of Ohio And Michigan, Dominic D. Wells, David J. Jackson Oct 2026

The Political Divergence Of Ohio And Michigan, Dominic D. Wells, David J. Jackson

The Journal of Economics and Politics

Ohio and Michigan are demographically similar states whose politics have diverged since 2016. This research aims to explain why these two Midwestern states have taken such different political paths in recent years. A comparative case study is used to examine a number of possible explanations. The results of this research show that institutional factors such as registration and voting laws, redistricting processes, and ballot measures have contributed to the political divergence of Ohio and Michigan. Further, data on policy preferences are compared to show that the differences between the states are not the result of different policy preferences among their …


Repeated Games In The Presence Of Incomplete Information, Reza Habibi Oct 2026

Repeated Games In The Presence Of Incomplete Information, Reza Habibi

The Journal of Economics and Politics

There are many strategic situations at which a game theoretical framework should be used to analyze the equilibrium decisions at which the incomplete information annoy the process of deriving the certain rules for making decisions. In these cases, players use signals of each other's to get proper decisions. For example, in economic environment, some macro-economic latent variables induce incomplete information. Morris and Shin (2000) referred this type of game as global game and studied one-shot type of it. However, in practical situations, it is a type of repeated game. In the current paper, following notations of Morris and Shin (2000), …


Unfinished Business, David Mcclough Oct 2026

Unfinished Business, David Mcclough

The Journal of Economics and Politics

No abstract provided.