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La Salud Intercultural Aymara En El Contexto De La Muerte Y La Unidad De Cuidado Paliativo En El Hospital Regional De Arica, Chile, Phoebe Dennison

Chile: Public Health, Traditional Medicine, and Community Empowerment

Chile’s health system requires the inlcusion of intercultural health for indigenous populations. This includes palliative care. Indigenous patients come from different belief backgrounds that shape their understanding of death and health practices. Indigenous patients should be given culturally relevant end of life care that respects their beliefs. Intercultural health can be difficult to implement at any point in the patient’s life. Northern Chile has a significant population of Aymara people, an indigenous group. The Aymara people have a cosmovision that is intertwined with the natural world and believes death is the spirit’s journey to the next life. In the region …

Environmental And Social Values Are Important To All Utahns, But Conservative Utahns Are More Likely To Prioritize The Economy, Sarah E. Wilson, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad

Utah People and Environment Poll (UPEP)

In the political landscape of modern America, few would disagree that people on either end of the political spectrum exhibit differences in priorities and values. Since the 1970s, polarization between left and right-leaning individuals and decision-makers regarding environmental matters has grown significantly.¹ For example, a 2023 Gallup Poll found that 78% of liberals favored prioritizing the environment over economic concerns, compared to just 20% of conservatives - representing the largest partisan gap since Gallup began including the question in their poll in 1984.²

Gold & Blue, Summer 2025, St. Mary's University - San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Summer 2025 edition of Gold & Blue, which is St. Mary's University's official alumni magazine.

Music, Poetry And Identity In Badakshan, Tajikistan: Singing And Sounding Community, Chorshanbe Goibnazarov

Music & Performance in Muslim Contexts

An illuminating account of Ismaili music, spiritual poetry and social change in Badakhshan.

In the riverine valleys of the Pamir Mountains of Tajik Badakhshan, a thriving millennium-old community of Nizari Ismaili Muslims created a unique spiritual culture in which the performance of music and poetry plays a central role. This book focuses on the central musical and poetic tradition of the Pamiri Ismailis, qasīda-khonī (also known as maddo), tracing its origins, evolution, delocalisation and relocation.

This book introduces readers to leading performers of qasīda-khonī and to the Ismaili gnosis that inspires its music and poetry.

• Based on six …

Influence Of Field Trips On Adolescent Environmental Stewardship: Examining The Role Of The Dominant Social Paradigm, Gita Bhushal, Meghann Smith, Pankaj Lal, Neeraj Vedwan

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Promoting environmental stewardship among youths is crucial for inspiring collaborative, multi-generational actions to tackle long-term environmental challenges. This research study explores the impact of an environmental education (EE) field trip, which highlighted wastewater management and renewable energy technology, on high school students using the revised new ecological paradigm (NEP) scale as a key metric in a pre-post survey, which uses traditionally pro (NEP) and anti (dominant social paradigm, DSP) conservationist statements to measure beliefs towards the environment. When applying the Wilcoxon signed-rank test (null hypothesis t = 0, no change) to the series of environmental stewardship action questions “___ is …

Pulse: The Monthly Newsletter Of Nnlm Region 2, July 2025, Network Of The National Library Of Medicine, Regional Medical Library 2

NNLM Region 2 Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Autism Care Continuum: Exploring Specialty Services Across The Lifespan Within U.S. Academic Medical Centers, Alexis Khuu

Theses and Dissertations

Autistic people—particularly adults—experience high rates of co-occurring mental health problems and often report unmet service needs. Although several barriers to accessing quality care are well-documented, the broader landscape of autism-specific services across the lifespan remains under-researched. This two-part thesis aimed to address this gap by examining the availability of autism-specific services, as well as patterns in service utilization and associated costs, among autistic children and adults. The first study employed a systematic web-scraping protocol and data extraction procedure to identify and characterize autism specialty services offered by U.S. academic medical centers. This work revealed a general lack of autism specialty …

The Sulu Sea Mandate: A Diplomatic And Military Initiative To Ensure Freedom Of The Seas, John Cheney

Theses

This thesis advocates the establishment of an official US government diplomatic policy, and recommends specific means for its implementation. By combining a written narrative with a unique and highly detailed Geographic Information System (GIS,) this thesis argues that securing the Philippines archipelago from further Chinese annexations is a US strategic imperative. To that end, US military forces and capabilities- particularly those of the US Marine Corps (USMC)- would be integrated into the revamped defense of the Philippines.

Utilizing a variety of datasets, the thesis GIS depicts such features as geopolitical boundaries, conflict zones, maritime trade routes, bathymetry, navigational hazards, undersea …

Estimating How Much Children Work: Questionnaires Versus Time Use Diaries, Juana Lamote De Grignon Pérez, Wenbin Wang, Tanay Kasyap, Matthew Henglong Luo, Jialu Tang

Discussion Papers

Current estimates of child labour often rely on questions such as, “How many hours did you work last week?” While biases in adult self-reports are well-documented in high-income countries, there is limited evidence on the accuracy of children’s responses in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Using data from nine LMICs, including China and India, this paper shows that time diaries report more than twice as many work hours as standard questionnaires. This discrepancy suggests that current estimates may significantly understate child labour. Moreover, certain forms of work—such as collecting water or firewood—appear to contribute to these measurement gaps.

Nsu Kpcom Link - Summer 2025 - Volume 4.2, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Florida Link Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Uni Scholarworks Readership Snapshot, June 2025, Bepress

Library Documents & Reports (entire collection)

No abstract provided.

Syntax-Enhanced Boundary-Aware Named Entity Recognition Model, Chuanming Yu, Bin Deng, Zhengang Zhang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance] This study addresses the issue of inadequate perception of entity boundaries in traditional character-level modeling-based named entity recognition models by integrating syntax information containing entity boundary features into the task using a multi-head graph attention network with dense connections. This integration enhances the effectiveness of named entity recognition.

[Method/process] This study proposes a Syntax-enhanced Boundary-aware Named Entity Recognition Model (SynBNER), which utilizes BERT for text semantic representation and integrates syntax information using a dense-connected graph attention network. This integration incorporates implicit entity boundary information from syntax information into word representations, thereby enhancing the model's entity boundary perception capability.

[Result/conclusion] …

A Link Prediction Model For Knowledge Graph Completion Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Cases, Qifeng Lou, Dongmei Mu, Shutong Wang, Lili Huang

Journal of Scientific Information Research

[Purpose/significance] To propose a link prediction model for completing the knowledge graph of Chinese medicine cases, aiming to fill in the missing information in the knowledge graph,reveal the potential unknown associations,and promote the construction of a more comprehensive and detailed knowledge graph of Chinese medicine cases.

[Method/process] Medical cases in the field of TCM asthma were collected and integrated to construct a knowledge graph of TCM asthma diagnosis and treatment. By introducing Dropout regularization and Batch Normalization techniques into the RotatE model, an improved ERDBN model is proposed and applied to the task of refining the asthma diagnosis and treatment …

The Moderating Role Of Hormonal Birth Control On The Relationship Between Anxiety And Blood Pressure: A Longitudinal Analysis​, Anna Foweather, Abigail Anderson, Sylvie Mrug

Expo Student Presentations

2025 Summer Expo Poster Presentation

• Social & Behavioral Sciences

江門市「平安通」安老模式成效研究報告, 嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心, 江門市恒愛社會工作綜合服務中心, Chak Kwan, Dickson Chan, Kui Wai, Gordon Chick, 雷杰, Silai Dong, Meng Soi, Florence Fong, Ka Chung, Tom Kwong

APIAS Research Report 研究報告

江門市是廣東省老齡化程度較高的城市。江門市政府於2015年通過購買服務，啟動江門市養老助殘平安通項目，該項目運用資訊科技，為有困難的長者群體提供各類服務，以幫助他們居家安老。本次研究旨在瞭解該項目的成效，和探索服務使用長者的感受。

本研究利用深度訪談 (indepth-interview) 的方法，於2024年1月訪問了40名年齡60歲以上的平安通服務使用者，瞭解他們使用平安通服務的原因、情況、感受和建議。

研究發現，長者申請平安通的原因主要是親人和社區人士介紹、求安心、煤氣優惠和覺得平安通服務有用。長者使用的服務種類主要包括：訂購煤氣、維修家電設備、天氣提醒、電話問候、聘請保姆、打掃清潔、預約叫車、預防緊急事故、緊急需要和落樓服務。

研究發現一些長者對平安通設備的使用不熟悉，認為設備不方便攜帶，以及使用有困難。亦有長者表示智慧AI監測裝置作用不大。在平安通服務評價方面，一些長者認為平安通提供的居家安老服務有助於長者居家養老，但另一些則認為提供的服務存在問題，例如轉介服務質量參差不齊，服務缺乏個性化設計。一些長者較少使用平安通服務，主要原因是不想麻煩他人、身體狀況較好而不需要和不瞭解平安通新增服務。長者希望從幾方面改進平安通，包括降低收費、完善資源轉介服務、優化和增加日常協助及居家養老服務，以及改善居家養老環境。

本研究提出幾方面點建議以改善和完善平安通項目：（1）優化平安通設備及手錶服務、（2）宣傳平安通的使用方法及服務、（3）完善長者資訊並定製服務、（4）增加服務站點和擴大服務覆蓋面、（5）降低轉介服務收費並提高質量、（6）改善居家養老環境及建設長者活動場所。

การจัดการปุ๋ยและศัตรูพืชในสนามกอล์ฟ (Fertilizer And Pest Management On Golf Courses), อุรบล โชติพงศ์, พีระวรรณ พัฒนวิภาส

Applied Environmental Research

การศึกษาการใช้ปุ๋ยและสารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืชของสนามกอล์ฟโดยการสัมภาษณ์ผู้ดูแลสนามพบว่า สนามกอล์ฟในส่วนงานราชการ มีการใช้ปุ๋ยอินทรีย์เพื่อลดค่าใช้จ่ายในการดูแลสนาม ส่วนใน สนามกอล์ฟของเอกชนที่ต้องการเน้นให้เห็นความสวยงามของสนามหญ้าส่วนมากมีการนำปุ๋ยเคมีซึ่งมีราคาแพงมาใช้ โดยเน้นการใช้ที่กรีนเป็นหลักเนื่องจากเป็นจุดสำคัญที่สุดของสนามกอล์ฟ การเลือกประเภทของปุ๋ยเคมีมีความแตกต่างกันไปตามพื้นที่ของสนาม ฤดูกาล และประเภทของหญ้า ส่วนวิธีการกำจัดศัตรูพืชที่สนามกอล์ฟส่วนใหญ่นำมาใช้ คือ การใช้สารเคมี ซึ่งจะใช้เฉพาะจุดที่มีความสำคัญ เช่น กรีน ส่วนในบริเวณอื่นๆจะให้ความสำคัญน้อยลงเช่น แฟร์เวย์ ราฟ การใช้สารเคมีกำจัดศัตรูพืชในสนามกอล์ฟ มีแนวการใช้แยกเป็น 2 ประเภท คือ เพื่อป้องกันศัตรูพืช และเพื่อกำจัดศัตรูพืชเมื่อเกิดการระบาดขึ้นแล้ว นอกจากนี้ยังได้มีการนำวิธีทางชีวภาพเช้ามาใช้สำหรับกำจัดแมลงในสนามหญ้า แนวทางการจัดการการใช้ ปุ๋ยและสารกำจัดศัตรูพืชของสนามกอล์ฟ ได้แก่ การใช้ปุ๋ยอินทรีย์ทั้งนี้เพื่อทำให้ดินอยู่ในสภาพดีเหมาะกับการเจริญของจุลินทรีย์ สัตว์ในดิน พร้อมทั้งการทำเกษตรกรรม ซึ่งจะช่วยปรับระบบนิเวศภายในสนามทำให้ศัตรูพืชลดลง การใช้หญ้าพันธุ์พื้นเมือง การใช้สารเคมีเฉพาะพื้นที่ประกอบกับความเชี่ยวชาญของผู้ดูแลสนามจะทำให้ปริมาณสารเคมีที่ใช้ลดลง การกำจัดศัตรูพืชแบบธรรมชาติกิเป็นอิกวิธีหนึ่งซึ่งจะช่วยลด การใช้สารเคมีและค่าใช้จ่ายการดูแลสนามให้ลดลง

การสร้างคู่มือ เรื่อง การมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชน สำหรับนักเรียนระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น (The Development Of Soild Waste Management Participation Manual For Lower Secondary Education Students), ระเบียบ ภูผา

Applied Environmental Research

การศึกษาครั้งนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อสร้างคู่มือ เรื่อง การมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชน สำหรับนักเรียน ระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น และศึกษาผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน ความตระหนัก พฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชน และความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างความรู้ที่ได้รับกับพฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชนของนักเรียน วิธีการดำเนินการวิจัยมี 3 ขั้นตอน คือ ขั้นตอนที่ 1 การสร้างคู่มีอ เรื่อง การมีส่วนร่วมจัดการ ขยะชุมชน ประกอบด้วยความคิดรวบยอด จุดประสงค์การเรียนรู้ การกำหนดรูปเล่ม และนำไปให้ผู้เชี่ยวชาญตรวจสอบและประเมิน พร้อมทั้งปรับปรุงแก้ไข ขั้นตอนที่ 2 การพัฒนาคุณภาพของคู่มือโดยทดลอง 2 ครั้ง ครั้งที่ 1 จำนวน 3 คน และ 30 คน ตามลำดับ ขั้นตอนที่ 3 การนำคู่มือไปใช้จริงกับกลุ่มตัวอย่าง การสุ่มตัวอย่างใช้วิธีการสุ่มหลายขั้นตอน คือ เลือกโรงเรียนแบบเจาะจง (Purposive Sampling) โรงเรียน วัดเขมาภิรตาราม แล้วสุ่มห้องเรียนจากชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 2 จำนวน 7 ห้องเรียน จำนวน 50 คน ทำการทดลองวัดผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน และประเมินค่าความตระหนักและพฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชนก่อนและหลังการทดลอง (The Pre-test and Post-test Control Group Design) และ วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยใช้ ค่าสถิติร้อยละ มัชฌิมเลขคณิต เบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน สถิติ t-test และสัมประสิทธิ์สหสัมพันธ์แบบเพียร์สัน
ผลการศึกษาพบว่า เมื่อเปรียบเทียบคะแนนเฉลี่ยผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน ค่าความตระหนัก และ พฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชนของนักเรียนระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้นหลังการอ่านคู่มือ มีคะแนนเฉลี่ยผลสัมฤทธิ์ทางการเรียน ค่าความตระหนัก และพฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมสูงกว่า ก่อนการอ่าน คู่มืออย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ และพบว่าความรู้และพฤติกรรมการมีส่วนร่วมจัดการขยะชุมชนของนักเรียนระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้นไม่มีความสัมพันธ์กันอย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติ

Smu Celebrates 25 Years Of Its Communityservice Programme During Silver Jubilee Year, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases and News

The first university in Singapore to make community service a graduation requirement commemorates another major milestone in its 25th anniversary. SMU has consistently championed community engagement as a cornerstone of its educational mission.

2025 O'Callahan Society Newsletter, O'Callahan Society, College Of The Holy Cross

O'Callahan Society Newsletters

This annual newsletter of the O'Callahan Society includes articles about the 2024 O'Callahan Society Fall Dinner. Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Schmiegel, United States Marine Corps (Retired) and Holy Cross Class of 1989 was the guest speaker. VADM Nancy S. Lacore, HC ‘90 was 2025 Annual Meeting Speaker. Unit News. Alumni News. Society News.

Sdrc Update (Volume 6, Issue 4), Dlsu Social Development Research Center

SDRC Publications

No abstract provided.

Power And Resistance: Black Americans' Multifaceted Perceptions Of Ingroup Strengths And Their Effects On Collective Efficacy And Resistance, Hu Young Jeong, Johanna Vollhardt, Michelle S. Twali

Psychology

The current research examines perceived ingroup strengths and their relationship with collective efficacy, generalized power, and resistance among Black Americans. Two studies investigated how different perceptions of ingroup strengths (e.g. collective resilience, ingroup solidarity, intergroup coalitions, ingroup resistance, and intergroup respect) were associated with generalized power perceptions, perceived collective efficacy, and resistance behaviours. Study 1 demonstrated that collective resilience, ingroup solidarity, and intergroup coalitions predicted increased collective efficacy, which in turn predicted organized resistance but not everyday resistance. Perceived control over resources and influence predicted generalized power but not resistance behaviours. Study 2 extended these findings by including perceived ingroup …

"I Don't Think Librarians Can Save Us": The Material Conditions Of Information Literacy Instruction In The Misinformation Age, Amber Willenborg, Robert Detmering

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This national qualitative study investigates academic librarians’ instructional experiences, views, and challenges regarding the widespread problem of misinformation. Findings from phenomenological interviews reveal a tension between librarians’ professional, moral, and civic obligation to address misinformation and the actual material conditions of information literacy instruction, which influence and often constrain librarians’ pedagogical and institutional roles. The authors call for greater professional reflection on current information literacy models that focus on achieving ambitious educational goals but which may be unsuitable for addressing the larger social and political crisis of misinformation.

What Before Means: Teaching The English Pluperfect, Max Miller, Joseph C. M. Davis

Publications and Research

This paper extends existing linguistic analyses of the English simple past tense (e.g., took) and pluperfect tense (e.g., had taken) by thoroughly examining communicative effects. It also proposes a pedagogical application. The analysis is based on authentic contextualized discourse (primarily a single published text). In distinction to the simple past, the pluperfect establishes a communicative link between a past time and an event before that time. In this way, the pluperfect makes conceptional connection (which could be termed "tethering") through temporal priority. The meaning of the pluperfect thus contributes to textual cohesion. The distinction made is communicative, not a matter …

Creating Web-Based Augmented Reality Experiences In The Academic Library, Beryl White-Bing

Library Presentations & Publications

Hampered by constantly evolving applications, the cost of commercial applications, and the mechanics of having to download yet another application to a smart device, the use of augmented reality (AR) has been a struggle for this academic librarian in promoting resources, teaching content, and encouraging widespread general use of this immersive technology. Then, a random conversation with a creative and technology-oriented multimedia artist changed my perspective on this very useful and immersive tool. He introduced the concept and use of web-based augmented reality and the possibility of its use, not just in creative ways to produce art, but in other …

Defending The Golden Fleece: A Study Of Disruption And Resilience In The Movement To Defund Public Libraries In Louisiana, Ciel Lane Quebedeaux

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

In this moment of societal change and institutional capture, public educational institutions have become sites of contention where national ideological and political debates are carried out in local school and library board meetings across the country. In Louisiana, the creation and expansion of a statewide conservative organization has led to the defunding of public libraries sparked by accusations of grooming and inappropriate programming. In response, local library defenders have created another statewide organization to share information and organizing strategies to combat disinformation campaigns propagated by conservative organizers at local and state levels. This qualitative study includes in-depth interviews with library …

Association Of Research Libraries, Em Fossell

Library Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Human Rights Perspectives In Social Work Practice With African Immigrants In Australia: 'It Starts With Respecting Them And Making Them Feel Like Humans', Obed Adonteng-Kissi, Frank Darkwa Baffour, Matthew Mabefam, Nnaemeka Meribe, Elizabeth Archibong

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Increasing restrictionism and xenophobic policies in Western host countries curtail and endanger immigrants' civil and political rights as well as socio-economic well-being. This study is guided by the critical race theory (CRT), which provides a very important structure to critique social work practice with immigrants from a human rights lens and unpack the intersections of race, racism, and power. The objective of this study is to explore immigrants' perspectives on social work practices that prioritize human rights in Australia. To achieve this, a total of twenty-seven participants were interviewed, including eight social workers and nineteen immigrants of African background service …

Wikidata Workflows: With Orcid And Openrefine - A Binghamton University Case Study, Sasha Frizzell

Library Scholarship

This lightning talk will provide an overview of the process Binghamton University Libraries has been using to transform faculty information from ORCID profiles into updates in Wikidata. Our pilot project began in January 2024 to support integratation of linked data workflows into cataloging efforts, diversify authority work, and improve the visibility of institutional research output in open knowledge ecosystems. This talk will discusses the process of collecting ORCID profile information via API, cleaning and mapping data in Open Refine, and proposed expansions of the workflow in future iterations. The lightning talk aims to offer practical strategies for other institutions interested …

Waring Library Society Newsletter, Summer 2025, Waring Library Society, Waring Historical Library, Medical University Of South Carolina, Jude Arendall, Robert Ball, Jerry Reeves, Joann Livingston Zeise, Tabitha Samuel

The Waring Library Society Newsletters

In this issue, Waring Library Society President Robert Ball, M.D. highlights the accomplishments of Dr. Randolph D. Smoak, Jr., emphasizing his leadership in medical organizations, advocacy for health reform and anti-smoking efforts, and recognition as a distinguished alumnus of MUSC. Jerry Reves, M.D., shares a brief new history of the Medical College. The Waring’s staff also provide updates: JoAnn Zeise, provides updates on the Waring’s restoration project, including the asbestos; Tabitha Samuel shares the new Spring 2025 titles added to MEDICA@MUSC, Jude Arendall makes a return to the Waring.

Sociodemographic Influences On Substance Use In Psychosis In An African Cohort, Megan L. Campbell, Raymond Odokonyero, Dickens Akena, Melkam Alemayehu, Lukoye Atwoli, Lori B. Chibnik, Bizu Gelaye, Stella Gichuru, Symon M. Kariuki, Karestan C. Koenen

Internal Medicine, East Africa

Background: Substance use is common among individuals with psychotic disorders, but limited research exists on the variations in substance use across countries in Africa. This study aims to investigate the frequency of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, and khat consumption in individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) across four African countries: South Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.

Methods: We utilized data from the Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations-Psychosis project, a large case-control study which will soon have genetic data on over 42,000 participants, half with psychosis. Information on substance use was collected using the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening …