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From Fact To Fiction: The Wuxia Experience And The Wushu Practice, Kadien S. Hill

Honors College Theses

Since its beginnings in China, martial arts have intrigued people with its mastery over mind and body, from the Shaolin monk practices of hand-to-hand combat and body conditioning to folktales of martial heroes with their mastery of swordplay and their almost superhuman-like fighting abilities. Martial arts have fascinated and astonished people in China for centuries, and since their introduction to the West they have captivated other cultures the world over. Their intrigue has caused them to penetrate entertainment circles through novelization early on. Chinese classics such as Water Margin and The Seven Heroes and the Five Gallants solidified martial arts …

An Examination Of Optimism Between Gender, Race, And School Classification Of Millennial Students – An Exploratory Study, Abigail C. Johnson

Honors College Theses

Optimism is defined as an individual’s approach to the expectation that good things will happen in the future and bad things are a rarity. Along with the general definition of what optimism is, many researchers have found that optimism depends on culturally embedded values and beliefs (Singh & Shukla, 2014; Lee & Mason, 2013). In addition, the relationship between optimism and positive health outcomes and well-being is well established (Coll, J.E. & Draves, P. R., 2008; Bastianello, M. R., Pacico, J. C., & Hutz, C. S., 2014). Although this is the case, little research has been found examining the differences …

Measuring Parent Engagement, Sheldon Rothman, Clare Ozolins, Jo Doyle

Early Childhood Education

The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), working with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY), undertook the task of creating a set of measures of parents’ engagement in their children’s learning. The aim was to develop a tool that individual schools could use to measure their efforts in parent engagement and monitor those efforts. A second aim was to use the data from the tool to examine the conceptual model of parent engagement previously published by ARACY and whether it fit with the data collected through the tool. The intended result was an evidence-informed definition of parent …

An Analysis Of Organ Donation Presentations On Weibo, Shengfei Li

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the presentation of organ donation organization on Weibo. This study used content analysis to find out the Love.Hope organ donation organization’s main content of Weibo’s content.

The main content includes six themes. The theme of popularizing organ donation knowledge is the majority. Through analyzing the correlation of content of each themes with shares, likes, and comments. It is concluded that people are more inclined to engage with Weibo posts with popularization of organ donation knowledge and stories of organ donors and recipients, and people also concern about the organ supply and demand situation in China.

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Women's Words About Pilgrims To Santiago De Compostela, 1890 - 1920, Maryjane Dunn

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Many scholarly articles claim that the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela was moribund at the turn of the last century based on statistical surveys of the Cathedral and Hospital Real registers, but these numbers only represent a fraction of the persons who devoutly visited Santiago Cathedral. In reality, the late nineteenth and early twentieth century pilgrimage as described by five turn-of-the-nineteenth-century female authors.- Emilia Pardo Bazán, Katherine Lee Bates, Georgiana Goddard King, Annette Meakin, and Catherine Gasquoine Hartley - is itself in a liminal state, between the traditional pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela and the newer tourist-pilgrim. The writings by …

Political Pilgrimage During China’S Cultural Revolution: The Case Of Dazhai, Ian S. Mcintosh

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

During China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-76) political pilgrimage was a tool for promoting the communist ideal of collectivism. This paper explores the creation in the 1960s by Chairman Mao Zedong of one of the foremost sites of political pilgrimage, the small agricultural commune of Dazhai in north-central China. I argue that in the days of militant atheism, all the factors usually associated with the creation of a religious pilgrimage site were present and utilized to great effect by the communists to create a ‘super symbol’ of China’s desired future. These factors included a miracle, charismatic leadership, altruism, poignant sites of historical …

Pathways Over The Life Course: Patterns Of Depressive Symptoms In Adolescence And Their Potential Impact On Educational Attainment, Stephen Carneiro Fernandes

MA Research Paper

This analysis draws on life course sociology to investigate the association between depression in adolescence and postsecondary completion in young adulthood. Three gaps in the mental health and education literature are addressed: lack of attention to the duration and timing of depressive symptoms, the overuse of high school degree receipt and college entry as outcome variables, and the exclusion of theoretically important confounders, such as self-rated health. Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, distinct mental health pathways that are based on a 12-item revision of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale are …

The History Of Khorezm Farming Culture In The Great Selection Scientist Academician N.I. Vavilov’S Investigations, S. N. Navruzuv, F. J. Tojiyeva

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

The article deals with the scientific expedition of Khorezm oasis, organized in 1925 under the leadership of academician N. Vavilov. It is noticeable that Khorezm is a historical agrarian country, which has a high agricultural culture. The researcher N. Vavilov, studying the numerous materials gathered by the participants of the expedition, has brought more than 80 types of agricultural plants of Khorezm oasis, besides there were described characteristics of some plants

Incomes And Expenses Of The State Treasure Of Khans Of Khiva In The Works Of Russian Travellers And Researchers (At The End 19th - The Beginning Of 20th Centuries), S. N. Navruzuv, F. J. Tojiyeva

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

In the article it was spoken about the expenses and incomes of the state treasury of Khiva khanate during the certain period where there was informed data concerning taxation resulted in the works and notes of Russian and European travelers and the researchers who visited the khanate during the different period

Archaeological Surveys In Antiquity Village Communities In Khorezm During Independence Years, M. Kurbanov

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article depicts about the Khorezm region antic time monuments analyses and archeological research surveys by the scientists during Independence years.

The Results Of Archeological Investigations Of The First And Middle Ages Memorials In The Lower Amu Darya Territories During Independence Years, O. Shikhov

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article is devoted to the analysis of the results of archeological investigations carried out in Lower Amu Darya basin during the years of independence.

Learning Of Literary Heritage Of Ogahiy In Extra Curricular Reading Classes Of Primary Education, M. Jumaniyozova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article explores the ways of learning in primary class extracurricular study lessons about Muhammadrizo Ogahiy `s life and work who left great literary heritage as a historian, translator and poet in Uzbek classical literature

Matnazar Abdulhakim's Literary Poetry, Stylistic Devices And Expressive Means, J. Otoboy

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

This article deals with the poet Matnazar Abdulhakim's poetry, its artistic aspects, its stylistic colors, poet-speaking art, and artistic imagery. The poet's poetry emphasizes the emphasis on such concepts and qualities as the most important thing in human life, such as purity, honesty, friendship

The Classification And Comparison Of English And Uzbek Lullabies, M. Nurmatova, F. J. Karimova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

The article illustrates the comparison between English and Uzbek lullabies based on their semantic classification

Applying Communicative Language Teaching (Clt) To Develop Speaking Skill In Efl Classrooms., Z. A. Pulatova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

There are different approaches to improve students’ speaking skill. One of the approaches is through communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. CLT is the approach in which the students are asked to use the language for communication in real situation. CLT will allow students the opportunity to use the target language in an authentic way.The article deals with the issue of working out useful and effective ways and some methods of teaching and developing students’ speaking skills in English foreign language classes

The Intrepretation Of A Word Or Poetry In Matnazar Abdulhakim’S Journalism, H. Gaipova

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

In this article are highlighted journalistic views about literary words and poetry in the literary thoughts janre of well-known poet M. Abdulhakim

Development And Validation Of The Study Quality Assessment Of Design (Squad) Tool For Systematic Reviews, Aaron Tierney, Marie Haverfield, Shreyas Bharadwaj, Donna Zulman

Faculty Publications

Research Objective: Quality assessment is an important factor in making sure results garnered from systematic reviews have external validity. While established groups have made recommendations and developed tools for quality assessment, these tools are often complex and not applicable across multiple types of study designs, generating challenges for quality assessment efforts.Study Design: As part of a systematic review of interpersonal interventions associated with the Quadruple Aim (population health, cost, patient and provider experience), we reviewed and developed a novel tool to measure the quality of study design for included studies. A multidisciplinary team reviewed existing quality assessment tools and ranked …

The How-To Of Biased Information: Teaching Engineering Students About Knowledge Creation And The Scholarly Conversation, Susan K. Boyd

Staff publications, research, and presentations

This presentation gives instructions on how to setup a class exercise using a document with obvious biases--by giving the students evaluation guidelines for going through the sources that the document is based on. The students were in a Civil Engineering water resources class, but the evaluative exercise can be applied using any controversial document with references.

Estimating State-Industry Employment, With An Application To Industrial Localization, Andrew J. Cassey, Ben O. Smith

Economics Faculty Publications

We describe a method to construct an industry-by-state repeated cross-section of employment at the most disaggregated level publicly available, covering 1963–2012. Nondisclosed data are estimated with a procedure using the hierarchical information structure. To illustrate the usefulness of the procedure, the resulting estimated data are tested to determine if industrial localization of the processed food sector has changed over the last 50 years in the United States. Our findings suggest it has not changed systemically despite variation in levels of localization within industries.

African Savanna Vegetation Model, Christoffer Axelsson

Graduate Student Datasets and Models

The project aimed at creating a model that can simulate the effect of environmental factors on trees and grasses in an African savanna landscape. It enables simulating the growth of woody and herbaceous vegetation in an African savanna landscape, where the user can define the environmental conditions. Input to the model includes:

• Monthly precipitation
• Fire regime
• Grazing pressure
• Soil type
• Slope
• Attributes of the woody species, such as maximum crown size and sensitivity to light conditions, drought, and fire.

Ethical Questions About Poverty Tourism, Rachel Robinson-Greene

Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

If you choose to visit one of the world’s big cities, a sightseeing option that may be available to you is what is frequently referred to as “poverty tourism.” If you look hard enough, you’ll be able to find tour buses that will drive you through the poorest parts of the city—places that you wouldn’t see if you hitched a ride on the standard hop-on-hop-off tourist bus. Poverty tourism is common in places that have been hit hard by natural disaster. Tourists tend to be curious about the extent of the devastation.

What Makes A Good Judge?, Brian M. Barry

Reports

This article overviews research demonstrating the factors beyond the law that can affect judicial decision-making.

Evaluation Of A Hierarchal Training Model For Group Home Staff, Elizabeth Marie Lynch

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Direct-care staff working with individuals with developmental disabilities (DD) are frequently exposed to challenging behavior from residents and expected to respond correctly to challenging resident behavior, but often receive insufficient training due to lack of resources and high staff turnover (e.g., Collins, 2012; Collins, Higbee, & Salzberg, 2009; Haberlin, Beauchamp, Agnew, & O’Brien, 2009; Pelletier, McNamara, Braga-Kenyon, & Ahearn, 2010). Training methods such as Behavioral Skills Training (BST) are highly intrusive and require high amounts of resources (e.g., Parsens, Rollyson, & Reid, 2012). Research suggests technological based alternatives are more cost effective, decreases training time and response effort from management, …

Designing With Meaningful Data: Deep Personalisation In The Air Travel Context, Mengqi Yuan, Rebecca Price, Jeroen Erp, Jorge Andres Osorio Socha

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are revolutionising the way customers interface with organisations and vice versa. However, there is limited knowledge regarding how data and AI are used as material during the design process. It is to this practice- research gap that this paper responds, by providing practical insight into a project between a Dutch airline, named AirlineX for the purpose of this paper, and a university-based design team. The project let to the development of a principle for personality-driven design that deeply personalises digital touchpoints within AirlineX’s operations. This principle is informed by ‘big five’ personality theory from the …

Parameters – Full Issue – Spring 2018, Usawc Parameters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

FEATURES: Special Commentary. “Right vs. Right: Personal Beliefs vs. Professional Obligations” by Linell A. Letendre and Martin L. Cook. Illusions of Victory. "LTG MacFarland: Insights on Illusions of Victory and Iraq” by Russell W. Glenn. “Avoiding Nation-Building: From Nixon to Trump” by Dominic Tierney. 21st Century Political Warfare. “Countering Russian Meddling in US Political Processes” by James P. Farwell. “Countering Russian Disinformation” by Timothy P. McGeehan. “Victory without Casualties: Russia’s Information Operations” by T. S. Allen and A. J. Moore. Special Relationships. “Brexit and the Anglo-American Security and Defense Partnership” by James K. Wither. “Brexit and Transatlantic Security” by Arthur …

Treason, Treachery, And Betrayal Of Trust: The Psychological Search For The Why, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

Treason, treachery, and betrayal of trust constitute a motif of human history. Can scientific psychology help us understand why?

Inactivation Of The Medial-Prefrontal Cortex Impairs Interval Timing Precision, But Not Timing Accuracy Or Scalar Timing In A Peak-Interval Procedure In Rats, Catalin V. Buhusi, Marcelo B. Reyes, Cody-Aaron Gathers, Sorinel A. Oprisan, Mona Buhusi

Psychology Faculty Publications

Motor sequence learning, planning and execution of goal-directed behaviors, and decision making rely on accurate time estimation and production of durations in the seconds-to-minutes range. The pathways involved in planning and execution of goal-directed behaviors include cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuitry modulated by dopaminergic inputs. A critical feature of interval timing is its scalar property, by which the precision of timing is proportional to the timed duration. We examined the role of medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in timing by evaluating the effect of its reversible inactivation on timing accuracy, timing precision and scalar timing. Rats were trained to time two durations in a …

Library Resource Updates, Georgia Southern University Libraries

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• Library Resource Updates

Longitudinal Change In High-Cost Prosocial Behaviors Of Defending And Including During The Transition To Adulthood, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, Madison K. Memmott-Elison, Matthew G. Nielson

Faculty Publications

Despite high profile examples that are highlighted in the popular media, we know little about high-cost prosocial behaviors such as defending and including, and how these behaviors might change over time and vary by individual. Thus, this study explored defending and including behaviors across the transition to adulthood by assessing growth and profiles of these high-cost prosocial behaviors over a four-year time span. In addition the study explored gender, emotional (sympathy), cognitive (personal values), individual (self-esteem), and relational (maternal warmth) factors during adolescence that predicted profiles of defending and including during the transition to adulthood. Participants were 469 individuals (52% …

Factors Affecting Spatial Differences In Health Outcomes, Kwadwo Poku-Agyemang

LSU Master's Theses

This study sought to establish the impact of the disparities between Metropolitan, Micropolitan and Non-Core communities on life expectancy. The study also assesses the impact of individual behavioral choices and certain social variables and county level policies one the life expectancy in a county.

A simple mean comparison analysis is employed to establish the differences in life expectancy across the various levels of the urban hierarchy in 1,553 counties in the United States. An ordinary least squares model is used to tease out the relationship between specific individual choice factors; smoking habits, obesity and exercise habits and socio-economic factors; medicare …