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Serving The Business And Nonprofit Community Of Indianapolis, Divya Pathak

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

In this lightning talk, I will discuss the work of the Nonprofit team at Indianapolis Public Library. We run a workshop series twice a year, offer additional classes, and meet with people one-on-one. The library also offers a small business workshop series and individual appointments for prospective business owners.

Marketing The Library: Using Business Students To Increase Library Patronage After The Covid-19 Pandemic, Sandra L. Teft

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

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Library As Launchpad: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs At Cpl, Lauren Gramly

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

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Business Librarian Collaboration In The Midwest Entrepreneurship Case Competition, Zoeanna A. Mayhook

Midwest Business Librarian Summit (MBLS)

Launched in 2024, the Midwest Entrepreneurship Case Competition (MECC) is a regional case competition organized by business librarians and designed for undergraduate students across the Midwest. The competition helps students strengthen their business research skills while competing for prize incentives, generously sponsored by vendors of widely used business databases.

In addition to supporting student learning, MECC facilitates meaningful collaboration among business librarians involved in planning and implementation. It also offers a valuable window into how students engage with business information tools to support informed and strategic decision-making. This presentation will highlight the benefits of partnering with MECC and share upcoming …

Ngo Advocacy And Immigration Policy Reform In San Diego, Benicio Benavides-Garb

csuglobaljournal

The field of immigrant policy is a highly contested space, and among the primary actors involved in immigrant advocacy are non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Throughout California, NGOs are involved at the local, state, national, and international levels. In addition to introducing some of the directions being taken by NGOs in the San Diego area, this paper will examine the work of the San Diego City Council. The included NGOs were selected based on their intentional work in providing “systems-level” support, such as progressive immigration policy reform and advocacy. These organizations are the following: the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans …

An Ode To Alexandria: A Love Letter To The Pearl Of The Mediterranean Sea, Essraa Nawar

Library Articles and Research

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This summer, I present my seventh exhibition, An Ode to Alexandria: A Love Letter to the Pearl of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a visual narrative and personal homage to my birthplace — Alexandria, Egypt. A city that lives in my bones. A city I left but never truly departed. A city of sea spray, café whispers, timeless rhythm, and enduring soul.

Each photograph in this collection is a window into a living memory. Some moments are still, others are alive with motion — but each is a frame of gratitude, echoing this year’s theme at Chapman University. Gratitude …

Institutional Agility And Its Role In The Excellence Of Security Institutions, Hassan Ali Al Ali

Journal of Police and Legal Sciences

Institutions today need to change to keep pace with the dynamics that have struck the world, namely the events of Corona (COVID-19), to become more powerful to face the changing environment. The need for institutional agility has emerged due to intense competition, and a desire to mobilize the needs of beneficiaries and response to rapid changes. Institutional agility is one of the methods, also effective and successful modern management is another significant method. Institutional agility achieves institutional excellence if applied correctly and effectively. The study reached the most important results, the most important of which are: that national agility can …

The Proactive Approach Of Artificial Intelligence In Monitoring And Analyzing Illegal Money Laundering Operations In The Virtual World, Ammar Yasser El-Bably

Journal of Police and Legal Sciences

The research dealt with the proactive method of artificial intelligence in monitoring and analyzing non-suspicious operations of money laundering in the virtual world, especially the Internet and dark web, where it dealt with the risks created for those networks and their exploitation for the benefit of terrorist and criminal organizations, money laundering, the purchase of weapons and drugs, human trafficking and financial fraud, where Internet users around the world reached 5 billion users, and the volume of money laundering crimes became 2.8 Trillion dollars, according to United Nations and International Monetary Fund statistics 2023 AI applications where algorithms, machine learning, …

Examining The Relationship Between Acculturation Levels, Help-Seeking Attitudes, And Self-Stigma Perspectives Among International Students, Praveen K. Rudra

Counseling Faculty Publications

This study examined the relationship between acculturation level, help-seeking attitude, and self-stigma among international students enrolled in the graduate counseling program (ICS) within the United States. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) served as the theoretical framework. Using the TPB construct in the context of mental health concerns, this study investigated the relationship between acculturation level, help-seeking attitude, and self-stigma. The data from ASSIS, IASMHS, and SSOSH were analyzed using the Pearson product moment correlation (Pearson r). It was found that the Pearson product-moment correlational analysis between the variables concluded a strong direct correlation between the acculturation level and the …

The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence As An Intervening Variable Between The Digital Government Strategy And Competency Development "An Applied Study At Sharjah Police Sciences Academy ", Elsayed Kamal Risha, Abd Al-Rahman Al-Naqbi

Journal of Police and Legal Sciences

The study aimed to determine the impact of the digital government strategy on competencies development, through artificial intelligence as an intervening variable, and to achieve the objectives, the study relied on the quantitative approach and the questionnaire was used as the main tool for collecting data. The study community represented officers, non-commissioned officers and individuals at the Sharjah Academy for Police Sciences, and the study sample amounted to 30 affiliates, i.e. the total number of employees in the Competency Development Department at the Academy. The study reached a set of results, the most prominent of which are:

- The existence …

Lindenwood Digest, July 9, 2025, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

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Laying The Groundwork For Liberatory Expressive Arts Research: A Queer Review, Robyn E. Ginsberg

Expressive Therapies Theses

The goal of this thesis was to reveal the interconnectedness of disparate discourse across diverse disciplines and locate it within one queer domain. The intersection of (expressive) art and (community/participatory) action is a space within which queer collaboration can take place. It is a space that can accommodate and energize non-normative idea generation and exchange which can mobilize queer resistance to create societal change (Fernández & Fine, 2024; Rutten, 2016). By engaging with interdisciplinary literature and situating conceptual frameworks in dialogue this review provides a foundation for liberatory expressive arts research (LExAR) and practice. Key themes include: centering queer and …

In-Home Supports For The Developmentally Disabled Population: A Heuristic Phenomenological Study Of Sc’ Experiences, Stephen Troy Davis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Despite occupying a central role in the developmental disabilities systems of 48 states, SC do not have a voice in program or policy development and are not well represented in the disabilities literature. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of SC who work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in southeastern Pennsylvania. The theoretical lenses through which the study was viewed were Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory and Wolfensberger’s social role valorization. The study was guided by research questions aimed at illuminating the intensity of support coordinators’ experiences by uncovering how they experience and define their …

The Interactive Effects Of Stereotype Activation And Minority Group Belonging On Identity Mobilization Tactics, Career Identity, And Leader Identity For Black Women In The Workplace, Corai E. Jackson

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand when and how Black women can achieve positive identity outcomes in the workplace when they experience stereotype activation. Despite Black women's increasing presence in the workforce, they continue to face unique challenges at the intersection of race and gender, including negative stereotypes that undermine their credibility and limit career advancement opportunities. This research explored how Black women's sense of belongingness to their minority group influences their use of identity mobilization tactics when stereotypes are activated, and how these factors collectively influence their career and leader identities.

Using a 2 × 2 between-groups …

Strategic Development Plan – San Pedro Dr. Main Street Corridor, Adrian N. Carver

Student Publications

The San Pedro MainStreet Strategic Development Plan is a place-based, community-driven roadmap for revitalizing the San Pedro Drive corridor in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The corridor sits at the intersection of historical significance and present-day opportunity—bridging the old and new alignments of Route 66 while serving a diverse, working-class population. Drawing from urban planning theory, spatial analysis, and community input, this plan identifies challenges and assets related to land use, infrastructure, business development, housing, and cultural identity. Special attention is given to past and ongoing patterns of racialized disinvestment and displacement, with strategies proposed to ensure equitable reinvestment and climate resilience. …

Legislative And Security Confrontation Of Crimes Artificial Intelligence In The State Of Kuwait (An Analytical Study), Rashid Mohammed Al Marri

Journal of Police and Legal Sciences

The study aimed to demonstrate the mechanisms of legislative and security confrontation of artificial intelligence crimes. The use of technologies associated with artificial intelligence may go beyond the imposed limits, whether by exploiting it through its program developers & specialists to commit crimes in the cyber field, or it may be with the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence to make decisions in the field. Many behaviors occur automatically. Our research also aims to study the criminal responsibility for these crimes, & determine it in order to hold the real perpetrator accountable in accordance with the legal rules in force to …

The Role Of The Saudi Family As One Of The Social Control Institutions In Reducing Crime From The Point Of View Of Workers In Police Departments In The Capital, Riyadh, Jafar Mohammed Shaflout

Journal of Police and Legal Sciences

The study aimed to identify the role of the Saudi family in reducing crime from the point of view of workers in police departments in the capital, Riyadh. The descriptive analytical approach was used for its suitability to the purposes of the study. The research sample consisted of (352) individuals working in community police, who were selected by simple random method with percent of (0.00071) from the study community, which consists of (500) thousand individuals working in Saudi Public Security. The research relied on the questionnaire as a tool for collecting data, the validity and reliability of which were verified. …

Academic Year 2025–26 Annual Estimate Of The Strategic Security Environment, Us Army War College

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Maintaining strategic advantage demands professional discourse from across the force. The Academic Year 2025–26 Annual Estimate of the Strategic Security Environment provides a framework for those aspiring to tackle the Department of Defense’s most pressing challenges. This year’s authors highlight trending challenges and identify potential tension points across 15 sections organized into four enduring themes. This survey of regional, domestic, and institutional challenges represents the collective expertise of the US Army War College. The narrative is supplemented by a tailored list of 100 command-sponsored questions from 43 different Army and Joint organizations from across the Department of Defense. Combined, the …

Understanding Youth Violence Through A Socio-Ecological Lens, Yok-Fong Paat, Kristopher Hawk Yeager, Erik M. Cruz, Rebecca Cole, Luis R. Torres-Hostos

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Youth violence—the deliberate use of physical force or harm by young people between the ages of 10 and 24 to intimidate or cause harm to others, both online and offline—is a critical public health issue in the United States. Yet, successfully predicting future violent offenders is a complex and challenging task, as the question of why some youths resort to extreme violence while others refrain from it—despite facing similar risk factors—remains widely debated. This article highlights both risk and protective factors of youth violence through a socio-ecological lens to offer a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted factors driving youth violence …

Artificial Intelligence In Stem Education: A Transdisciplinary Framework For Engagement And Innovation, Cristo Leon Ph.D., James Lipuma Ph.D., Xavier Oviedo Torres

STEM for Success Resources

This peer-reviewed article, Artificial Intelligence in STEM Education: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Engagement and Innovation by Cristo León, James Lipuma, and Xavier Oviedo-Torres, published in Frontiers in Education, examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming STEM education through a transdisciplinary lens. Based on a systematic review of 41 scholarly studies (2020–2025), it analyzes AI integration in STEM classrooms, focusing on learner agency, adaptive assessment, and ethical challenges such as algorithmic transparency, equity, and inclusion. Guided by a Transdisciplinary Communication (TDC) framework and grounded in PRISMA protocols, the study applies tools like Nvivo, Excel, and VOSviewer for thematic coding and …

Parents Of Adolescents On Electronic Use And Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Parental Perspectives, Sleep, Internalization, Jessica Wiepking

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

ADHD in adolescents is a common diagnosis, with exposure to daily electronic use. There is strong evidence for a relationship between electronic use and ADHD in adolescents. However, there is a gap on electronic use, internalized feelings, and sleep behaviors in ADHD adolescents and how sleep behaviors might impact that relationship. ADHD has its core symptoms that impact the individual daily. These symptoms need to be taken into consideration when looking at internalized feelings and sleep behavior patterns. The theoretical framework that aligns with this study is the Dopaminergic Dysregulation Theory (DDT). This theory is a module that suggests that …

Qualitative Insights Into Drug Use Safety Strategies And Social Support Among Sexual Minority Women Who Inject Drugs In Baltimore, Maryland, Jennifer L. Glick, Leanne Zhang, Aimee Huang, Megan Nguyen, Danielle German

School of Public Health Faculty Publications

Background: Sexual minority women (SMW) experience higher rates of substance use relative to heterosexual women in the U.S. but remain an under-studied population. SMW who inject drugs (SMWWID) navigate an unpredictable drug market and may experience complex relationships within their social spheres. We explore cisgender SMWWID’s strategies to maintain safety while injecting drugs, and the influence of their social support systems on those strategies. Methods: We conducted N = 16 phone-based, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with SMWWID in Baltimore, Maryland between June-October 2021. The interviews explored participants’ sexual orientation and gender identities, social networks and support systems, drug use behaviors and …

Bihar Sir Threatens The Credibility Of Elections, Swati Narayan

Popular Media

Any arbitrary disenfranchisement of voters in the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections will cast a shadow over the sanctity of elections in India.

Body Language In Social Interactions: Patterns Of Nonverbal Behavior, Caleb Roten, Ivelina Naydenova

Journal of Counseling and Psychology

A two-part study was conducted on the qualitative and quantitative aspects of nonverbal behavior to investigate the factors that influence physical movement. The qualitative aspects of nonverbal behavior were investigated by testing the effects of academic anxiety on the amount of body language mirroring produced by a population of collegiate honors students. The honors students were induced with varying levels of academic anxiety based on groups, and were recorded to determine the quality of their movements in relation to stress level. To test the quantitative aspects, a broad range of participants was collected and assessed on their demographic variables, emotional …

The Effect Of Using Some Geographical Map Skills On Achievement Among Eleventh Grade Students - Literary Track Ministry Of Education And Higher Education In The State Of Qatar - Nasser Bin Abdullah Al Attiyah Secondary School For Boys - Social Studies Department - Academic Year 2019-2020, Bilal Al-Bayer

Al Jinan الجنان

This study aimed to measure the level of skills in reading and understanding geographical maps and assigning them of the Eleventh Grade Literary Track students at Nasser bin Abdullah Al-Attiyah Secondary School for Boys in the book "Geography", where a pre-skill test consisting of 30 questions was built to measure the level of students in reading and understanding geographical maps. After determining the school in which the experiment will be applied, the Eleventh Grade Literary Division (5), which consists of 28 students and which the researcher taught, was chosen. The data used was analyzed through the T-test to process the …

The Western Position On The Palestinian Cause, Souha Kassem

Al Jinan الجنان

The European positions on the Palestinian cause varied between clarity and ambiguity. For example, Britain’s position was transparent and clear towards Israel regarding the necessity of implementing international resolutions regarding Jerusalem and the territories occupied in 1967. On the other hand, there were other statements saying that Jerusalem is an unresolved issue that must be negotiated, and this is what the majority of European union countries have adopted, through a statement regarding their categorical refusal to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and to acknowledge the lands of Jerusalem are occupied territories, and to resolve the dispute over them …

International Protection Of Cultural Heritage In Times Of War And Peace, Khaled Abdulsalam

Al Jinan الجنان

cultural heritage is the link between people’s present and their past; therefore, most countries are keen to preserve this link. However,the perception of cultural heritage varies according to the peoples’ awareness of the importance of their heritage on the one hand, and the extent to which countries provide care and protection factors for their cultural heritage on the other. Movable and immovable cultural heritage in time of war benefits from the protection prescribed for civilian objects; hence, it must not be struck or attacked by warring states, in accordance with international humanitarian law applicable in times of armed conflict. During …

Illuminating Trauma & Resilience In Educational Spaces: Expanding Narratives To Promote Historical And Critical Civic Empathy At Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, Chakakuan Johnson, Linda Nance, Byron Witherspoon

Dissertations

Abstract

The 1957 desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School marked a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement and continues to symbolize the broader struggle for racial equality. This dissertation examines equity in educational spaces through a four-truth lens that was first articulated by the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and explores forensic, personal, social, and healing truth. Using Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site (CHSC) and park interpretation as the focal point, our qualitative research study used reflexive thematic analysis to examine oral interviews, onsite observations, and various documents and artifacts, and to illuminate …

Drug Recognition Experts’ Perspectives On The State Of Maryland’S Legalization Of Cannabis And Its Impact On Impaired Driving, Raymond D. Brooks

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Motor vehicles have become both affordable and practical to own. As a result, law enforcement has been tasked with enforcing laws related to safe vehicular operation on the roadways nationwide. Further, much like alcohol, drug influence causes concern for motorists, and with the introduction of cannabis legalization, there is a clash between use, public interaction and vehicle operation. Cannabis consumption in public, the perception that use is allowed anywhere, and the impact that impairment has while driving can be a concern for those tasked with enforcing laws that some perceive to be allowed. This study introduces cannabis legalization within the …

Relationship Between Indulgent Parenting, Household Composition, And Parental Efficacy In Managing Adolescents' Smartphone Use, Bernice Cook

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Smartphones have become an integral part of society, resulting in increased adolescent dependence on smartphone applications. This dependence poses challenges for parents in managing the risk of problematic smartphone use among adolescents aged 11-17 years old. Rapid technological advancements have significantly reshaped parenting practices, necessitating greater adaptability and impacting adolescent development. Guided by Bandura’s self-efficacy theory, this correlational study examines how indulgent parenting and household composition, including demographic variables such as race, gender, education, employment, and income, predict parental self-efficacy in managing adolescent smartphone use. A convenience sample of 238 U.S. parents, with at least one adolescent aged 11-17 years, …