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Mcsa Forum Minutes 11/17/2025, Morris Campus Student Association

Morris Campus Student Association

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In Defense Of Racebending, Cathleen Muller

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

In an effort to diversify fictions, many creators use racebending, changing the race of a character from an original fictional work or person from history and incorporating the altered character into a new fictional work. While racebending has been used across many forms of popular media, from comics to musicals, there has been little philosophical attention devoted to it. In what follows, I attempt to fill that gap by discussing the aesthetic value of racebending, its moral value, and how it can be understood on several prominent metaphysical views.

The “I’M Too Much, Yet Never Enough” Paradox: A Critical Approach To Discourses Of Afro-Latinidad Among Second-Generation-Immigrant Women In South Florida, Eleni Victoria Webster

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2020 - Present

This study critically examines discourse and the ways it shapes identities and community belonging for self-identifying Afro-Latina, second-generation-immigrant women in South Florida. This qualitative research uses an intercultural communication framework to analyze interviews and collected poems. Informed by grounded theory and a Black feminist critical approach rooted in the intersectionality theory, the data is analyzed through comparative thematic and metaphorical rhetorical analyses. When discussing the discourses related to the development of ethno-racial identities for Afro-Latinas, certain communicative patterns of self-discovering, self-defining, and self-envisioning emerged. With regard to community belonging, three metaphorical discourses arose: not-enoughness, in-betweenness, and un-humanness. The internalization of …

Trajectory Analysis Incorporating Non-Response Weights Via A Non-Parametric Feature-Based Approach And A Bayesian Finite Mixture Model Approach, Samia Sultana

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

While conducting longitudinal population-based research, the most insight concerning a phenomenon can be achieved by analyzing the changing patterns of outcomes over time, rather than depending on overall measures that may mask significant within- and between-individual variation. Trajectory analyses address this need by grouping individuals into sub-populations with similar temporal patterns. In population surveys, dropout and wave non-response can distort estimated trajectories and their prevalence. Non-response weights, defined as the inverse probabilities of response, adjust the representation of under-represented individuals and mitigate the impact of over-represented ones, so restoring the population representativeness of the resultant patterns. Nonetheless, conventional trajectory analysis …

Development And Validation Of A Narrative-Based Personal Epistemology Scale: A Rasch-Guttman Scenario Approach, Luke Walden

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Quantitative measurement of personal epistemology has faced persistent challenges, with previous instruments often demonstrating poor psychometric functioning and instability across studies. This study introduces and provides an argument for the validity of the Epistemic Reasoning Measure (ERM), a novel scenario-based instrument utilizing the Rasch Guttman Scenario (RGS) methodology to assess absolutism and multiplism across a well-structured (biology) and an ill-structured (history) domain. A pilot sample of 350 undergraduate students and a second wave of 357 undergraduate students completed the four variants of the ERM (absolutism and multiplism for both biology and history). The psychometric properties of the scales were evaluated …

Policy Project: Creating An Animal Assisted Therapy Policy For A College Of Nursing, Brooke Peyton

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Nursing students experience high levels of academic stress, anxiety, and burnout, which can negatively impact learning, professional development, and overall health. Evidence indicates that Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) has the potential to impact stress levels, improve community connection, and enhance overall well-being among nursing students. Many academic institutions lack structured policies to guide AAT programs into educational settings. The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice project was to develop a formal AAT policy for the College of Nursing with standardized procedures to implement an AAT program. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theoretical framework was used to guide the development of the …

When Shame Leads To Silence: Leadership Style Moderates Shame, Silence, And Job Satisfaction, Andrew M. Lyman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

ABSTRACT Shame is a fundamental self-conscious emotion that shapes behavior and communication in the workplace. This study examined how shame interacts with leadership styles to influence employee silence and job satisfaction. Survey data were collected from 1,500 professionals across diverse industries, and statistical analyses were conducted to test nine hypotheses. Three hypotheses were assessed through direct linear regression while six moderation hypotheses were evaluated using moderated multiple linear regression models to capture leadership style as a contextual influence.

Findings indicated that shame significantly predicted higher levels of silence and lower levels of job satisfaction. Silence was also negatively associated with …

Force And Fallout: Experimental Evidence From A National Test Of The Community Expectations Standard, Christopher J. Marier, Conor Goodwin

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A persistent ``reasonableness divide'' exists between the legal standards governing police use of force and the public’s expectations, producing ``lawful but awful'' uses of force. This study empirically tests the ``Community Expectations Standard'' (CES), a model that identifies five criteria the public uses to evaluate force: underlying governmental interest, avoidability, officer motivation, subject resistance, and the presence of a ``highly dangerous'' environment. Using a factorial survey experiment with a national sample of nearly 2,000 U.S. adults, we analyzed responses to a hypothetical vignette depicting non-lethal force using t-tests and Bayesian linear regression models. The results show that underlying governmental interest …

Water-Based Logic: The Water Heritage Of Greater Nanning And Its Role In Urban Authenticity, Tiansheng Li

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Water heritage plays a pivotal role in establishing Greater Nanning as a central city in the upper Pearl River basin of southern China. However, this heritage has largely been overlooked due to an urban narrative dominated by land-centrism. This article explores methods to create a comprehensive understanding of the water heritage of Greater Nanning and discusses how it can be integrated into the concept of urban authenticity. It argues that both tangible and intangible water heritages are essential elements to safeguard urban authenticity and promote sustainable cultural development. This study adopts an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, combining quantitative analysis with …

Tax Trends, E. S. Linett

Tax Adviser

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درجة تضمين كتب اللغة الانكليزية السورية الصفين السابع والثامن لمؤشرات الذكاء اللغوي. The Degree Of Inclusion Of Linguistic Intelligence Indicators In The Seventh And Eighth Grade English Textbooks In Syria, سيناء مجمد ذيب الخطيب الجشي

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Education and Psychology

هدف البحث لمعرفة درجة تضمين كتب اللغة الإنكليزية الصفين السابع والثامن (كتاب الطالب وكتاب الأنشطة) في سورية لمؤشرات الذكاء اللغوي، ولتحقيق الهدف تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي من خلال أسلوب تحليل المحتوى، وتم إعداد قائمة بمؤشرات الذكاء اللغوي تبعًا للمهارات اللغوية الخمس (الاستماع، القراءة، التحدث، الكتابة، الحس اللغوي)، وأجري لها اختبارات الصدق والثبات اللازمة لضمان موثوقية الأداة.

ولتحليل النتائج اُستخدمت التكرارات والنسب المئوية واختبار كا²(x²) لحسن المطابقة، وجاءت نتائج التحليل كالآتي: أن توزع الذكاء اللغوي جاء متوازن بالنسبة لكتاب الطالب في الصف السابع، بينما لم يكن متوازن بالنسبة للصف الثامن، وبالنسبة لكتابي الأنشطة لم يظهر التحليل …

دَور معلمات رياض الأطفال الحكومية في العاصمة عمّان في دعم الكفاءة الاجتماعية لدى أطفال الروضة من وجهة نظرهن (الواقع و المعوقات و المأمول). The Role Of “Government Kindergarten” Teachers In The Capital Amman In Improving The Level Of Social Competence Kindergarten Children From Their Point Of View (Reality - Obstacles - Hopefully), رامي محمود اليوسف

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Education and Psychology

هدفت الدراسة الحالية التعرف إلى واقع دَور معلمات رياض الأطفال في دعم الكفاءة الاجتماعية لدى أطفال الروضة من وجهة نظرهن، والتعرف إلى المعوقات التي تحد من دور معلمات رياض الأطفال في دعم الكفاءة الاجتماعية لدى أطفال الروضة من وجهة نظرهن، كما وهدفت إلى تحديد الإجراءات التي تقترحها المعلمات للتغلب على تلك المعوقات، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي، حيث تكونت عينة الدراسة من (193) معلمة من المعلمات العاملات في رياض الأطفال الحكومية التابعة لمديريات التربية والتعليم في العاصمة عمّان، تم اختيارهن بالطريقة العنقودية، وقد تم استخدام الاستبانة كأداة لجمع البيانات المرتبطة بأسئلة الدراسة، حيث تكونت من ثلاثة محاور، …

الهناء الوجداني المهني لدى معلمي ومعلمات المرحلة المتوسطة في مدينة الرياض. Job-Related Affective Well-Being Among Male And Female Intermediate Stage Teachers In Riyadh, رجاء محمود مريم

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Education and Psychology

هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى قياس مستوى الهناء الوجداني المهني لدى معلمي المرحلة المتوسطة بمدينة الرياض، ذلك من خلال تطبيق مقياس الهناء الوجداني المرتبط بالعمل (JAWS) والمعد من قبل (Van Katwyk et., 2000 )، وبعد ترجمته والتحقق من خصائصه السيكومترية. جرى تطبيقه على عينة مكونة من (415) معلمًا ومعلمة. وأظهرت النتائج أن مستوى الهناء الوجداني المهني لدى المعلمين كان بوجه عام متوسطًا، حيث جاء بُعد المشاعر الإيجابية منخفضة الإثارة (HPLA) في المرتبة الأولى، يليه بُعد المشاعر الإيجابية عالية الإثارة (HPHA)، ثم المشاعر السلبية منخفضة الإثارةLPLA) )، وأخيرًا المشاعر السلبية عالية الإثارة ( LPHA). وتشير هذه النتائج إلى تمتع المعلمين بدرجة مُرضية …

صعوبات تعلم النحو لدى طلبة الجامعات الأردنيّة في ضوء الدّراسات الأدبية السابقة. Difficulties In Learning Arabic Syntax Among Jordanian University Students As Presented By Previous Related Studies University, فاطمة محمد حسن إسماعيل, منى مفضي العظامات, فراس محمود مصطفى السليتي

Association of Arab Universities Journal for Education and Psychology

هـدفت الــدّراســة إلى الكشـف عــن الصّعوبات الّـتـي تواجه الطّـلـبـة في الـجـامـعــات الأردنــيــّة عند دراسة النّحو، حـيـث تـم اتباع المــنهج الوصفي وذلك بوصف الـدّراسات والـبحـوث السّابــقـة الـّتي تتعلق بالمشكلات فــي تعلم اللّـغـة الـعـربـيـة لدى الطّـلـبـة فــي الـجـامـعــات في الأردن، وعـلـيـه قامت الــدّراســة بتحليل شامل للمحتوى ل ثلاث عشرة دراسة ذات صلة، حيث أظهرت النتائج أنّ هناك عوامل متنوعة لمشكلات متعلمي اللـّغـة الـعـربـيـّة فــي الأردن، هي :طرائق التدريس، استخدام اللغة الصفيّة، الاختبـارات، التقويـم، الكتـب، المراجـع، كفاءة المدرسـين وتدريبهم، التّقديم والتـأخير فــي النّحو، وجود فروقات بين الكفاءة والأداء اللّغوي، عدم التركيز على استخدام اللّـغـة الـعـربـيّـة أثناء التّعليم، انتشار الأنماط التي يعتقد أنها (خطأ) …

Increasing Teammate Engagement For Float Pool Teammates, Jennifer Keiser

MSN Student Capstones

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New Graduate Nurse Retention: Stay Interviews, Amanda Hill

MSN Student Capstones

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Strengthening Safety Check Compliance In Psychiatric Inpatient Care, Dixie Stamey

MSN Student Capstones

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Crow's Nest, November 16, 2025, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 16, 2025 issue of Crow's Nest.

The Effects Of Marital Status, Partner Drinking, And Sex Differences On The Likelihood Of Remission From Alcohol Use Disorder, Christina Garasky, Alexis Duncan, Fanghong Dong, Jared Balbona, Andrey Anokhin, Emma Johnson, Arpana Agrawal, Kathleen Bucholz, Vivia Mccutcheon, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

OBJECTIVE: Marriage is associated with improved health and alcohol outcomes, yet prior research has often combined diverse non-marital relationships, obscuring whether benefits are unique to marriage or a result of strong interpersonal relationships. This study examines whether marriage, compared to cohabitation, exclusive dating, or being single, is associated with alcohol use disorder (AUD) remission and whether this varies by sex and partner drinking.

METHOD: Participants were adults from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism Lifespan Study (n = 1494; 54.4% female) who met criteria for lifetime DSM-5 AUD. Multivariate logistic regression models examined the association between marital status …

Intersectional Stigma And Resilience In The Uptake Of Cervical Cancer Prevention Services In Nigeria: A Qualitative Study, Agatha Eileen Wapmuk, Titilola Abike Gbaja-Biamila, Ekenechukwu Kokelu, Juliet Iwelunmor, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of death among women in Africa, but stigma often delays cervical cancer prevention. We explore the perceptions, enablers and nurturers through the lens of intersectional stigma in the uptake of cervical cancer prevention services in Nigeria.

METHOD: Indepth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted among women aged 30-65 years and girls aged 9-26 years in Lagos, Nigeria. Data were analysed thematically. Using the relationships and expectation domain of the PEN-3 cultural model, we identified perceptions, enablers and nurturers related to the uptake of primary and secondary cervical cancer prevention services …

A Novel Consensus Considering Endo-Confidence With Double-Hierarchy Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Set And Its Application, Wanqing Li

Double Helix Methodology

Consensus in group decision-making has become a hotspot to ensure the agreement opinions of decision makers (DMs). The irrational behaviors of DMs, such as confidence, will impact the consensus results, which should be considered. In addition, the existing self-confidence level directly given by DMs rather than exacted from evaluation information may generate malicious manipulation. Furthermore, double-hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set (DHHFLTS) is an effective tool to express the complex evaluations of DMs. In this paper, the endo-confidence of DHHFLTS to reflect confidence of DMs from the perspective of evaluation information is defined. Then, we propose a novel consensus model …

Open-Source Collaboration For Industrial Software Innovation Catch-Up: A Digital–Real Integration Approach, Yuntao Long

Double Helix Methodology

In the era of digital–real integration, open-source collaboration has become a strategic pathway for accelerating the innovation catch-up of China’s industrial software. This study employs an exploratory multi-case design, focusing on the China Automotive Operating System open-source project and the FastCAE open-source domestic CAE software integrated development platform to examine how open-source strategies shape collaborative mechanisms and innovation outcomes. The analysis reveals that firms adopt both formal (behavioral and outcome coordination) and informal (relationship and empowerment coordination) strategies, fostering high-level complementary collaboration in data, technology, institution, and human resources. These mechanisms significantly enhance R&D efficiency and quality, drive technological innovation, …

Cephalopod Consciousness On “Their Own Terms”: Who Are “They”?, Willa M. Lane, Victor Ajuwon, Nicola S. Clayton

Animal Sentience

Mather’s call to consider cephalopods’ consciousness “on their own terms” raises the question of the extent to which cephalopods can be considered a homogenous group. While coloeoid cephalopods share traits that strongly distinguish them from other molluscs and invertebrates, they show vast ecological and morphological diversity, with implications for the design of empirical investigations of consciousness. Extending Mather’s argument, we apply Birch et al.’s (2020) five-dimensional model to compare octopus, cuttlefish, squid, and nautilus. This comparison shows that even within a graded rather than categorical framework, putative consciousness profiles depend on which taxa are included in discussions of “cephalopod consciousness.” …

Preventive Transparency In Third-Party Litigation Funding, Seth Katsuya Endo

Northwestern University Law Review

For years, efforts to comprehensively regulate third-party litigation funding have been unsuccessful. But bills requiring mandatory disclosure are being introduced in Congress, and the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules has finally agreed to take up the issue. By grounding the discussion of third-party litigation funding in both the broader civil procedure and professional responsibility scholarship, this Article identifies an easy, uncontroversial reform to preventively address the categorical concerns raised by the practice. The primary contribution is a doctrinal intervention, identifying how legal ethics are an integral part of federal civil procedure and then drawing out the implications for third-party litigation …

Analysis Of Libraries’ Onboarding Documentation At A Metropolitan University Consortium, Sonali Sugrim, Eric Silberberg

Urban Library Journal

This study investigates the extent to which onboarding documentation for academic librarians prioritizes long-term employee success. The authors applied content analysis to the onboarding documents from a consortium of libraries in a major metropolitan area in the United States. Study findings reveal that the onboarding documents prioritize introducing new hires to organizational structure rather than integrating them into the workplace culture. Most documents are checklists; however, some libraries provide comprehensive manuals, particularly regarding the tenure process. Notably, only half of the libraries include information about mentorship programs. Based on these findings, this study offers recommendations for improving onboarding documentation, including …

Exploring Generation Z Student Satisfaction In Radiography Programs Within A Southern State: Development And Application Of A Survey Instrument For Leadership Use, Brittany Seruntine Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation employed a sequential exploratory mixed-methods design to examine the extent to which Generation Z students in radiography programs within a southern state perceive that their needs and expectations are being fulfilled. Additionally, the study examined how program leaders perceived and plan to utilize the survey and its findings within the cycle of continuous program improvement and accreditation readiness. A Likert-scale survey instrument was constructed by cross-referencing Generation Z’s characteristics, needs, and expectations with JRCERT standards. Items were refined through target population focus groups and validated using Lawshe’s Content Validity Ratio. The validated instrument was then administered to Generation …

For The Good Times: The Influence Of Leaders' Regret On Risk-Taking Behavior In Decision-Making, Ashley Elizabeth Owen

Doctoral Dissertations

Regret is a powerful and often underexplored emotion that significantly shapes leadership decision-making, particularly in high-stakes environments where the consequences of choices have lasting impacts on individuals, organizations, and communities. The researcher utilized qualitative research to explore how various forms of regret, including anticipatory regret, self-blame regret, and existential regret, influence risk-taking behavior and decision-making processes among higher education leaders within the University of Louisiana System. Drawing upon behavioral decision theory, regret theory, prospect theory, and emotional intelligence frameworks, the study aimed to understand how leaders experience, process, and respond to the emotional dynamics of regret within complex organizational settings. …

The Potential Co-Occurrence Of Perfectionism, Food Insecurity, And Gpa With Orthorexia Nervosa Risk, Samantha Kay Gould

Master's Theses

There are indeterminate risk, prevalence, and correlation data on orthorexia nervosa (ON) as shown by current literature on disordered eating (Rodgers et al., 2021). As a roughly defined disordered eating pattern, ON may be better understood after identifying associations among other attributes in a college student sample (Abdullah et al., 2020; Mavrandrea & Gonidakis, 2023; Parra-Fernández, 2019; Rogowska et al., 2021). A cooccurrence and influence of perfectionism, food insecurity, and grade point average (GPA) with ON risk was hypothesized since current literature suggests college students exhibit each of these characteristics independently (Abdullah et al., 2020; Ambwani et al., 2019; Caferoglu …

Food Neophobia And Its Prevalence Among College Students In The United States, Joanne Mwendi Ponnappa

Master's Theses

Food neophobia “the reluctance to try unfamiliar foods” may influence diet variety and cultural food acceptance among young adults. College students represent a critical group for studying this behavior, as they are developing independent eating habits that can persist into adulthood. This study examined the prevalence of food neophobia among U.S. college students and evaluated how academic background, travel, cultural exposure, and demographic factors influence openness to trying unfamiliar foods. A cross-sectional online survey was administered via Qualtrics to 264 college students across the United States. The Food Neophobia Scale (FNS; Pliner & Hobden, 1992) was used to assess reluctance …

Navigating Undergraduate Research In The Digital Era: A Qualitative Analysis Of Faculty Digital Practices And The Visibility Of Undergraduate Research Opportunities, Danielle Rukezo, Laamiah Mansuri, Southern Mullen, Madison Millen

Undergraduate Scholarly Works

This project examines undergraduate students’ experiences with research and the ways participation in undergraduate research supports academic, professional, and personal development.