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Fathers' Parental Role When Living With Their Children In A Homeless Shelter Environment, Nebiyou Bekuretsion Tesfaye

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Homelessness for families is complex and considered an “invisible” type of homelessness, as society often believes that only individuals experience homelessness. Fathers who are homeless and live in shelters may be unable to fulfill the needs of their families and experience issues related to their parenting skills/relationships with their children due to rules/regulations of shelters. The problem addressed in this study was the inability of fathers who live in a shelter with their families to effectively parent their children due to the rules, regulations, and influences of others in family homeless shelters. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was …

Perspectives Of Middle School Math Teachers Implementing Digital Game-Based Learning For Students With Learning Disabilities, Kehinde Omobolade Obadina

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Although teachers are increasingly expected to integrate digital technologies into classroom instruction, research showed that many lack the pedagogical and conceptual foundations needed to implement digital game-based learning (DGBL) effectively. There was limited research on middle school math teachers’ perspectives of implementing DGBL for students with learning disabilities (SLDs). Grounded by the technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge framework, the purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the perspectives of middle school math teachers regarding the benefits and challenges as well as how they overcame those challenges when implementing DGBL for SLDs. For this basic qualitative design, semistructured interviews with …

Transgender Individuals’ Experiences Within The Lgbtq+ Community: A Qualitative Study, Anita Bruno

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Transgender and gender-diverse individuals experience disproportionate mental health challenges, such as chronic stress, due to social exclusion. Research indicates that transgender individuals disproportionately experience poorer mental health outcomes compared to the broader LGBTQ+ community. This study expands research on how proximal and distal stressors impact transgender individuals' perceptions of inclusion within the LGBTQ+ community. Minority stress theory posits that increased discrimination causes transgender people to experience greater psychological distress than their cisgender LGBTQ+ peers. The present qualitative study employed semistructured interviews with 12 transgender participants to examine their perceptions of inclusion within the LGBTQ+ community. Braun and Clarke's 6-step, thematic …

Perceptions Of Police And Mental Health In Black American Men And Women Who Have Experienced Vicarious Police Violence, Kiera L. Posey

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Incidents of publicized police violence against Black Americans have increased significantly, expanding the exposure and vicarious experiences involving these events, resulting in poor mental health and mistrust of law enforcement among Black Americans. Due to much of the literature focusing on Black men, the purpose of this study is to compare the perceptions of police and the mental health of Black men and Black women who have experienced vicarious police violence. Understanding this relationship would aid in better understanding how Black women's experiences are essential and need to be considered when discussing the effects of police violence in the Black …

Strategies Leaders At Learning Organizations Use To Strengthen Performance, Stabilize Revenue, And Reduce The Financial Impact Of Learner Attrition, Linda Ward-Smith

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Learner attrition is a concern for learning organization leaders because it can weaken organizational performance and threaten long-term revenue stability. Grounded in the resource-based view (RBV) conceptual framework, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to explore strategies learning organization leaders use to strengthen performance, stabilize revenue, and reduce the financial impact of learner attrition. The participants included six learning organization leaders from multiple geographic regions of the United States with experience developing and implementing attrition-related strategies. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a review of publicly available documents. Through Braun and Clarke’s six-phase thematic analysis process, four …

Successful Strategies To Increase Promotion And Retention Rates While Reducing Talent Replacement Costs, Trina Deleon Richardson-Sledge

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Promotion and retention challenges can destabilize workforce continuity and increase organizational costs. Human resources (HR) hiring managers and senior executive business leaders are concerned by persistent promotion and retention challenges, which disrupt productivity, increase turnover, and raise talent replacement costs. Grounded in leader-member exchange theory and social exchange theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry research project was to explore strategies HR hiring managers and senior executive business leaders used to increase promotion and retention rates while reducing talent replacement costs. The participants were seven HR hiring managers and senior executive business leaders employed at medium-sized companies in southeast …

Relationship Between African American Women’S Health Literacy, Appetitive Traits, And Body Mass Index, Esther Souffrant

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Obesity remains a public health concern among African American (AA) women in the southern United States. Despite separate research on health literacy, eating habits, and obesity, few studies investigate their combined relationship with BMI among AA women in Georgia. Guided by the health belief model, this cross-sectional quantitative study examined whether health literacy and appetitive traits independently and jointly predicted BMI. AA women aged 18 or older living in Georgia were recruited through social media using purposive homogeneous sampling to complete an anonymous Google Forms survey. Health literacy was measured using the Newest Vital Sign, appetitive traits were assessed using …

Effective Strategies That Healthcare Leaders Use To Implement De&I Initiatives To Improve Employee Performance, Ayman Zidan

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Some healthcare leaders struggle to implement diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives to improve employee performance. This challenge matters to healthcare leaders because they depend on employee development, retention, and performance to support effective operations and achieve organizational goals. Grounded in transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry project was to identify and explore effective strategies some healthcare leaders use to implement DE&I initiatives to improve employee performance. Participants were six healthcare leaders in New England. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a review of publicly available resources. Using thematic analysis, three overarching themes emerged: (a) …

Exploring How Congregational Expectations Of Pastors Contribute To Burnout Among Black Pastors In Albany, Georgia, Petrea Allen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Black pastors serving economically challenged communities often face congregational expectations that extend beyond traditional ministry responsibilities, yet limited research has examined how these expectations contribute to burnout in smaller Southern cities. The purpose of this generic qualitative study was to explore how explicit and implicit congregational expectations contributed to burnout among Black pastors in Albany, Georgia, and how local socioeconomic conditions shaped these experiences. Role strain theory and compassion fatigue theory guided the examination of overlapping role demands and the emotional effects of sustained caregiving. Semistructured interviews were conducted with six Black pastors serving in Albany, and the data were …

Relative Strength Of Cyberbullying Victimization, Emotion Regulation, And Self-Compassion In Predicting Resilience Among Neurodiverse Adults, Madison Bosch

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Cyberbullying has become a significant social and psychological concern within digital environments, particularly for neurodiverse individuals who rely on online platforms for communication, social connection, and community support. Neurodiverse individuals may be especially vulnerable to cyberbullying, which can exacerbate social withdrawal, anxiety, and depression. Although prior research has examined cyberbullying and emotional distress, there is a need to identify factors that can promote resilience in neurodiverse adults experiencing cyberbullying. To address this gap, this quantitative study involved determining the relative strength of cyberbullying victimization, emotion regulation, and self-compassion in predicting resilience among neurodiverse adults. Informed by the emotion regulation theory, …

Staff Education To Improve Depression Screening In Primary Care, Lilian I. Agwumezie

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Summary This doctoral project was designed to improve depression screening for adults in primary care by providing targeted staff education. The core issue was staff failure to utilize a standardized screening process. This resulted in inconsistent depression identification, delayed diagnoses, and large gaps in mental health care. The project addressed this gap in practice and planned to increase knowledge and engender more positive attitudes toward frequent depression screening with the PHQ-9 tool in nine staff members employed at a small outpatient clinic. Outcomes and changes in participants’ knowledge and attitudes about the PHQ-9 following training were assessed using pre- and …

Revenue Resilient Ai Recruiting Strategies: Exploring The Successful Integration Of Effective Ai Into Recruitment, Elizabeth Frances Smith

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Failure to integrate AI into recruitment processes remains a significant concern for human resources (HR) leaders. Without clear and actionable strategies, some HR leaders may struggle to avoid decreased revenue. Grounded in the technology acceptance model, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry project was to identify and explore effective strategies HR leaders use to integrate AI into recruitment processes to improve organizational recruitment outcomes. Participants included eight HR leaders located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States who had used effective strategies to integrate AI into recruitment processes. Data were collected from semistructured interviews and publicly available documentation. …

Organizational Change That Supports Employee Engagement And Reduces Turnover, Shakeena Maranda Anderson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Organizational change can erode employee engagement and intensify avoidable turnover when leaders lack effective implementation strategies. This is important to medium to large enterprise (MLE) human resource (HR) business leaders because preventable turnover raises replacement costs and disrupts operations. Grounded in Lewin’s change theory, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry project was to identify strategies that MLE HR business leaders used to implement organizational change and improve engagement and retention. The participants were 10 HR business leaders in U.S. based MLE organizations who had successfully implemented organizational change. Data were collected through semistructured interviews and publicly available organizational documents. …

Social Determinants Of Health And Surgical Morbidity After Cesarean Delivery, Don Martin Wright

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Little is known about whether patient-reported social determinants of health (SDoH) are associated with cesarean complications, a gap limiting equitable prevention. The purpose of this quantitative cross-sectional study, guided by the World Health Organization’s Conceptual Framework for Action on SDoH and the socioecological model, was to examine associations between six SDoH screening domains and surgical site infection (SSI), hemorrhage requiring clinical escalation, and length of stay (LOS) after covariate adjustment. Secondary data were comprised of N = 10,157 cesarean deliveries among adults in a multistate hospital system in 2025. Analyses used Bonferroni-corrected logistic and linear regression. Education and literacy concern …

Bridging The Nature Gap In Urban Communities, Hayley Allison, Jacobo Barriga, Sarah Beier, Hunter Moore, Joe Wheelock

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

Bridging The Gap is the largest local environmental nonprofit serving the greater Kansas City metro, actively engaging thousands of community members, planting thousands of trees, and stewarding thousands of acres of natural areas across both sides of the state line. Despite existing in a sprawling two-state metropolitan area where functional habitat on public land is often fragmented, degraded, or lost entirely, parks and natural areas across Kansas City still report upwards of four million visitors every year. City, county, and state public landowners, like conservation agencies and parks departments, often have limited capacity to effectively steward and improve urban green …

Leveraging Partnerships To Launch Forest Health Monitoring For Emerald Ash Borer Readiness, Maha Guliani

Cities and the Environment (CATE)

In summer 2025, Portland Parks & Recreation partnered with the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) to conduct targeted Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia) surveys in southwest Portland natural areas. The project piloted protocols from the new Natural Areas EAB Response Addendum (2025), training youth in forest health monitoring while generating baseline data to guide Emerald Ash Borer readiness. Through coordinated ash surveys, shared data protocols, and workforce development, the pilot built actionable capacity for natural-area forest health monitoring while expanding hands-on pathways into ecology, GIS, and urban forestry stewardship.

Strategy Is Not Conscience: The Moskovitz Perspective, Artificial Intelligence, And The Moral Imperatives Of Military Command And Control, James Giordano

Strategic Insights

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers significant advantages for military decision-making, but its ability to identify effective strategies does not guarantee ethical or legal justification. Building on Dr. Peter Moskovitz’s distinction between strategy and conscience, Dr. James Giordano addresses the risks of overreliance on AI-generated recommendations and the need to preserve human judgment, authority, and accountability in military operations. He introduces Synthesized Command and Control (SYNTHComm), a proposed framework for integrating AI capabilities with human command, and offers five recommendations for the Department of War focused on command authority, system validation, operator training, and international norms. The article emphasizes that military AI …

Altered Sperm Dna Methylation Provides An Epigenetic Route From Overweight And Older Men To Intergenerational Disease Transmission., Mathieu Schulz, Xiaojian Shao, Romain Lambrot, Christine Lafleur, Donovan Chan, Marie-Charlotte Dumargne, Amanda J. Macfarlane, Sergey Moskovtsev, Guillaume Bourque, Tomi Pastinen, Clifford Librach, Hope Weiler, Jacquetta Trasler, Sarah Kimmins

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

The occurrence of childhood neurodevelopmental disorders has been steadily increasing for decades, yet we have little understanding of modes of inheritance implicated in these diseases. Epidemiology studies have revealed an association between an elevated paternal Body Mass Index (BMI) and age as factors implicated in increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in children. Epigenetic regulation of gene expression by DNA methylation at cytosines is susceptible to environmental, diet, and lifestyle changes. Yet, whether a man's BMI and age influence the sperm methylome and potentially impact offspring development remains unresolved. Using MethylC capture sequencing, we identified over 38,000 differentially methylated CpGs in …

Discover To Deliver Pediatric Futures: Viewpoints Of Future Medicine From A Pediatric Health Care System., Vanessa Watkins, Ken Chang, Laura Sarff, Jared Vavroch, Dawn Wolff, Lori A. Erickson

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

Pediatric health care systems face increasing uncertainty driven by rapid technological change, workforce shifts and shortages, environmental threats, and evolving family and community needs. Pediatrics requires future-focused considerations that go beyond adult systems, including family-centered care, developmental trajectories, and long-term societal impacts on child well-being. While the future cannot be predicted, futures medicine methods offer structured approaches to anticipate change and support proactive, values-driven planning. This Viewpoint describes the application of pediatric futures methods within an academic, independent nonprofit pediatric health system and proposes a practical framework that connects future readiness to strategic decision-making and daily care delivery. Futures medicine …

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

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

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

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

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

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,

History of Medicine Seminar

No abstract provided.

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 …

Philosophical Fragments, Soren Kierkegaard

Hannah Arendt Marginalia - All

Princeton, N.J., 1969.

Call # : BL51 .K487 1969

Contains underlining, marginal lining and endpaper notes

PDF Information :  16 Pages, 4.2 MB

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

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 …