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How Empathy Styles Mediate The Relationship Between Responsive Parenting And Adolescent Friendship Quality?, Aaliya Hana Mahirah, Darmawan Muttaqin

Psychological Research on Urban Society

Responsive parenting contributes to the friendship quality formed in adolescents. Previous studies failed to fully explain the relationship process between responsive parenting and friendship quality. Empathy is one of the interpersonal skills formed through responsive parenting. Therefore, this study aims to examine the role of empathy in responsive parenting relations with friendship quality. A total of 450 respondents, including the early, middle, and late adolescents aged 12-15, 15-18, and 18-20 years, were selected as participants. Responsive parenting, empathy style, and friendship quality was measured using the Parental Responsiveness Scale, Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and the McGill Friendship Questionnaires-Friend's Functions. The research …

The Function Of Happiness On Weakening And Strengthening Depressive Effect On Academics’ Suicidal Ideation, Kusumasari Kartika Hima Darmayanti, Erlina Anggraini, Efan Yudha Winata, Inda Purwasih, Siti Dini Fakhriya

Psychological Research on Urban Society

Year to year, the suicide rate among academics in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province has risen because of various factors. Suicidal behavior results from suicidal ideation, which is triggered by negative emotions that cause psychological stress, such as depression. On the other hand, numerous previous studies found a contribution of happiness and depression to suicidal ideation. Hence, this study examined the significance of the role of happiness in moderating the effect of depression on suicidal ideation. Further, this was a survey study on academics in Nusa Tenggara Barat Province (n = 182). Moderator analysis was applied in this study using the …

2022-October-01-Andrew Cbat Leadership Academy Announced Following $150,000 Scholarship Endowment, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University's College of Business and Technology and the ETSU Foundation unveiled the newly named Andrew CBAT Leadership Academy following a three-year endowment commitment totaling $150,000 from two local business leaders,  Dewey Andrew and Scott Andrew. 

The Andrew CBAT Leadership Academy Scholarship Endowment is a generous gift that will support the college's Leadership Academy and fund scholarships aimed at empowering students to become the next servant leaders in the Appalachian Highlands and beyond. 

“The Andrew CBAT Leadership Academy enhances the professional development of selected undergraduate and graduate students through educational experiences and service leadership opportunities,” …

2022-October-01-Jcrc To Hold Open House, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – The Johnson City Recovery Center (JCRC) and East Tennessee State University Department of Social Work invite the community to an open house for the new location of the JCRC on Friday, Oct. 28, from 3-5 p.m.

The JCRC is the first addiction recovery community center in the Tri-Cities. Currently, the JCRC hosts several recovery support groups, but once it is fully operational, it will host up to three different mutual aid groups daily, recovery coaching services, linkages to community resources, and recovery information and education groups. JCRC offers a safe, recovery-oriented environment to help bridge the gap …

2022-October-01-Meet Chassady Abernathy, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

There was a time Chassady Abernathy, a first-year student majoring in Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music, had not even heard of East Tennessee State University. 

Her dad, musician Barry Abernathy, played a show in Johnson City and immediately called his daughter to share his positive view of the school, as well as the bluegrass program led by Dan Boner.

She came for a visit and ended up loving what she saw.

“The Bluegrass program drew me to ETSU, as well as the location,” she said. “I love being in the mountains, and I love this area and the people …

2022-October-01-Plan Your Trip To The Mountains, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – If you haven’t already, go ahead and book your trip to the mountains of the Appalachian Highlands. 

Fall color is about to boom in the region’s highest elevations.  

“Any time over the next three weeks that you can sneak in a mountain drive, it should not disappoint,” said Travis Watson, the campus arborist at East Tennessee State University.

Fall at ETSU

Trees on ETSU’s campus have started the annual symphony of colors, and that’s true for a variety of spots in Johnson City and the surrounding area.  

“But don’t be fooled by these early changers,” said Watson. …

Health Career Exploration Through Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Pipeline Programming, Ranelle Brew, Emily Pokorski, Tess Scheidel, Brian Scherf, Kathy Agee, Pamela Dejong

Open Access Publishing Support Funded Articles

Developing effective programs that aim to generate student interest in the pursuit of a career in healthcare is vital to avoid shortages among the workforce. As the American population ages, the country will continue to experience a higher demand for healthcare-trained individuals and services. Exposing racially diverse students to career options and the educational requirements early can serve as a pipeline for increasing interest in obtaining careers in healthcare professions overall. Program formatting resembles “summer camps” as it provides students with educational opportunities outside of the typical school curriculum. These summer camp designed “programs” have been an effective method of …

Borderplex Business Barometer, Volume 6, Number 10, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., Steven L. Fullerton

Border Region Modeling Project

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Movement Control Order (Mco) Phases Implementation In Malaysia, Hezlin Aryani Abd Rahman, Muhammad Akram Rahman, ‘Ain Najihah Rozaimi, Irfan Bihar Zulnahar

Malaysian Journal of Computing (MJoC)

The COVID-19 cases have taken its strike since December 2019 in Wuhan, China and then has spread to other countries. Malaysia was not excluded from this pandemic, in which the first case of COVID-19 was discovered on 25th January 2020. The disease has caused a pandemic outbreak ever since, driving many countries to close international gateways and implement lockdowns and many studies have been trying to model and forecast the rising number of Covid-19 cases worldwide. This study aimed to prove the effectiveness of Movement Control Order (MCO) phases implemented in Malaysia. From 8 MCO phases implemented in Malaysia, 5 …

Engaging And Mobilizing Baby Boomers For Effective Ministry, Paul D. Russell

Doctor of Ministry (DMin)

In the 21st-century church in America, can Baby Boomers, who presently range from 57 to 76 years of age, be envisioned and commissioned to make a difference through effective and meaningful ministry? The intent of the research was to discover relevant information and present considerations to help those entering the last third of life make an informed contribution to the church and community. Evidence will be presented to show that Boomers need the church and that the church needs the presence and resourceful productivity of the Boomer cohort. This reality does not circumvent the essential mission of reaching other generations …

Girl Center Roadmap To 2030, Girl Center

Adolescents and Young People

Today’s rising generation of 1.3 billion adolescents are tomorrow’s future. Yet, adolescent girls fare worse than boys in many ways, including education and experiences with violence. Furthermore, the implications of key experiences for girls in adolescence—school dropout, early marriage, motherhood, sexual and gender-based violence—are irreversible. The GIRL Center Roadmap to 2030 outlines the strategy of the Population Council’s GIRL Center—generating and communicating evidence, convening experts, and nurturing talent. Undertaking a girl-centered, evidence-driven, intersectional, and innovative approach that is grounded in low- and middle-income countries, the GIRL Center focuses on: intergenerational poverty and gender inequity; adolescents and the digital space; adolescents …

Exploitative Working Conditions For Child Domestic Workers In Ethiopia, The Freedom Fund

Adolescents and Young People

This brief, published by the Freedom Fund, highlights the main findings from a large-scale study on the prevalence of child domestic workers in Addis Ababa.

A Planetary Imagination: Responses To Chakrabarty’S Socio-Natural Historiography, Editorial Introduction, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Faculty Scholarship

Dipesh Chakrabarty’s 2009 essay in Critical Inquiry, “The Climate of History: Four Theses” sent tremors through the environmentally aware humanities in the 2010s. Last year, he published the book that brought that essay forward into the present, The Climate of History in a Planetary Age. It’s no overstatement to think of this book as having clanged the bell for a new normal in the humanities and social sciences when it comes to telling the story of ourselves, that is, when it comes to human history. Responsible history should today be geological even when recounting the human record. Chakrabarty raised a …

Humor, A Meditation, John Henry Schlegel

Journal Articles

Republished at 47 Dalhousie J.L. 1 (2024).

Percentage Of Heavy Drinking Days Following Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy Vs Placebo In The Treatment Of Adult Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Michael P. Bogenschutz, Stephen Ross, Snehal Bhatt, Tara Baron, Alyssa A. Forcehimes, Eugene Laska, Sarah E. Mennenga, Kelley O'Donnell, Lindsey T. Owens, Samantha Podrebarac, John Rotrosen, J Scott Tonigan, Lindsay Worth

Family and Community Medicine Research and Scholarship

IMPORTANCE: Although classic psychedelic medications have shown promise in the treatment of alcohol use disorder (AUD), the efficacy of psilocybin remains unknown.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether 2 administrations of high-dose psilocybin improve the percentage of heavy drinking days in patients with AUD undergoing psychotherapy relative to outcomes observed with active placebo medication and psychotherapy.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: In this double-blind randomized clinical trial, participants were offered 12 weeks of manualized psychotherapy and were randomly assigned to receive psilocybin vs diphenhydramine during 2 day-long medication sessions at weeks 4 and 8. Outcomes were assessed over the 32-week double-blind period following …

Logic-Gated Antibody Pairs That Selectively Act On Cells Co-Expressing Two Antigens, Simone C. Oostindie, Derek A. Rinaldi, Gijs G. Zom, Michael J. Wester, Desiree Paulet, Kusai Al-Tamimi, Els Van Der Meijden, Jennifer R. Scheick, Tessa Wilpshaar, Bart De Jong, Marloes Hoff-Van Den Broek, Rachel M. Grattan, Janita J. Oosterhoff, Julie Vignau, Sandra Verploegen, Peter Boross, Frank J. Beurskens, Diane S. Lidke, Janine Schuurman, Rob N. De Jong

Pathology Research and Scholarship

The use of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies is constrained because single antigen targets often do not provide sufficient selectivity to distinguish diseased from healthy tissues. We present HexElect, an approach to enhance the functional selectivity of therapeutic antibodies by making their activity dependent on clustering after binding to two different antigens expressed on the same target cell. lmmunoglobulin G (lgG)-mediated clustering of membrane receptors naturally occurs on cell surfaces to trigger complement- or cell-mediated effector functions or to initiate intracellular signaling. We engineer the Fc domains of two different lgG antibodies to suppress their individual homo-oligomerization while promoting their pairwise hetero-oligomerization …

Cc: Connecticut College Magazine, Fall 2022, Connecticut College

Alumni News/Connecticut College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Stable Coexistence Or Competitive Exclusion? Fern Endophytes Demonstrate Rapid Turnover Favoring A Dominant Fungus, Brett Steven Younginger, Nathan U. Stewart, Mehmet Ali Balkan, Daniel J. Ballhorn

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fungal endophytes are critical members of the plant microbiome, but their community dynamics throughout an entire growing season are underexplored. Additionally, most fungal endophyte research has centred on seed-reproducing hosts, while spore-reproducing plants also host endophytes and may be colonized by unique community members. In order to examine annual fungal endophyte community dynamics in a spore-reproducing host, we explored endophytes in a single population of ferns, Polystichum munitum, in the Pacific Northwest. Through metabarcoding, we characterized the community assembly and temporal turnover of foliar endophytes throughout a growing season. From these results, we selected endophytes with outsized representations in …

Salary Roster, 2022 October, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Why Are Some Plant Species Missing From Restorations? A Diagnostic Tool For Temperate Grassland Ecosystems, Marcello De Vitis, Kayri Havens, Rebecca S. Barak, Louise Egerton-Warburton, Adrienne R. Ernst, Matt Evans, Jeremie B. Fant, Alicia J. Foxx, Kyndall Hadley, Jim Jabcon, Joan O’Shaughnessey, Sai Ramakrishna, David Sollenberger, Sophie Taddeo, Rafael Urbina-Casanova, Chris Woolridge, Lan Xu, Jacob Zeldin, Andrea T. Kramer

Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications

The U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to accelerate actions to prevent, halt, and reverse the degradation of ecosystems, and re-establish ecosystem functioning and species diversity. The practice of ecological restoration has made great progress in recent decades, as has recognition of the importance of species diversity to maintaining the long-term stability and functioning of restored ecosystems. Restorations may also focus on specific species to fulfill needed functions, such as supporting dependent wildlife or mitigating extinction risk. Yet even in the most carefully planned and managed restoration, target species may fail to germinate, establish, or persist. To support the successful …

Industrial Energy Development Decouples Ungulate Migration From The Green Wave, Ellen O. Aikens, Teal B. Wyckoff, Hall Sawyer, Matthew J. Kauffman

Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications

The ability to freely move across the landscape to track the emergence of nutritious spring green-up (termed ‘green-wave surfing’) is key to the foraging strategy of migratory ungulates. Across the vast landscapes traversed by many migratory herds, habitats are being altered by development with unknown consequences for surfing. Using a unique long-term tracking dataset, we found that when energy development occurs within mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) migration corridors, migrating animals become decoupled from the green wave. During the early phases of a coalbed natural gas development, deer synchronized their movements with peak green-up. But faced with increasing disturbance …

The Role Of Intertemporal Preferences, Active Consideration Of Health Outcomes, And Simple Health Prompts On The Nutritional Quality Of Food Choices, Olivier Tuyizere

Department of Agricultural Economics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter introduces the thesis by highlighting a brief review of intertemporal preferences, active consideration of health outcomes, and health prompts during food choices. The introduction paves the way for the following two chapters, which are related, but stand-alone papers.

In the second chapter, we explore a novel question: how does actively considering health outcomes (both current and future) during decision-making affect the nutritional quality of food choices? We explore this question with an online experiment on food choices. Our findings show that active consideration of health outcomes leads to choosing products with …

A Strategic Audit Of Hasbro, William Weiner, Amanda Fuechtmann, Avery Smith, Michaela Webb, Zach Buhman

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This strategic audit dives into ten components of Hasbro’s strategic management. The first component discusses Hasbro’s history and current strategic leadership. This is followed by an analysis of the impacts of its external and internal environment. Next, the audit examines Hasbro’s recent performance and competition it faces in the Toy Wholesaling industry. The sixth, seventh, and eighth components consider different levels of strategy that Hasbro pursues. Lastly, the strategic audit considers Hasbro’s corporate governance and its organizational structure and controls.

Overall, we conclude that Hasbro is a mature company in a slow-growing industry. Its ability to translate its iconic and …

Executive Functioning In Language Learning Disabilities: Defining Executive Functioning, Executive Functioning Deficits, And Clinical Intervention Strategies To Support Children, Kaylie Trumble

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis aims to select a working definition of executive functioning (EF) to identify possible EF deficits and clinical interventions strategies to support children. Included are EF deficits, ways of assessing EF components, and intervention strategies for executive dysfunction in LLD. Scenarios are provided to demonstrate both matching strategies to a child and strength/deficit in EF, along with a sample intervention script.

Exploring The Direct Relationship Between Sustainability Leader Ecospirituality And Human Capital Sustainability Leadership Capacity: A Moderated Mediation Study, Krystal L. Gabel

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The primary purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if a sustainability leader’s ecospirituality significantly impacts one’s human capital sustainability leadership. The secondary purpose of this study was to determine if one’s psychological capital mediates this relationship and if one’s environmental attitudes moderate the relationships between ecospirituality, human capital sustainability leadership, and psychological capital.

Participants in this study included sustainability leaders in top positions at their organizations in the four highest-ranked countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom) on the 2022 Climate Change Performance Index. These individuals had positions of chief sustainability officer, head of sustainability, or sustainability …

Online Vs. In-Person Work Environment: Is Productivity Really Maintained In The Hybrid Work Model?, Joaquin Carlos Pinga

Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the term “hybrid work” has been popularized in an attempt to maintain productivity while maintaining social distancing. Hybrid work is a combination of working partly online at home, and partly in the typical office setting. Its existence predates the pandemic; however, it has increased in usage due to the frequent need to quarantine. Hybrid work has also exceeded the boundaries of traditional work, most notably extending into the education field, affecting students’ learning. Come the tail-end of the pandemic, many institutions have adopted the hybrid work model in attempts to suave people’s concerns about returning, as …

Getting Ahead Of Flash Drought: From Early Warning To Early Action, Jason A. Otkin, Molly Woloszyn, Hailan Wang, Mark D. Svoboda, Marina Skumanich, Roger Pulwarty, Joel Lisonbee, Andrew Hoell, Mike Hobbins, Tonya Haigh, Amanda E. Cravens

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

Flash droughts, characterized by their unusually rapid intensification, have garnered increasing attention within the weather, climate, agriculture, and ecological communities in recent years due to their large environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Because flash droughts intensify quickly, they require different early warning capabilities and management approaches than are typically used for slower-developing “conventional” droughts. In this essay, we describe an integrated research-and-applications agenda that emphasizes the need to reconceptualize our understanding of flash drought within existing drought early warning systems by focusing on opportunities to improve monitoring and prediction. We illustrate the need for engagement among physical scientists, social scientists, operational …

October 2022 Table Of Contents Newsletter - Archives, Bethany Fiechter

Table of Contents Newsletter

The Archives and Special Collections houses historical records about DePauw and the Indiana United Methodist Church. Our mission is to preserve and provide access to primary and secondary resources about both institutions and their historic relationship to each other. The core of Special Collections includes publications of alumni and faculty along with books published by the United Methodist Church and its predecessors. The oldest book in the collection dates back to the 15th century!

(Si10-124) Inverse Reconstruction Methodologies: A Review, Deepika Saini

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

The three-dimensional reconstruction problem is a longstanding ill-posed problem, which has made enormous progress in the field of computer vision. This field has attracted increasing interest and demonstrated an impressive performance. Due to a long era of increasing evolution, this paper presents an extensive review of the developments made in this field. For the three dimensional visualization, researchers have focused on the developments of three dimensional information and acquisition methodologies from two dimensional scenes or objects. These acquisition methodologies require a complex calibration procedure which is not practical in general. Hence, the requirement of flexibility was much needed in all …

(Si10-054) Nonsplit Edge Geodetic Domination Number Of A Graph, P. Arul Paul Sudhahar, J. Jeba Lisa

Applications and Applied Mathematics: An International Journal (AAM)

In this paper, we have defined an inventive parameter called the nonsplit edge geodetic domination number of a graph, and some of its general properties are studied. The nonsplit edge geodetic domination number of some standard graph is obtained. In this work, we also determine the realization results of the nonsplit edge geodetic domination number and the edge geodetic number of a graph.