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Motivations For Engaging In Act Guide: An Online Digital Mental Health Intervention, Willa Freeman, Danny Cottle

Student Research Symposium

Mental Health in the United States

• 24% of Americans, 60 million, experienced a mental health concern in the past year (Reinert et al., 2024).
• In 2024, 1 in 4 adults with continuous mental distress could not see a doctor due to cost (Reinert et al., 2024).
• Online programs can help provide resources to improve quality of life that are cost-effective and easily accessible

How Does Social Media Influence The Self-Perceived Well-Being Of Rural Residents?, Danalee Welch-O'Donnal

Student Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Examining Cultural Competency In Audiologists Across The United States: A Pilot Survey, Olivia Montoya

Student Research Symposium

• Cultural competency refers to the ability of systems to provide care to patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors, including tailoring delivery to meet patients' social, cultural, and linguistic needs (Betancourt, 2002).

• Limited studies to date have explored the implementation of cultural competence in audiology, which begs the question of how audiologists are fighting against—instead of contributing to—healthcare disparities among ethnic minorities.

Freedom To Change: Comparing U.S. And Norwegian Recidivism, Sofia Low

Student Research Symposium

The U.S. criminal justice system is set up to fail those leaving!

Housing Attainability In The Bear River Area, Peyton Reynolds

Student Research Symposium

Utahns are experiencing numerous challenges related to affording, securing, and maintaining housing.

Rurality: A Secondary & Post-Secondary Perspective, Emmalee Folsom

Student Research Symposium

How can we as secondary educators push rural students to embrace their rural identities in conjunction with their academic skills to not only become powerful members of society, but to see themselves as candidates for post-secondary education?

Latinx Education: Catalyst For Permanent Socio-Economic Change, Evan Schellhous

Student Research Symposium

This poster explores the transformative impact of education in empowering the Latinx community, drawing on insights from four contemporary films: Spare Parts, McFarland USA, Walkout, and A Million Miles Away. Each film depicts unique narratives where education is pivotal in overcoming socio-economic challenges, cultural barriers, and systemic inequities. Spare Parts narrates the inspiring journey of Latino students who, with determination and innovative spirit, defy stereotypes to excel in science and technology. McFarland USA illustrates how mentorship and community support enable under-resourced Latinx athletes to break the cycle of poverty through academic and athletic success. In Walkout, historic student-led protests …

Women's Suffrage In The Cedar Valley: Professionalism And Women's Activism At The Iowa State Teachers College, 1860-1920, Amber Hoodjer

INSPIRE Student Research and Engagement Conference

This presentation is titled “Women’s Suffrage in the Cedar Valley: Professionalism and Women’s Activism at the Iowa State Teachers College, 1876-1920” because in it, I will discuss the culture on the ISTC campus, attitudes towards suffrage, and how ISTC’s activism was connected to the larger community.

Friendship With Violence: The Boffer Larping Community, Cassandra Ralston

INSPIRE Student Research and Engagement Conference

What is boffer LARPing?

• Live Action Role Play
• Boffer is a term used for foam weapons
• Subsets within community
• Studied active fighters

Competition, Red, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Eichner, A. S. (1976). Wholesale prices in oligopolistic and competitive industries, 1965–73. In The megacorp and oligopoly: Micro foundations of macro dynamics (graph). M.E. Sharpe.

• Concentration and industry profit rates (1979-05, document, two copies)

• Average and incremental profit rates: US and OECD (2000-11, document)

• Average and incremental profit rates: US and OECD, including figures for world data (2000-11, document)

• Empirical evidence & Marx's theory of competition (1982-04-06, handwritten notes)

• Theory of wages & competition (1989-10-27, handwritten notes)

• Competition of capitals (1982-03-25, handwritten notes)

• Concept of competition in economics (1981-12-08, handwritten notes)

• Marx on competition (undated, handwritten notes) …

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Competition (Marxian And Perfect Comp.), Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Marxian competition & the theory of the firm (1982-06-24, handwritten notes)

• Handwritten notes discussing Ernest Mandel’s data on profit rates across nations, with pages from a related document (1979-05, handwritten notes)

• Perfect competition & Marxian competition (undated, handwritten notes)

• Handwritten notes contrasting radical and orthodox views on competition [Handwritten notes] (undated)

• Econ 305: Variations in profit rates and margins in large-scale industries (1984-02-23, handwritten notes)

Harrodian Growth With Exog. Dd, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Classical accumulation function (2004-07-01, notes)

• Graphs showing nominal shares of GDP components (2001-11-16)

• Short run & long run: How long? (2003-10-21, handwritten notes)

• Handwritten notes on macroeconomic modeling [Handwritten notes] (undated)

• ECO 208: K/K vs Harrod (2001-06-13, handwritten notes)

• Macrodynamics: References (2000-12-19, reference list for Econ 204)

• Economic policy in a growth context: A synthesis of Keynes and Harrod (2001-05-27, outline)

• Handwritten outline on synthesizing Keynes and Harrod [Handwritten outline] (undated)

• Dynamics of adjustment: SR & LR (2001-03-30, handwritten notes)

• Handwritten notes discussing Kalecki’s 1962 paper [Handwritten notes] (1986-01-17)

• Handwritten notes discussing differential equations related to growth …

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Notes On Expectations, Anwar Shaikh Phd

Archives of Anwar Shaikh

This collection includes:

• Global stability of classical model w dynamic expectations (2001-01-04, handwritten notes)

• Expectations and moving targets (2001-01-04, handwritten notes)

• Handwritten notes discussing planned output, investment, production, and expected demand [Handwritten notes] (2000-12-22)

• Handwritten notes on the savings rate with taxes [Handwritten notes] (2001-03-29)

• Handwritten notes on adaptive input models, expectations, classical closure, and Harrodian closure [Handwritten notes] (undated)

• Handwritten notes on the paradox of SR equilibrium [Handwritten notes] (undated)

• Diagram and notes related to demand expectations [Handwritten diagram and notes] (undated)

• Classical (undated, handwritten notes discussing demand expectation models)

• Adaptive expectations (2001-04-10, handwritten notes, two copies)

• Handwritten notes …

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A Modern Community Men’S Shed, Carly Bendull, Melinda Heinz

INSPIRE Student Research and Engagement Conference

The inception of the Men’s Sheds Movement began in Australia to bring men together who were socially isolated. At sheds, men converse with each other, make new friends, and engage in activities together. Further iterations of sheds around the world have also been created, including Community Sheds and Women’s Sheds. In the U.S., the Men’s Sheds Movement began in 2016. However, sheds have not been studied as extensively in the U.S. and this paper adds to the literature by further investigating gender, expectations, age, motivation, and participation in a Community Shed located in the Southern part of the U.S. Results …

Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Database Among Faculty Of Management Sciences Academic Staff Of Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria., Esther Motunrayo Ekeh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

This study examined the level of awareness and use of electronic databases among faculty of management sciences academic staff of Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos state, Nigeria. The objective of the study is to investigate the level of awareness and use of electronic databases by academic staff in the Faculty of Management sciences in Lagos State University, Ojo - Lagos State, Nigeria. Descriptive research design was employed with proportionate stratified random sampling. The population of the study was all the 105 academic staff in the university under study. A questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection and was …

Alex Willoughby Full Interview Transcript, Urban Green Lab, Tennessee State University

Hear from Alex Willoughby - Nashvillian in the Tornado's Path

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of A Dance-Like Martial Arts Training On Prisoners’ Concentration Ability, Uta Czyrnick-Leber, Kiara Kuhrs, Christian Kraft, Pamela Wicker, Bernd Groben

Journal of Prison Education Research

A cognitive prerequisite for education and (re)entry into the labor market is the ability to concentrate for a long period. Conducted with 39 participants, the present study examines the effect of a six-week dance-like martial arts program on prisoners’ concentration ability in an open prison in Germany (n=15), and compares their concentration ability with a control group of prisoners (n=5), as well as a treatment (n=11) and control group (n=8) of university students. Concentration ability is assessed using the d2-R concentration and attention test before, after, and six weeks following the program. The program’s participants showed significant improvements compared to …

Book Review: The World Will Never See The Like: The Gettysburg Reunion Of 1913, Wylie W. Johnson

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Author: John L. Hopkins

Reviewed by Reverend Dr. Wylie W. Johnson, chaplain (retired), US Army War College class of 2010

The World Will Never See the Like: The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913, by John L. Hopkins, traces the story of the Gettysburg reunion from its inception in 1908 to its fruition in 1918, covering the community perspective, the veterans’ search for reconnection, spectators’ thoughts on the spectacle, and more. In the words of reviewer Wylie W. Johnson, “The takeaway for senior leaders from this compelling book is the overriding necessity for reconciliation.”

©2025 Wylie W. Johnson

Book Review: Knife Fights: A Memoir Of Modern War In Theory And Practice, Brennan Deveraux

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Author: John A. Nagl

Reviewed by Major Brennan Deveraux, national security researcher, Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College

Today’s force still has plenty to learn about counterinsurgency from Operation Desert Storm. John Nagl’s Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice “a book about counterinsurgency and its journey from the far periphery of US military doctrine to its center, for better and, some would argue, for worse.” The reviewer notes, Nagl’s work “provides a tangible example of the impact junior leaders can have on the service.”

Book Review: Unit X: How The Pentagon And Silicon Valley Are Transforming The Future Of War, Robert D. Bradford Iii

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Author: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchoff

Reviewed by Robert D. Bradford III, associate professor of defense and Joint processes, US Army War College

Bureaucracy versus technology. The Pentagon versus Silicon Valley. Is cooperation possible? If you have ever wondered how the US military and civilian technological institutions can work together to America’s advantage, Robert D. Bradford III’s review of Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War explores the story of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and its connection to the Department of Defense and Silicon Valley.

Prenatal Exposure To Pm2.5 Concentration And Risk Of Preterm Birth In New Mexico; A Seasonal Pattern And Spatio-Temporal Modeling., Onyedikachi J. Okeke

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

This study investigates the association between prenatal PM2.5 exposure and preterm birth risk in New Mexico (2014–2021). Using descriptive statistics, time series models, and spatial analyses, findings show an average preterm birth rate of 14.87 per 1,000 live births, with moderate correlation (r = 0.727) between PM2.5 levels and very preterm births. While traditional models revealed no significant global effect, spatial methods such as Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) and Multiscale GWR uncovered strong spatial heterogeneity. PM2.5 effects varied by county (coefficients: -0.00154 to 0.00150), with clustering evident in 2018–2019 (Moran’s I = 0.155–0.174). Results highlight the limitations of global models …

The Fear Of Replacement: How Ai Panic In Journalism Mirrors Existential Crisis In Industry, James Hutson

Faculty Scholarship

This study systematically examines the portrayal of artificial intelligence (AI) errors, such as hallucinations and deepfakes, in journalistic contexts, evaluating whether these narratives reflect a broader existential anxiety about AI's role in reshaping journalism. Using a systematic literature review combined with a qualitative content analysis of recent AI-focused news reports, this study identifies recurring themes in media coverage to assess the accuracy and context of reported AI errors relative to actual technological limitations and affordances. Findings suggest that while AI errors are comparatively rare, they receive amplified coverage, often fueling public mistrust in AI technologies. Nevertheless, a balanced examination reveals …

Book Review: Next War: Reimagining How We Fight, Jeffrey Caton

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Author: John Antal

Reviewed by Colonel Jeffrey Caton (US Air Force, retired), president, Kepler Strategies LLC

In Next War: Reimagining How We Fight, by John Antal, the author’s goal is to “draw lessons and conclusions from the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Israeli-Hamas War, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War.” He highlights nine disrupters that he claims are changing modern warfare. Reviewer Jeffery Caton sees room for improvement.

©2025 Jeffrey Caton

"Anything And Everything:" An Analysis Of Role Ambiguity In Pennsylvania School Social Work, Jennifer L. Hoffa

Social Work Doctoral Dissertations

For the past 100 years, since the inception of school social work, a comprehensive list of the duties of social workers in schools has remained intangible; thus, the professional identity of school social workers (SSWs) has not been well-defined. An ambiguous professional identity gives rise to a lack of legitimacy, role confusion, and inconsistency in responsibilities faced by current SSWs employed in a public-school setting. A comprehensive understanding of how SSWs function, both in theory and in practice, is essential to producing social workers who are qualified, competent, and equipped to support students. This study utilizes quantitative methods to investigate …

Analysis Of Self: My Journey To Healing And Helping, Chelsea C. Schultz

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

The Analysis of Self led me to take an inventory of who I am as a person and a professional, and what led me to where I am today as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor. This project satisfies the requirements of the graduate program. Besides taking an in-depth overview of my personal history, I also included assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and the Strong’s Interest Inventory (SII) to uncover various aspects of my personality, strengths and qualities. Interventions that align with my counseling style are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Person-Centered Therapy because of …

The Columbus Promise: Year Two Evaluation Report, Michelle Miller-Adams, Kevin Hollenbeck, Bridget Timmeney, Kyle Huisman

Reports

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The Fear Of Yahweh: Introducing Scripture’S Wisdom Literature For Biblical Counseling, Alexander Lee

Senior Honors Theses

Biblical wisdom literature is one of the most neglected areas of Scripture related to biblical counseling. Biblical counseling is formulated on the sufficiency of Scripture, so a deeper examination of any area of Scripture is sure to enlighten the biblical counselor. Wisdom in biblical counseling was introduced through an examination of the fear of Yahweh. A proper fear of Yahweh connects the counselee with the revelation of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, leading to a transformation of the client’s character toward a flourishing life. An existing case study was examined, highlighting how these findings can be implemented in the …

Book Review: Co-Intelligence: Living And Working With Ai, Zachary E. Griffiths

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Author: Ethan Mollick

Reviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary E. Griffiths, Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Army

Zachary E. Griffiths’ review of Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, portrays Ethan Mollick’s book as a concise, easy-to-read tour of artificial intelligence—a user’s guide of sorts. With insightful information about how to use AI, Mollick’s work also covers the history of artificial intelligence and ethical and legal issues that come with using large language models. In his review, Griffiths recommends all Army officers read this book.

©2025 Zachary E. Griffiths

“I Never Wanted This”: Examining Maintenance Of White Femininity Within Abortion Stories On Tiktok, Brooke Pope

Communication ETDs

The invocation of tragedy in abortion stories has been acknowledged as a rhetorical tool that creates affective prescriptions and marginalization. Expanding on this concept, this work identifies how these strategies are used to maintain white femininity structurally through individual narratives. An intersectional feminist rhetorical analysis of abortion stories told on the platform TikTok is used to identify discursive practices that signal to white femininity. These practices are organized into three prominent themes within narratives: moves toward victimization, moves toward innocence, and prescribed punishments. Thematically, these serve to identify how pro-choice rhetoric fails to be intersectional and underscore the importance of …

The Impacts Of Media Richness, Blurriness, And Beautification Of Online Dating Profile Visual Elements On Dating Outcomes, Minhao Dai, Shilin Xia

Faculty Articles

Introduction: Online dating is a popular way for individuals to connect today, and the visual elements of an online dating profile have become an essential part of online dating. The current study examined how media richness, visual blurriness, and beautification of an online dating profile’s visual elements would influence online dating outcomes.

Methods: We conducted an online dating experiment with 10 different conditions with younger adults between 18 and 35 (n = 389).

Results: The results showed that the richer visual elements and the beautified selfie in an online dating profile predicted a number of dating outcomes, including stronger …