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Tides Of Cooperation: The Ebb And Flow Of Regional Cooperation In Latin America, Amaleia E. Kolovos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Regional organizations have developed into important global actors as they negotiate inter-regional trade agreements, regulate economic policies, and develop international security communities. States have much to gain from such regional cooperation efforts particularly in emerging regions such as Latin America. Such gains can include increased trade and economic relations, enhanced security, attracting external investment, and increasing bargaining power at the international level. With such gains to be had, one might expect states in these regions to regularly cooperate in order to achieve their common interests. However, this is clearly not always the case. Latin America has struggled for decades with …

The Whiteness Project Of Gentrification: The Battle Over Los Angeles' Eastside, Jaime Guzmán

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For many years, the city of Los Angeles has declared war on communities of color. In the past decade, former communities of color like Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Highland Park have all been converted into predominantly white, affluent neighborhoods. In essence, working-class people of colors' neighborhoods are being uplifted in order to welcome a much more affluent population to town. The newest target of Los Angeles' gentrification for the past couple of years has been the greater Eastside. In this project I present my critical intervention of gentrification as a whiteness project. This critical intervention argues that gentrification …

Social Conflict On The Seas: Links Between Overfishing-Induced Marine Fish Stock Declines And Forced Labor Slavery, Jessica L. Sparks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite media attention detailing labor abuses in fisheries, social-ecological systems research has largely failed to consider whether fish stock declines could be contributing to increases in forced labor slavery. Empirical fisheries data suggests, though not a ubiquitous response to declining stocks, many vessels will fish longer, farther from shore, and deeper in waters to maintain yields. This effort intensification increases production costs, and Brashares et al. (2014), consistent with slavery theory, posited cheap and/or unpaid labor as an approach to offset increasing costs and continue harvesting fish species at a rate otherwise cost-prohibitive.

Using fuzzy cognitive mapping - a participatory, …

Psychotropic Medications And Children: Perceptions Of Mental Health Professionals, Elinor Jane Brereton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project explores mental health professionals' perspectives on the prescription of psychotropic medications to children. It emphasizes the placement of biomedicine within its larger social, economic, and political context, and the influence these structures have on the way mental illness is conceptualized and treated in children. Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted in Denver, Colorado with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and a pharmaceutical board member to capture multiple perspectives from different positionalities within the field. Participants discussed factors that they believe influence prescribing practices including: professional role changes, issues of access, limited evidence, cost, and institutional pressures to practice within a …

The Global Dance Network: Reykjaví­K, Iceland, Takes On New Moves, Emily Creek

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research is an exploration of the contemporary dance community in Reykjaví­­k, Iceland. The research questions guiding this thesis were founded in a desire to understand how the dance community in Reykjaví­k creates its own agency and meaning within the city of Reykjaví­­k, as well as how the dance community in Reykjaví­k takes imported dance knowledge, localizes it and creates local meaning. With this goal of understanding the ways the community navigates the wider global dance network from its location as a northern island, I utilize concepts from the anthropology of globalization as well as dance anthropology. I specifically employ …

Fact Vs. Fiction: Uncovering The Experiences Of Homeless/Street Youths' Involvement In Survival Sex, Amber R. Mcdonald

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Youth involvement in trading/selling sex has become of concern for policy makers, scholars, and the general public in recent years (Cecchet & Thorburn, 2014; Hossain, et al, 2010; Pub L No. 106-386; Reid & Piquero, 2013; Sapiro, Johnson, Postmus, & Simmel, 2016; Shared Hope International, 2015). The behavior of trading/selling sex is defined dichotomously within the literature. One body of literature, employs the term "survival sex" when empirical work focuses on trading/selling sex among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ) identified individuals or youth that are homeless (Greene, Ennett & Ringwalt,1999; Halcon & Lifson, 2004; Walls & Bell, 2011). …

Through The Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse Of Female Circumcision, Jennifer Quichocho

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Despite the Western media attention and the critique of female circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, few studies consider the local populations' traditions, values, and ideologies. Through the Yoruba Lens: A Postcolonial Discourse of Female Circumcision investigates female circumcision practices from a philosophical, Yoruba traditionalist perspective. African philosophy and religion provides an ideological foundation and helps reveal the postcolonial and feminist theoretical framework that continues the academic debate. Framed by LeCompte and Schensul's notion that "ethnography emphasized discovery; it does not assume answers" (2010: 33), my research draws from literature reviews, quantitative data, and interviews. I will present and investigate three hypotheses …

The Foundations Of Aleksandr Dugin's Geopolitics: Montage Fascism And Eurasianism As Blowback, Grant Scott Fellows

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an examination of Aleksandr Dugin's The Foundations of Geopolitics, of which I have translated important sections into English and these are included as an appendix. Despite the importance of Foundations of Geopolitics to Russian strategic thought there has not been a translated edition published in English. This work was published in 1997 and has been quite influential for Russian political and military leadership. I strive to provide context for the setting in which Foundations of Geopolitics was created through an analysis of the social and political conditions that existed in Russia while the text was being …

A Critical Interpretation Of Olivier Roy: On Globalization, The Cosmopolitan And Emerging Post-Secular Religiosities, Joshua Rey Ramos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My thesis is that secularization transforms religion into religiosity. In other words, the secular breaks apart religion, or rather, 'deculturates' religion from a cohesive, collective body embedded within a particular society and within a traditional culture towards an individuated, and existential experience of faith within the autonomous religious subject. There are various reasons for this shift, as there are various consequences. Globalization, which is modernization writ large, is the dominant paradigm through which I conceptualize these changes. The theorist whose work I use as a lens to interpret secularization, religion and societal transformation is Olivier Roy. Roy's theories are of …

Las Hijas De Violencia: Performance, The Street, And Online Discourse, Madison M. Snider

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This paper explores street harassment as a contentious practice in the rhetorical spaces of the street and social media posting through a case study of the performance group Las Hijas de Violencia. Through anarchistic direct action resistance tactics, the group confronted harassers in the streets of Mexico City and their recordings launched global media interest which led to viral online sharing. Widespread sharing of their performance led to the creation of public discursive space, through comments sections, which was utilized to measure attitudes toward street harassment and feminist direct action protest. Contextualized in a growing call for an end to …

The Impact Of Sudden Gains And Deteriorations On The Psychotherapy Process, Joanna Mary Drinane

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Within the field of psychotherapy research, there has been significant evidence to suggest that people change and improve because of treatment (Lambert & Ogles, 2004). One common phenomenon that has been observed when looking more closely at outcome trajectories has been termed sudden gains/deteriorations. These are defined as sudden changes in outcome (either positive or negative) of 25% or more from the pre-change level of symptoms that are in turn sustained over time (Tang & DeRubeis, 1999). Although there are data regarding how people who experience sudden gains end up after treatment, no studies have examined the impact that sudden …

Defections And Democracy: Explaining Military Loyalty Shifts And Their Impacts On Post-Protest Political Change, Kara Leigh Kingma Neu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Why do militaries shift their loyalty from authoritarian regimes in some instances of anti-regime protests and not others, and why do these shifts sometimes lead to democratic change? These questions are crucial for understanding the role of the military in democratization, given competing expectations in the literatures on civil-military relations, pacted transitions, and civil resistance. They are also important for understanding the outcomes of protests and other nonviolent campaigns for regime change, a topic of increased attention in recent years. To answer them, I propose an argument rooted in the bases of military authority. Militaries are delegated authority by regimes …

The Political Economy Of Sandinismo 2.0: Environmental And Social Implications Of Paradoxical Economic Ideologies In Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua, Sarah Mccall Harris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research investigates the political economy of Nicaragua's development, with specific emphasis on Venezuela and China's influence, energy policy, and environmental and social justice related to the Nicaragua canal. The first section focuses on the political economy of the current Ortega administration in Nicaragua, as part of the return of left-leaning leadership in Latin America since the early 2000s. This study examines the Ortega administration's selective interpretation of the concept of imperialism and its effect on the environment as it pertains to US interests, Venezuelan oil financing and socialist rhetoric, and China's control over a large piece of Nicaraguan territory …

A Shifting Island Landscape: Changes In Land Use And Daily Life In The 19th And 20th Century Village Of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland, Lauren Marie Couey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates changes to village spatial arrangement and land use patterns in the nineteenth and twentieth century village of Inishark, Co. Galway, Ireland. To understand how spatial changes within the historic village were shaped by interactions between villagers and outside groups, including landlords and government agencies, a landscape approach was utilized. An examination of historic maps, valuation documents, and Irish Census documents, combined with ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey and archaeological excavation, were used to understand how historical pressures impacted island life. Inishark's geographic isolation creates a unique case study to understand the impact of historical pressures on rural Irish …

An Archaeological Exploration Of Agriculture, Trade, And Indigenous Relationships At A Seventeenth-Century New England Site, Jasmine Coreen Saxon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A multi-method approach including ground-penetrating radar, magnetometry, historical research, excavations, and artifact analyses was used to gather data at a 17th century archaeological site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Interpretation of these data provided evidence that the Europeans who occupied this site were involved in a variety of activities such as agriculture, trade, and developing Indigenous relationships. These activities included cultivating an agricultural surplus instead of relying on subsistence farming, access to trading networks that extended throughout the Colonies and into Europe, and cohabitation with the Indigenous peoples in the area. This research led to an examination of various historical narratives …

"The Spirit Of The Builder": The Library Career Of Julia Carson Stockett, Lisa Lindell

Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications

The personal history of Julia Carson Stockett contributes to and interweaves with the larger story of American women professional librarians in the early twentieth century. Stockett’s experiences illuminate the achievements made by professional women in support and encouragement of one another. Throughout her career, Stockett sustained a commitment to her professional status and responsibilities and her vision of librarianship. The diversity of libraries and populations she served, notably in the West and Midwest, mark her work as exceptional. At the heart of her vocational choices were her facility for organization and her desire to bring books and reading to those …

Best Practices In Environmental Governance, Habibul Haque Khondker

Working papers

The present paper examines the environmental governance that includes both official policies as well as the involvement of the non-governmental organizations in spreading the awareness of environmental care and sustainability in four Nordic countries. The paper argues that there are lessons to be drawn from the best practices of the Nordic countries. The paper suggests that governance in the conventional sense of administering, planning and execution carried out by the government to promote public good, may be supplemented by another goal, namely, removal of "public bad or public ills" that are easy to identify, especially in regard to environmental pollution …

Full Gait Cycle Analysis Of Lower Limb And Trunk Kinematics During Walking In Participants With And Without Ankle Instability, Lynsey Northeast, Charlotte N. Gautrey, Lindsay Bottoms, Gerwyn Hughes, Andrew C.S. Mitchell, Andrew Greenhalgh

Kinesiology (Formerly Exercise and Sport Science)

Background: Chronic ankle instability (CAI) has previously been linked to altered lower limb kinematics and muscle activation characteristics during walking, though little research has been performed analysing the full time-series across the stance and swing phases of gait. Research Question: The aim of this study was to compare trunk and lower limb kinematics and muscle activity between those with chronic ankle instability and healthy controls. Methods: Kinematics and muscle activity were measured in 18 (14 males, 4 females) healthy controls (age 22.4 ± 3.6 years, height 177.8 ± 7.6 cm, mass 70.4 ± 11.9 kg, UK shoe size 8.4 ± …

The Effect Of Movement Variability On Putting Proficiency During The Golf Putting Stroke, Ashley K. Richardson, Andrew C.S. Mitchell, Gerwyn Hughes

Kinesiology (Formerly Exercise and Sport Science)

Movement variability has been considered important to execute golf swing yet is comparatively unexplored regarding the golf putt. Movement variability could potentially be important considering the small margins of error between successful and a missed putt. The aim of this study was to assess whether variability of body segment rotations influence putting performance (ball kinematic measures). Eight golfers (handicap range 0-10) performed a 3.2 metre level putt wearing retro-reflective markers which were tracked using a three-dimensional motion analysis system sampling at 120 Hz. Ball roll kinematics were recorded using Quintic Ball Roll launch monitor. Movement (segment) variability was calculated based …

Young People’S Views Of Government, Peaceful Coexistence, And Diversity In Five Latin American Countries: Iea International Civic And Citizenship Education Study 2016 Latin American Report, Wolfram Schulz, John Ainley, Cristián Cox, Tim Friedman

Civics and Citizenship Assessment

ICCS 2016 was the second cycle of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS). ICCS studies the ways in which education systems from around the world prepare young people to undertake their roles as citizens in society. In Latin America, this area of learning is set within particular challenges and contexts. Compared to established Western democracies, most countries in this region returned to democratic rule only three or four decades ago or even more recently, and their political, social, and economic stability continues to be called into question. Surveys have consistently found that commitment to democracy among adults in …

The Great War At The Table: Food As A Lens Of Inquiry In The Historiography Of The First World War, Alexander Bacha

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay…………………………........3

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………..23

III. Textbook Critique……………………………..28

IV. New Textbook Entry………………………….31

V. Bibliography…………………………………....37

ระบบนิเวศเมือง : องค์ประกอบภูมิทัศน์กับการบริการเชิงนิเวศ, ดนัย ทายตะคุ, มิ่งขวัญ นันทวิสัย, ภาวดี อังศุสิงห์

UNISEARCH (Unisearch Journal)

ระบบนิเวศเมือง (urban ecology) มีความหลากหลายขององค์ประกอบภูมิทัศน์ ซึ่งเกิดจากการรวมกลุ่มกันขององค์ประกอบทางธรรมชาติและองค์ประกอบที่มนุษย์สร้างขึ้นดังจะเห็นได้จากสิ่งปกคลุมดิน (land cover)ในพื้นที่เมือง ทั้งอาคาร พื้นดาดแข็ง พืชพรรณ และน้ำ ประกอบกันเป็นผืนโมเสก (mosaic) หรือผืนภูมิทัศน์ขององค์ประกอบที่หลากหลาย (Forman, 1986) ดังนั้น การทำความเข้าใจองค์ประกอบภูมิทัศน์ของเมืองโดยการจำแนกสิ่งปกคลุมดินจึงมีความสำคัญ เพื่อให้สามารถเข้าใจถึงความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างโครงสร้างและรูปแบบขององค์ประกอบภูมิทัศน์ (landscape element) กับบทบาทเชิงนิเวศ (landscape function)และการบริการเชิงนิเวศ (ecosystem services) ของแต่ละองค์ประกอบได้ ซึ่งจะสามารถนำมาใช้เป็นข้อมูลพื้นฐานเพื่อช่วยในการวางแผนและออกแบบระบบนิเวศเมืองให้เหมาะสมและสอดคล้องกับกระบวนการเชิงนิเวศซึ่งจะส่งผลดีต่อการดำรงชีวิตของมนุษย์ และคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดีต่อคนในพื้นที่เมืองต่อไป

แนะนำโครงการ Good Walk เมืองเดินได้-เมืองเดินดี การศึกษาศักยภาพการเข้าถึงสาธารณูปการที่ส่งเสริมการเดินเท้าและดัชนีศักยภาพการเดินเท้า, นิรมล กุลศรีสมบัติ, พรสรร วิเชียรประดิษฐ์, อดิศักดิ์ กันทะเมืองลี้

UNISEARCH (Unisearch Journal)

No abstract provided.

ตัวรับรู้ชีวภาพบนพื้นฐานปฏิกิริยาของเอนไซม์สำหรับการตรวจวัดสารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืชกลุ่มออร์แกโนฟอสเฟต, บุษยรัตน์ ธรรมพัฒนกิจ, ชลธิชา สาหับ, ธรรมนูญ หนูจักร, ธวัชชัย ตันฑุลานิ

UNISEARCH (Unisearch Journal)

ปัจจุบันสารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืชืถูกนำมาใช้งานอย่างแพร่หลายทำให้ผลผลิติที่ได้มีโอกาสปนเปื้อนสารเคมีเหล่านี้ ซึ่งส่งผลต่อสุขภาพและความปลอดภัยของผู้บริโภค การตรวจวัดสารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืชด้วยเทคนิคที่รวดเร็วและมีประสิทธิภาพในการคัดกรอง จะมีส่วนช่วยลดความเสี่ยงที่ผู้บริโภคจะได้รับจากสารเคมีดังกล่าว ในงานวิจัยนี้คณะผู้วิจัยได้พัฒนาตัวรับรู้ชีวภาพ (biosensor) ในรูปแบบใหม่สำหรับตรวจวัดยาฆ่าแมลงกลุ่มออร์แกโนฟอสเฟต(Organophosphate Pesticides: OPs) อย่างจำเพาะมุ่งเน้นการศึกษากราฟีนควอนตัมดอท (GrapheneQuantum Dots: GQDs) ซึ่งเป็นวัสดุในระดับนาโนที่ให้สัญญาณแสงฟลูออเรสเซนต์สูง เตรียมง่าย ราคาถูกอีกทั้งไม่เป็นพิษต่อสิ่งแวดล้อม โดยได้นำเอากลไกการยับยั้ง การทำงานของเอนไซม์ชนิดอะซิติลโคลีนเอสเทอเรส(Acetylcholinesterase: AChE) ซึ่งมีมากในระบบประสาทของสิ่งมีชีวิตมาประยุกต์ใช้ โดยอาศัยบทบาทการทำงานของเอนไซม์ 2 ชนิด คือ อะซิติลโคลีนเอสเทอเรสและโคลีนเอสเทอเรส (Cholinesterase: CHOx) ซึ่งจะผลิตไฮโดรเจนเปอร์ออกไซด์ (H2O2) ณ สภาวะปกติ ในขณะเดียวกันการผลิตไฮโดรเจนเปอร์ออกไซด์ที่ลดลงเมื่อ มีออร์แกโนฟอสเฟตในระบบ จะส่งผลต่อสัญญาณแสงฟลูออเรสเซนต์ของกราฟีนควอนตัมดอท นำไปสู่การตรวจวัดหาปริมาณของยาฆ่าแมลงกลุ่มออร์แกโนฟอสเฟตได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ โดยความรู้และข้อมูลที่ได้จากงานวิจัยนี้จะมีส่วนสำคัญในการตรวจวัดหาปริมาณยาฆ่าแมลงในอาหาร แหล่งน้ำ และสิ่งแวดล้อมอื่นๆ ได้ในอนาคต

สัมภาษณ์ ถอดบทเรียน : การพัฒนางานวิจัยสู่การนำไปใช้เพื่อการพัฒนาประเทศ, สุพจน์ วัฒนะพันธ์ศักด์ิ

UNISEARCH (Unisearch Journal)

No abstract provided.

'At Least You're Not Neurotypical': Social Barriers To Mental Health At Oberlin College, Charis Justine Stanek

Honors Papers

Previous research shows that mental health issues often manifest in the late teens and early twenties, the age of many college students (Kessler et al., 2007). This report is a case study about mental illness at Oberlin College. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the subculture of Oberlin may incentivize students to maintain their identity with mental illness. Three hundred and eighty-four Oberlin students were surveyed about their perception of conversations around mental illness and behaviors of mentally ill students at Oberlin. In fifty semi-structured interviews, students were asked to elaborate on how they came …

Ua19/16/1/5 Hilltopper Golf 2017-18 Season Statistics, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

No abstract provided.

Ua19/16/1/1 2018 Baseball Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

2018 baseball media guide produced by WKU Athletic Media Relations, includes athletic records and statistics, photographs, schedule and information regarding opponents.

Ua35/3 Memoranda, Wku Provost

WKU Administration Documents

2018 memoranda issued by the WKU Provost to facutly & staff via email.

• University College Reorganization
• Dean, College of Education & Behavioral Sciences
• Interim Registrar Appointment
• Associate Provost for Global Learning & International Affairs
• New Admissions Standards
• Mahurin Honors College Appointment
• RAMP & Open Forum

Ua19/16/1 Wku Football Media Guide, Wku Athletic Media Relations

WKU Administration Documents

WKU football media guide for 2018.