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Second Spring Semester Meeting: February 26th, 2021
Second Spring Semester Meeting: February 26th, 2021
Golf Management Program: Publications
Second Spring Semester Meeting: February 26th, 2021
PGM Student Club, PGA Golf Management, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Latinos In The Us Spa 414, Joanna Burkhardt
Latinos In The Us Spa 414, Joanna Burkhardt
Library Impact Statements
No abstract provided.
Multnomah County Reach Transportation Crash And Safety Report: At The Intersection Of Transportation, Health, Race And Justice, Tameka Brazile, Brendon Haggerty, Charlene Mcgee
Multnomah County Reach Transportation Crash And Safety Report: At The Intersection Of Transportation, Health, Race And Justice, Tameka Brazile, Brendon Haggerty, Charlene Mcgee
PSU Transportation Seminars
This seminar will discuss how transportation agencies are in a unique position to reduce health disparities in the African American, African Immigrant & Refugee communities through sustainable policy, systems, and environmental changes. These three speakers from the Multnomah County Health Department will present the findings of their recent Crash and Safety report. They will discuss their data and methodology to connect the dots between chronic disease disparities, leading causes of death in communities, and transportation inequities as determinants to health. They will also present policy recommendations and a call to action.
Adam’S Task: Naming And Sub-Creation In Good Omens, Janet Brennan Croft
Adam’S Task: Naming And Sub-Creation In Good Omens, Janet Brennan Croft
Library Faculty/Staff Publications
Names are, in one sense, the outward indication of a power negotiation. The namer, the one who bestows a new name or uses an already-given name, reveals, through the choice of name they give or use, their relationship to that which they name. The act may indicate a more or less equal relationship; it may represent an attempt to exert power over someone or something by imposing a name on it or by using a name that will influence those who hear it; or it may be an act of submission and ingratiation, using a name to flatter …
Legal Financial Obligations & Rehabilitation: How The Ability To Pay Fines And Fees Disproportionately Affects Citizens Based On Socioeconomic Status, Bailey R. Code
University Honors Theses
In the United States, legal financial obligations (LFO's), also known as monetary sanctions or criminal justice financial obligations, refer to the fines and fees that result from an individual’s involvement in the criminal justice system. Today, these fines and fees have become the most common form of punishment used by the United States' legal system. This paper answers the following research question: How can the ability to pay legal financial obligations shape the rehabilitation of incarcerated people in the United States?
Legal Financial Obligations are harmful to those entangled within the justice system, as shown by their cyclical nature and …
How Transitional, Restorative, And Transformative Justice Will Address Racial Injustice, Isabelle Garnand
How Transitional, Restorative, And Transformative Justice Will Address Racial Injustice, Isabelle Garnand
University Honors Theses
Racism is still deeply embedded in the United States. Dominant white cultural narratives do not acknowledge African-Americans’ experiences, and previous methods of addressing it have not been sufficient. Through a literature review using PsychInfo, Google Scholar, and Google the author researched how transitional, restorative, and transformative justice have been used in the U.S. and other countries to establish what methods of each would be best adopted for the U.S. The author proposes change through addressing racism on the state and county level using these multiple levels of justice throughout the U.S. to create space to perpetuate conversations, actions, and beginning …
Remote Data Collection: How Broadband Connectivity Affected The Conversion Of Physical Performance Testing To The Remote Setting During Covid-19: A Research Assistant's Assessment, Ramyar Eslami
University Honors Theses
The GET FIT Prostate and Exercising Together trials conducted by Dr. Kerri Winters-Stone incorporate exercise intervention for cancer survivors during or after completing their therapy. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the laboratory assessment of both studies was conducted in-person. However, the transition to remote assessment was required due to the safety precautions of COVID-19. Protocol outcomes for administering tests like the short physical performance battery (sPPB), which includes the 4m usual walk (4MW; m/s), chair stands (CS; sec), and standing balance measurements, were completed via a video conferencing interface called Cisco Webex.
Transitioning to remote testing determined the validity of remote …
Credibility Of Spokespersons And E-Cigarette Prevention Messages: Elaboration Likelihood Model And The Moderating Role Of Perceived Risk, Emmanuel Maduneme
Credibility Of Spokespersons And E-Cigarette Prevention Messages: Elaboration Likelihood Model And The Moderating Role Of Perceived Risk, Emmanuel Maduneme
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
E-cigarettes also referred to as vapes or Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) were developed as a safer alternative to tobacco smoking, but the prevalent usage among young adults has led to deleterious mental and physical health challenges. Communications interventions against e-cigarette use have employed a variety of message strategies, but one that has not received a lot of attention is the credibility of a spokesperson and the impacts it could have. Grounded in the Elaboration Likelihood Model, the current study aimed to examine the impacts of spokesperson credibility in e-cigarette prevention messages, and the moderating role of perceived risk.
The …
Helping Families Toward The Goal Of Self-Support: Montana's Edufaim Program, Stephen F. Duncan, Tim Dunnagan, Suzanne Christopher, Lynn Paul
Helping Families Toward The Goal Of Self-Support: Montana's Edufaim Program, Stephen F. Duncan, Tim Dunnagan, Suzanne Christopher, Lynn Paul
Faculty Publications
This article on a self-reliance education program describes the development, implementation, and elements of success of Educating Families to Achieve Independence in Montana (EDUFAIM) as a model for statewide integration of efforts to help families dependent on public assistance move toward a more self-supporting lifestyle. An overview of the EDUFAIM program, from its beginnings to implementation strategies, open the article, followed by a discussion of the evidence of EDUFAIM's success, including effective collaboration, effective educational materials and teaching strategies, effective evaluation strategies, and effective use of evaluation data. The article concludes with a discussion of program limitations.
Chimes: February 26, 2021, Calvin University
Chimes: February 26, 2021, Calvin University
Chimes
Changes in admissions strategy could lead to first enrollment increase in seven years by Harm Venhuizen
Students are getting sicker, ER visits increasing in second semester by Abigail Ham
Morale dips during increased restriction, but revives as cases fall by Ezra Craker
Empty stadiums force teams to create their own energy by Juliana Knot
Frogs, earthworms and zebrafish: How Calvin uses live animals in lab by Sarah Gibes
Ex-CRC church added to list of hate groups by Liana Hirner & Jamison Van Andel
GOP feature meant to educate, not promote by Afua Brantuo
Discrimination Against People Of Color In America’S Cash Bail System, Dolores Yanez
Discrimination Against People Of Color In America’S Cash Bail System, Dolores Yanez
University Honors Theses
The purpose of this thesis is to describe how the current bail system in America is discriminatory and unjust for people of color (POC). The American criminal justice system is represented as a system run by procedural justice, which entails government officials being genuinely concerned about the fairness and transparency of the process by which decisions are made. This presumes that every American will be treated with the same respect and dignity, and that they will be given the same opportunities regardless of their socioeconomic status, racial or ethnic backgrounds. America’s cash bail system and its impact on people of …
What Is The Impact Of Economic Stimulus Measures On Covid-19 Mortality Rates?, Stephanie C. Santaguida
What Is The Impact Of Economic Stimulus Measures On Covid-19 Mortality Rates?, Stephanie C. Santaguida
University Honors Theses
This inquiry seeks to establish the degree to which economic stimulus measures impact COVID-19 mortality rates. There appears to be an inverse correlation between domestic social spending and COVID-19 deaths. While confirmed infections are the most reliable predictor of mortality rates, trust in government is an important factor to consider when public compliance with health directives determines the degree of epidemiological risk in each country. Although most economists agree that stimulus monies directed to low-income individuals to prevent financial collapse were appropriate, there is some dissention with regard to the type and size of such cash infusions. Nonetheless, behavioral economists …
Experiences Of Shame, Exclusion, & Appropriation In Mindfulness-Based Wellness Culture, Charlotte Grace Starling
Experiences Of Shame, Exclusion, & Appropriation In Mindfulness-Based Wellness Culture, Charlotte Grace Starling
University Honors Theses
Yoga, meditation, and other mindfulness practices provide numerous benefits both physical and mental health to their practitioners. There is less research exploring the role mindfulness-based wellness programs and practices fit within the cultural environment of the United States and how the mindfulness movement influences wellness culture and practices. These practices and spaces have been accused of harming folks who don't fit the dominant social narrative of thin, white, upper-middle-class participants. This paper aims to explore how the United State’s commodification of mindfulness practices contributes to experiences of shame, exclusion, and appropriation in wellness culture. This is done by a literature …
Mapping Knowledge In Higher Education: A Bibliometric Study Of Ugc Care List Of Lis Journals, Banani Das, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Mapping Knowledge In Higher Education: A Bibliometric Study Of Ugc Care List Of Lis Journals, Banani Das, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Various policies have been adopted worldwide for the upliftment of research work in higher education. The current paper is a study of initiatives taken by University Grant Commission (UGC), which is a statutory body set up by Indian Union Government to maintain the standards of higher education in India. The paper studied the quality journal list published by UGC-Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (UGC CARE) in LIS discipline. Top 20 journals has been analysed from the list in accordance to their ranking in Scimago journal ranking list. The articles are analysed as the most prolific author, prolific institute, most …
Scientometric Analysis Of Authorship Trends And Collaborative Research In Geochemistry, Ranganathan Chandrakasan, Sumathi Meyyar
Scientometric Analysis Of Authorship Trends And Collaborative Research In Geochemistry, Ranganathan Chandrakasan, Sumathi Meyyar
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The study deals with the Scientometric study on the publication of "Geochemistry". The records are collected from Web of Science Databases for the period of 1989-2020. A total of 2603 papers were identified in Web of Science database. The study reveals that, most of the researchers preferred to publish their research results in journal and more numbers of articles were published in the year 2019. The authorship trend shows that, out of total 2603 literature published, 92.5% of the publication published under the joint author. Four thousand three hundred and eighty nine authors have contributed the total of 2603 articles. …
The Journal Of Information Science Theory And Practice (Jistap): A Bibliometric Analysis (2013-2017), Dr. Bindu Sharma, Ms Anuradha Sharma
The Journal Of Information Science Theory And Practice (Jistap): A Bibliometric Analysis (2013-2017), Dr. Bindu Sharma, Ms Anuradha Sharma
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The present ‘Bibliometric’ study was undertaken in the Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP). 102 articles published in the journal during the period (2013-2017) were studied. The study analyses various bibliometric patterns and found that the maximum 41 (40.20%) articles were submitted by two authors, followed by a single author with 36, in total 35.29% publications. Author’s productivity was recorded 0.48 average publication per author and the overall degree of collaboration was 0.65. In the Lotka’s law of scientific productivity, it is analysed that the expected authors are different from observed authors. After the analysis, it was found …
Emotional Intelligence Factors Among Engineering College Librarians In Tiruvallur District: A Case Study, Balamurugan Paramasivam, Ranganathan Chandrakasan
Emotional Intelligence Factors Among Engineering College Librarians In Tiruvallur District: A Case Study, Balamurugan Paramasivam, Ranganathan Chandrakasan
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Emotional Intelligence plays an important role in the job of a librarian in enhancement of their productivity in an organization. Specifically librarians have to meet people from various disciplines and departments and try to satisfy the information seekers with useful advice and give valuable inputs by helping them in meeting the required information. This study is an attempt to probe into the emotional intelligence factors influencing librarians. This study is conducted with special reference to librarians working in selected engineering colleges in Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu State, India. The researcher has adapted a descriptive research design, as the research has …
Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Journals Among Students In Nigerian University Libraries: A Case Study Of Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji- Arakeji, Nigeria, Samson Adesina Akinola, Oluwole Banji Ajayi Mr
Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Journals Among Students In Nigerian University Libraries: A Case Study Of Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji- Arakeji, Nigeria, Samson Adesina Akinola, Oluwole Banji Ajayi Mr
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This study is conducted to investigate the awareness and usage of electronic journals (e-journals) in Nigerian university libraries with a distinctive focus on the students of Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Nigeria. A total number of two thousand six hundred and seventy (2670) students of the university who utilized the main library and the e-library during the 2018/2019 academic session represented the population of the study. The survey research method was espoused for the study. A questionnaire was administered as a data collection instrument. Frequency counts and simple percentages were used in analyzing the data collected. The study revealed that the …
University Libraries Ranking In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa- Pakistan: A Proposal, Saeed Ullah Jan, Abid Hussain, Dr. Saeed Ullah Jan
University Libraries Ranking In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa- Pakistan: A Proposal, Saeed Ullah Jan, Abid Hussain, Dr. Saeed Ullah Jan
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The present study aims to rank the university libraries of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan. Library services, resources, status of automation and application of emerging technologies were the parameters used for the assessment of ranking of the nineteen Public Sector Universities and Degree Awarding Institutes of North-West province of Pakistan. Survey based approach was adopted to collect the required information. It was reported that majority of university libraries under study are partially automated. Based on the above-mentioned parameters, the central library of The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University, Peshawar was ranked top followed by central/main library of University of Malakand, Chakdara, Dir, Malakand and …
Utilization Of District Central Libraries And Their Services: A Case Study Of Southern Districts Of Tamilnadu State, India, Pounraj P, Ravichandran M
Utilization Of District Central Libraries And Their Services: A Case Study Of Southern Districts Of Tamilnadu State, India, Pounraj P, Ravichandran M
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
Public libraries are the reservoirs of human civilizations. They shoulder the great responsibility of colleting, organizing, storing and disseminating the human knowledge over the generations. The present study aims at exploring how the users of district central libraries of southern districts of Tamil Nadu State, India are using the libraries in general and library services, in particular. Survey method was employed. Random sampling technique was used to draw 150 participants. Questionnaires were used to collect the data. 149 responded. The study reveals that : about two third of them (96, 64.4%) are male users ; About half of them (74, …
Provision Of Alternative Formats Of Information Resources For Inclusive Library Services Of Visually Impaired Primary School Pupils In Southeast Nigeria, Esther Ekene Aghauche Phd, Obiora Kingsley Udem Phd, Stephen Ikenna Aghauche
Provision Of Alternative Formats Of Information Resources For Inclusive Library Services Of Visually Impaired Primary School Pupils In Southeast Nigeria, Esther Ekene Aghauche Phd, Obiora Kingsley Udem Phd, Stephen Ikenna Aghauche
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
This paper sought to determine the provision of alternative formats of information resources for inclusive library services of visually impaired primary school pupils in Southeast Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was 129 respondents, comprising of 125 visually impaired pupils and four librarians from the four special education centres in Southeast Nigeria. One research question guided the study. Two instruments were used for data collection which includes an observation checklist, and interview guide. Data collected with the checklist were analyzed using frequency counts, while those from interviews were analyzed qualitatively and integrated …
Obituary: Diarmuid S. Murphy (1963-2020): An Appreciation
Obituary: Diarmuid S. Murphy (1963-2020): An Appreciation
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
No abstract provided.
Visionary, Convivial And Resilient: A History Of The Dublin Gastronomy Symposium And Review Of The Dgs 2020 Online, Anke Klitzing, Brian Murphy
Visionary, Convivial And Resilient: A History Of The Dublin Gastronomy Symposium And Review Of The Dgs 2020 Online, Anke Klitzing, Brian Murphy
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
In early 2019 the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium Organising Committee settled on the theme of ‘Food and Disruption’ for its fifth biennial conference in May 2020. Little did the committee suspect how prescient this title would be as the descriptor of what was to happen during the Covid-19 pandemic that descended upon the global community right in the run-up to the conference. The lockdown instigated across many countries in March 2020 led to an early decision to take the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2020 online. This decision required considerable courage as similar events were being postponed in the hope that the crisis …
Empty Squares And Missing Food Festivals: The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Italian Rural Communities: A Reflection, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
Empty Squares And Missing Food Festivals: The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On Italian Rural Communities: A Reflection, Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
What does an empty square mean for the future of a rural community? This question has been buzzing in my head since spring 2020 when my country, Italy, entered its first lockdown period due to the Covid-19 pandemic. I am an economic anthropologist. Since the mid-2000s my research has focused on the development of local communities in rural areas of Italy. Specifically, I have been investigating the role played by folk food festivals, the so-called sagre, using ethnographic research in north-western Italy, an area often studied by anthropologists to understand the transformations of the relationship between urban and rural centres, …
Review Of Introducing The Sociology Of Food And Eating By Anne Murcott, Perry Share
Review Of Introducing The Sociology Of Food And Eating By Anne Murcott, Perry Share
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Irish Cookbook By J.P. Mcmahon, Elaine Mahon
Review Of The Irish Cookbook By J.P. Mcmahon, Elaine Mahon
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
No abstract provided.
Review Of Foodwise: A Whole Systems Guide To Sustainable And Delicious Food Choices By Gigi Berardi, Joseph A. Hegarty
Review Of Foodwise: A Whole Systems Guide To Sustainable And Delicious Food Choices By Gigi Berardi, Joseph A. Hegarty
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
No abstract provided.
Dinner Is The Great Trial: Sociability And Service À La Russe In The Long Nineteenth Century, Graham Harding
Dinner Is The Great Trial: Sociability And Service À La Russe In The Long Nineteenth Century, Graham Harding
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
The shift from service à la Française to service à la Russe that took place between 1850 and 1880 changed Victorian sociability and the Victorian dinner table. In the former style of service all the dishes were put on the table and then carved by the host; in the latter most of the dishes were placed not on the table but upon a sideboard and from there handed to guests individually by the servants. This new “taste regime” had implications not just for the style of food but the conduct of the table and the taste and style of the …
An Interdisciplinary Approach To Historic Diet And Foodways: The Foodcult Project, Susan Flavin, Meriel Mcclatchie, Janet Montgomery, Fiona Beglane, Julie Dunne, Ellen Ocarroll, Andrew Parnell
An Interdisciplinary Approach To Historic Diet And Foodways: The Foodcult Project, Susan Flavin, Meriel Mcclatchie, Janet Montgomery, Fiona Beglane, Julie Dunne, Ellen Ocarroll, Andrew Parnell
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
This research note introduces the methodology of the FoodCult Project, with the aim of stimulating discussion regarding the interdisciplinary potential for historical food studies. The project represents the first major attempt to establish both the fundamentals of everyday diet, and the cultural ‘meaning’ of food and drink in early modern Ireland, c 1550-1650. This was a period of major economic development, unprecedented intercultural contact, but also of conquest, colonisation and war, and the study focusses on Ireland as a case-study for understanding the role of food in a complex society. Moving beyond the colonial narrative of Irish social and economic …
Tinned Sardines And Putrefied Yellow-Fin In Equatorial Guinea: Regimes Of Food In The Novels Of Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Igor Cusack
Tinned Sardines And Putrefied Yellow-Fin In Equatorial Guinea: Regimes Of Food In The Novels Of Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, Igor Cusack
European Journal of Food Drink and Society
In his semi-autobiographical novels, Las tinieblas de su memoria negra (Shadows of your black memory) and Los poderes de la tempestad (Power of the storm), the Equatoguinean writer Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo describes a boy’s, and then the man’s, life in colonial and postcolonial Equatorial Guinea, Spain’s only sub-Saharan colony. This paper argues that the numerous descriptions of the food encountered by the protagonist immerse the reader in four different worlds: that of his Fang ethnic group in the Hispanic colony; that of the colonial priests and emancipados of the protagonist’s youth; then the horrors encountered under the cruel postcolonial tyrant, Macías …