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Teaching Note—Teaching Trumpism, Hannah E. Karpman, Rory Crath

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

The election of Donald Trump was an astounding moment in the history of the United States. As academics across disciplines and social work as a profession struggled to understand the election and its effects, several syllabi were crowd sourced to explain the phenomenon known as Trumpism. This article describes a social work social policy course derived from these syllabi, as well as the pedagogical choices and consequences of teaching this course at the graduate level.

The Structural Clinical Model: Disrupting Oppression In Clinical Social Work Through An Integrative Practice Approach, Maria Del Mar Fariña, Peggy O'Neill

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

It is critical that clinical social workers become actively aware of the endemic processes and manifestations of racism, social inequities, structures and dynamics of white supremacy within and across organizational, supervisory and clinical relationships. The Structural-Clinical Model (SCM) is presented, providing a multi-layered and theoretically rich pathway for clinical social workers to examine the intricate, and multifaceted interconnections expressing racialized oppressive forces across macro, meso and micro systems that impact the totality of clinical practice. SCM integrates critical race theory, liberation psychology, and relational theories bridging long standing theoretical and conceptual divides. The SCM aims to de-pathologize clients, recognizing instead …

Continuous And Discrete Models For Optimal Harvesting In Fisheries, Nagham Abbas Al Qubbanchee

Masters Theses

"This work focuses on the logistic growth model, where the Gordon-Schaefer model is considered in continuous time. We view the Gordon-Schaefer model as a bioeconomic equation involved in the fishing business, considering biological rates, carrying capacity, and total marginal costs and revenues. In [25], the authors illustrate the analytical solution of the Schaefer model using the integration by parts method and two theorems. The theorems have many assumptions with many different strategies. Due to the nature of the problem, the optimal control system involves many equations and functions, such as the second root of the equation. We concentrate on Theorem …

Developing A Vr Training Model For Improving Transportation Safety Protocols For Rural Areas, Emmanuel Olumide Adeosun

Masters Theses

"This research evaluated the effectiveness of using simulated virtual reality driving environments to improve transportation safety in rural areas. The transportation accident fatality rate is more than double the national average in rural areas and highlights an important opportunity to address these challenges through improved safety protocols and investments. A review of the literature revealed high frequency scenarios that contributed the most to fatality or injury accidents. Virtual reality driving simulations were created based on these high frequency events using a specified rural roadway identified with the assistance of the Missouri Department of Transportation. Scenarios considered weather-related conditions, such as …

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Comparative Civilizations Review

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The Developing Global Crisis And Survival Of Human Civilizations, Michael M. Andregg Ph.D.

Comparative Civilizations Review

For over thirty years, we have used a phrase “the Developing Global Crisis” to identify a cluster of recurring causal factors of chaos that are especially difficult to deal with. These are: population pressure (not simply growth), corruptions of governance (hard to study in democracies much less in police-states), authoritarian political systems, and militant religions. The West has failed to control these recurring causes of chaos, often by imperial patterns of behavior instead of more enlightened governance. Civilizational scholars in Japan might be able to find better solutions to these problems for Asia and the world if they try hard. …

Strategy Vs. Humanity? American Corporations May Be Facing A Momentous Paradigm Shift In The Age Of Diversity, Equity And Inclusion, Mark Rennella

Comparative Civilizations Review

The business discipline of strategy was born at Harvard Business School in the America of the 1970s, an era of disorienting economic fluctuations and sometimes naked vulnerability that was punctuated by disturbing events like the OPEC oil embargoes and the Iran hostage crisis. By the end of the decade, strategy claimed the imaginations of business executives and relegated its predecessor, marketing, to a distant second place. Marketing, whose focus was serving customer needs to grow demand, was neither tough enough nor quick enough to deal with the sudden appearance of economic and cultural monsters invading American life.

The Russian Sphinx: Contemplating Danilevsky’S Enigmatic Magnum Opus Russia And Europe, Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov

Comparative Civilizations Review

The relations between Russia and the West have never been particularly easygoing or unambiguous, and, presently, they are yet again at an all-time low. The way to better understand, as well as to successfully communicate and cooperate with another society is through learning about evolution (and revolutions) of their (as well as one’s own) history and culture. Are there any important sources in the Russian cultural heritage that could illuminate these ages-old problems, tendencies, and trends? The year 2021 marks 150 years since publication of Nikolay Danilevsky's book Russia and Europe (1871), while the next one, the year 2022, denotes …

The Architecture Of The Universe: A Look Into Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Andrew Targowski

Comparative Civilizations Review

The article advances a synthesized view of the world based on an intelligently communicated undivided Universe. It presents a fundamental component-based architecture and characterizes the controlling role of info-communication processes in the interplanetary system. The Fermi Paradox is then considered, which leads to a discussion about the concept of God as it pertains to Albert Einstein’s and Stephen Hawking’s theories. The article next introduces the author’s own understanding of God. The approach adopted in this study situates Earth’s civilization within the broader context of extraterrestrial civilizations, and it considers what this means for modern humans. Further research is also suggested …

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Comparative Civilizations Review

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Call For Papers/Abstracts And Announcement Of The 2022 Iscsc Conference The Future Of Civilization(S)

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Comparative Civilizations Review

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Reflecting On Heather Mcghee’S The Sum Of Us Through A South African Lens, Marthinus Van Loggerenberg

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

A South African native living in the USA explores and examines the essence of The Sum of Us by contemplating three post-Apartheid realizations in context of structural racism in the US: the illusion of being “born free”, the value of the philosophy of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”), and the role of respect in addressing racism. Ideas around shared narratives, reconciliation, mutual understanding, human value and freedom as something to be strived for, are denoted in relation to dismantling systemic racism for the sake of future generations in the US.

It’S Time To Dismantle The Zero-Sum Systems In Business Schools, Courtney Masterson

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Inspired by Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us, this essay calls attention to how business school administrators and faculty have perpetuated social and economic inequality by embracing zero-sum narratives inside and outside the classroom. Looking ahead, ideas for change are also proposed.

What Us?, Amanda Parris

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

McGhee (2021) concludes the introduction to The Sum of Us by declaring that she is “fundamentally a hopeful person, because [she knows] that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it” (p. xxiii). In this brief response I want to take on two problematic aspects of McGhee’s declaration, her hope and her voluntarism. I use an Afropessimistic lens so that we might, as Frank B. Wilderson III (2020) urges, make some of McGhee’s book “more dangerous to the U.S. and the world” (p. 250).

Drug Policy And Our Self-Inflicted Harm, Deborah Ahrens

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

The failure of American politics to appropriately address the harms of substance use and substance use disorders reflects “a bitter cost of the white majority’s willingness to accept the suffering of others" (McGhee p. 47) and the ways in which that willingness also harms white people is an additional cost we bear.

The Stumped Of Us: Why Teach Rhetoric In The Face Of Racism?, Jonathan Hunt

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Heather McGhee’s book presents a deeply ambivalent portrait of Rhetoric as a field of study. Her own optimistic faith in research, evidence, and truth-telling is countered by endless examples of the failure of rational, ethical persuasion in the face of racism and greed. This ambivalence raises existential questions for rhetorical curricula in higher education.

Tutorial 1: Introduction To Data File For Use With Jamovi Tutorials, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial provides a brief description of the Social Media Attitudes Study which will be used to demonstrate the different statistical functions of Jamovi.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 2: Introduction To Jamovi, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial we will provide a brief description of what Jamovi is and how to navigate the user interface.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 3: Producing R Scripts & Adding Modules, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial we will cover how to produce R scripts and how to add modules that would add to the existing statistical functions in Jamovi.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 8: Cronbach's Alpha And Reliability Analysis, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to conduct a reliability analysis using Cronbach’s alpha.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 9: Splitting Ordinal/Continuous Variables (2 Categories), Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to convert a continuous or ordinal/integer variable into a categorical variable with only two categories.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 10: Splitting Ordinal/Continuous Variables (3 Categories), Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to convert a continuous or ordinal/integer variable into a categorical variable with three categories.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 11: Reducing Number Of Categories In Nominal Variables, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to create a new variable with a smaller number of categories based on an existing nominal variable.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 12: Using A Filter To Select Cases, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to use filters in Jamovi to select certain cases for analyses or to select cases to create new categories.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 13: Frequencies And Descriptives, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to obtain frequency tables for nominal and ordinal variables, as well as how to obtain descriptive tables for ordinal and continuous variables.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 14: Frequency Graphs, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to obtain frequency graphs for nominal, ordinal, and continuous variables.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 16: Crosstabs, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to explore more than one nominal/categorical variable simultaneously and therefore examine the frequency distribution in one variable across the categories in another variable or a combination of other variables.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 20: One Way Anova - Analysis Of Variance, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to conduct a One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 26: Chi Square Tests - Goodness Of Fit, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to carry out hypotheses tests using the Chi Square statistic and distribution to examine observed frequencies/proportions of a categorical (nominal) variable against an expected or predicted distribution of frequencies/proportions.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.