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"You're Already Black...": Racially-Informed Care And Intersections Of Gender For Lgbtq African American Children And Youth In Birmingham, Alabama, Stacie Hatfield

Faculty Publications

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The Torrens System In Singapore: 75 Years From Conception To Commencement, Alvin W. L. See

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article tells the story of how the Torrens system of land titles registration came to be adopted in Singapore. From conception to commencement, the entire process took over 75 years, far longer than any other law reform the country has experienced. Particular attention is paid to why the Australian model was preferred despite the significant influence of English law in colonial Singapore. Although as with anything, much of what happened could be attributed to chance, a great deal can be learned from this story, which details the socio-economic and political forces that have shaped the law into what it …

Whither Privacy Protection In The Law Of Nuisance, Cheng Lim Saw, Aaron Yoong

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Privacy-related concerns often feature in disputes involving the tort of private nuisance. Despite the growing importance ascribed to the protection of an individual’s privacy in the modern world, English law has tended to shy away from allowing such concerns to influence the thinking behind the more traditional areas of law (like nuisance). This article examines and questions the various notions that underpin this English approach. Using the recent decisions of Giles Duncan Fearn v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2019] EWHC 246 (Ch) and Giles Fearn v The Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery [2020] EWCA …

Will The European Union’S New Anti-Coercion Instrument Work With China?, Henry S. Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Recent years have witnessed the growing use of trade measures as geopolitical weapons. In response, the European Union is introducing a new instrument.

Evaluating Scholarly Communication Programs At Large Master’S Level Institutions: Findings From The Imls-Funded Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum, Emily K. Chan, Suzanna Yaukey, Daina Dickman, Nicole Lawson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

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New Insights Into The Genetic Etiology Of Alzheimer's Disease And Related Dementias, Céline Bellenguez, Fahri Küçükali, Iris E Jansen, Luca Kleineidam, Sonia Moreno-Grau, Najaf Amin, Adam C Naj, Rafael Campos-Martin, Benjamin Grenier-Boley, Victor Andrade, Peter A Holmans, Anne Boland, Vincent Damotte, Sven J Van Der Lee, Marcos R Costa, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Qiong Yang, Itziar De Rojas, Joshua C Bis, Amber Yaqub, Ivana Prokic, Julien Chapuis, Shahzad Ahmad, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Dag Aarsland, Pablo Garcia-Gonzalez, Carla Abdelnour, Emilio Alarcón-Martín, Daniel Alcolea, Montserrat Alegret, Ignacio Alvarez, Victoria Álvarez, Nicola J Armstrong, Anthoula Tsolaki, Carmen Antúnez, Ildebrando Appollonio, Marina Arcaro, Silvana Archetti, Alfonso Arias Pastor, Beatrice Arosio, Lavinia Athanasiu, Henri Bailly, Nerisa Banaj, Miquel Baquero, Sandra Barral, Alexa Beiser, Ana Belén Pastor, Jennifer E Below, Penelope Benchek, Luisa Benussi, Claudine Berr, Céline Besse, Valentina Bessi, Giuliano Binetti, Alessandra Bizarro, Rafael Blesa, Mercè Boada, Eric Boerwinkle, Barbara Borroni, Silvia Boschi, Paola Bossù, Geir Bråthen, Jan Bressler, Catherine Bresner, Henry Brodaty, Keeley J Brookes, Luis Ignacio Brusco, Dolores Buiza-Rueda, Katharina Bûrger, Vanessa Burholt, William S Bush, Miguel Calero, Laura B Cantwell, Geneviève Chene, Jaeyoon Chung, Michael L Cuccaro, Ángel Carracedo, Roberta Cecchetti, Laura Cervera-Carles, Camille Charbonnier, Hung-Hsin Chen, Caterina Chillotti, Simona Ciccone, Jurgen A H R Claassen, Christopher Clark, Elisa Conti, Anaïs Corma-Gómez, Emanuele Costantini, Carlo Custodero, Delphine Daian, Maria Carolina Dalmasso, Antonio Daniele, Efthimios Dardiotis, Jean-François Dartigues, Peter Paul De Deyn, Katia De Paiva Lopes, Lot D De Witte, Stéphanie Debette, Jürgen Deckert, Teodoro Del Ser, Nicola Denning, Anita Destefano, Martin Dichgans, Janine Diehl-Schmid, Mónica Diez-Fairen, Paolo Dionigi Rossi, Srdjan Djurovic, Emmanuelle Duron, Emrah Düzel, Carole Dufouil, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Sebastiaan Engelborghs, Valentina Escott-Price, Ana Espinosa, Michael Ewers, Kelley M Faber, Tagliavini Fabrizio, Sune Fallgaard Nielsen, David W Fardo, Lucia Farotti, Chiara Fenoglio, Marta Fernández-Fuertes, Raffaele Ferrari, Catarina B Ferreira, Evelyn Ferri, Bertrand Fin, Peter Fischer, Tormod Fladby, Klaus Fließbach, Bernard Fongang, Myriam Fornage, Juan Fortea, Tatiana M Foroud, Silvia Fostinelli, Nick C Fox, Emlio Franco-Macías, María J Bullido, Ana Frank-García, Lutz Froelich, Brian Fulton-Howard, Daniela Galimberti, Jose Maria García-Alberca, Pablo García-González, Sebastian Garcia-Madrona, Guillermo Garcia-Ribas, Roberta Ghidoni, Ina Giegling, Giaccone Giorgio, Alison M Goate, Oliver Goldhardt, Duber Gomez-Fonseca, Antonio González-Pérez, Caroline Graff, Giulia Grande, Emma Green, Timo Grimmer, Edna Grünblatt, Michelle Grunin, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamar Guetta-Baranes, Annakaisa Haapasalo, Georgios Hadjigeorgiou, Jonathan L Haines, Kara L Hamilton-Nelson, Harald Hampel, Olivier Hanon, John Hardy, Annette M Hartmann, Lucrezia Hausner, Janet Harwood, Stefanie Heilmann-Heimbach, Seppo Helisalmi, Michael T Heneka, Isabel Hernández, Martin J Herrmann, Per Hoffmann, Clive Holmes, Henne Holstege, Raquel Huerto Vilas, Marc Hulsman, Jack Humphrey, Geert Jan Biessels, Xueqiu Jian, Charlotte Johansson, Gyungah R Jun, Yuriko Kastumata, John Kauwe, Patrick G Kehoe, Lena Kilander, Anne Kinhult Ståhlbom, Miia Kivipelto, Anne Koivisto, Johannes Kornhuber, Mary H Kosmidis, Walter A Kukull, Pavel P Kuksa, Brian W Kunkle, Amanda B Kuzma, Carmen Lage, Erika J Laukka, Lenore Launer, Alessandra Lauria, Chien-Yueh Lee, Jenni Lehtisalo, Ondrej Lerch, Alberto Lleó, William Longstreth, Oscar Lopez, Adolfo Lopez De Munain, Seth Love, Malin Löwemark, Lauren Luckcuck, Kathryn L Lunetta, Yiyi Ma, Juan Macías, Catherine A Macleod, Wolfgang Maier, Francesca Mangialasche, Marco Spallazzi, Marta Marquié, Rachel Marshall, Eden R Martin, Angel Martín Montes, Carmen Martínez Rodríguez, Carlo Masullo, Richard Mayeux, Simon Mead, Patrizia Mecocci, Miguel Medina, Alun Meggy, Shima Mehrabian, Silvia Mendoza, Manuel Menéndez-González, Pablo Mir, Susanne Moebus, Merel Mol, Laura Molina-Porcel, Laura Montrreal, Laura Morelli, Fermin Moreno, Kevin Morgan, Thomas Mosley, Markus M Nöthen, Carolina Muchnik, Shubhabrata Mukherjee, Benedetta Nacmias, Tiia Ngandu, Gael Nicolas, Børge G Nordestgaard, Robert Olaso, Adelina Orellana, Michela Orsini, Gemma Ortega, Alessandro Padovani, Caffarra Paolo, Goran Papenberg, Lucilla Parnetti, Florence Pasquier, Pau Pastor, Gina Peloso, Alba Pérez-Cordón, Jordi Pérez-Tur, Pierre Pericard, Oliver Peters, Yolande A L Pijnenburg, Juan A Pineda, Gerard Piñol-Ripoll, Claudia Pisanu, Thomas Polak, Julius Popp, Danielle Posthuma, Josef Priller, Raquel Puerta, Olivier Quenez, Inés Quintela, Jesper Qvist Thomassen, Alberto Rábano, Innocenzo Rainero, Farid Rajabli, Inez Ramakers, Luis M Real, Marcel J T Reinders, Christiane Reitz, Dolly Reyes-Dumeyer, Perry Ridge, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Peter Riederer, Natalia Roberto, Eloy Rodriguez-Rodriguez, Arvid Rongve, Irene Rosas Allende, Maitée Rosende-Roca, Jose Luis Royo, Elisa Rubino, Dan Rujescu, María Eugenia Sáez, Paraskevi Sakka, Ingvild Saltvedt, Ángela Sanabria, María Bernal Sánchez-Arjona, Florentino Sanchez-Garcia, Pascual Sánchez Juan, Raquel Sánchez-Valle, Sigrid B Sando, Chloé Sarnowski, Claudia L Satizabal, Michela Scamosci, Nikolaos Scarmeas, Elio Scarpini, Philip Scheltens, Norbert Scherbaum, Martin Scherer, Matthias Schmid, Anja Schneider, Jonathan M Schott, Geir Selbæk, Davide Seripa, Manuel Serrano, Jin Sha, Alexey A Shadrin, Olivia Skrobot, Susan Slifer, Gijsje J L Snijders, Hilkka Soininen, Vincenzo Solfrizzi, Alina Solomon, Yeunjoo Song, Sandro Sorbi, Oscar Sotolongo-Grau, Gianfranco Spalletta, Annika Spottke, Alessio Squassina, Eystein Stordal, Juan Pablo Tartan, Lluís Tárraga, Niccolo Tesí, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Tegos Thomas, Giuseppe Tosto, Latchezar Traykov, Lucio Tremolizzo, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Andre Uitterlinden, Abbe Ullgren, Ingun Ulstein, Sergi Valero, Otto Valladares, Christine Van Broeckhoven, Jeffery Vance, Badri N Vardarajan, Aad Van Der Lugt, Jasper Van Dongen, Jeroen Van Rooij, John Van Swieten, Rik Vandenberghe, Frans Verhey, Jean-Sébastien Vidal, Jonathan Vogelgsang, Martin Vyhnalek, Michael Wagner, David Wallon, Li-San Wang, Ruiqi Wang, Leonie Weinhold, Jens Wiltfang, Gill Windle, Bob Woods, Mary Yannakoulia, Habil Zare, Yi Zhao, Xiaoling Zhang, Congcong Zhu, Miren Zulaica, Lindsay A Farrer, Bruce M Psaty, Mohsen Ghanbari, Towfique Raj, Perminder Sachdev, Karen Mather, Frank Jessen, M Arfan Ikram, Alexandre De Mendonça, Jakub Hort, Magda Tsolaki, Margaret A Pericak-Vance, Philippe Amouyel, Julie Williams, Ruth Frikke-Schmidt, Jordi Clarimon, Jean-François Deleuze, Giacomina Rossi, Sudha Seshadri, Ole A Andreassen, Martin Ingelsson, Mikko Hiltunen, Kristel Sleegers, Gerard D Schellenberg, Cornelia M Van Duijn, Rebecca Sims, Wiesje M Van Der Flier, Agustín Ruiz, Alfredo Ramirez, Jean-Charles Lambert

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Characterization of the genetic landscape of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADD) provides a unique opportunity for a better understanding of the associated pathophysiological processes. We performed a two-stage genome-wide association study totaling 111,326 clinically diagnosed/'proxy' AD cases and 677,663 controls. We found 75 risk loci, of which 42 were new at the time of analysis. Pathway enrichment analyses confirmed the involvement of amyloid/tau pathways and highlighted microglia implication. Gene prioritization in the new loci identified 31 genes that were suggestive of new genetically associated processes, including the tumor necrosis factor alpha pathway through the linear ubiquitin chain assembly …

Providing Information Resources To Remote Clients During The Covid-19 Pandemic: The Perspective Of The Distance Education Academic Libraries, Tinyiko Vivian Dube

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study aimed to determine the information resources provided to remote clients by the distance education academic libraries in Gauteng Province of South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. The positivism research paradigm anchored this paper and used the quantitative research approach. Microsoft Form was used to design the questionnaire to collect data from the academic library staff. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used for data analysis. Cluster sampling was adopted as the actual number of the target population was not known. The findings revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic brought changes in the provision of information resources to …

Lived Experiences Of Mental Health Professionals Using Resilience To Resist Burnout, Kristen Shawn Cummins

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study was to describe the lived experiences of mental health professionals (MHPs) in California who have worked in private practice settings. The three research questions that framed this study were: what resilience-promoting mindsets do these mental health professionals rely upon, what resilience-promoting behaviors or practices do they demonstrate, and how do these mindsets and behaviors protect MHPs in private practice from experiencing burnout? The theory guiding this study was the metatheory of resilience and resiliency by Glenn E. Richardson (2002; 2016) as it provided a framework to assess how these professionals utilized resilience …

An Investigation Of The Impacts Of Locus Of Control On Marital Satisfaction Among Wives Of Combat Veterans With Ptsd In The U.S., Rachel Sims

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant cause of marital instability and divorce among PTSD veterans, which researchers have cited in the field of psychological disorders. The current study investigated the psychological structure of how marital satisfaction was related to the locus of control among wives of veterans with PTSD diagnosis. No prior studies have explored this relationship, as shown from an extensive search in current literature. The study compared the reported marital satisfaction of women with the locus of control to fill this gap. The family systems theory was applied to guide this research study. In addition, the study …

Recognizing Threatening And Aberrant Behavior: An Applied Study To Develop Online Training For The Support Staff At John Doe High School, James Daniel Christian

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this applied study was to solve the problem of adequately providing guidance to support staff in the recognition of threatening or aberrant behavior that may represent a threat to the community, self, or others at John Doe High School located in southeast Virginia and to design practices to train all students, faculty, and staff to address the problem. A multimethod design was used consisting of both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The first approach was semi-structured interviews with members of the school-based threat assessment team. The second approach was conducting a focus group with support staff. The third …

Evangelical Mental Health During A Pandemic: A Three-Way Interaction Analysis, Michael Sean Williams

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

COVID-19 quickly became a global pandemic and a biological disaster. Mental health deteriorated due to fear, stress, isolation, and loneliness. Symptoms of anxiety, depression, stress, and disturbed sleep have been associated with COVID-19. There is limited research on mental health and well-being among evangelical Christians. A primary concern is that church congregants and leaders are tired and struggle with mental health issues. Thus, care for the congregation and community is limited. The rate of distress and depression among the religious is on the rise. The purpose of this quantitative research is to evaluate the interaction of perceived stress and emotional …

The Relationship Between The Amount Of Training Time And Perceived Training Effectiveness To Teacher Perceptions About The Positive Behavioral Interventions And Supports Framework, Victoria Leigh Harr Morley

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

With a rise of behavioral concerns in the classroom, education systems have turned to positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) to reinforce positive behaviors. The purpose of this quantitative predictive correlational study was to examine the relationship between the fidelity of PBIS implementation, teacher perceived effectiveness of the programs, and time spent implementing the program. The theoretical framework for this study came from the applied behavior analysis theory. The researcher used a quantitative predictive correlational design to examine the relationship between the fidelity of implementation of PBIS programs, teacher perception of effectiveness of the PBIS framework, and time spent implementing …

The Impact Of Law Enforcement Training On The Ability Of Officers To Recognize Human Trafficking Situations In West Tennessee, Marie Angelena Garrett

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

No one knows the true extent of human trafficking in America today, yet law enforcement officers may encounter victims during routine assignments. There exists a growing body of research associated with law enforcement officers and human trafficking. However, few researchers have explored the connection between human trafficking training and officers’ ability to recognize human trafficking situations. Grounded in schema theory, this quantitative study surveys law enforcement officers in West Tennessee. Survey questions assess officers’ awareness of human trafficking generalities, their ability to recognize possible locations of human trafficking, and training related to human trafficking. Questions then describe potential human trafficking …

Church Revitalization: Strategies For Revitalization And The Importance Of Emotional Intelligence For Pastors And Church Revitalizers In The Frontier Baptist Association, Timothy F. Ireland

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The majority of Southern Baptist Churches in North America are plateaued or in decline. Without a new effective strategy for church revitalization, the largest evangelical denomination will close thousands of local churches. Knowing what to do and how to do it is critical for revitalization. The study presents a synthesis of research that reveals common factors present in plateaued and dying churches, strategies advanced for successful church revitalization, and church revitalizers’ qualifications. This project thesis included research concerning the utilization of emotional intelligence (EQ), EQ testing, and training. Pastors with high EQ are well suited for leading a church through …

Social Media Usage Among Engineering Students -A Study, Nagaraju Kuppugari

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The aim of the study is to investigate the use of social media by the engineering students at Nellore dist in Andhra Pradesh. The study adopted survey method and a structured questionnaire as a tool for collection of data. The findings reveal that significant differences observed in the amount of time spent by male and female respondents and the different age groups of respondents using social media in a day. The study also found that there are significant differences between male and female respondents on the use of various social networking sites. The study reveals that YouTube is the most …

Emotional Disconnection Between Parents And Adolescents: Communication Obstacles Among Immigrant Chinese American Christian Families, Agnes Yinshan Man

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to understand and describe the lived experiences of communication that lead to emotional connection issues between Chinese immigrant parents and their American-born adolescent children, particularly in families attending Chinese American Christian churches in Massachusetts. The theory guiding this study was social constructivism, which posits that family members may interpret and experience the same interactions differently from one another. The research questions of the study include: (1) How do first-generation Chinese American Christian parents and second-generation Chinese American Christian adolescent children experience their interaction with each other? (2) How do American-born Chinese Christian …

The Effects Of Physical Fitness Policies On Law Enforcement Officers' Physical Fitness Levels, Tina M. Hall

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Most law enforcement agencies have minimum physical standards for new hires; however, few agencies have physical fitness standards for members once they are hired. Many law enforcement officers experience a decrease in physical fitness levels as their years of law enforcement service increase. The decrease in physical fitness levels causes a reduction in the ability to perform job duties and increases health consequences. This study explored the relationship of physical fitness levels of sworn law enforcement members from agencies with and without enforced physical fitness standards. Anonymous surveys were completed by 1240 sworn law enforcement officers from eight state law …

Exploring Parental Perceptions Concerning Sexual Communication Between Sub-Saharan African Immigrant Parents And Their Children, Kwame Owura Frimpong

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Abstract Sub-Saharan African families experience communication barriers due to factors such as sexual silence, cultural taboos, and shame, preventing them from having sexual health communication with their children. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of Sub-Saharan African immigrant parents concerning sexual shame and parents’ attitudes, knowledge, and comfort level in having a conversation with their pre-adolescent children concerning sexuality and sexual practices. While numerous researchers have demonstrated efficiency in audience-specific interventions, the literature reflects little attention to African immigrants, specifically Sub-Saharan immigrants. The research questions addressed perceptions of influences of a decision to discuss issues relating …

Central Bank Swap Arrangements In The Covid-19 Crisis, Joshua Aizenman, Hiro Ito, Gurnain Kaur Pasricha

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Facing acute strains in the offshore dollar funding markets during the COVID-19 crisis, the Federal Reserve (Fed) provided US dollar liquidity to the global economy by reactivating or enhancing swap arrangements with other central banks and establishing a new repo facility for financial institutions and monetary authorities (FIMA). This paper assesses motivations for the Fed liquidity lines, and the effects and spillovers of US dollar auctions by central banks using these lines. We find that the access to the Fed liquidity arrangements was driven by the recipient economies’ close financial and trade ties with the US. Access to dollar liquidity …

Colonic Epithelial Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 (Ace2) Expression In Blacks And Whites: Potential Implications For Pathogenesis Covid-19 Racial Disparities, Mart De La Cruz, David P Nunes, Vaishali Bhardwaj, Deepika Subramanyan, Caroline Zaworski, Priya Roy, Hemant K Roy

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND: Covid-19 toll is disproportionate in Blacks although the mechanisms remain incompletely understood. From a biological perspective, several host proteins have received most attention as logical susceptibility targets. Specifically, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) serves as the epithelial cell receptor and acts in concert with transmembrane protease serine 2 (TMPRSS2). Intriguingly, ACE2 can also suppress the inflammatory response and therefore may impact the severity of Covid-19 infections (from the exuberant immune response a.k.a. "cytokine storm"). We, therefore, assessed expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 in Blacks versus Whites.

METHODS: Archived mucosal biopsies from colonoscopic biopsies of visually normal rectal mucosa without concurrent …

Healing Layers Of Trauma: Culturally Responsive Counseling With Asian American Clients, Yun Shi, Atsuko Seto, Sharon Stanley

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Learning Objectives
Objective 1: To understand the wide range of traumatic experiences that affect the Asian American population and implications for counseling practice.
Objective 2: To articulate the foundation for establishing a therapeutic relationship with clients of Asian descent.
Objective 3: To be able to apply 3 5 trauma informed and culturally responsive counseling strategies for facilitating the growth and healing of Asian American clients.

Ecosystem Of Workplace Education And Training: Where Do Learners Fit?, Kathy Harris, Jen Vanek, Jill Castek, Gloria E. Jacobs

21CLEO Presentations and Publications

Presentation Agenda

● Background on study design and theoretical approaches

● What’s a learning ecosystem?

● Who are the learners?

● Insights gleaned from critical analysis of learner interview data & discussion with key stakeholders (employers, WFD practitioners, educators)

● What’s next in our research

Chinese Word Order: A Look Into Svo And Sov Arguments, Shelley E. Tennison

University Honors Theses

In this paper, the issue of Chinese word order is weighed, and findings in the field are presented. First, looking into the historical background and offering a brief introduction to Greenberg's linguistic universals, I will break apart various arguments concerning the word order in Chinese. I will examine many sources, albeit the focus will rest heavily on Sandra Li and Charles Thomson's SOV argument and Timothy Gívon and Chaofen Sun's SVO argument. The two sides of this argument are considered regarding X-bar theory, constituent test, morphological limitations, and syntax.

Building And Expanding Avestor’S Social Media Presence: A Capstone Review, Hope Foley

University Honors Theses

The Business capstone project involves a small team working directly with a local business to provide assistance in achieving a specific goal the company may have for their future. Through research, informational visuals, and presentations to the client, the team presents a final recommendation as to the best option to achieve the company's goal and the most effective way to implement it.

Monarchism With A Human Face: Balkan Queens And The Social Politics Of Nursing In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Evguenia Davidova

International & Global Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

How were monarchy, gender, and nationalism entwined? Through contextualized comparisons of selected case studies (two generations of royal women in four countries: Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and Serbia/Yugoslavia), this article explores, in gendered terms, the instrumentalization of nursing as an evolving relationship between state building, warfare, welfare, and voluntary organizations. It argues that certain queens’ interventions in nursing successfully contributed to the “naturalization” of the ruling foreign dynasties in the Balkans and to the militarization of charity. Through such “soft power” they mobilized nursing in different ways to carve out an autonomous space and visibility in wartime as queen-nurses and in …

Climate Change And Culture On The Mekong, Alexander J. Ham-Kucharski

Student Work

The study focuses on the effects of climate change on the Mekong River Valley countries of China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and how fishing industry and culture and tradition is affected by climate change in these communities.

This research was the culminating project from research completed in Dr. Pronoy Rai's INTL 407 Senior Seminar on Climate Change.

Methods For Cross-Cultural Communication In Clinic Encounters, Princess U Ogbogu, Lenora Mendoza Noroski, Kimberly Arcoleo, Benjamin D Reese, Andrea J Apter

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Successful cross-cultural communication is critical for adequate exchange of ideas with our patients. Our communities have become more diverse, and thus, the necessity has increased. The murder of George Floyd and other atrocities have sparked recognition of the need to address social injustice and racism and as we fight the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Allergist-immunologists are uniquely trained to explain the complex immunology of COVID-19 to patients, but they have less experience discussing issues of health equity. Here, we explore critical components of patient-provider communication: communicating with those for whom English is a second language, advising patients with …

Differences In Covid-19-Related Testing And Healthcare Utilization By Race And Ethnicity In The Veterans Health Administration, Javad Razjouyan, Drew A Helmer, Ang Li, Aanand D Naik, Christopher I Amos, Venkata Bandi, Amir Sharafkhaneh

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

IMPORTANCE: Recent reports indicate differences in COVID-19-related care and outcomes between Black and White Americans.

OBJECTIVE: We examine the COVID-19-related healthcare utilization and mortality by race and ethnicity of patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).

DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study.

SETTING: We used the VHA COVID-19 shared data resources between February 1 and June 30, 2020.

PARTICIPANTS: Veterans tested for SARS-CoV-2 virus by VHA.

EXPOSURE(S): Three racial-ethnicity groups of Black, Hispanic, and White (as reference) veterans.

MAIN OUTCOME(S) AND MEASURE(S): Main outcomes are testing rate, positivity rate, hospitalization rate, ICU admission rate, and in-hospital mortality. Controlling …

Urban Flood Risk And Green Infrastructure: Who Is Exposed To Risk And Who Benefits From Investment? A Case Study Of Three U.S. Cities, Arun K. Pallathadka, Jason Sauer, Heejun Chang, Nancy B. Grimm

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

Pluvial flooding is a serious hazard in inland U.S. cities. City managers and communities are increasingly interested in reducing their pluvial flood risk through the development of green infrastructure (GI) features. This research explores the relationship between pluvial flood exposure and GI placement in three inland cities– Atlanta, Phoenix, and Portland–and analyzes the variation of sociodemographic variables in census block groups (CBG) located in pluvial flood zones. Using the Arc-Malstrøm method, we estimated areas of pluvial flooding in the CBGs of our selected cities by relating pluvial flood area to the density of GI in CBGs and assigning CBGs one …

"[I] Don't Wanna Just Be Like A Cog In The Machine": Narratives Of Autism And Skilled Employment., Dora M. Raymaker, Mirah Sharer, Joelle Maslak, Laurie E. Powers, Katherine E. Mcdonald, Steven K. Kapp, Ian Moura, Anna Furra Wallington, Christina Nicolaidis

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

Autistic people are less likely to be employed than the general population. Autistic people with skilled training (e.g. training for jobs in acting, plumbing, science, or social work) might be even less likely to get a good job in their field. Little is known about the experiences of autistic people in skilled employment or what employment success means to them. We interviewed 45 autistic people with skilled training in a wide range of fields, 11 job supervisors, and 8 topic experts. We asked them about their experiences, what they felt helped them to be successful at work, and what employment …