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Online Dating Habits Amid Covid-19, Annabelle R. Winking

Anthós

In recent months, the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) has swept across the globe, causing several countries to impose quarantines and social distancing measures for indeterminate amounts of time. This study investigates how dating has changed since the enforcement of social distancing due to Covid-19, specifically for Portland residents between 21 and 30 who were using mobile dating apps prior to Covid-19 and who continued to use them during the pandemic. I interviewed five Portland singles between the ages of 21-30 who use a variety of dating apps such as Tinder, Grindr, and Hinge, with one 30 minute semi-structured interview with each …

The Impact Of Covid-19 On International Students At Portland State University, Aakanksha Santosh Rane

Anthós

This research focuses on the financial and emotional impact of Covid-19 on international students attending PSU. The research was conducted between March 2020 and June 2020, so this study examines how international students coped with changes during the early stages of the pandemic.

A Remote Environment’S Effect On The News Consumption Of College Students, Amelia R. Webb

Anthós

This study investigates how PSU Honor Students' news interactions have changed with the shift to a remote environment. After conducting four interviews, it found that students' news exposure increased in a remote environment. This change caused students to be more aware of the news's mental health impacts, and they adjusted their news interactions accordingly.

Reference-Dependent Choice On Digital Platforms, Joshua K. Kaisen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Throughout this dissertation I explore a significant departure from the standard model of rationality known as reference-dependence. The theory reference-dependence asserts that an individual’s choice is dependent on their frame of reference established through factors divorced from their rational cost and benefit. This behavior is inefficient as individuals fail to rationally optimize their payoffs. This behavior is understudied in natural settings where isolating specific stimuli which may establish a reference is challenging. However, digital platforms contain limited stimuli which are fully observable to researchers and present an ideal setting to study the theory of reference-dependence. Thus, I introduce three new …

Constructing The Heroic Whistleblower: A Social Scientific Approach, Brian K. Richardson, Joseph Mcglynn

Heroism Science

Many whistleblowers perform heroic acts, but not all whistleblowers are heroes. Motivation, method, and risk vary across whistleblower contexts. Although many whistleblowers portray aspects of archetypal heroism, research is needed to specify the qualities of heroic whistleblowers from non-heroic whistleblowers. The present study aims to develop an archetype of heroic whistleblowers. We identify five dimensions of whistleblowing heroism and then draw upon data from interviews that we conducted with 32 actual whistleblowers to provide examples of each element. We argue there are five dimensions of the whistleblowing process that distinguish heroic whistleblowers. The five dimensions include 1) motivation for blowing …

Understanding Police Decisions To Arrest: The Impact Of Situational, Officer, And Neighborhood Characteristics On Police Discretion, Jessica Huff

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Purpose

Promote the use of multilevel modeling to refine theories of police discretion. Specifically, examine the simultaneous influence of situational factors, responding officers, and neighborhood context on arrests guided by a social-ecological framework.

Methods

Cross-classified models were used to assess the outcomes of 835,381 incidents responded to by 835 Phoenix Police officers in 388 census tracts.

Results

Situational, officer, and neighborhood factors all significantly influence arrests. Incident-level factors account for most of the variation, followed by officers, and neighborhoods. Incidents that resulted in arrest were more likely to involve victims, a greater number of responding officers, female officers, and college-educated …

St. Augustine Parish Sunday Bulletin, June 20, 2021

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St. Benedict Parish For The Deaf Church Bulletin, June 20, 2021

Saint Benedict Parish for the Deaf Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in San Francisco, CA

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Ghana's Public Diplomacy Under Kwame Nkrumah, Isaac Antwi-Boasiako

Conference Papers

The concept of public diplomacy is one of the trending approaches in modern international relations and diplomacy. Communicating and engaging effectively with the foreign public in a particular nation by a government to achieve its foreign policy objective is every government’s goal. The field of public diplomacy as an academic discipline in Ghana in particular and Africa has not received much attention compared to the Western World. This article attempts to bridge this gap by opening Ghana’s public diplomacy to academic scrutiny that has, as yet, been underdeveloped. This paper’s principal objective is to bring to light the public diplomacy …

St. Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin, June 20, 2021

Saint Francis Borgia Deaf Center Church Bulletin

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Chicago, IL

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Evidence On Child Nutrition Recommendations And Challenges In Crisis Settings: A Scoping Review, Aniqa Islam Marshall, Gideon Lasco, Mathudara Phaiyarom, Nattanicha Pangkariya, Phetdavanh Leuangvilay, Pigunkaew Sinam, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Sataporn Julchoo, Watinee Kunpeuk, Yunting Zhang

Development Studies Faculty Publications

Adequate child nutrition is critical to child development, yet child malnutrition is prevalent in crisis settings. However, the intersection of malnutrition and disasters is sparse. This study reviews existing evidence on nutrition responses and outcomes for infants and young children during times of crisis. The scoping review was conducted via two approaches: a systematic search and a purposive search. For the systematic search, two key online databases, PubMed and Science Direct, were utilized. In total, data from 32 studies were extracted and included in the data extraction form. Additionally, seven guidelines and policy documents were included, based on relevance to …

Creating Modern Technological System For Grass Product Processing To Guarantee Macroscopic Food Security, Tianwei Wang, Jin Zhong

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The construction of a scientific and technological system of ecological grass-based livestock husbandry (GLiH) provides technical support for the "Macroscopic Food Security" concept and the "National Strategy of Giving Priority to Ecology and Green Development" in the new era. At the same time, it represents an urgent need for the domestic circulation. Scientific grass processing and production of forage grass can help form the GLiH industrial chain by connecting the front-end "forage grass cultivating" and back-end "livestock raising". However, China still faces many problems in terms of forage grass processing and production, and the development of the grass industry. On …

Centennial Rejuvenation And Formation Of Scientist Spirit, Bin Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, Chinese scientists inherited national feelings of traditional intellectuals, practice the original ideals of saving, serving, revitalizing, and strengthening the country through science and technology on the road to centennial rejuvenation, have formed a spiritual temperament different from that of western scientists and created a valuable Chinese scientist spirit. As an integral part of the century-old spiritual pedigree of the Communist Party of China, the spirit of scientist is a powerful source of strength for building a world power in science and technology and achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. …

Thoughts On Problem Oriented Scientific Research, Yunji Chen, Wei Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In the past few decades, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has experienced project oriented scientific research and subject oriented scientific research, and has made great contributions to China's scientific and technological development in many fields. Facing a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, a new development idea for scientific research, that is, problem oriented scientific research, is put forward. This paper presents some thoughts on the connotation and management methods of problem oriented scientific research.

Thoughts On Basic Research To Practical Application: Case Study On Cas Key Laboratory Of Pathogenic Microbiology And Immunology, Yi Shi

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Strengthening basic research is one of the key strategies to achieve high-quality self-reliance of science and technology. On the occasion of the Centenary of the Communist Party of China, we review the development of science and technology in China and summarize the experience of promoting basic research to practical application. We also point out that the construction of innovation culture initiated by Chinese Academy of Sciences is useful to create a favorable environment for the basic research. Moreover, we describe the experience of how CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology promotes basic research to practical application.

Speed Up Development Of Grass-Based Livestock Husbandry And Walk Into New Era Of Agriculture

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Farming-Pastoral Ecotone Of Northern China Plays Important Role In Ensuring National Food Security, Shuqin Gao, Rui Duan, Hongsheng Wang, Ang Li, Yue Shi, Hai-Chun Jing, Jingyun Fang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

China enters into a new era with high demand for nutritional and healthy food, and hence needs to adjust the agricultural production system to balance cereal production and livestock farming. Between the years 2010-2019 the production of red meat and milk has fallen far behind the consumption demand, resulting in sourcing and import of large quantity of red meat and milk products from the international market. In comparison to the average consumption levels in Asia and global, China's consumption will continue to grow in the future, presenting a great challenge to the goals of 85% self-sufficiency rate for beef and …

Issues And Solutions On Grassland Restoration And Conservation In China, Qingmin Pan, Jiamei Sun, Yuanhe Yang, Wei Liu, Ang Li, Yunfeng Peng, Jianguo Xue, Hao Xia, Jianhui Huang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The area of grassland in China is about 392.8 million hm2, covering 40.9% of land surface of China. Grasslands not only serve as important green barriers for national ecological security but also as basic means of production for local farmers and herders. However, the grasslands in China have been unevenly deteriorating since 1980s in large areas. To date, the overall condition of grasslands in China remains worsening, with some area getting better. Such a situation severely constrains the developments of ecological civilization and social economy in China. Here, we analyze the current state and issues in grassland restoration and conservation …

“Coastal Grass Belt” As Paradigm For Grass-Based Livestock Husbandry Around Bohai Bay, Ruixing Hou, Zhu Ouyang, Zhen Liu, Jianbin Lai, Zhigang Sun, Yonghua Li, Hongwei Li, Zhengsheng Li, Jing Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

One of the burning questions of food security in current China is how to produce sufficient forage products and animal feeds. The limited arable land has to be devoted to cereal production, and exploring more terrestrial land is a prerequisite for the sustainable forage production and the development of grass-based livestock husbandry. Bohai rim is consist of coastal line of the North China Plain, which has a significant amount of medium-low yielding fields and unutilized saline-alkali land as well as intensive livestock production. In this study, a new concept of "Coastal Grass Belt", proposed by LI Zhensheng, an academician of …

Current Situation And Prospect Of Forage Breeding In China, Jingbo Jin, Tai Wang, Youfa Cheng, Lei Wang, Jingyu Zhang, Haichun Jing, Kang Chong

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

High-yield and high-quality forage varieties are the key to sustainable development of grass-based livestock husbandry in China. However, the forage breeding was started late in China, and the progress is very slow, and the forage varieties of independent intellectual property rights are seriously lacked. Forages generally have self-incompatibility, natural allogamy, polysomic inheritance, and marked inbreeding effects. Subsequently, it is difficult to characterize agronomically important complex traits, resulting that the breeding technology is still in the 2.0 era of hybrid breeding. The molecular design-based breeding is a fine strategy to speed up the breeding process, however, there is a lack of …

Construction Of China’S Strategic Science And Technology Forces From Research And Development Of Covid-19 Vaccine, Xinmin Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Strengthening strategic science and technology forces is the key to achieve scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. China's COVID-19 vaccine research and development has achieved a stage success and such success has inseparable relationship with the national strategic science and technology forces. This paper starts from the current situation of COVID-19 vaccine R&D in China and in the world, further considers and explores the mission positioning, top-level design, and strengthening methods of China's strategic science and technology forces, and proposes corresponding policy suggestions on strengthening China's strategic science and technology force, through analyzing the successful experience of China's COVID-19 vaccine …

Developing Strategies Of Functional Milk And Meat Products From Herbivorous Animal Husbandry, Zhixiong He, Chuanshe Zhou, Min Wang, Guo Yang, Rongzhen Zhong, Jinzhen Jiao, Shaoxun Tang, Zhiliang Tan

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In the past 40 years, the animal husbandry industry in China has been developed very fast through the technological and social development. It has been changed into a new stage from quantity to quality of the animal products, and more attention has been paid on the healthy food. The functional animal products will be an important breakthrough for the high-quality development of animal husbandry. This paper reviews the current animal husbandry industry and functional products of herbivorous animal husbandry in China and abroad. Several key scientific and technological issues on functional milk and meat are analyzed. Practical exploration including biotechnology …

Attach Importance To Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights And Speed Up Strategic Blueprint Of Standardization, Feng Wei, Hongsong Zhang, Daixie Chen, Amei Deng, Yuqi Sun

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

At the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has further promoted high-quality and in-depth development of social economy, and made clear the action plan for transformation of intellectual property related work from the pursuit of quantity to high-quality development. Among them, how to stimulate the vitality of innovation subject through intellectual property protection is a systematic work, which needs in-depth study. Standard is an important part of global governance system and the national governance system, and an important way and means of national governance, which belongs to the scope of public power. From the perspective of intellectual property work …

Data Information: Overview Of Global Grass-Based Livestock Husbandry Research

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Automatic Simulating And Monitoring System For Water Balance Of Sandy Areas Of Northern China: Shapotou Lysimeter Group, Zhishan Zhang, Yang Zhao, Yafeng Zhang, Haotian Yang, Bui Hu, Jianqiang Huo, Xinrong Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Water balance has always been the key scientific issue facing in vegetation construction in sandy areas of northern China. Lysimeter is regarded as the most reliable tool in studying water balance. The existing problems such as the limited lysimeter sites, the system mismatch and accuracy inconsistency among lysimeters restrict the theoretical innovation of arid ecohydrology. Grouping large intelligent weighable lysimeters is an effective way to break through the aforementioned bottleneck, and conforms to the current interdisciplinary research trend. Funded by the "Key Scientific and Technological Infrastructure Construction Project for the Field Station Network of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)", Shapotou …

Trends Observation: Hot Research Field And Research Trends Of Global Population Health

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Belt And Road Initiative Promote Green Development Of Countries And Regions Along Belt & Road, Yan Xia, Qingyan Jiang, Cuihong Yang, Shouyang Wang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

With the impact of COVID-19, the global market has greatly enhanced the recognition of sustainable development. Economies along the Belt and Road Initiative (herein after referred as Belt & Road countries and regions) are facing severe challenges of common ecological environment and climate change. Based on the two-way fixed effect panel model and interregional input-output model, this study puts forward a measurement model of the impact of China's outward direct investment on carbon emissions of Belt & Road countries and regions. The results show that China has played a positive role in the green development of Belt & Road countries …

Policy Overview (April, May, 2021)

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

No abstract provided.

Google Scholar Adoption By Lis Educators In India: An Exploratory Study, Subham Giri, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Google Scholar (GS) is one of the popular online databases fulfilling the research needs of academicians by providing an open and freely accessible platform for searching scholarly research along with basic research metrics (citations, h-index, i10, etc.) to assess productivity of an author or researcher. Now that GS is being used to measure the research performance of individual’s as-well-as institutions, it becomes very important to maintain a verified profile. This paper aims to analyse dual inter-related issues. Quantify LIS schools in India are the primary focus area of the study. Secondly, the scenario of LIS educators of India under GS …

Plotting The Literature On Learning Outcomes And Academic Performance In Higher Education From 2001 To 2020: A Scientometric Analysis, Muhammad Shoaib, Nusrat Ali, Behzad Anwar, Bilal Shaukat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper aims to evaluate the teaching skills, learning skills, learning outcomes, and academic performance using scientometrics analysis from 2001 to 2020. The scientometrics method and a total of 7536 published documents were found. The results reveal that the topic of academic performance and article as a type of published document was highly used. The high majority of these published documents are published in the English language and gradually increased in the number of published documents in terms of the year. Further, the author Chamorro-Premuzic T is the top author with 1139 citations and Univ. Grandada at top of twenty …