Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Touro College and University System

2016

Discipline
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type

Articles 1 - 9 of 9

Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Graphic Editorials Fighting The Status Quo: Artists And Social Critics During The World Wars, Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg May 2016

Graphic Editorials Fighting The Status Quo: Artists And Social Critics During The World Wars, Rhoda Terry-Seidenberg

Lander College of Arts and Sciences Publications and Research

The author discusses the works of political posters, caricatures, and cartoons and how the artists used their craft to make graphic editorials against the status quo during the two World Wars.

Go to article

The Lcw Political Update April 5, 2016, Lander College For Women Apr 2016

The Lcw Political Update April 5, 2016, Lander College For Women

Yearbooks and Newsletters

"...Bi-weekly newsletter about politics and current events written and compiled by students at the Lander College for Women...committed to producing an honest news source and educating our student body. The writers and editors ...seek to fulfill the highest standards of academic integrity."

Go to article

Bringing Scholars To The Limelight: Publicizing An Institutional Repository Amongst Faculty And Students, Carrie B. Levinson, Melissa Spangenberg, Shawn Manning Jan 2016

Bringing Scholars To The Limelight: Publicizing An Institutional Repository Amongst Faculty And Students, Carrie B. Levinson, Melissa Spangenberg, Shawn Manning

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

Touro Scholar, the institutional repository (IR) of the Touro College and University System (TCUS) and New York Medical College (NYMC), officially launched in April 2016, utilizing bepress’s Digital Commons repository platform.The IR is an online archive of scholarly output of an institution –in this case TCUS and NYMC. After assessing institutional knowledge of the scholarly benefits of depositing work in the repository, the libraries planned to create a concrete game plan to establish buy-in to Touro Scholar. Handouts, presentations, customized guides, liaison outreach, tutorials, and webinars were proposed methods of advertising the repository.

Go to article

Book Review: Information Privacy Fundamentals For Librarians And Information Professionals, David B. Levy Jan 2016

Book Review: Information Privacy Fundamentals For Librarians And Information Professionals, David B. Levy

Touro College Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Information Privacy Fundamentals for Librarians and Information Professionals.

Go to article

Are Petroglyphs Markers For Frontier Boundaries Or Directional To Raw Material Resources?, Howard R. Feldman, Philip Charles Laporta Jr., Talia J. Belowich Jan 2016

Are Petroglyphs Markers For Frontier Boundaries Or Directional To Raw Material Resources?, Howard R. Feldman, Philip Charles Laporta Jr., Talia J. Belowich

Lander College for Women - The Anna Ruth and Mark Hasten School Publications and Research

The Shawangunk, NY region is known for rich mineral resources: anomalous concentrations of quartz crystals; native silver; silver, copper and zinc sulfides; and minimal quantities of native gold. The Shawangunks also host Native American petroglyphs carved into local bedrock. Although the Shawangunks are rich in metallic ores and semiprecious minerals, the entire range is sorely deficient in chert and other raw materials used for prehistoric subsistence. Despite the lack of raw materials for subsistence needs, archaeological tools found in the area are strikingly similar in raw-material type, as well as general morphology, to quarry-extraction tools discovered in the adjacent Wallkill …

Go to article

Quick Mass Screening Methods Of Potential Mass Murderers & Killers By Car Accidents From Recent Facial Photographs, Yoshiaki Omura Jan 2016

Quick Mass Screening Methods Of Potential Mass Murderers & Killers By Car Accidents From Recent Facial Photographs, Yoshiaki Omura

NYMC Faculty Conference Abstracts

Recently, there have been many mass murders of innocent people in various places. We found simple, quick, reliable method of detecting those potential murderers. These potential murderers can be screened from pupils of facial photographs used for various application forms in less than 4 min. by finding large negative value of (-)9~(-)12 of abnormal opening (-) of non-invasive O-Ring Test in one or both sides of the pupil, using BDORT which received US patent in 1993. Presence or absence of microorganism infection can be screened non-invasively by the use of broad-spectrum anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal agent within 3 min. An …

Go to article

2015 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System Jan 2016

2015 Touro College & University System Faculty Publications, Touro College & University System

Faculty Publications Books

This is the 2015 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College & University System. It includes all eligible 2015 publication citations of faculty within the Touro College & University System, including New York Medical College (NYMC). It was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.

Go to article

Understanding Work-Related Stress And Practice Of Professional Self-Care – An Innovative Pedagogical Approach, Kam Man Kenny Kwong Jan 2016

Understanding Work-Related Stress And Practice Of Professional Self-Care – An Innovative Pedagogical Approach, Kam Man Kenny Kwong

Graduate School of Social Work Publications and Research

Social workers experience tremendous work-related stress - particularly among those providing direct services in healthcare settings. A review of related literature summarized several critical challenges faced by social workers who work with highly difficult clients in these settings, including (a) clients who engage in manipulative high-risk behaviors; (b) clients with serious illness who have multiple relapses; (c) clients who attempt or commit suicide; and (d) those who perpetrate violent or aggressive acts against themselves or others. This paper described and evaluated three sets of experiential learning activities with graduate level social work students, designed to increase their self-awareness and understanding …

Go to article

The Impact Of Hearing Impairment And Noise-Induced Hearing Injury On Quality Of Life In The Active-Duty Military Population: Challenges To The Study Of This Issue, Hasanat Alamgir, Caryn A. Turner, Nicole J. Wong, Sharon P. Cooper, Jose A. Betancourt, James Henry, Andrew J. Senchak, Tanisha Hammill, Mark D. Packer Jan 2016

The Impact Of Hearing Impairment And Noise-Induced Hearing Injury On Quality Of Life In The Active-Duty Military Population: Challenges To The Study Of This Issue, Hasanat Alamgir, Caryn A. Turner, Nicole J. Wong, Sharon P. Cooper, Jose A. Betancourt, James Henry, Andrew J. Senchak, Tanisha Hammill, Mark D. Packer

NYMC Faculty Publications

The objectives of this research were to 1) summarize the available evidence on the impact of hearing loss on quality of life (QOL) among U.S. active-duty service members, 2) describe the QOL instruments that have been used to quantify the impact of hearing loss on quality of life, 3) examine national population-level secondary databases and report on their utility for studying the impact of hearing loss on QOL among active-duty service members, and 4) provide recommendations for future studies that seek to quantify the impact of hearing loss in this population. There is a lack of literature that addresses the …

Go to article