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Lanthorn, Vol. 57, No. 15, November 28, 2022, Grand Valley State University

Volume 57, August 1, 2022 - April 10, 2023

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Queering Disaster Response: Best Practices For Intentional And Inclusive Disaster Response, Sean Fisher

Environmental Studies Student Work

Climate change is causing an increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather and climatic disasters. Indigenous, Persons of Color, Women, Queer, Trans, Two Spirit, and Disabled communities will be most impacted by the adverse impacts of these disasters. This disproportionate impact is being examined through vulnerability to adverse impacts. Vulnerability is accrued though pre-existing social, political, and or economic marginalization. Overton comments, “Disaster can thus be seen as social events that reveal the inequalities, vulnerabilities, and coping mechanisms that inform how people negotiate the ‘permanent disaster’ of daily life.” However, current methods of disaster relief and aid don’t …

Changing Course: Increasing Sustainability Of Mn Golf Courses, Jake Vandermeeden

Environmental Studies Student Work

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Digitalcommons: Imsa’S Institutional Portfolio - Lead Facilitator Meeting, Raven Mckelvin '24, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons: Resources for IMSA Students

No abstract provided.

The Rattler (Volume 111, Issue 4), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Hiv And Early Life Stress On Neuroimaging And Risky Behavior, Paola Garcia Egan

Dissertations

This study examined the interactive effects of early life stress (ELS) and HIV on brain morphometry, diffusion-basis-spectrum-imaging (DBSI), risky decision-making, and sex-risk behavior. 122 people with HIV (PWH) and 113 people without HIV (PWoH), free of major psychiatric illness and neurological confounds, were stratified into high (≥ 3 events) vs. low (< 3 events) ELS [PWoH/low ELS (n = 57), PWoH/high ELS (n =56), PWH/low ELS (n = 43), PWH/high ELS (n = 79)] and underwent structural magnetic resonance imaging, DBSI, neuropsychological, and risky-behavior assessment; all PWH were virologically controlled. Compared to PWoH, PWH had smaller orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), parietal lobes, insula, caudate and anterior cingulate. No ELS effects were detected in volumetric measures. Significant interactions were found between HIV serostatus and ELS on the OFC and on cellularity of the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus after multiple comparisons adjustment. Specifically, PWH/high ELS exhibited significantly smaller OFC and PWoH/high ELS show significantly larger OFC than the other groups. PWoH/high ELS exhibited higher DBSI cellularity (neuroinflammation proxy) of the inferior-occipital-fasciculus compared to PWoH/high ELS. Regardless of HIV status, executive function moderated the relationship between the OFC and sex-risk behavior such that individuals within the sample who performed above average on a measure of executive function and had a larger OFC reported fewer sex partners in past six months than individuals with smaller volumes. No interaction was found between HIV serostatus and ELS on risky behavior measures. Clustering analyses defined ELS subgroups in PWH that were determined by demographic characteristics, duration of infection, recent CD4+ T-cell count, nadir CD4+ T-cell count and high/low ELS.Even in PWH that are virologically controlled, without major current psychiatric comorbidities, there is evidence of a synergistic impact of ELS and HIV on OFC volumes. Higher volumes in the OFC were detrimental when associated with lower executive function scores or advantageous when associated with higher executive function. Findings suggest that ELS is associated with different brain signatures among PWoH and virally suppressed PWH. However, ELS was not directly associated with risky behaviors, and subgroups in PWH were characterized by demographic variables, past substance use and HIV clinical variables.

Black Americans At A Crossroads In American Politics: Electoral Participation, Protest, And Policy Change, Tenille-Rose Martin

Dissertations

This dissertation explores Black political participation in the United States. I argue there is a relationship between Black political participation and trust in government, political efficacy, group consciousness, linked fate, political knowledge, and desire to engage in social activism. This argument draws on research on political participation, group identity, and political behavior and attitudes within the Black community.

A mixed-method approach was used in the study. Data was collected from Blacks across the country via an original survey and interviews. The data analysis chapter determined some support for the theoretical framework, albeit aspects of the model were rejected. Results determined …

Ms 022 Guide To Karl Karnaky, Md Papers (1938-1970s), Karl John Karnaky (1907-1988)

Manuscript Finding Aids

The Karl Karnaky, MD papers contain reprints, correspondence, notes, flyers, and a textbook related to his work in the field of gynecology. See more at MS 022.

Nexus Between Animal Welfare, Environment, And Sustainable Development: Resource Document, Wellbeing International

Nexus – UNEP – Animal Welfare, Environment, Sustainable Development

This Resource Document has been developed to explore the Nexus (links) between Animal Welfare, the Environment, and Sustainable Development. The document includes relevant citations and reports addressing the topics encompassed by the Nexus. It will be maintained as a “living document” (subject to revision) in the WellBeing International Studies Repository. The original document and subsequent revisions will be kept in the Repository to provide a record of the changes.

Long-Term Care In The United States: History, Financing, And Directions For Reform, George A. (Sandy) Mackenzie

Upjohn Press

This book is a concise survey of the development of U.S. long-term care and its financing, with comparisons with other rich countries. It also includes a brief comparative account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and several other countries. The study finds much that is amiss with American long-term care and proposes three sets of progressively more ambitious reforms.

Criminal Justice And Criminal Justice News, Georgia Southern University

Criminal Justice & Criminology: News & Publications (2012-2023)

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Make The Effort, Take The Time: A Qualitative Study Of Inclusive Managerial Interactions At A Canadian Energy Company, Gregory M. Kober

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Workplace inclusion both maximizes the benefits of a diverse workforce and simultaneously reduces its negative consequences. However, a majority of the inclusion research takes an explicit or implicit management-focused perspective. This is problematic because management has more power than employees and executives are usually exemplars of the dominant organizational culture. In order to be more holistic, inclusion research should be much more deeply informed by a subordinate-centered understanding of workplace inclusiveness. Those with less power, those who are minoritized, and those who are marginalized have critical perspectives that must be brought to bear on the construct of workplace inclusivity.

This …

An Evaluation Of Product Descriptions And Brand Trust As Influencers Of Purchase Intent In A Luxury Second Hand Ecommerce Shopping Environment, Nyiesha Jones

Research Psychology Theses

In a world where fashion is a one-and-done look for an Instagram photo, represents 4% of global waste, and is growing at a rate of 11 times faster than traditional retail, there is a growing interest to reduce the carbon footprint of fashion by offering outlets for consumers to circulate their wardrobe through consignment opposed to throwing it away (Bird, 2018). Research has been done to evaluate the importance of information on e-commerce websites, with little focus on secondhand e-commerce. Previous research on secondhand shopping focuses mostly on shopping motivations, but once a customer has decided to shop secondhand what …

Thank You, Caroline, Sally St. George

The Qualitative Report

I offer a book review of Caroline Lenette’s new book called Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization in which I focus on the ethical and justice dimensions that I believe we, in our research worlds, need to give greater consideration to and inclusion in our research design, conduct, and publishing practices.

Fear And Trembling While Working In A Pandemic: An Exploratory Meta-Analysis Of Workers’ Covid-19 Distress, William P. Jimenez, Ian M. Katz, Elissa A. Liguori

Psychology Faculty Publications

The global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of workers and taken its toll on health and well-being. In line with recent calls for more inductive and abductive occupational health science research, we exploratorily meta-analyzed workers’ COVID-19 distress, defined as psychological and psychosomatic strain contextualized to experiencing the virus and pandemic broadly. We identified many existing COVID-19 distress measures (e.g., Fear of COVID-19 Scale by Ahorsu et al., 2020; Coronavirus Anxiety Scale by Lee, 2020a) and correlates, including demographic variables (viz., gender, marital status, whether worker has children), positive well-being (e.g., quality of life, perceived social support, resilience), negative well-being …

Data Driven Approaches For Understanding And Improving Urban Mobility, Yujie Guo

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

With the adoption of advanced information technologies, the transportation system keep innovating. It now offers more travel options, becomes smarter, but meanwhile gets more complicated and imposes more challenges to researchers and practitioners. For example, demand responsive public transit operates according to user demand instead of traditional timetable-based and fixed route services, which brings a lot of convenience to users. These emerging services also reshapes the way people travel. With the popularity of ride sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, people are more accessible to vehicle use without an ownership. Given the increasing popularity of emerging services, it is …

Airspace Design And Strategic Deconfliction For Urban Air Mobility, Hualong Tang

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Urban Air Mobility (UAM), a part of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), focused on transporting passengers in low-altitude urban airspace, has attracted extensive attention among industry, government, academia, and the public. Compared to existing commercial flights, to be able to succeed, UAM is envisioned to move to highly automated and high-density operations in low-altitude urban airspace in the future. Providers of services for UAM (PSU), rather than the legacy Air Traffic Control, are anticipated to support operators with operational planning, aircraft deconfliction, conformance monitoring, and emergency information dissemination. Such services, for hundreds to thousands of simultaneous UAM operations in constrained airspace, …

An Assessment Of Networking And Resource Sharing In Federal University Libraries In Nigeria, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No library today can boast of having it all to satisfy all the vital needs and demands of her clientele without recourse to some forms of collaborative assistance or the other. This study so to speak is an assessment of networking and resource sharing in federal university libraries in Nigeria. The study was guided by four research objectives and questions respectively with a population sample of 86 librarians purposively derived from 43 federal university libraries. The major instrument used for data collection for the study was a 34-item modified Likert scale questionnaire while the data collected were analyzed using frequency …

Spatial And Temporal Change Of Population In Zarqa City During The Period (2004 And 2015), Ghazi Al-Serhan, Kayed Abu Sabha

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study dealt with the spatial and temporal change of the population in Zarqa city in terms of growth and population distribution, the study relied on the official census data for the years 2004 and 2015, to show the changes in the growth and distribution of the population. The study used several statistical methods to measure population growth rate, population density and relative population concentration, and to construct point and cadastral maps using GIS. The study reached a number of results, the most important of which is that the city of Zarqa has seen an increase in the population in …

Foundations And Principles Of Modern Thought, Esraa Bni-Issa, Mohammad Al-Khateeb

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This research aims to define the concept of modernity, and the most prominent features of modernist methodology in dealing with heritage and the history, including religion and culture, and to reveal briefly the history of the emergence of modernism , then to show the most prominent foundations of modernism from which all modernist theories and ideas were launched.

The research also showed that the basis of the problem of modernism is the animosity between scientists of empirical science and the church through the church’s domination of its myths over scientists.

The study concluded that the basis of modernism was built …

The Legal And Legislative Challenges That Face The Municipalities In Jordan, Mahmoud Abu-Faris

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims to identify the most important legal and legislative challenges that face the municipalities in Jordan and affect the municipalities' ability to achieve their objectives and serve their local communities; by discussing and analyzing the Jordanian Municipal Law No. 41 of 2015currently in force. Hence, this study sought to answer the following questions: Do the Jordanian municipalities have the legal personality and thus enjoy the financial and administrative independence, or is the given independence not genuine? Does the law promote decentralization and give the municipality’s board powers to enhance their developmental role?

In order to achieve the objectives …

The Level Of Efficiency Of Government Health Services In Greater Irbid From The Point Of View Of Its Auditors, Amer Mohammad Maslamani, Ali Anbar, Ammar Muslimani

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed to know the level of efficiency of government health services in Greater Irbid from the point of view of their auditors, and their differences according to the different areas of efficiency of their services (public, workers, health), as well as their differences according to their nature (primary center, comprehensive center, hospital). The effect of some variables [the nature of the health institution, the frequency of the visit; vehicle arrival time; arrival time by public transport; distance from the place of residence; The time of receiving treatment]" in the different level of efficiency of government health services services …

The Possibility Of Using Digital Public Relations In Managing Marketing Crises In Light Of The Corona Pandemic: A Field Study In Jordanian Private Universities, Mohammad Abu-Jalil, Abdallah Al-Shamesi, Mohammad Abu Jaleel

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed to identify the possibility of using digital public relations in managing marketing crises in light of the Corona pandemic. The study population included Jordanian private universities. As for the sample, it consisted of (150) respondents working in the Public Relations Department in Jordanian private universities. It adopted the descriptive and analytical approach, and used the questionnaire as a tool to collect data, and its validity and reliability were confirmed. The study concluded that there is a possibility of using digital public relations in managing marketing crises in light of the Corona pandemic in Jordanian private universities, and …

The Formal Digital Currencies (An Islamic Economics Perspective), Abdallah Al-Abdelmoneam, Talib Warrad

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The study aimed to develop a theoretical framework for digital currencies considering their reality and their various sections, in particular characterization of formal digital currencies from a Sharia and economic perspective, with an indication of Islamic economics perspective of legal digital currencies. The study included a statement of the objectives of issuing the formal digital currencies, by referring to their types of digital currencies in general, with a mention of the reasons that led to the emergence of legal digital currencies, and the characteristics, advantages and sections of formal digital currencies. The study found that formal digital currencies are consistent …

The Impact Of Human Resource Management Practices On Empowering Workers In Public Shareholding Insurance Companies Listed On The Amman Financial Market, Ali Al-Otoum, Suhil Bni Mustafa, Manal Al-Hawamdeh, Anwar Al-Qa’Ideh

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aimed to identify the impact of human resources management practices on empowering workers in public shareholding insurance companies listed in the Amman Financial Market. An applied study from the viewpoint of senior and middle management managers in these companies. The study sample consisted of (337) employees from the upper and middle management staff. From the study community. (337) questionnaires were distributed, (327) questionnaires were retrieved, (13) questionnaires were excluded because they were not valid for analysis, 314 questionnaires were analyzed. The researchers used the descriptive analytical approach in this study, the study found that the level of human …

The Reality Of Field Training For Some Humanitarian Disciplines Under Distance Education, Ibrahim Al-Adra

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The aim of this is to reveal the reality of field training for some humanitarian disciplines under distance learning, and the study used the qualitative curriculum for research purposes, and the sample of the study was formed from (50) faculty members in Jordanian universities, where the researcher used the corresponding tool to collect data and information. The study has reached a number of results, including: the importance of field training is that it helps students to work, apply and engage in the labor market, and try to account for challenges and adapt and deal with them in ways and ways …

The Level Of Psychological Resilience And Tolerance Among Students Who Are Victims Of Bullying In The Capital Amman, Ahed Al-Moubedeen

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The aim of the current research is to reveal the level of psychological resilience and tolerance among students who are victims of bullying in the capital Amman, and to identify the nature of the relationship between the two variables. The number of students reached (97) and two scales were developed, one of them is for psychological resilience, consisting of (38) items and five dimensions, and the other for measuring tolerance and consisting of (25) items. For the objectives of the current study, and the results of the research concluded that the students who are victims of bullying enjoy a medium …

The Effectiveness Of Counseling Program Based On The Selective Direction Improving The Level Of Psychological Hardness Among A Sample Of Female Teachers In Jordan, Enas Al-Saheli

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The current study aimed to examining the effectiveness of counselling program based on the selective direction in improving psychological Hardness among a sample of female teachers in Jordan.

The study population consisted of (130) female teacher from secondary school teachers in the Abu Nseir region during the academic year 2019/2020, and two schools were selected using the intentional method; Al-Sarh Secondary School for girls as an experimental group and Princess Basma Secondary School for girls as a control group. The individuals of the two groups were randomly nominated; (15) teacher in each group. This study relied on the semi-experimental method. …

The Reality Of Knowledge Management Culture From The Point Of View Of Academic Leaders In Jordanian Public Universities, Emran Al-Thmour, Mohammad Al Zyoud

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

This study aims to identify the status quo of the knowledge management culture from the point of views of the academics who held managerial position at Jordanian governmental Universities. Moreover, it aims to analyze the responses regarding status quo of the knowledge management culture based on respondents’ gender, academic ranks, managerial position, experiences, and University.

The descriptive research approach was used. in this context, the researcher developed a questionnaire as research instrument for the purpose of achieving the objectives of this study. The questionnaire was consisted of 10 main factors measuring the culture of the knowledge management that were ensured …

The Difficulties Of Teaching The Reading Skill For The First Three Grades Under The Shock Of Coronavirus And How To Overcome Them, Zain Al Bishawi

Jerash for Research and Studies Journal مجلة جرش للبحوث والدراسات

The Coronavirus pandemic has affected reading skills and it has become difficult to teach it, especially for the first three grades. It has affected many aspects of the lives of children and adolescents, and the closure of schools was the most prominent one. The percentage of children who did not take their right to learn reading skills increased to 20% in the year 2020, due to the closures that occurred as a result of the pandemic. Reading is a basic skill, without it, the learner cannot move forward. Therefore, one of the most famous learning difficulties is dyslexia which has …