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The Role Of Perceptual Simulation In L2 Vocabulary Acquisition, Min Zhu, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Research in embodied cognition suggests that perceptual simulation may play a role in language comprehension. In this study we use a combination of experimental and qualitative research to explore the potential of simulation exercises to improve acquisition of esoteric literary English vocabulary by English majors at a Chinese University. Through quantitative analysis of the data from one pre-test and two post-tests of the experimental and control groups, and qualitative examination of the student feedback collected from an open-ended survey and face-to-face interviews, we find that most of the students in both conditions have simulations of the learned words whether based …

Aces And Substance Use: Understanding The Influence Of Childhood Experiences On Substance Use In Adolescence Across Race And Ethnicity, Tacey Micole Matheson Shurtliff

Theses and Dissertations

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect numerous outcomes in adulthood, but relatively few studies examine their implications for adolescents. Understanding the effects of ACEs is important since adolescent behaviors affect subsequent life course milestones and transitions. One area of the ACEs research that is deficient involves adolescent substance use. In addition, there is a paucity of studies addressing whether the association between ACEs and substance use differs by race/ethnicity. Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, this study aims to fill these gaps by (a) examining whether adolescents who experience more ACEs tend to be at higher risk …

What Do We Know About What To Do With Dams? How Knowledge Shapes Public Opinion About Their Removal In New Hampshire, Simone Chapman, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Kevin H. Gardner

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Simone Chapman, Catherine Ashcraft, Lawrence Hamilton, and Kevin Gardner report the results of an October 2018 Granite State Poll that asked 607 New Hampshire residents how much they have heard, and their thoughts, concerning the question of whether older dams on New Hampshire rivers should be removed for ecological or safety reasons, or whether the dams should be kept.

Most people admitted they have not heard or read about this issue, but at the same time they agreed that dams could be removed in at least some cases. The more people heard or read about the …

Morality Politics: Drug Use And The Catholic Church In The Philippines, Jayeel Cornelio, Gideon Lasco

Development Studies Faculty Publications

This article traces the trajectory of the Catholic Church’s discourses on drug use in the Philippines since the first time a statement was made in the 1970s. By drawing on official statements by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), it argues that shifts in emphasis have taken place through the years: the destruction of the youth, attack on human dignity, and then social moral decay. Collectively, they emanate from an institutional concern for peace and order. But they also reflect the moral panic around drug use that has been around for decades, which, on several …

Growth And New Directions: Cala Academic Resources And Repository System, Sai Deng, Weiling Liu, Suzhen Chen, Mingyan Li, Meng Qu

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

The Chinese American Librarians Association’s Academic Resources & Repository System (CALASYS) was established in 2013 and has been growing gradually ever since. To seek sustainable and greater growth in the future, the CALASYS 2019-2020 Committee reviewed previous efforts and explored new potentials in the repository’s content development, interface and functionality improvement and community engagement. This presentation will cover several issues that the Committee has addressed since its forming: developing new content for CALASYS such as a new top-level collection called ”Chinese Culture Heritage & Chinese Studies” and its children collections including the CALA Best Book Award Collection; starting or resuming …

Farm And Ranch Enterprise Budgets: Return To What?, Larry Van Tassell, Jay Parsons, Glennis Mcclure

Cornhusker Economics

Budgets capturing the projected revenues and costs associated with producing and marketing a single commodity are generally called enterprise budgets or cost and return estimates but can also be referred to as profit center budgets. Two of the major purposes for developing enterprise budgets are to determine which enterprises are the most profitable and to determine breakeven prices for use in a marketing plan. Enterprise budgets produced by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln can be found at farm.unl.edu.

Yay Or Nay? A Media Analysis Of How Deception Is Utilized As A Leadership Tactic In The Television Show Sons Of Anarchy, Bruce T. Lanigan

Theses and Dissertations

Deception is a tactic that is seen by individuals on a daily basis. One of the places most people endure deception is in the workplace. This thesis analyzes how leaders utilize deception in the workplace through the television show Sons of Anarchy. Throughout the show, both transformational and transactional leadership styles are present. Various story arcs portraying deceptive actions will be analyzed through the lenses of leader-member exchange theory and interpersonal deception theory. This thesis reveals that transformational leaders utilize deception more effectively, while transactional leaders use deceptive measures more frequently.

Free Expression And Judicial Power In Colombia, India, And South Africa, Thomas Keck, Sandra Botero, Rachel Ellet

Political Science - All Scholarship

The growth of judicial power globally has renewed scholarly debates about who benefits from increased judicial authority. Using original data, we examine the full universe of constitutional free expression decisions issued by three apex courts—in Colombia, India, and South Africa— across three categories of disputes that feature a diverse array of rights claimants. By so doing, we shed light on the limits of elite-driven accounts of judicial empowerment. We find that even where constitutional courts are empowered by elites seeking to advance their own interests, activist courts can develop a practice of rights-protection that benefits a diverse range of less- …

Examining The Narratives Of Military Sexual Trauma Survivors, Maria Carolina GonzáLez-Prats

Dissertations and Theses

Background: The return of military sexual trauma (MST) to the national spotlight has been fueled by a combination of continued reports of sexual assaults across the various military branches, increased visibility of sexual abuse scandals in the media, and mounting calls for accountability from veteran advocacy groups and legislators. Although there have been numerous reforms implemented by the military, there still exists a significant gap between the military's official efforts and the reality of the survivors' experiences. Consequently, more research is needed to understand how survivors perceive the military's efforts, how these efforts affect their experiences, and how future …

Rationing The Commons, Nicholas Ryan, Anant Sudarshan

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Common resources may be managed with inefficient policies for the sake of equity. We study how rationing the commons shapes the efficiency and equity of resource use, in the context of agricultural groundwater use in Rajasthan, India. We find that rationing binds on input use, such that farmers, despite trivial prices for water extraction, use roughly the socially optimal amount of water on average. The rationing regime is still grossly inefficient, because it misallocates water across farmers, lowering productivity. Pigouvian reform would increase agricultural surplus by 12% of household income, yet fall well short of a Pareto improvement over rationing.

Review Of The Future Of Literary Archives, Meghan R. Rinn

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

In the opening of The Future of Literary Archives: Diasporic and Diverse Collections at Risk, editor David C. Sutton is careful to note that the various chapters in the volume are related to the work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network. As such, the book itself serves as a demonstrated result of the Network’s years of work and collaboration across international boundaries, touching on subjects including public/private archives, material at risk, cultural imperialism, and literary history.

الجمود الفکری (الدوجماتیة) وعلاقته باضطراب الشخصیة الحدیة لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانویة بمحافظة قلوة, سعيد مساعد سعيد الزهراني

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

هدفت الدراسة إلى الکشف عن درجة کل من الجمود الفکری (الدوجماتیة)، وأعراض اضطراب الشخصیة الحدیة، والعلاقة بینهما لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانویة، ولتحقیق هذا الهدف اتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفی بصورته الارتباطیة، حیث تم التحقق من صدق وثبات مقیاس الجمود الفکری لروکیتش (تقنین: خوج، 2008)، وقائمة أعراض الشخصیة الحدیة المختصرة (تقنین: أبو زید، 2017)، وتطبیقهما على عینة الدراسة البالغ عددها (305) طالباً من طلاب المرحلة الثانویة بمحافظة قلوة، وباستخدام الأسالیب الإحصائیة المناسبة، توصلت الدراسة إلى أن درجة الجمود الفکری لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانویة بمحافظة قلوة کانت (متوسطة) حیث بلغ المتوسط الحسابی القیمة (3.81) بانحراف معیاری قدره (1.09)، بینما کانت درجة أعراض اضطراب …

درجة الذکاء الانفعالی وعلاقته بقیم العمل لدى المرشدین والمرشدات بتعلیم محافظتی اللیث والقنفذة, أحمد حسن إبراهيم السلامي

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

هدفت الدراسة إلى الکشف عن العلاقة بین درجة الذکاء الانفعالی وعلاقته بقیم العمل لدى المرشدین والمرشدات بتعلیم محافظتی اللیث والقنفذة، ولتحقیق هذا الهدف اتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفی بصورته الارتباطیة، حیث تم التحقق من صدق وثبات مقیاسی: الذکاء الانفعالی (رزق وعثمان، 1996)، وقیم العمل (علام وأبو زید، 1993)، وتطبیقهما على عینة الدراسة من المرشدین الطلابیین والمرشدات الطلابیات بلغ عددهم (475)، وباستخدام الأسالیب الإحصائیة المناسبة، توصلت الدراسة إلى أن وجود درجة (مرتفعة) من الذکاء الانفعالی لدى عینة الدراسة بمتوسط قدره (3.85)، وکان ترتیب أبعاد الذکاء الانفعالی هو (التعاطف، تنظیم الانفعالات، إدارة الانفعالات، التواصل الاجتماعی، المعرفة الانفعالیة)، کما جاءت الدرجة الکلیة لقیم العمل …

الیقظة العقلیة وعلاقتها بأعراض القلق لدى طلاب الکلیة التقنیة بمحافظة بیشة, سعد محمد عبد الله الحارثي

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على درجة کل من الیقظة العقلیة وأعراض القلق والعلاقة بینهما لدى طلاب الکلیة التقنیة بمحافظة بیشة، واتبعت الدراسة المنهج الوصفی بصورته الارتباطیة، حیث تم اختیار عینة عشوائیة من طلاب الکلیة التقنیة بمحافظة بیشة بلغ قوامها (284)، طبق علیهم مقیاسی الیقظة العقلیة (محمد، 2017)، وأعراض القلق (إعداد: الباحث)، وقد توصلت الدراسة إلى مجموعة من النتائج کان من أبرزها: وجود علاقة ارتباطیة سلبیة ودالة إحصائیاً بین الیقظة العقلیة وأعراض القلق لدى عینة الدراسة، کما جاءت درجة الیقظة العقلیة لدیهم (متوسطة)، وأیضاً کانت أعراض القلق لدیهم (متوسطة) وأکثرها انتشاراً الأعراض النفسیة ثم الأعراض الجسمیة، وقد وجدت فروق دالة إحصائیاً …

الدور الوسیط للأفکار اللاعقـلانیة فی العلاقة بین التـوجه نحـو المستقبل وکلاً من المسـؤولیة التحصیلیة والإرجاء الأکادیمی لدى طلبة جامعة الباحة, عبدالهادي بن يحيى بن محمد العُمري

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

هدف البحث إلى الکشف عن الدور الوسیط للأفکار اللاعقـلانیة بین التـوجه نحـو المستقبل وکلاً من المسـؤولیة التحصیلیة والإرجاء الأکادیمی لدى طلبة الجامعة، واتبع الباحث المنهج الوصفی، کما تم اختیار عینة عشوائیة من طلاب جامعة الباحة قوامها (720) طالباً وطالبة، بواقع (400) طالباً وطالبة من المتفوقین دراسیاً، و(320) طالباً وطالبة من المتأخرین دراسیاً، طُبق علیهم مقاییس: الأفکار اللاعقلانیة (الباحث)، والتوجه نحو المستقبل (الصقر، 2011)، والمسؤولیة التحصیلیة (الخزاعلة والحمدون، 2010)، والإرجاء الأکادیمی (السکران، 2015)، وتوصل البحث إلى مجموعة من النتائج کان من أبرزها: لا تظهر عینة الدراسة تبایناً من الأفکار اللاعقلانیة، فیما تظهر العینة مستوى مرتفع من التوجه نحو المستقبل، بینما تظهر …

درجة استخدام الإدارة الإلکترونیة وعلاقتها بالإبداع الإداری لدى قادة المدارس بمحافظة العقیق, فائز بن همیّل فائز الدعجانی

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

هدفت الدراسة إلى الکشف عن درجة استخدام الإدارة الإلکترونیة وعلاقتها بالإبداع الإداری لدى قادة المدارس بمحافظة العقیق، وذلک من وجهة نظر کل من المعلمین وقادة المدارس، ولتحقیق أهداف الدراسة تم اتباع المنهج الوصفی بصورته المسحیة، کما تم اختیار عینة طبقیة عشوائیة من المعلمین بلغ عددها 221، أما عینة القادة فقد تم استخدام الحصر الشامل لقلة العدد، حیث بلغ حجم العینة 29 قائداً، وتم استخدام الاستبانة أداة لجمع البیانات، وذلک بعد التحقق من صدقها وثباتها، حیث أظهرت النتائج أن تقدیر أفراد عینة الدراسة لاستخدام قادة المدارس للإدارة الإلکترونیة جاء بدرجة متوسطة، فیما لم توجد فروق ذات دلالة إحصائیة عند مستوى ≤ …

(أبعاد الوعى المکانی والأمانی اللازمة لمقررات الدراسات الاجتماعیة بالمرحلة الابتدائیة بمدارس النور للمکفوفین (دراسة تقییمی, محمد عید فارس

Sohag Journal of Education المجلة التربوية بسوهاج

تعد التربیة الأمانیة من مجالات التربیة الفعالة التی تسعى إلى إکساب المعاقین العدید من المعارف، والمهارات، والسلوکیات اللازمة التی تساعدهم على القیام بالأنشطة فى أمان دون تعرضهم للأخطار. (وفاء یوسف حمدى، 2013). ونظراً لأن المعاق یوجه کل نشاطه وطاقته عند إکتشافه للبیئة من حوله.مما قد یعرضه للأخطار ، وذلک لما تتسم به أسالیبه من إلحاق الضرر بالذات، وبالأخرین . لذا فإن تحقیق الوعى الأمانی للمعاق یعد أمراً مهماً ، ویتم ذلک من خلال تقدیم المعلومات وتنمیة المهارات اللازمة له التى تساعده على تحقیق الأمان حتى یتعرف کیف یحافظ على سلامته وحیاته . (رانیا العربى ، 2014، ص 550). ویستلزم تنمیة …

Is There A Difference Between Democrat And Republican States In The Number Of Female Students Who Experienced Cyberbullying?, Wayne Davis

Lincoln Memorial University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

In the United States, cyberbullying has become a major public health concern. Because there is a difference between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party on their philosophies involving laws and government interventions related to the control of electronic communications, it is important to know if there is a difference between political partisanship and cyberbullying. Data were collected in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 using a three-stage cluster sample design, which produced a nationally representative sample of students in grades 9–12 who attended public and private schools. Initially, this study employed Poisson regression, which is a parametric statistic, in an …

Smoller And Moodian: It’S Time To Rename John Wayne Airport, Fred Smoller, Michael A. Moodian

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

"As Confederate statues and odes to Christopher Columbus are taken down across the country, Orange County must come to grips with its own tribute to a racially polarizing figure: John Wayne. The time has come to rename our airport and remove Wayne’s statue."

Introduction To The R-Package: Usdampr, Elliott James Dennis, Bowen Chen

Extension Farm and Ranch Management News

Why the Need for the Package? In the 1990’s, concern over growing packer concentration and a hog industry market shock resulted in discontent among producers and packers. As a result, the United States Congress passed the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Act of 1999 (1999 Act) [Pub. L. 106-78, Title IX] which is required to be reauthorized every five years. See here for a full history of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting Background.

Market reports were publicly issued in the form of .txt files with varying frequency from April 2000 to April 2020. Current and historical data were also housed in a USDA-AMS …

“You’Re Almost In This Place That Doesn’T Exist”: The Impact Of College In Prison As Understood By Formerly Incarcerated Students From The Northeastern United States, Hilary Binda, Jill D. Weinberg, Nora Maetzener, Carolyn Rubin

Journal of Prison Education and Reentry (2014-2023)

This qualitative study examines the immediate and lasting impact of liberal arts higher education in prison from the perspective of former college-in-prison students from the Northeastern United States. Findings obtained through semi-structured interviews with formerly incarcerated people are presented in the following three areas: self-confidence and agency, interpersonal relationships, and capacity for civic leadership. This study further examines former students’ reflections on the relationship between education and human transformation and begins to benchmark college programming with attention to the potential for such transformation. The authors identify four characteristics critical to a program’s success: academic rigor, the professor's respect for students, …

“Tech Is Easy, People Are Hard”: Philosophical Takeaways From Cat Moon’S Calicon Keynote, Rachel S. Evans

Articles, Chapters and Online Publications

In this blog post for AALL's CS-SIS Evans shares her favorite bits of advice from the recent Computer Assisted Legal Instruction Conference keynote delivered by Caitlin "Cat" Moon, including design philosophies for making resources, services and workflows more user-centered and specific book recommendations.

University Of Northern Colorado: Collaborate. Standardize. Grow, Lyda Mccartin

University Libraries Publications

Chapter 38 in the book Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts edited by Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Rebecca Halpern. The chapter provides an overview of University Libraries Information Literacy and Undergraduate Support department and discussed the importance of standardizing one-shot curriculum in order to grow a robust information literacy program.

Bangladesh: Covid-19 Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices And Needs—Responses From The First Round Of Data Collection Among Adolescent Girls In Five Districts, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

The Population Council Bangladesh conducted the first round of a series of rapid phone-based surveys on COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, and practices and the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 on adolescent girls. The first COVID-19 positive patient in Bangladesh was reported on March 8, 2020. The advent of COVID-19 triggered the closure of all educational institutions. A nationwide “holiday” was declared on March 26, 2020, and a ban was implemented on all passenger travel by water, rail, and air. These restrictions have been partially relaxed, but the disease is spreading rapidly with 28,511 positive cases and 408 deaths as of …

Differences Between Teacher-Focused Twitter Hashtags And Implications For Professional Development, Spencer P. Greenhalgh

Information Science Faculty Publications

Twitter hashtags may serve as valuable means for teachers' professional development. However, given the diversity of hashtag spaces and teacher needs, teachers must assess a given hashtag and compare it to their learning needs and preferences before determining whether it would be helpful. To support this reflection, I examine data associated with 60 Regional Educational Twitter Hashtags (RETHs) during the first six months of 2016 to begin describing the variety of teacher learning-focused Twitter spaces and make distinctions between them. My results indicate that these RETHs vary according to their relative focus on sharing, intimacy of personal connection, and volume …

Social-Emotional Outcomes In Children With Hydrocephalus, Vanessa L. Wall

Theses and Dissertations

Hydrocephalus can impact all areas of health, including physical, cognitive, and social-emotional functioning. The social-emotional health of children who have had surgery for their hydrocephalus is not well characterized. This study examined social-emotional and behavioral functioning using the Behavioral Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC-3) and the Hydrocephalus Outcome Questionnaire (HOQ) in children aged 5-17 years old. BASC-3 parent report scores were compared to the BASC-3 normative sample using one-sample t-tests to evaluate overall social-emotional functioning. BASC-3 scores were correlated with the social-emotional domain of the HOQ using Pearson's r to determine if the HOQ accurately captures the social-emotional …

Stories From The Frontlines Of The Covid-19 Response In New York, Ashley Van Slyke

Population Health Research Brief Series

This brief features the stories of a nurse and national guardsman from Central NY who served on the frontline of the COVID-19 response during the early days of the outbreak in New York City. These frontline workers described patient overcrowding, equipment shortages, feeling physically and emotionally exhausted, and lessons learned from their experiences.

Transportation Affordability In The Mountain West, Saha Salahi, Kelliann Beavers, Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Transportation & Infrastructure

This Fact Sheet highlights “The Most and Least Affordable Cities For Public Transit” in the Mountain West. Extracting from Paul Reynolds’ analysis of over 70 transit system across the United States from 2014 to 2015, this fact sheet focuses on data for the 7 municipalities in the Mountain West: Albuquerque, NM; Ogden, UT; Boulder, CO; Phoenix, AZ; Las Vegas, NV, Salt Lake City, UT, and Denver, CO.

Using Open Public Meetings And Elections To Promote Inward Transparency And Accountability: Lessons From Zambia, Taryn Vian, Rachel M. Fong, Jeanette L. Kaiser, Viviane Sakanga, Melvin Mwansa, Parker S. Chastain, Thandiwe Ngoma, Nancy Scott

Nursing and Health Professions Faculty Research and Publications

Background
Community-led governance can ensure that leaders are accountable to the populations they serve and strengthen health systems for maternal care. A key aspect of democratic accountability is electing respective governance bodies, in this case community boards, and holding public meetings to inform community members about actions taken on their behalf. After helping build and open 10 maternity waiting homes (MWHs) in rural Zambia as part of a randomized controlled trial, we assisted community governance committees to plan and execute annual meetings to present performance results and, where needed, to elect new board members.

Methods
We applied a principally qualitative …

A Heart Of Gold

DePaul Magazine

An interview with alumnus, retired insurance executive and DePaul Life Trustee Bertram ("Bert") Scott, chairman of the American Heart Association (AHA). He hopes to help focus attention on the social determinants of health, increase research, address vaping illnesses and foster diversity communities to get involved with the AHA.