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Differences In Happiness And Perceived Meaning In Life Between U.S. Working-Age Adults With Versus Without A Self-Care Disability, Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich, Scott D. Landes, Shannon M. Monnat Sep 2024

Differences In Happiness And Perceived Meaning In Life Between U.S. Working-Age Adults With Versus Without A Self-Care Disability, Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich, Scott D. Landes, Shannon M. Monnat

Population Health Research Brief Series

Subjective wellbeing (SWB) - being happy or perceiving one’s life has meaning, is critical to good physical health. People who are happier and who report that their lives have meaning are healthier and live longer. In general, individuals with disabilities have worse SWB compared to those without disabilities. This brief summarizes findings from a study that used data from the National Wellbeing Survey collected in early-2021 to examine differences in happiness and perceived meaning in life between U.S. working-age adults (ages 18-64) with versus without a self-care disability (such as difficulty eating, using the toilet, or dressing without assistance) and …


Empowering Library Instructors: Reflections On The Information Literacy Scholars Program At Syracuse University Libraries, Kelly K. Delevan, Breeann Austin, Brie Baumert, Rebecca Mccall, Lauren Quackenbush, Olivia Russo, Alayna Vander Veer, B. Austin Waters Sep 2024

Empowering Library Instructors: Reflections On The Information Literacy Scholars Program At Syracuse University Libraries, Kelly K. Delevan, Breeann Austin, Brie Baumert, Rebecca Mccall, Lauren Quackenbush, Olivia Russo, Alayna Vander Veer, B. Austin Waters

Librarian Publications

The need for authentic work experience is a concern for most graduates entering the field of librarianship. For academic librarians, authentic teaching experience is particularly desired, and while some courses are offered in most library and information science graduate programs, few pair the coursework with opportunities for practical applications. At institutions with LIS programs, there can be partnerships with the university or college library. The Information Literacy Scholars Program at Syracuse University is one such program.


Institutional Fit And Policy Design In Water Governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts, Tomás Olivier, Sechindra Vallury Sep 2024

Institutional Fit And Policy Design In Water Governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts, Tomás Olivier, Sechindra Vallury

Center for Policy Design and Governance

This brief summarizes "Institutional fit and policy design in water governance: Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts," co-authored by Tomás Olivier and Sechindra Vallury in the Policy Studies Journal.


Veteran Health Equity: Key Highlights For Understanding The Unique Health-Related Needs Of Veterans Of Color, Mariah Brennan, Rosalinda V. Maury, Jeanette Harvie Sep 2024

Veteran Health Equity: Key Highlights For Understanding The Unique Health-Related Needs Of Veterans Of Color, Mariah Brennan, Rosalinda V. Maury, Jeanette Harvie

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This brief provides highlights from Understanding the Unique Health Related Needs of Veterans of Color study, a study that examined barriers to care, patient experiences, and cultural competence in veteran health care settings. Specifically, researchers seek to understand the challenges veterans of color face, including difficulties in accessing timely and appropriate care, experiences of discrimination, and varying levels of cultural competence among healthcare providers, and provide actionable policy suggestions to improve veteran healthcare experiences.


The Employment Situation Of Veterans: August 2024, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University Sep 2024

The Employment Situation Of Veterans: August 2024, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

In August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a rise in overall employment by 142,000 and a stable unemployment rate of 4.2%. However, veteran unemployment rates increased slightly, with notable variations by age, gender, and ethnicity; for example, female veterans saw a significant rise to 7.0%, while veterans aged 25-34 experienced a decrease to 4.3%. Despite these fluctuations, veteran unemployment rates often remain lower than their nonveteran peers in most age and ethnic groups.


“Dead Or Alive?” Regression Imputation Of The Binary End-Of-Event Outcome Indicator For The Nemsis Public Research Dataset, Mary E. Helander Aug 2024

“Dead Or Alive?” Regression Imputation Of The Binary End-Of-Event Outcome Indicator For The Nemsis Public Research Dataset, Mary E. Helander

Social Science - All Scholarship

Objectives: Recent studies address missing survival outcomes in the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS), a system that stores and shares standardized EMS data from U.S. States and Territories. This study aspired to improve imputed EMS outcome accuracy and establish benchmarks for common medical emergencies treated in prehospital care. Methods: This retrospective cohort study of ground-transported EMS patients with definitive end-of-EMS-event outcomes, based on dataset years 2017 to 2023, predicted the probability of “dead” or “alive” status using logistic regression. K-fold cross-validation assessed over-fitting and internal generalization. Threshold optimization and machine learning classification metrics enabled comparison with a …


Perception Of Crisis Responsibility: Examining Ai-Generated Deepfake Content And Public Response To Taylor Swift, Ziying Chen Aug 2024

Perception Of Crisis Responsibility: Examining Ai-Generated Deepfake Content And Public Response To Taylor Swift, Ziying Chen

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Due to the increase in deepfake technology, it is crucial to correctly confirm the truthfulness of information, especially in safeguarding reputation during challenging situations. This study applies theoretical frameworks to investigate the impact of deepfake content on the public perception of Taylor Swift, a prominent figure in American pop music. A quantitative content analysis will be conducted to analyze the top tweets produced by social media users (N=131) based on the source of the poster and the nature of the content, such as where the responsibility or blame for the deepfake crisis is attributed. The research explores the effects of …


“Dead Or Alive?” Assessment Of The Binary End-Of-Event Outcome Indicator For The Nemsis Public Research Dataset, Mary E. Helander Aug 2024

“Dead Or Alive?” Assessment Of The Binary End-Of-Event Outcome Indicator For The Nemsis Public Research Dataset, Mary E. Helander

Social Science - All Scholarship

OBJECTIVE: The broad absence of definitive patient outcomes in the NEMSIS public release data hinders research that seeks to understand the impact of pre-hospital care, operations, and overall patterns of population health – including geospatial and demographic differences. This study evaluated the recently proposed binary end-of-event outcome indicator to provide additional validity of the method, to evangelize its employment for more studies to analyze survival impact following an emergency medical event, and to identify appropriate use and interpretation given imperfection in predicted outcomes. METHODS: A recently published binary end-of-event outcome indicator was applied to datasets for each year from 2017 …


Me, Myself, And High: Momentary Precipitants And Consequences Of Solitary Cannabis Use Among Emerging Adults, Amelia Wedel Aug 2024

Me, Myself, And High: Momentary Precipitants And Consequences Of Solitary Cannabis Use Among Emerging Adults, Amelia Wedel

Dissertations - ALL

Objective: Social discomfort, including loneliness and adverse interpersonal experiences, is associated with greater solitary cannabis use, and in turn with worse cannabis consequences, among emerging adults. Temporality of this relationship, however, remains unknown due to largely cross-sectional findings. This 15-day experience sampling study tested the relationship of (a) social discomfort with proximal solitary cannabis use, (b) solitary cannabis use with next-day cannabis consequences, and (c) solitary cannabis use as a potential mediator for the relationship of social discomfort with cannabis consequences. Methods: Momentary assessment data were drawn from 59 emerging adult solitary cannabis users (Mage= 22.88 [SD=1.79]; 61% female; 66% …


Technology Policy For Meeting Net-Zero Carbon Goals By 2050: Accelerating Innovation In Complementary Technologies To Decarbonize The Electrical Grid, Myriam Gregoire0zawilski Aug 2024

Technology Policy For Meeting Net-Zero Carbon Goals By 2050: Accelerating Innovation In Complementary Technologies To Decarbonize The Electrical Grid, Myriam Gregoire0zawilski

Dissertations - ALL

In this dissertation, I examine the link between technology standards and innovation in green energy technologies. The first paper investigates the effects of compatibility standards on follow-on innovation at the firm-level in smart grid technology. Using data on the adoption of standards in 19 OECD countries and weights that capture the unique composition of each firm’s country markets, we find that higher exposure to changes in standardization causes a decline in firms’ patenting activity. This negative effect is concentrated in large incumbents and is partially offset by an increase in the quality of inventions. This suggests a tradeoff in the …


Collision Of Beauty: Exploring Users’ Perceptions Of Beauty Trends Generated By Tiktok Influencers Versus Douyin Influencers, Xueqi Wang Aug 2024

Collision Of Beauty: Exploring Users’ Perceptions Of Beauty Trends Generated By Tiktok Influencers Versus Douyin Influencers, Xueqi Wang

Theses - ALL

This study explores the comparative perceptions of beauty trends generated by TikTok influencers from the United States and Douyin influencers from China. By employing a qualitative content analysis of user comments and interactions with top trending makeup videos, this study examines the similarities and differences in responses of Douyin and TikTok users to beauty trends. Drawing on Social Comparison Theory and Uses and Gratifications Theory, the research seeks to uncover the nuanced emotional and psychological impacts of these trends. The findings highlight significant cultural differences in user responses, revealing variations in admiration, emotional benefit, and self-doubt. Additionally, the study identifies …


Dimensional Attention Shift During Human Semi-Supervised Category Learning, Osung Seo Aug 2024

Dimensional Attention Shift During Human Semi-Supervised Category Learning, Osung Seo

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Category learning, a fundamental aspect of human cognition, enables individuals to organize and interpret the vast array of stimuli in their environment. While traditionally studied under supervised and unsupervised learning frameworks, semi-supervised learning – combining small amounts of labeled data with larger pools of unlabeled data – has emerged as a promising area of research. This study investigates the mechanisms of human semi-supervised category learning, addressing the underexplored question of how unlabeled instances influence the learning process. Motivated by inconsistent findings in prior research, I explore the types of information people extract from unlabeled instances and whether this information can …


Sexual Assault History And Alcohol-Aggression Expectancies As Barriers To Sexual Refusal Assertiveness In College Women, Madison Kristine Firkey Aug 2024

Sexual Assault History And Alcohol-Aggression Expectancies As Barriers To Sexual Refusal Assertiveness In College Women, Madison Kristine Firkey

Dissertations - ALL

Background: Alcohol-related sexual assault is a pressing health concern on U.S. college campuses. The unrelenting prevalence of campus sexual assault has led to a greater focus on how to empower college women to resist unwanted sexual advances within alcohol-infused contexts. Alcohol-aggression expectancies have emerged as one potential barrier to women’s utilization of sexual refusal strategies. The present study sought to test this hypothesized barrier using a vignette-based experimental design. Specifically, the proposed model examined the relationships between perceived perpetrator intoxication level, expectations of perpetrator reaction to sexual refusal, and willingness to refuse unwanted sexual advances. The moderating effects of prior …


Location Choice Of Same-Sex Couples, Jooyoung Kim Aug 2024

Location Choice Of Same-Sex Couples, Jooyoung Kim

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This dissertation explores the location choices of same-sex couples and the economic impacts of their location choices. The research is structured into three chapters. The first chapter examines the intracity location decisions of same-sex couples. It shows that social acceptance of same-sex couples affects their location decisions, particularly for those with college degrees, leading to higher educational sorting of same-sex couples across cities. I derive the mean utility of each city from a conditional logit model of location choice, separately for same-sex couples with and without college degrees and different-sex couples with and without college degrees. I then run a …


Three Essays On Administrative Burden And The Social Safety Net, William Clay Fannin Aug 2024

Three Essays On Administrative Burden And The Social Safety Net, William Clay Fannin

Dissertations - ALL

In this dissertation, I investigate how administrative burdens in the social safety net affect payment accuracy, benefit levels, multiple program participation, and benefit redemption. In the first chapter, I study simplified reporting, a policy that allowed states to reduce the amount of information Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients must report between certifications. I leverage the fact that simplified reporting affects only some households and in certain months to estimate its impact on the share of SNAP benefits issued in error and SNAP benefit amounts. Using administrative data from the federal SNAP Quality Control system, I find that simplified reporting …


Infringing On Democracy: The European Union And Democratic Backsliding, Kari Waters Aug 2024

Infringing On Democracy: The European Union And Democratic Backsliding, Kari Waters

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Abstract In the European Union generally, and Eastern Europe more specifically, several countries have recently become significantly less democratic. In this dissertation, I analyze the relationship between the EU and democratic backsliding. Namely, I explore the EU’s inconsistent, and sometimes absent response to member state democratic backsliding. Even after ten new member states joined the EU in 2004, the number of infringement procedures, the formal requests from the European Commission to member states for compliance, decreased dramatically. We might expect infringements to increase as democratic erosion creeps up, especially after the addition of ten new member states. What can explain …


The Other Side Of The Coin: Effects Of Anti-Dumping Duties On Targeted Firms, Jorge Arturo Valdebenito Aug 2024

The Other Side Of The Coin: Effects Of Anti-Dumping Duties On Targeted Firms, Jorge Arturo Valdebenito

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This dissertation is composed of three chapters studying the economic effects of Anti-Dumping duties on the targeted firms. The first chapter analyzes the risk of products targeted by these duties ceasing to export to their destination markets. The second chapter investigates the effects of these duties on the export revenue of the targeted firms, both at the firm level and the firm-country level. The third chapter builds on the previous two by examining the impact of these duties on the labor market outcomes of the targeted firms.


Essays On Internal Migration, Education, And Trade Liberalization, Jingxuan Du Aug 2024

Essays On Internal Migration, Education, And Trade Liberalization, Jingxuan Du

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This dissertation explores the intersection of urban economics, education, and international trade impacts in developing countries, comprising two chapters. Chapter 1 examines how internal migration affects structural transformation and intergenerational educational mobility in China using a dynamic quantitative spatial equilibrium framework. Recent decades of massive rural-urban migration have profoundly impacted China’s economy, with migrants facing dilemmas about relocating with their children—a decision that affects intergenerational educational attainment. To evaluate the welfare effects of internal migration and understand the underlying mechanisms, I develop an overlapping generations spatial equilibrium model where migrants confront children’s placement choices. Model estimation reveals that allowing all …


Dancing In Chains: Policy Influence Of Social Organizations In China, Honggang Tan Aug 2024

Dancing In Chains: Policy Influence Of Social Organizations In China, Honggang Tan

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The growth of Chinese social organizations has attracted attention from researchers and practitioners because it reflects the changing state-society relations in post-Mao China and has profound implications for the country’s political development. As a mediating structure between the state and citizens, they are supposed to represent their constituencies in the policy arena. The existing research records many social organizations’ policy activities. However, do all social organizations engage in such activities? If not, what organizations are active, less active, or inactive? Furthermore, what factors shape their different behaviors and determine different levels of policy influence? Regarding organizations with policy engagement, what …


An Exploratory Study Examining Germany’S Integration Processes Of Syrian Refugees Into Society – Multiculturalism Or A Post-Migrant Society?, Chloe Hanley Kempken Aug 2024

An Exploratory Study Examining Germany’S Integration Processes Of Syrian Refugees Into Society – Multiculturalism Or A Post-Migrant Society?, Chloe Hanley Kempken

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

The aim of this exploratory study is to examine factors, that account for the differential treatment of Syrian refugees in Germany, in the wake of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. The paper will discuss motives within the context of national citizenship laws, security issues, and public perception of asylum seekers. Since 2015, Germany has experienced a surge of refugees from Syria fleeing danger and persecution. The conflict has placed a strain on the German parliament to adapt national policies and develop integration programs, as well as preserve the fundamentals of German society. Along with distinct historical events, such as the Holocaust, …


“(Mis)Information Creation As A Process”: A Method For Teaching Critical Media Literacy, Winn W. Wasson Aug 2024

“(Mis)Information Creation As A Process”: A Method For Teaching Critical Media Literacy, Winn W. Wasson

Librarian Publications

In January 2019, I taught a condensed credit-bearing media literacy course for undergraduates based on the ACRL Frame, “Information Creation as Process”. My main learning objective was to teach students to recognize accurate information, misinformation, and disinformation in the news and on social media, not by naming them as such, but by: 1) exposing students to the process through which news goes from field observations to a published or broadcast story, and 2) exploring current social and cognitive psychology research on how humans evaluate whether to believe the information they consume. The course ended with a discussion of healthy information …


Evaluating Conflict In Collaborative Environmental Governance: A Study Of Environmental Justice Councils, Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, Saba Siddiki Aug 2024

Evaluating Conflict In Collaborative Environmental Governance: A Study Of Environmental Justice Councils, Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, Saba Siddiki

Center for Policy Design and Governance

This brief summarizes "Evaluating conflict in collaborative environmental governance: A study of environmental justice councils," co-authored by Graham Ambrose, Jangmin Kim, and Saba Siddiki in the Policy Studies Journal.


Participating In Childcare Subsidy Programs Increases Employment And Annual Earnings For Working Parents, William Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey, Siobhan O'Keefe Jul 2024

Participating In Childcare Subsidy Programs Increases Employment And Annual Earnings For Working Parents, William Clay Fannin, Colleen Heflin, Taryn Morrissey, Siobhan O'Keefe

Center for Policy Research

Finding affordable childcare can be a struggle. Childcare subsidy programs help reduce barriers to stable childcare options and support parents’ employment, but due to administrative hurdles, such as recertification periods and income reporting requirements, many eligible parents are not using these programs. Using quarterly employment and earnings data from 2016-2019 Virginia administrative data, this brief describes associations between childcare subsidy program participation and household employment and earnings outcomes among low-income families in Virginia. Results show that, following initial childcare subsidy receipt, working parents increased their labor force participation, earned more money, and experienced more economic and employment stability compared to …


Just Academic Mobilities In An Unjust World, Farhana Sultana Jul 2024

Just Academic Mobilities In An Unjust World, Farhana Sultana

Geography and the Environment - All Scholarship

Addressing academic mobilities in a time of climate breakdown requires a transformation in social values, behaviors, and systems. Our related task is twofold. First, scholars must foster knowledge production and circulation that 1) challenge a status quo that stems from colonial, capitalist, and racist histories and 2) are consistent with an inclusive, equitable, and low-impact academy. Second, we must strive for just geographies in an unjust world of climate, socioecological, and academic disparities. Such goals necessitate working for far-reaching changes within academic institutions as well as for systemic change in the broader world.


Memetic Memory As Vital Conduits Of Troublemakers In Digital Culture, Alexander O. Smith, Jordan Loewen-Colón Jul 2024

Memetic Memory As Vital Conduits Of Troublemakers In Digital Culture, Alexander O. Smith, Jordan Loewen-Colón

School of Information Studies - Post-doc and Student Scholarship

Recent fears of data capitalism and colonialism often argue using implicit assumptions about cybernetic technology’s ability to automate data about culture. As such, the level of data granularity made possible by cybernetic engineering can be used to dominate society and culture. Here we unpack these implicit assumptions about the datafication of culture through memes, which both act as cultural data and cultural memory. Using Alexander Galloway’s critical method of protocological analysis and descriptions of media tactics, we respond to fears of cybernetic domination. Protocols – the source by which cybernetic technologies enable automated datafication – enables us to respond to …


How Can America Support The Health Of Its Diverse Aging Population?, Catherine García, Lauren L. Brown, Marc A. Garcia Jul 2024

How Can America Support The Health Of Its Diverse Aging Population?, Catherine García, Lauren L. Brown, Marc A. Garcia

Population Health Research Brief Series

By 2030, one in five Americans will be 65 or older. Rapid population aging in the United States is unfolding alongside a parallel trend of rising racial and ethnic diversity. In the coming decades, African American, Native American, Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, and multiracial groups are projected to experience significant growth in their proportions of adults who survive past age 65. Despite improvements in health and gains in longevity in recent decades, minorized groups continue to experience significant barriers to healthy aging. This brief provides an overview of the social determinants of healthy aging, provides recommendations for …


America Is Unprepared To Meet The Needs Of Its Growing Older Adult Population, Sierra Kaplan Jul 2024

America Is Unprepared To Meet The Needs Of Its Growing Older Adult Population, Sierra Kaplan

Population Health Research Brief Series

In 2030, nearly 73 million Americans will be aged 65 years or older. As Americans continue to have fewer children than in the past, the number of older adults will outnumber children. Thus, fewer young adults will be around to support and care for the older adult population. Coupled with COVID-19 pandemic-driven disruptions to the healthcare industry, America’s health and aging care system is unprepared to support its large and growing older adult population. Over time, we will see increased health care scarcity and inequality in the distribution of elder care services, especially with continued healthcare worker shortages and drastic …


Research Review: "A Novel Mind-Body Podcast Program For Military And Veteran Caregivers", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University Jul 2024

Research Review: "A Novel Mind-Body Podcast Program For Military And Veteran Caregivers", Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This research review discusses how mind-body interventions can alleviate stress and enhance health for caregivers, but they are not widely accessible in many communities. To overcome this limitation, a study converted an 8-week mind-body program into a 28-day daily podcast series featuring education on stress response, relaxation techniques, and self-compassion exercises. The program was tested with 55 military caregivers, all cisgender women averaging 42.3 years old, and evaluations at the start, halfway through, and at the end of the program revealed notable reductions in stress, depression, and physical issues, along with improved social role performance, indicating that a daily mind-body …


Which Types Of People Were Least Likely To Get The Covid-19 Vaccine?, Xue Zhang, Shannon M. Monnat Jul 2024

Which Types Of People Were Least Likely To Get The Covid-19 Vaccine?, Xue Zhang, Shannon M. Monnat

Population Health Research Brief Series

Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing challenge that worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding the reasons behind different types of vaccine hesitancy is crucial for developing effective vaccine messaging strategies that can increase confidence in and uptake of future vaccines. This brief summarizes the findings from a study that used data from the 2022 National Wellbeing Survey on 7,612 U.S. adults aged 18-64 to identify characteristics of adults who were least likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine and the characteristics associated with different types of vaccine hesitancy. The authors considered three non-mutually exclusive types of vaccine hesitancy: 1) watchful (concerned about …


Communication Monographs Summer 2024 Newsletter, Martina Santia, Srividya Ramasubramanian Jul 2024

Communication Monographs Summer 2024 Newsletter, Martina Santia, Srividya Ramasubramanian

CODE^SHIFT Research

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