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Narratives Of Reproductive Control In The American Eugenics Movement, Cassandra M. Provost

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

In this paper, I will explore the eugenics movement as a pseudo-scientific political, social, and legal phenomenon which had a devastating historical impact on America’s most vulnerable women, as well as briefly discuss its residual effects on contemporary reproductive rights conversations, through the lens of literature. Using an interdisciplinary discourse and narrative analysis approach, I identify two distinct themes within the explored narratives: (1) the importance of a government’s attempt to override a person’s autonomy by destroying the person’s ability to reproduce, and (2) the impropriety of actions based on a negative attitude toward disabled or undesirable persons. In my …

Familismo And Familial Support On The Psychological Effects Of Traumatic Event Exposure In Latinx Populations In The Midwest, Elizabeth Miller

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Embedded within Latinx culture is Familismo, which serves as a source of strength and support for family members, while also shedding light on how familial support influences mental health. This study explores how Familismo and familial support impact the psychological effects of traumatic event exposure among Latinx populations in the Midwest. Analyzing data from 80 Latinx residents, I examined the relationship between familial support, traumatic event exposure, and mental health outcomes, focusing on depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Results indicated a negative association between familial support and PTSD symptoms, indicating that higher support levels correlated with reduced PTSD …

A Dietary Variety: Analyzing The Impacts Of Diverse Vs Worm-Exclusive Diets On The Blanding’S Turtle (Emydoidea Blandingii), Caitlin F. Copenhaver

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The endangered Blanding’s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) is a species with a generally diverse diet in their freshwater wetland habitats; they consume prey such as crayfish and snails. In captivity, these options often become more limited due to logistical reasons. As ex situ conservation efforts such as captive rearing and head-starting are becoming more popular for this species, it will be important to gain more insight on how these more limited diets might affect these turtles. This study describes a comparison between diets in six captive Blanding’s turtles from September to November of 2023, with three turtles receiving only …

March 2024, Volume 20, Number 1, Winthrop University Archives And Special Collections

Retrospect: News from the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University

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The "I" Is For Inclusive: Addressing The Need To Federally Regulate Employers' Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Hiring Practices, Caitlyn Shu

Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal

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Georgia State University Law Review

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Thrust Production And Chordal Flexion Of The Flukes Of Bottlenose Dolphins Performing Tail Stands At Different Efforts, David Kramer, Maura J. Sheehan, Frank E. Fish

Biology Faculty Publications

Dolphins have become famous for their ability to perform a wide variety of athletic and acrobatic behaviors including high-speed swimming, maneuverability, porpoising and tail stands. Tail stands are a behavior where part of the body is held vertically above the water's surface, achieved through thrust produced by horizontal tail fluke oscillations. Strong, efficient propulsors are needed to generate the force required to support the dolphin's body weight, exhibiting chordwise and spanwise flexibility throughout the stroke cycle. To determine how thrust production, fluke flexibility and tail stroke kinematics vary with effort, six adult bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) were tested at three …

Internet Price, Speed, And Disparity: The Case Of Rural Healthcare Providers In The United States, Maysam Rabbani

Department of Economics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Healthcare providers (HCPs) and patients are increasingly relying on telehealth services (healthcare provision over the internet) to provide and seek care. It turns internet access disparities into a health equity concern, i.e., poor internet access can contribute to poor health. In response, two federal programs in the United States – Healthcare Connect Fund and the Telecom Program – subsidize internet access for HCPs in rural or remote areas. I use a two-part pricing approach to examine the evolution of internet speed and price for HCPs that received internet subsidies during 2014–2020. I find that HCP internet is annually getting 30.77% …

Motivators Of Circular Fashion: The Antecedents Of Chinese Consumers’ Fashion Renting Intentions, Chunmin Lang, Ruirui Zhang

Faculty Publications

This study investigates how intrinsic (i.e., shopping values, frugality, and perceived enjoyment) and extrinsic factors (i.e., perceived risks) influence Chinese consumers’ intentions regarding fashion renting. A quantitative study was conducted with data collected from a Chinese online research platform named Wenjuanxing. Data cleaning generated 322 valid samples out of 354 returned responses. Both SPSS 23.0 and Mplus 7 were used for data analysis. The hypotheses were tested through a structural equation model (SEM). The results theoretically confirm and expand the knowledge regarding what conceptual constructs impel or restrain consumers’ renting behaviors. The positive influences of frugality, perceived enjoyment, and attitude …

Unlocking The Potential Of Artificial Intelligence In Fashion Design And E-Commerce Applications: The Case Of Midjourney, Yanbo Zhang, Chuanlan Liu

Faculty Publications

The fashion industry has shown increasing interest in applying artificial intelligence (AI), yet there is a significant gap in exploring the potential of emerging diffusion-modeling-based AI image-generation systems for fashion design and commerce. Therefore, this study aims to assess the effectiveness of Midjourney, one such AI system, in both fashion design and related commerce applications. We employed the action research approach with the Functional, Expressive, and Aesthetic (FEA) Consumer Needs Model as the theoretical framework. Our research comprised three stages: refining an initial idea into well-defined textual design concepts, facilitating concept development, and validating the preceding observations and reflections by …

Experimental Evolution Under Varying Sex Ratio And Behavioral Plasticity In Response To Perceived Competitive Environment Independently Affect Calling Effort In Male Crickets, Jack T. Mckermitt, Bert Foquet, Will Kuna, John Hunt, Ben M. Sadd, Scott K. Sakaluk

Faculty Publications – Biological Sciences

The operational sex ratio (OSR) is a key component influencing the magnitude of sexual selection driving the evolution of male sexual traits, but males often also retain the ability to plastically modulate trait expression depending on the current environment. Here we employed an experimental evolution approach to determine whether the OSR affects the evolution of male calling effort in decorated crickets, a costly sexual trait, and whether plasticity in calling effort is altered by the OSR under which males have evolved. Calling effort of males from 2 selection regimes maintained at different OSRs over 18–20 generations (male vs. female biased) …

Elsevier Society Titles, Chad Metz

TMC Library Newsletter (2015-)

The TMC Library provides an additional package of Elsevier resources that cover different topics. TMC Library pays Elsevier additional fees to provide access to the following flagship publisher titles. For the complete list of titles and how to access them, check the TMC Library Blog written by Chad Metz, Electronic Resources Librarian.

Impact Of Sodium Benzoate And A High Fat Diet On Kidney Of Mice., Anna Lipinski

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

Sodium Benzoate (SB) is a commonly utilized food preservative with potential therapeutic uses for neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and hepatic encephalopathy. Consumption of SB is generally regarded as safe (GRAS), by the Food and Drug Administration, at amounts of 0.1% by weight of food. However, previous reports indicate that SB exposure may induce histological alterations in kidney structures and promote oxidative stress. Thus, with increasing obesity rates and fatty diets, the effects of SB coupled to a high fat diet (HFD) remain to be determined. This study addressed the hypothesis that SB with a HFD will increase extracellular …

Early Life Experiences As Later Life Predictors For Criminality: Examination Of Public Criminal Records., Juliana S. Bastien

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

Crime's detrimental impact on society, victims, families, and the justice system is undeniable. Thus, identifying factors that contribute to the perpetration of crime is essential to reduce the public health impact of crime. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are frequently found in community samples and are consistently associated with physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences. Research suggests that negative childhood experiences contribute to maladaptive behaviors, including delinquency and perpetration of crime later in life (Perez et al., 2018). The present study's purpose is to identify specific childhood experiences associated with criminality. The data presented on criminality and ACEs was collected from recruited …

The Nciter Newsletter March 2024, National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, And Education Center

Newsletters

NCITE (National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education) is the Department of Homeland Security's center of excellence for terrorism prevention and counterterrorism research. They are a federally funded academic consortium based in Omaha, Nebraska. Their newsletters covers the current news, activities, and updates of the center and the latest in counterterrorism research. NCITEr newsletter covers specifically center updates.

Healthful Eating Behaviors Among Couples Contribute To Lower Gestational Weight Gain, Joshua R. Sparks, Leanne M. Redman, Kimberly L. Drews, Clark R. Sims, Rebecca A. Krukowski, Aline Andres

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Through longitudinal analysis from the GLOWING cohort study, we examined the independent and joint relationships between couples’ eating behaviors and gestational weight gain (GWG). Pregnant persons (n = 218) and their non-pregnant partners (n = 157) completed an Eating Inventory. GWG was calculated as gestation weight at 36 weeks minus that at 10 weeks. General linear models were used to examine the relationships between GWG and the pregnant persons, non-pregnant partners, and couples (n = 137; mean of pregnant persons and non-pregnant partners) cognitive restraint (range 0–21), dietary disinhibition (range 0–18), and perceived hunger (range 0–14), with higher scores reflecting …

The Political Economy Of Laughter And Outrage, Genevieve Renard Painter

Dalhousie Law Journal

A bit uncomfortable. That is how it feels to be among dear friends but labelled professionally as an outsider. I have a law degree, a bar membership, and a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. I am a professor in a women’s studies department at Concordia University. At conference receptions, people respond breathlessly, “But they don’t have a law school at Concordia!?,” as though I am hearing confession in a gas station, or something as heretical. I teach legal history, international law, feminist legal theory, and constitutional law to undergraduates who are not in law school and mostly don’t want …

Making "Medical": How Psychedelics Are Becoming Legal In Canada, Agnieszka Doll

Dalhousie Law Journal

As legal restrictions loosen, psychedelic-assisted therapies are advancing at an unprecedented pace and scope in Canada and the US. Presented as a miracle cure for post-traumatic stress, depression, and other psychological disorders, psychedelics are being touted to treat post-pandemic mental health crises. In this paper, drawing on Science and Technology Studies, I ethnographically trace the ongoing process and practices involved in transforming illegal psychedelics into a regulated medicine in Canada, paying particular attention to regulatory pathways and the development of networks involved in psychedelic advocacy. Using these pathways as a methodological “sampling device,” I map the main actors, their mutual …

Access To Justice In The Nova Scotia Small Claims Court 1980-2022, William H. Charles

Dalhousie Law Journal

*This contribution has not been peer-reviewed.

In his latest research paper the author explores the extent or degree to which the Nova Scotia Small Claims Court achieves its declared purpose of providing the citizens of the province with what can accurately be described as a “People’s Court,” that is, a legal agency that would allow ordinary citizens to pursue their legal claims expeditiously and at a reasonable cost with a process that involved lawyers/adjudicators rather than judges. After a review and analysis of several thousand decisions by Nova Scotia Adjudicators/lawyers, the author concluded that the creators of the court had …

Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, And Productivity, William D. Schreckhise, John C. Pierce, Francis A. Benjamin, Nicholas P. Lovrich, Eric D. Button

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article examines the relationship between legislative civility and legislative productivity in US state legislatures. The research employs data from the National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and from the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion (SPID) database. The former dataset is used to generate an overall civility index for each state as developed by Kettler et al. The SPID database allows one to measure the legislative productivity of a state legislature. Employing these data, negative binomial and Poisson regression models reveal that state legislatures rated as more civil by their own lobbyists produced significantly more pieces of noteworthy legislation than …

Reading A Global Landscape, John Berteaux

Comparative Civilizations Review

It seems a truism that while our grasp of the world is at best inconclusive, it is attended by a pressing desire to articulate the ultimate context in which our lives are set. Here, my remarks focus on the limits of our ability to explicate that context or landscape, suggesting that any attempt to de-confuse our world will be inherently inconclusive, indeterminate, and undefined. In other words, I want to encourage a little cognitive dissonance regarding our ability to make sense of the globe.

End Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Foreword

Arbitration Law Review (2009 - Present)

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Navigating The Complexities Of Medical Student Career Choices, Chyi-Her Lin

Journal of Medical Education

The journey from medical student to practicing physician is a multifaceted odyssey-one that demands careful navigation and thoughtful mentorship to ensure that each individual finds their right place within the tapestry of healthcare. Through diligent introspection and informed guidance, the next generation of physicians can aspire not only to fulfill their dreams but also to serve as catalysts for positive change within the healthcare landscape.

Key Considerations For Writing Peer Review Comments On Research Grants And Manuscript, Ching-Feng Cheng

Journal of Medical Education

Peer review is an essential process in grant applications and scholarly publications in the academic field. The reviewing process requires careful consideration and attention to provide constructive feedback that enhances the quality of submissions. Here this perspective article delves into the essential aspect reviewers must understand when offering point-to-point comments on research proposals as well as manuscripts submitted to journals. It highlights the importance of focusing on scientific significance, novelty, and research design while also noting key differences between grant proposals and manuscript reviews. Emphasizing clarity in language and maintaining professionalism, it underscores the need for reviewers to provide constructive …

Comparison Of Medical Specialty Selection Among Physicians Graduating From Postgraduate Or Undergraduate Programs In A Medical School In Southern Taiwan, Yueh-Ren Ho, Bao-Yu Chen, Chien-Ming Li, Pei-Xian Ti

Journal of Medical Education

Background: The National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) of School of Medicine in southern Taiwan, which was founded in 1984 with only a postgraduate (PG) program until 1995. In 1992, NCKU began undergraduate (UG) program. It has recently entered into an agreement with Taiwan's Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health and Welfare to help cultivate physicians who meet various market needs, including practice regions, goals, or specialties. Research problem & purpose: We aim to compare the differences between PG and UG trained alumni in terms of specialty selection and practice location. Methods: A total of 1,089 alumni were recruited, including …

A Comparative Analysis Of Curriculum Evolution In Emergency Medicine Between For Undergraduate And Postgraduate Levels, Hsiang-Chin Hsu, Takeshi Kawaguchi, Chih-Hsien Chi, Tzu-Ching Sung, Yi-Shin Chi, Yi-Fang Tu, Hsin-I Shih

Journal of Medical Education

Aim: This study aimed to assess students' experiences and educators' perceptions to develop a suitable undergraduate emergency medicine (EM) curriculum. Methods: Conducted from 2017 to 2018 in a tertiary teaching hospital, this prospective observational study introduced a two-week compulsory EM course, which was later extended to three weeks due to Taiwan medical education changes. An anonymous questionnaire was administered to graduated students and faculty to evaluate the curriculum design for the new six-year medical education program. Results: This study summarized the current (three-week) and previous (two-week) EM training curricula. Notably, in-class course credit hours decreased, while total clinical course credit …

Empowering Pharmacy Faculty Training: Integrating Epas For Enhanced Workplace Observation And Feedback Skills, Ya-Hui Chang, Shao-Chin Chiang, Chih-Wei Yang

Journal of Medical Education

Purpose: In order to facilitate the process of workplace observation, assessment, and feedback for entrustable professional activities (EPAs), the Taiwan Society of Health System Pharmacists (TSHP) organized faculty training courses. The objective of the present study is to assess the efficacy of these training courses and evaluate their impact on clinical preceptors. Methods: We utilized self-efficacy evaluation questionnaires of EPAs to investigate the efficacy of faculty training courses and measured the reliability of entrustment decisions to explore the impact of faculty consensus training. Results: We collected 214 valid self-efficacy evaluation questionnaires from 4 faculty training courses, achieving a response rate …

Enhancing Respiratory Auscultation Skills Among Medical Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial On The Integration Of Digital Stethoscopes In Medical Education, Stella Chin-Shaw Tsai, Frank Cheau-Feng Lin

Journal of Medical Education

Background: Respiratory auscultation remains a fundamental skill in medical diagnostics, though proficiency among trainees has been reported to decline. With the advent of digital health technologies, there is potential to enhance educational outcomes in auscultation pedagogy. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of incorporating digital stethoscopes into the respiratory auscultation curriculum for medical students and to assess its impact on auscultation proficiency. Methods: In a single-center, randomized controlled trial, 84 medical students undergoing clinical clerkship rotations were allocated to either an intervention group receiving training with digital stethoscopes or a control group with traditional instruction. The intervention utilized …

Cross-Cultural Differences In Supportive Responses To Positive Event Disclosure, Lester Sim, Ka I. Ip, Esra Ascigil, Robin S. Edelstein

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Perceived reactions to sharing of good news (capitalization), can have important implications for romantic relationships. Typically, when European Americans perceive that their partners respond in an active constructive (versus passive and/or destructive,) manner, they tend to perceive their partners as more responsive and report higher relationship quality. However, cross-cultural differences in norms can influence peoples’ preference for different capitalization responses and whether different capitalization responses convey partner responsiveness. In a combined sample of European Americans, East, and South Asians (N = 915), we investigated whether links among capitalization responses, perceived partner responsiveness, and relationship quality differed by culture. People who …