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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Torch (December 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (December 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Towards A Framework For Reproductive Violence”, Caitlyn Kelty-Huber
Towards A Framework For Reproductive Violence”, Caitlyn Kelty-Huber
All Student Scholarship
Since the inception of ecofeminist discourse in the 1970’s, ecofeminists and feminists alike have been divided on their stances toward the ethics of consuming the bodies and by-products of other animals. A powerful cohort of ecofeminists, in part comprised by such scholars as Marti Kheel, Lori Gruen, Greta Gaard, and Carol J. Adams, have done a tremendous amount of work to situate a concern for more-than-human animals within ecofeminism and beyond. Unfortunately, as Cusack highlights, feminism’s failure to both recognize the parallel oppression of “dairy” cows and female farmed animals, and to thoughtfully incorporate that knowledge into feminist praxis has …
Rural Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries Spend More Out-Of-Pocket Than Their Urban Counterparts, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Rural Disabled Medicare Beneficiaries Spend More Out-Of-Pocket Than Their Urban Counterparts, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Access / Insurance
The majority of Medicare beneficiaries experience gaps between the care they need and costs covered by Medicare and seek supplemental coverage to meet this gap, including private plans offered by former employers or purchased individually, or public coverage through Medicaid. Since rural beneficiaries are more likely to purchase supplemental indemnity coverage individually, to participate in Medicaid, or to go without supplemental coverage altogether, it is likely that their out-of-pocket spending differs from that of urban residents, although the magnitude and direction of these differences may vary for individual beneficiaries. This study used data from the 2006-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey …
Out-Of-Pocket Spending Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Out-Of-Pocket Spending Among Rural Medicare Beneficiaries, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Access / Insurance
The majority of Medicare beneficiaries experience gaps between the care they need and costs covered by Medicare and seek supplemental coverage to meet this gap, including private plans offered by former employers or purchased individually, or public coverage through Medicaid. Since rural beneficiaries are more likely to purchase supplemental indemnity coverage individually, to participate in Medicaid, or to go without supplemental coverage altogether, it is likely that their out-of-pocket spending differs from that of urban residents, although the magnitude and direction of these differences may vary for individual beneficiaries. This study used data from the 2006-2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey …
Expanding Access To Naloxone In Maine: Opportunities And Barriers, Kate E. Richardson
Expanding Access To Naloxone In Maine: Opportunities And Barriers, Kate E. Richardson
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared prescription drug abuse a national epidemic (Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2014). In addition to strategies designed to prevent opioid abuse and misuse, many public health officials, policy makers, healthcare providers and harm reduction task forces seek to increase access to naloxone, a prescription drug known to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. This report provides an overview of the barriers and opportunities for the state of Maine to expand access to the opioid antagonist, naloxone, in an effort to reduce fatal opioid drug overdose rates.
Torch (October 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (October 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Policy Options For Recruiting And Retaining Rural Primary Care Physicians In Maine, Casey Lancaster
Policy Options For Recruiting And Retaining Rural Primary Care Physicians In Maine, Casey Lancaster
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
Maine faces a challenge providing primary care services to over half of its residents, as they live in rural areas – even though Maine has enough primary care physicians practicing in the state to service the needs of the population. Maine has a primary care physician distribution problem. Androscoggin, Oxford, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, Washington, and York Counties, all fall well below the national average of primary care physicians per 100,000 residents. Maine has no true financial incentive program to help rural area’s recruit and retain primary care physicians, though Maine does have two programs that attempt to get primary care …
Breaking Barriers To Achieve The Superintendency, Becky J. Foley Phd
Breaking Barriers To Achieve The Superintendency, Becky J. Foley Phd
All Student Scholarship
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the phenomenon of the external and internal barriers that exist for women administrators in Maine seeking to reach the school superintendency. During the 2014-2015 school year in Maine, females comprised only 21 percent of all superintendents. While there is research about the shortage of superintendents nationwide, there is scant research from the female perspective. This research provided insights from women’s perspectives about why gender inequality exists at the superintendent level in education in the state of Maine. Through the use of phenomenological interviews, this qualitative research study focused on the views of …
Torch (August 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (August 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Exploring Human Trafficking In Hawai‘I From The Perspective Of Local Service Providers: Report To Stakeholders, Kristen D. Gleason Phd, Alyssa Carangan, Jared Espinueva, Alma Herrera-Mendoza, Denali Lukacinsky, Andreas Remis
Exploring Human Trafficking In Hawai‘I From The Perspective Of Local Service Providers: Report To Stakeholders, Kristen D. Gleason Phd, Alyssa Carangan, Jared Espinueva, Alma Herrera-Mendoza, Denali Lukacinsky, Andreas Remis
Faculty Publications
Executive Summary
Introduction: Human trafficking is an issue of national importance, but it is also an issue that touches communities at the local level. While progress is being made with regards to better understanding this phenomenon nationally, examining how human trafficking and the policies crafted to address it take shape within the local context is also important. One-size-fits-all approaches to human trafficking are not likely to understand local contextual variation. It is important to understand the local context so that efforts to address human trafficking can be sensitive to the situational needs of different communities. This report seeks to examine …
Where Did All The Young People Go? Can The Organizations Of The State Of Maine Re-Enlist Its Native Youth?, Tyler Norman Mcpherson Ma
Where Did All The Young People Go? Can The Organizations Of The State Of Maine Re-Enlist Its Native Youth?, Tyler Norman Mcpherson Ma
All Student Scholarship
As Maine and other New England states continue to be amongst the oldest in the United States, organizations in these states continue to struggle to find and retain suitable younger replacements for their retiring leadership. As the millennia! generation continues to become a significant portion of the American workforce, learning how to connect with, recruit, and retain this generation will prove useful when leadership succession is required. By exploring how this generation was nurtured and educated, we can begin to understand ways, such as non-traditional or reverse mentoring relationships, that New England's organizations can begin to recruit and retain their …
The Role Of The Language Production System In Shaping Grammars., Dana Mcdaniel Phd, Cecile Mckee, Wayne Cowart Phd, Merrill F. Garrett
The Role Of The Language Production System In Shaping Grammars., Dana Mcdaniel Phd, Cecile Mckee, Wayne Cowart Phd, Merrill F. Garrett
Faculty Publications
We argue for an extension of the proposal that grammars are in part shaped by processing systems. Our extension focuses on production, and we use that to explore explanations for certain subject/object asymmetries in extraction structures.
Foodborne Illness Risk Factor Study, Kathi-Anne M. Fortin
Foodborne Illness Risk Factor Study, Kathi-Anne M. Fortin
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
The initial purpose of this capstone was to establish a baseline for the occurrence of the top five foodbome illness risk factors, to write a report on the baseline findings and to develop a plan to repeat this study at least once every 60 months for the Portland Environmental Health & Safety Program. It soon became clear, however, that the scope was too broad. An extensive effort was required to integrate national methodology and comparability principles with the State and local restaurant inspection structure. Subsequently, the focus of the capstone shifted to the development of a comprehensive data collection manual. …
Why Waste Waste? A Strategic Plan To Achieve Zero Waste In Portland, Maine, Nathan J. Broaddus
Why Waste Waste? A Strategic Plan To Achieve Zero Waste In Portland, Maine, Nathan J. Broaddus
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
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Torch (May 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (May 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Motivating The Generations: Implications For The Higher Education Workplace, Jennifer Smith Ma
Motivating The Generations: Implications For The Higher Education Workplace, Jennifer Smith Ma
All Student Scholarship
Motivated employees are an organization’s most valuable asset. Motivation boosts better performance and productivity on the part of workers, so determining the best ways to encourage employee motivation is significant. This thesis examines the ranked importance of motivational factors of salaried/professional and hourly/classified, full-time employees at the University of Southern Maine.
4-H Leadership Development In Southern Maine: Community Clubs Vs. School/Afterschool Clubs, Laura Personette Ma
4-H Leadership Development In Southern Maine: Community Clubs Vs. School/Afterschool Clubs, Laura Personette Ma
All Student Scholarship
In Maine and across the United States, the 4-H Youth Development Program places great importance on youth’s self-discovery, experiential learning, and development of leadership skills. Founded in 1902, the 4-H program was created through A.B. Graham’s starting of rural “out-of-school” clubs.
An Assessment Of The Built Environment And Inclusivity Of Older Adults In Community Planning In Portland, Maine, Elizabeth A. Bissonnette
An Assessment Of The Built Environment And Inclusivity Of Older Adults In Community Planning In Portland, Maine, Elizabeth A. Bissonnette
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
This paper focuses on this assessment specific to four: civic participation, housing, transportation, and outdoor spaces and buildings. Four others targeted for study by others include respect and social inclusion, communication and information, community and health services, and social participation. Each domain is reviewed from the perspective of older adults and older although this assessment also benefits people of all ages and abilities. Some data and references were only available with population breakouts of those aged 65 years and older and are noted appropriately.
Visualizing Road Network Congestion To Inform Regional Planning In Southern Maine, G Andrew Smith-Petersen
Visualizing Road Network Congestion To Inform Regional Planning In Southern Maine, G Andrew Smith-Petersen
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
In this analysis, road traffic volumes and capacity estimates are used in conjunction with population data and population change forecasts to visualize the potential for congestion at present, and to project the potential for congestion in 2030. The areas most and least at risk of congestion are identified, so as to inform thought and effort around planning on a regional scale in southern Maine. The area of study includes large portions of York and Cumberland Counties, as well as a small portion of Androscoggin County, in the Greater Portland region.
Virtual Team Interactions: Do They Help Or Hinder Interpersonal Communication?, Lorna Puiia Ma
Virtual Team Interactions: Do They Help Or Hinder Interpersonal Communication?, Lorna Puiia Ma
All Student Scholarship
A lack of trust, communication breakdowns, or badly integrated team members are a few of the reasons why a team can fail. To address whether leader and team member perceptions of communication within the team are similar, this study explores interpersonal communications among leadership and team members and considers whether today’s technology helps or hinders successful knowledge sharing and relationship building within virtual teams.
Habitat Fragmenta-On In The Sebago Lake Watershed, Jared Lank
Habitat Fragmenta-On In The Sebago Lake Watershed, Jared Lank
Thinking Matters Symposium Archive
The goal of this research was to evaluate the extent of land use change occurring in the Sebago lake watershed of southern Maine. The primary data set used was Landsat 7 Near Infrared satellite imagery of the region which was analyzed with ESRI’s ArcGIS soQware. Data was clipped to the Portland Water District’s sub watershed shape file and analyzed with the soQware’s image analysis ‘difference’ tool which calculates the differences in pixel values between to raster datasets. The 2013 Landsat reclassifica-on was compared to 1987, 1995 and 2009 reclassifica-ons. NOAA’s Habitat Priority Planner plugin tool was also u-lized in order …
Torch (March 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (March 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Rural Implications Of Medicaid Expansion Under The Affordable Care Act, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Rural Implications Of Medicaid Expansion Under The Affordable Care Act, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Jennifer D. Lenardson Mhs, Andrew F. Coburn Phd
Medicaid
In this brief, researchers from the Maine Rural Health Research Center (University of Southern Maine, Muskie School of Public Service) present findings from a SHARE-funded evaluation of the rural implications of Medicaid expansion under the ACA.
The authors examine the following issues:
- The extent to which prior public health insurance expansions have covered rural populations
- Whether rural residents who are expected to be newly eligible for Medicaid in 2014 differ from their urban counterparts
- The extent to which rural individuals might differentially benefit from the ACA Medicaid expansion in light of the expansion becoming optional
- Whether rural enrollees are likely …
Predictors Of Academic Success In Web-Based Courses: Age, Gpa, And Instruction Mode, Elizabeth J. Vella, Elizabeth F. Turesky, Jenni Hebert
Predictors Of Academic Success In Web-Based Courses: Age, Gpa, And Instruction Mode, Elizabeth J. Vella, Elizabeth F. Turesky, Jenni Hebert
Psychology Data
Purpose: Determine whether students enrolled in blended courses achieve higher grades relative to those enrolled in completely online courses. Methods: Mixed models regression evaluated predictors of grade across 2,174 students enrolled in web-based courses at the University of Southern Maine. Results: A significant main effect indicated higher grades amid students enrolled in blended relative to completely online courses. An interaction between GPA and instruction mode revealed students with average GPA or at 1 SD below the mean to earn higher grades in blended courses relative to those offered strictly online. Another interaction between age and instruction mode …
Torch (January 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (January 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Report Of The Commission To Study The Adequacy And Equity Of Certain Cost Components Of The School Funding Formula, Commission To Study The Adequacy And Equity Of Certain Cost Components Of The School Funding Formula
Report Of The Commission To Study The Adequacy And Equity Of Certain Cost Components Of The School Funding Formula, Commission To Study The Adequacy And Equity Of Certain Cost Components Of The School Funding Formula
School Funding - Essential Programs and Services (EPS)
The Commission was created by Resolves 2014, chapter 114, legislation that originated with the Joint Standing Committee on Education of the 126th Maine Legislature. Five members were appointed by the President of the Maine Senate; seven members were appointed by the Speaker of the House. The final two members were the Commissioner of Education or designee, and the Chair of the State Board of Education or designee. The names of Commission members and the organizations they represent, are included in Appendix B.
What follows are descriptions and materials related to each section of the Resolve and the final recommendations made …
Exploring The Nature Of Perfectionism And Middle School Student Achievement, Jean M. Beaulieu Phd
Exploring The Nature Of Perfectionism And Middle School Student Achievement, Jean M. Beaulieu Phd
All Student Scholarship
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe a doctoral research study designed to explore the nature of perfectionism and middle school student achievement. Perfectionism is currently perceived as a multi-dimensional construct with both adaptive and maladaptive features. This qualitative research study focuses on the views of nine seventh grade participants who were identified as adaptive or maladaptive perfectionists in a survey of students in one seventh grade cohort using the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (Slaney, Mobley, Trippi, Ashby, & Johnson, 1996). Each of the participants met with the researcher and completed three individual interviews and two focus group sessions. Data …
Summer Learning Loss For Maine Public School Elementary Students, David L. Silvernail Phd, Brian I. Mazjanis
Summer Learning Loss For Maine Public School Elementary Students, David L. Silvernail Phd, Brian I. Mazjanis
School Improvement
The goal of this research was to determine if there are statistically significant differences in learning between different categories of students apart from the influences of school. The foundational assumption is that student academic achievement is a product of both in-school and out-of-school factors. While there are many breaks from schooling during the calendar year, the largest by far is the summer recess. This study examined student achievement data measured at the end of one school year and then again at the beginning of the next school year. The study took advantage of the natural experiment that arose when the …
Exploring Principal Leadership In Improving Elementary Schools, Brian A. Porter Phd
Exploring Principal Leadership In Improving Elementary Schools, Brian A. Porter Phd
All Student Scholarship
As schools in Maine, and across the nation, are increasingly held to greater standards of accountability in terms of insuring higher levels of student academic growth and achievement, some schools are improving and some are not. Even beyond the constraints of tightening financial impositions and increasing accountability mandates, some are "defying the odds" and producing positive results. This research study sought to explore and understand the characteristics of principal leadership in improving elementary schools in Maine.
The Intersection Between Conspiracy Theories And Paranoia In American Culture, Melania Jankowski
The Intersection Between Conspiracy Theories And Paranoia In American Culture, Melania Jankowski
All Student Scholarship
This thesis traces the prominence of conspiracy theorizing and paranoia in American culture by examining the issues from a variety of angles and then focusing on the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as the primary case study. Through a critical analysis of the development of conspiratorination's al inclinations in the United States, the thesis argues that our nation's complacency with such behavior has made paranoia a defining aspect of American political culture. The thesis addresses how this came to be, as well as the general concepts of conspiracy and paranoia in three major ways.