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Empirical Study Of China’S Foreign Direct Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kennedy Agyei

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

In recent years, China's presence in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has increased. The purpose of this quantitative study is to determine what explains the variation in China’s foreign direct investment (FDI) levels across SSA countries. This research examined how political stability, the Corruption Perceptions Index, natural resources, market size, and trade openness influence Chinese FDI inflows into Africa. The sample comprised 48 SSA countries, and a panel data set covering the period from 2003 to 2022 was used for analysis. The study adopted the international political economy (IPE) theory, which holds that international investment flows depend primarily on the quality of …

Music Ministry Of Children And Youth: A Study And Defense For Incorporating Children And Youth Choirs In The Modern Worship Service, Veronica Leigh Haber Allison

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Graded children’s choir ministries have been a part of churches for the last century. In recent years, there has been a growing trend away from offering music ministry opportunities to children and youth in contemporary churches. There are several reasons for this decline; the major reason is that many churches have moved away from traditional music offerings to a praise band format. It has rendered the musical training of children in church unnecessary. The limited quantity of recent scholarly literature, the decline in commercially produced music, and the discontinuation of teaching materials for children’s choir ministries also attest to this …

Navigating Labor Challenges In The Hotel Industry: A Managerial Approach, Alen Sardarian

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The hotel industry faces a critical shortage of qualified service workers. This HR problem poses an operational and strategic challenge that undermines delivering quality customer service. In relation, this study investigated the HR managerial struggle to recruit and retain an adequate number of service workers to meet the labor demands of the luxury hotel sector. Based on social exchange theory, this research explored how motivational features such as flexible scheduling, career advancement opportunities, training, and employee rewards function as reciprocal exchange mechanisms between the HR management and service workers, thereby influencing recruitment and retention outcomes. The study incorporated a flexible …

Pressure Injury Prevention And Education, Maria T. Gonzales, Tammy Tyree, Kari Johnson, Crystelle Johnson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Increased age is a significant risk factor for hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) due to increased morbidities, decreased mobility, reduced nutrition, sensory impairments, reduced circulation, incontinence, and decreased immunity.

Purpose: Determine if focused education related to the Braden Scale (BS), pressure injuries (PI), and pressure injury prevention (PIP) will increase bedside staff knowledge of PI prevention and decrease HAPI incidence over three months.

Method: Pre/post-test design - Pre-intervention questionnaire, Educational Intervention, and Post-intervention questionnaire

Setting: 28-bed Orthopedic-Spinal Surgical Unit

Sample: Up to 38 nurses (RNs), four nursing supervisors, one director, and 14 patient care technicians (PCTs). Inclusion criteria: All full-time/part-time …

Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program For Patients With Post-Covid-19 Persistent Dyspnea, Sandra P. Morgan, Constance Visovsky, Bini Thomas

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Purpose: Post-COVID-19 symptoms vary widely and can be persistent without intervention. The prevalence of post-COVID-19 dyspnea is reported to range from 26%-41%. Radiologic evidence of lung fibrosis, pulmonary scarring, and interstitial changes have been associated in some individuals with persistent dyspnea in the post-COVID-19 population. Recent studies hypothesize that the COVID-19 infection may specifically cause damage and result in weakness to the respiratory musculature. Respiratory muscle strength training has been used to reduce persistent dyspnea in other respiratory diseases, thus, it may be a viable option for individuals with persistent dyspnea with post-COVID-19. The primary aim of this study is …

Teaching Politics In An Age Of Democratic Erosion, Lauren Balasco, Emmanuel Balogun, Janet Lawler, Anna Kapambwe Mwaba

Government: Faculty Publications

Democratic erosion in the United States, and the global decline of support for democratic values and institutions, obliges us to reflect on how we introduce politics to undergraduate students in this challenging era. Recent attacks on democratic rights and academic freedoms on college campuses, as well as the undermining of rule of law and democratic norms in the United States and abroad, compels us to reconsider and reflect on how we introduce politics and civic engagement in the classroom to our students. In this essay, we reflect on how current global and national trends in populism and authoritarianism require us …

V.62-4, 2025 Masthead

San Diego Law Review

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Proportionality And Theft, Christopher T. Wonnell

San Diego Law Review

Criminal law can serve a variety of utilitarian purposes including deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.  Nevertheless, there is broad agreement among criminal justice scholars that the pursuit of these purposes should be constrained by a requirement that punishment not be disproportionately severe relative to the offense charged.  The proportionality constraint is likely to be especially important when considering the less heinous predatory crimes such as nonviolent thefts.  Recent years have seen experiments by progressive prosecutors who deemphasize theft offenses as well as statutory schemes that treat many thefts as misdemeanors.  With some empirical support, critics charge that these experiments have increased …

Copyright Extraterritoriality, Timothy R. Holbrook

San Diego Law Review

The presumption against extraterritoriality is a fundamental principle of U.S. law, yet its application to copyright law remains unsettled.  In recent years, the Supreme Court has formalized a two-step methodology for assessing the extraterritorial scope of federal statutes, culminating in RJR Nabisco, Inc. v. European Community.  Despite this doctrinal shift, lower courts have inconsistently applied this framework to copyright infringement cases.  In an age of digital streaming and generative AI using training data globally, this state of affairs is unsatisfactory.  This Article examines the evolving state of copyright extraterritoriality in light of the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence.  It explores …

Navigating Risk Factor Disclosures: A New, Outlier Ninth Circuit Approach Remains After The Supreme Court Declines To Resolve A Circuit Split In In Re Facebook Securities Litigation, Jessica K. Kocinski

San Diego Law Review

This Casenote examines the implications of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Amalgamated Bank to dismiss Facebook’s writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, thereby allowing the shareholders’ securities fraud class action lawsuit to proceed in the lower courts.  Specifically, it focuses on whether Facebook shareholders adequately alleged securities fraud under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 as to challenged risk factor disclosures in Facebook’s 2016 Form 10-K under the PSLRA’s heightened pleading standard.  Part II of this Casenote provides background on the Cambridge Analytica data breach, which Facebook allegedly failed to disclose in its 2016 Form 10-K risk factor disclosures.  Part …

On The Nation’S Doorstep: How The Ninth Circuit Ruled Against Metering And Redefined The Border For Asylum Seekers, Samantha Fakhimi

San Diego Law Review

This Note examines the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Al Otro Lado and its implications on evolving federal immigration policies.  Part II analyzes the history of metering in the United States, including prior judicial treatment of the practice and its unlawfulness as determined by the district court’s prior holding.  Part III summarizes the Ninth Circuit’s majority opinion in Al Otro Lado, while setting forth the case’s legal implications within the larger federal landscape, including the broadened scope of government obligation to asylum seekers.  Part IV proposes next steps that could be taken by the legislature in response to practical constraints …

The Spring Writers Series Opens With Journalist James Sullivan, Sophia Lorom

Digital Edition

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Nurse-Led Rounds To Improve Communication And Nursing Satisfaction In The Surgical Trauma Icu, Katherine Vandyke Grose, Melanie Louise Hoeve

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Evidence supports interprofessional bedside rounding as a method to improve communication and patient outcomes in inpatient healthcare settings (Blakeney et al., 2021). Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses have an integral role to play in these rounds, as they influence patient care, safety, and satisfaction and often maintain the most current information about patient status and concerns. Surgical Trauma ICU nurses in a large level one trauma center attend daily physician-led multidisciplinary teaching rounds, but their role as a passive participant led to dissatisfaction and concerns that suboptimal interprofessional communication might negatively impact patient outcomes.

Based on the work of Amour …

Eight Ole Miss Students Win Stamps Impact Prize, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – The Stamps Impact Prize committee selected eight University of Mississippi students for its biannual competitive award program that funds undergraduate academic and creative projects.

What Is Happening In The World Today And Why: Humanity’S Evolving Consciousness And The Role Of Archetypal Energies As Guides During An Unfolding, Carroy U. Ferguson

Journal of Conscious Evolution

What is happening in the world today and why? Humanity is evolving its consciousness at individual and collective levels. Given these seemingly tumultuous times, as of this writing (January 2026), to make such a statement may sound like a strange thing to say. However, I suggest that if you are alive today and if you are reading these words, these are the very times for which you were born—to assist Humanity as it evolves its consciousness with your unique gifts, whatever they may be. That is, this period of our individual and collective human being-ness may be characterized as an …

The Impact Of Communication On Generational Trauma, Claudia Abalo

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Trauma has occurred since God made man, and it has been passed down through generations. Now, even though generational trauma may not end until our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ returns (Revelations 21:4), in the meantime, the Scriptures encourage us to love one another as God loves us (John 13:34-35), to care for each other, and to share our burdens with one another (Galatians 6:2). However, there is limited research as to whether sharing our burdens such as discussing traumatic experiences within the home impacts generational trauma. Therefore, this qualitative, interpretative phenomenological study aimed to answer how the children of …

Post-Pandemic Social Distance: A Qualitative Study Of Communication Barriers In Post-Pandemic Education, Stephen Everett Ford

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This qualitative study investigates communication barriers in post-pandemic rural K-12 education, emphasizing how the shift from traditional classrooms to COVID-19 virtual environments altered interactions among teachers, students, parents, and administrators. The literature review draws on transactional distance theory and computer-mediated communication, supported by related theories addressing digital inequality, communicative noise, and classroom norm breakdowns. Research questions focus on (1) differences between pre- and post-pandemic education, (2) comparative quality of virtual versus face-to-face learning, and (3) whether teachers feel supported by administration and the board of education. Methods include a qualitative case study of five rural Oklahoma districts (C, 2A, 3A, …

Fort Hays State University Tiger Weekly, February 13, 2026, University Relations

Tiger Weekly Newsletters

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Leo Ii...A Remembrance, The Flor-Ala

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A special edition issue of The Flor-Ala in remembrance of Leo II.

New Honor For Leo Ii: May Be First In Nation, Cheri Shipper, Dr. J. R. Holladay, Dr. Wayne Cotton

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This news release announces the exciting news that Leo II was selected as "Honorary ChairAnimal for National Pet Week" May 7-13 in the Shoals.

Tv Helps Leo Overcome Boredom, Karen Jackson

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TV always makes people (and animals) happy!

*Article from The TimesDaily*

See The Lion At Una, Vacation Guide

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A short write-up about the only African lion which serves as a school mascot-Leo II.

King Of The Jungle, Scott Burcham/Staff

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Leo II playing with his new toy pig on the eve of UNA's game against Texas A & M Kingsville in Florence.

Leo I Versus Leo Ii, Dr. Joe Wallace

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Personal account of Leo I versus Leo II written by Dr. Joe Wallace in Shoal Magazine.

Lion Talk: Vocabulary 101, Elise Cofield

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Information about the Lions Fund at the University of North Alabama in the Spring edition of the UNA Magazine.

Leo Ii's Passing Leaves Large Void Around Una Campus, Una Sports Information

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A fitting tribute to Leo II in the Lion's Roar.

The Story Of Leo The Lion, Joe Wallace

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This souvenir edition magazine details the relationship between author Joe Wallace and Leo I at UNA.

Watching Our Family Grow, Una Magazine

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A typical day for 10 months old Leo III and Una at the George H. Carroll Lion Habitat.

The Pride Of Una, Michelle Rupe Eubanks

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Fun facts about Leo III and Una.

Una's Leo Put To Sleep, Lori Allen Dendy

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Breaking the news that Leo I has passed away at 14 years old.

*Article from The TimesDaily. *